Category Archives: English for Academic Purposes

IELTS Academic Writing tips for students

Posted on 23/06/2009 by alexcase

This is a special request from a student, and is basically a list of what look like the best links from a quick read through some sites I found in approximate order of usefulness or accuracy (with the caveat that … Continue reading →

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Academic word list useful links

Posted on 06/05/2009 by alexcase

  I’ll be using these in an IELTS lesson and thought they might be useful for others. These are given in approximate order of how useful they are likely to be for learners:   Here are my attempts (now mainly tried … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic vocabulary, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS, IELTS Academic Reading, links, Technology, TEFL, Vocabulary | 5 Comments

IELTS, TOEIC, TOEFL, FCE, CAE and CPE worksheets, articles and tips

Posted on 09/09/2008 by alexcase

Have done a bit more tedious reorganisation so that you don’t need to do so much tedious searching, and you can now find all the links to my stuff on said topics elsewhere on the internet as well as my … Continue reading →

Posted in CAE, Cambridge First Certificate, Cambridge Proficiency, EFL exams, English for Academic Purposes, ETS, IELTS, IELTS Academic Reading, IELTS Speaking, links, Listening, Materials, Photocopiable worksheets, Reading, Speaking, TEFL, TOEFL, TOEIC, Usingenglish, Vocabulary | Comments Off on IELTS, TOEIC, TOEFL, FCE, CAE and CPE worksheets, articles and tips

New TEFL articles etc August 08

Posted on 01/09/2008 by alexcase

It was a quiet month (if you don’t count the sound of the cicadas), but that will just give you the chance to read all of them for once, starting with a new series of “well balanced…” articles on Usingenglish.com: … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, CELTA, ELT publishing, ELTgames.com, English for Academic Purposes, Error correction, Error correction games, links, Materials, Needs analysis, Self-study materials, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL certificate, TEFL games, TEFL heroes- Jon Marks, Using L1 in class, Usingenglish | Comments Off on New TEFL articles etc August 08

The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 14

Posted on 27/07/2008 by alexcase

UPDATE: Complete collection now here. ARELS- Association of Reasonably good English Language Schools BAAL- The false god of Applied Linguistics Direct method- A system of language learning aimed at making Japanese students say what they really mean Ditransitive- verbs often … Continue reading →

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The “Should you be teaching EAP?” quiz

Posted on 27/06/2008 by alexcase

If the amount of new stuff I learnt from the new book “Academic Vocabulary in Use” by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell is anything to go by (a book for students from “good Intermediate level”, not for teachers!), the answer … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic vocabulary, Cambridge University Press, Collocations, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS, links, Self-study materials, TEFL, Vocabulary | 2 Comments

Jon Marks- Is there anything this man can't do??

Posted on 23/06/2008 by alexcase

Jonnyboy is the cartoonist behind the often amusing Langwich Scool and the author of the life saving books At Last, Photocopies You Can Give Your Kids’ Classes Without Them Groaning. And now he’s released a book that makes IELTS fun. … Continue reading →

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Numerous number games

Posted on 19/05/2008 by alexcase

Might just be the physics graduate in me coming out, but I seem to find myself teaching numbers in my classes all the time- be it shouting “seven Eight NIne TEEEEEEN!” at the top of my voice in my kindy classes … Continue reading →

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English for Very Specific Purposes (EVSP)

Posted on 27/04/2008 by alexcase

Having found out from the book “English for Specific Purposes” by Keith Harding that ESP has spawned a whole raft of lovely acronyms such as EAP, EBP, EMP, EOP, EPP, EST, EVP* and also the disparaging one for General English … Continue reading →

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It’s the University English class Guess the Country Game!

Posted on 25/03/2008 by alexcase

“We didn’t have active discussion, active uses of English. … We inertly listened to her [the professor] during the class,” You’re thinking it’s from a 3rd world country, maybe one with a non-democratic regime, right? Think again. “Several students said … Continue reading →

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