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Category Archives: Cultural differences/ cultural training
New small talk games/ worksheets page
My Business English students often complain that the most difficult part of using English in their jobs is not making presentations or chairing meetings but the networking, chatting and bumping into people in the lift that can happen before and afterwards. There … Continue reading
Posted in Business English and ESP, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Photocopiable worksheets, Social English
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EFL taboo topics games (TEFLtastic classics Part 21)
Cultural training, loads of useful real-life speaking, and a great way to practise specific language such as tenses, now all here: Taboo topics games/ worksheets More TEFLtastic classics here: TEFLtastic classics
Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Present simple/ continuous, TEFL games
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The Xmas activities I most use
I’ve had really nice feedback on my Xmas and New Year worksheets over the years, including from people I work with, but I have to admit that I wrote so many of them for UsingEnglish that there are some I’ve … Continue reading
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Worksheets on the topic of festivals and celebrations
Should your heart sink as much as mine does on another lesson just on the topic of Xmas, here is the perfect solution: Festivals/ celebrations/ ceremonies photocopiables Should you be happy to do just Xmas, a link to the 42 … Continue reading
Posted in Cross cultural training in EFL
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42 worksheets and articles on my new Xmas and New Year page
Page with all my stuff on Xmas/ New Year worksheets, flashcards, videos, songs and teaching ideas suitable for both young learners and adults.
Cultural awareness games/ worksheets page updated
This is a bit of a chosen specialist subject of mine: ELT cross-cultural training photocopiable materials For details of how to find my other 900 or so worksheets, see here.
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Cultural training worksheets page tidied up
My EFL cultural training worksheets section much easier to navigate now it has pages for: Taboo topics worksheets (classic speaking activities with just enough spice!) Body language and gestures worksheets (teaching them foreign gestures while practising language like body parts … Continue reading
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Tips and useful phrases (TEFLtastic Classics Part 4)
As I warned in a previous post, this is an idea that I really am exploiting as much as humanly possible. I don’t feel too guilty, though, because it is a good one: How to do tips and useful phrases … Continue reading
Similarities and differences between Korea and Japan
Now that I’ve done similarities and differences between Konglish/Japlish, the languages more generally and students from those countries, thought I may as well go the whole hog and do the whole countries. The lists are over on my JapanExplained blog here: … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea
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New English teaching worksheets June 2011
Some nice ones in this bunch, I reckon. Then again, I was quite proud of my hideously over-complicated telephoning lesson on Onestopenglish when it first went up… Big emailing functional language review Different kinds of IELTS Writing Part Two questions (in … Continue reading
Posted in BULATS, Collocations, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Email, IELTS, IELTS Writing, Present perfect, Present simple/ continuous, Teaching numbers
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