Category Archives: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

New TEFL articles and printables spring 2019

Posted on 07/05/2019 by alexcase

Newest ones not mentioned before top of each section. Lists of useful language The big list of classroom language with gestures – NEW New TEFL Articles Using body language and gestures to teach grammar – NEW 52 TPR grammar games … Continue reading →

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The most TEFLtastic photocopiables of 2018

Posted on 07/01/2019 by alexcase

In approximate order of how often I have used them and am likely to use them myself. They are all also on the pages for each topic, and mentioned in any relevant TEFLtastic Classics posts on the most adaptable TEFL games … Continue reading →

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23 TEFL dominoes activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 36)

Posted on 10/07/2018 by alexcase

Part One of the most recent of my articles in ETP magazine, with links to related PDFs. Readers who saw the number of variations in my article on jigsaw games might be surprised to find that those are just part of … Continue reading →

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Top 30 pages all polished up

Posted on 25/03/2018 by alexcase

Have expanded and rearranged all my top pages in my continuing quest to make TEFLtastic worth supporting financially. In case you are wondering what those most popular pages are, for the last 3 months they have been: First conditional Passive … Continue reading →

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On a roll – EFL dice games

Posted on 14/02/2018 by alexcase

Another one of my articles in English Teaching Professional, this time accompanied by an old blog post of mine in the TEFLtastic Classics series with stacks of photocopiable dice games. Although it is fairly common to see dice in language … Continue reading →

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42 EFL sentence completion games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two revisited)

Posted on 19/01/2018 by alexcase

Just after previously writing about sentence completion guessing games, I realised that the sentence stems were perfect for a bluffing game in which students completed the sentences with a mix of true and made up info – especially useful if … Continue reading →

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Three new Xmas worksheets

Posted on 19/12/2017 by alexcase

Some rather last minute or slightly early (depending on how you think about it) Xmas presents from me to you: Xmas and New Year meetings – NEW Xmas vocabulary passive voice guessing game – NEW Xmas vocabulary yes/no questions games (20 … Continue reading →

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50 EFL jigsaw activities (TEFLtastic Classics Part 31)

Posted on 15/11/2017 by alexcase

Another article of mine just published in English Teaching Professional magazine, available here for free and with added links to example worksheets. Now with the worksheets top and the article underneath. If you’d like to help me spend more time … Continue reading →

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86 coin games for EFL classes (TEFLtastic Classics part 29)

Posted on 20/09/2017 by alexcase

Flipping a coin to practise grammar, functional language, etc, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  Many many ideas on using a coin in TEFL, published in English Teaching Professional (ETP) magazine but available for free … Continue reading →

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22 ask and tell personalised questions coin games (TEFLtastic classics Part 28)

Posted on 05/09/2017 by alexcase

I’ve been writing an article on games using coins in class (now up here), and it reminded me of this once all-time favourite game which I hadn’t used in a while. Students take turns making questions using the grammar and/ … Continue reading →

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