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The most TEFLtastic new stuff in 2026 Part 1
New articles, photocopiables and pages from the first half of this year, starting with personal favourites not mentioned yet/ recently: Irregular Past Simple games/ worksheets Irregular plurals games/ worksheets Relationships vocabulary storytelling activities Socialising in the UK tips and useful … Continue reading
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New series of How Not to Teach English articles
I started this series to come back to old topics in a new way, and it also turned out to be a great way to combine basic advice and more debatable talking points, and so provide something for almost everyone. … Continue reading
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Analysis of IELTS Academic 19
The Cambridge official IELTS practice exam books are from the organisation that writes the real tests and so are the most important source of information about what could be in the actual test, particularly about how it is changing from … Continue reading
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My new favourite picture books for EFL young learners
A list and descriptions of some books I’ve recently found have really worked with two to twelve year olds, mostly titles I didn’t know when I made my original list of The Best Picture Books for EFL Young Learners and … Continue reading
Posted in Materials, pre-school/ kindergarten/ very young learners, Teaching young learners
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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
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My top selling e-books of 2024/2025
A sales ranking, then some musings on what it might mean: The most noticeable thing for me is that my emailing book has dropped out of the top sellers and my telephoning books have continued their decline – perhaps because … Continue reading
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What is my IELTS innovation?
I’m thinking about applying for the IELTS Morgan Terry Memorial IATEFL Scholarship*, as it’s for innovation in IELTS and I’m sure I must have managed an innovation or two in over 1000 pages of photocopiables and 29 articles on IELTS. … Continue reading
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The best IELTS Listening practice test?
An IELTS Listening practice test wish list, then two candidates for the prize. The perfect IELTS Listening test would have: It would also be nice to have a flowchart in Part 3 to tie in with Writing Task 1, even … Continue reading
The most TEFLtastic new content of summer 2024
While you’ve all been off spoiling Venice, Kyoto and Barcelona on your hols all summer, I’ve been keeping up a steady stream of new content that you’ve probably missed while you were tanning your belly buttons, reading Dan Brown and … Continue reading
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Kremlin-watching in ELT publishing and exams
When I have to explain the English teaching industry, I often feel like a Kremlinologist must have when they had to make assumptions about deeper changes from who the party leader was standing next to, or like a journalist trying … Continue reading
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