Category Archives: Technical English

Technical English handouts now 100% PDF

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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New Technical and Medical English worksheets

Some originally written for Onestopenglish but went missing during an editor change, so now available here for free: Technical English worksheets Medical English games/ worksheets

Posted in Business English and ESP, countable and uncountable nouns, Determiners and articles, Medical and pharmaceutical English, past tenses, relative clauses, Technical English, TEFL, Vocabulary, Vocabulary games | Leave a comment

New TEFLtastic worksheets Feb 2010 Part One

Your city and life Add the quantifiers speaking Next weekend and future tenses Describing objects 20 questions and extended speaking A report on weekends- Language of generalisation or phonics picture flashcards ee phonics picture flashcards Writing reports in English useful … Continue reading →

Posted in board games, countable and uncountable nouns, Future tenses, Language of generalisation, links, Photocopiable worksheets, Reports, Speaking, Speaking games, Technical English, Writing | Tagged | 1 Comment

Confucius's lessons for English teachers

…from the Analects’ very opening lines: “Isn’t it a pleasure when you can make practical use of the things you have studied? Isn’t it a pleasure to have an old friend visit from afar? Isn’t it the sure sign of … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Cultural differences/ cultural training, ELT management, IELTS, Teacher training, Teaching English in Asia, Technical English, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL working conditions | Tagged | Leave a comment

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

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 →

Posted in Delta Publishing, EFL exams, ELT publishing, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS, Photocopiable worksheets, Technical English, TEFL heroes- Jon Marks, TEFL reviews | 1 Comment

Fun for all the family

Somewhere along the way I have come up with idea of looking at games in the classroom in a completely different way, by brainstorming games for language points that absolutely all kinds of students need and so not dividing them up … Continue reading →

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How much Christmas cheer can one class handle?

UPDATE: Full list of Xmas stuff now here. More Xmas links, should you be a glutton for merriment (including one that says “Focus: Fluency speaking, advanced vocab, conversation, destroying students’ enjoyment of Christmas”, which is nice) And a few more … Continue reading →

Posted in conjunctions, Functional language, Future tenses, Grammar, Past continuous, past tenses, Present perfect, Present perfect/ simple past, Present simple/ continuous, Present tenses, Technical English, TEFL, Will for predictions | 1 Comment