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Category Archives: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
TEFLtastic is now TEFLtastic.com
– ad free, easier to find, and with more e-books coming soon. All the links, pdfs, etc seem to be working fine after the change, but please leave a comment anywhere you can if you find something that needs fixing.
My TEFL race against time
My daughter is well into her second term at Japanese high school, so I now only need the world of TEFL to survive another two and half years before my in-laws’ university savings account kicks in and I can achieve … Continue reading
New TEFLtastic photocopiables on almost everything coming soon
A mere 18 years into the history of TEFLtastic, I have finally found time to have an actual plan for new PDFs so that there will be a good mix of topics as the months go by. Instead of yet … Continue reading
Posted in Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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My most debated and commented on articles
Not quite a representative sample of my articles that people have taken most interest in (as most don’t have a comments function), but a mix of ones with strong opinions that you could join the debate on and ones with … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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28 pages of new free IELTS Reading classroom materials
Have produced a sudden flurry of new materials to prepare students for IELTS Reading, some also linking to other IELTS papers. Not yet enough IELTS Reading stuff to add another title to my collection of Teaching IELTS… e-books, so that … Continue reading
Posted in IELTS Academic Reading, Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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New articles for ESL learners page
I’ve mainly written articles on how to teach this, that and the other, so I only recently thought to make a page with links to all of my articles for people who are learning English. Was surprised to find that … Continue reading
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Grammar in Xmas lessons links
I gave teaching tips and PDFs for tenses in Xmas lesson here, so this page is the same for other grammar points like modals, prepositions and adjectives. Teaching tenses in Xmas lessons links Teaching grammar in Xmas lessons article Adverbs … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Grammar games, Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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Teaching tenses Xmas lessons
Teaching past, present and future verb forms in end of the year lessons tips and photocopiables: Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons article Present tenses Xmas photocopiables Present Simple Xmas photocopiables It is and they are Xmas photocopiables It is and … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Future tenses, past tenses, Present tenses, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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The great Usingenglish.com PDFs renovation is well underway!
After a bit of a break, I’ve accelerated my efforts to polish up all 1355(!) of my UE photocopiables, with clearer instructions, more answers, few pages, easier and/ or less cutting up, fixed typos, etc. If you have any old … Continue reading
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Business communication reviews (TEFLtastic Classics Part 51)
Often after my last TEFLtastic Classic (needs and instant personalised practice), I often start business courses with a big review of the basic language for electronic and face-to-face communication, with materials like these: First contact and further contact picking roleplays … Continue reading
Posted in Business English and ESP, Email, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Telephoning
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