Category Archives: Business English and ESP

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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Longer phrases games (TEFLtastic classics Part 12)

Posted on 02/04/2013 by alexcase

Updated version of this post with more worksheets and explanation now here.

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18 numbers pairwork guessing games (TEFLtastic classics Part 9)

Posted on 19/10/2012 by alexcase

A classic activity for numbers, vocabulary and comparatives. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic As a former physics nerd, when my LCCI Teaching English for Business cert tutor told me all classes should do a … Continue reading →

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A review of Lifestyle Pre-Intermediate by Vicki Hollett and Norman Whitby

Posted on 07/08/2012 by alexcase

A majorly edited version of this has just been published in Modern English Teacher magazine. Lifestyle is a new textbook series designed for “English for work, socializing and travel”. As those three things cover most of my students’ needs and … Continue reading →

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Lots of lovely new English for architects worksheets

Posted on 27/04/2012 by alexcase

Updated: All worksheets now here: English for architects games worksheets – LINK UPDATED

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Cover and handover notes for Business English classes

Posted on 13/04/2012 by alexcase

How to write up details of the critically important Business English and ESP classes, including three real-life examples. It is quite easy to imagine what could go wrong if you have to step into a kids’ class that you know … Continue reading →

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Business Result Pre-Intermediate supplementary materials

Posted on 05/04/2012 by alexcase

23 new worksheets plus links to loads more relevant stuff. Here’s hoping other people are using that book too after all that work… Business Result Pre photocopiable communication games etc

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Technical English handouts now 100% PDF

Posted on 10/09/2011 by alexcase

Running out of interesting stuff to say about PDFing all my worksheets section by section, and I’m less than a third of the way through… For engineers, technicians, scientists, computer geeks etc: Technical English PDFs Also polished up a little, … Continue reading →

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What we really should ask in level checks and needs analysis

Posted on 30/08/2011 by alexcase

What is your motivation for studying English? • too much free time • to date or marry a foreigner • to date fellow students • to save money on air conditioning/ heating • to get revenge on your boss by … Continue reading →

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