Category Archives: Business English and ESP

Teaching the Academic Word List (AWL)

New article on the topic here: How to teach the Academic Word List – LINK UPDATED One of my main tips in the article is to combine the vocab with phrases they will also need, as I’ve tried to do in … Continue reading

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Teaching English for engineering

Have written two articles on the topic, re-labelled my Technical English worksheets page to reflect the fact that actually lots of it is basically engineering and added a couple of new worksheets to that page: Articles How to teach English to engineers … Continue reading

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Presentations worksheets now easier to find

This is probably the thing I have taught most often over the last two years, so my presentations games/ worksheets page had grown somewhat unmanageable. Have now reorganised the 22 worksheets into sections on tips/ advice, starting/ ending, voice and body, common … Continue reading

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Business English worksheets section sorted

Took me a while, but pages on Market Leader, Business Result, Meetings and Negotiations, Business Grammar, Business Vocab, Business Functions, Cultural Training for Business English, etc now all done here: ESP games/ photocopiables pages

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Human resources/ Job applications materials expanded

Have added some new worksheets and sorted out the old ones: Personnel and recruitment English games and other worksheets

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30 meetings/ negotiations communication games and other worksheets

Updated to be all on one page and better organised: Meetings and negotiations materials/ links

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Teaching Architectural English

Have just added two new articles of mine on the topic and a free workbook by someone else to my worksheets and links page: English for architects activities page

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Numbers pairwork guessing game (TEFLtastic classics Part 9)

A classic activity for numbers, vocabulary and comparatives. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  Updated 28 February 2022 As a former physics nerd, when my LCCI Teaching English for Business cert tutor told me all … Continue reading

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IELTS Writing and trends pages sorted

I’m doing all my best pages first, so please ignore these posts in a couple of weeks when I start scraping the barrel. In the meantime, I highly recommend these two: IELTS Writing games/ worksheets Language of trends communicationg games/ … Continue reading

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Medical English games/ photocopiables page now properly organised

One of my most popular pages, for some reason. Let’s hope now it’s working properly it regains that position… Medical English communication games/ classroom materials Click on the Communication Games/ Worksheets link under the photo above for details of more … Continue reading

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