Category Archives: Business English and ESP

50 Steps to Improving your Academic Writing (Garnet) review

Posted on 14/12/2014 by alexcase

As usual, as published in Modern English Teacher magazine. And as usual, the published version probably seems at least more positive than I was in this original version… There is no lack of well-respected ESL academic writing books on the … Continue reading →

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New English for lawyers games/ worksheets page

Posted on 31/07/2014 by alexcase

Have combined four specific new worksheets on the topic with some of my old crime and punishment classics to make a new legal English page: Legal English games/ worksheets

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Teaching trends language

Posted on 14/04/2014 by alexcase

Should you wish to considerably improve the way you teach language like “considerably improve” or substantially increase the number of expressions like “substantially increase” that you introduce to IELTS, EAP, business and ESP students, I’ve finally got around to writing an article on … Continue reading →

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The most important and neglected kind of academic writing?

Posted on 27/02/2014 by alexcase

To my pleasant surprise, about 80% of my academic writing students last term chose “emailing to academic staff” as the most useful thing we covered in that course. The surprise comes from the fact that I’ve never seen it in … Continue reading →

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Extreme needs-based teaching!

Posted on 02/12/2013 by alexcase

I’ve been doing this for a while in one-to-one classes, but took me a while to come up with a worksheet for group classes to elicit and practise what students need in the very first lesson, even when those needs … Continue reading →

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English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pages expanded and reorganised

Posted on 22/10/2013 by alexcase

I’m spending most of my time teaching university classes at the moment, including academic writing, academic presentations and academic discussion skills, plus English for Specific Academic Purposes classes for design, economics and social science students. As with most of my … Continue reading →

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Theory and reality of the Business/ ESP approach

Posted on 09/07/2013 by alexcase

It sounds like a great approach most General English classes taught the CELTA way could also learn from – find out what students need and give it to them. However, it rarely works out to be quite that simple in reality. However, … Continue reading →

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21 resources for teaching transport vocabulary

Posted on 16/06/2013 by alexcase

To go along with my fairly popular Travel English page, I’ve created a new page dedicated to the vocabulary of transport and things related to it, including this brand new article: Teaching transport vocab to kids The worksheets etc on my … Continue reading →

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New education vocabulary page

Posted on 20/04/2013 by alexcase

Particularly useful for listening in academic exams like IELTS and ToEFL, and also for Part One of speaking exams like FCE and CAE – but also for anyone who might ever need to explain their past, present or future education. … Continue reading →

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Longer phrases games (TEFLtastic classics Part 12)

Posted on 02/04/2013 by alexcase

Updated version of this post with more worksheets and explanation here. In my endless quest to get students using higher level functional language, I invented this simple but popular game. Students match up beginnings and ends of useful phrases, then … Continue reading →

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