Category Archives: IELTS Speaking

New TEFL stuff 2022 H1*

Posted on 13/06/2022 by alexcase

Much less stuff than in the good ole days, but hopefully less quantity finally means more quality. Latest items top of each section. New TEFL e-book Teaching IELTS Speaking: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 300 pages on tips, vocabulary, functional language phrases, … Continue reading →

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New Teaching IELTS Speaking e-book out now

Posted on 31/05/2022 by alexcase

As Teaching IELTS Writing: Interactive Classroom Activities seems to have been quite popular, I’ve now put together over 300 photocopiable pages of thoroughly classroom-tested materials that help really teach (not just practise) IELTS Speaking: Teaching IELTS Speaking: Interactive Classroom Activities … Continue reading →

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IELTS Speaking games/ worksheets now easy to find

Posted on 01/10/2012 by alexcase

The one good thing about needing to put each and every worksheet in the index pages manually is that I can finally put them in any order I like and generally get them properly organised for the first time in … Continue reading →

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Really teaching IELTS Speaking Part Two

Posted on 27/03/2012 by alexcase

As it says at the beginning of one of the articles I’ve recently written on the topic, it seems neither textbooks nor my own worksheets were really teaching (rather than practising) this part of the exam. Hopefully made up for this … Continue reading →

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My new stuff last month

Posted on 04/03/2012 by alexcase

Have just linked to some of this, but if you look at it the glass half full way that means most of it is being mentioned for the first time… Articles Teaching countable and uncountable nouns (almost certainly not the way … Continue reading →

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New ELT articles and classroom handouts January 2012

Posted on 27/01/2012 by alexcase

Not a bad batch this month, though I say so myself… Articles Fun classroom activities for ordinal numbers – LINK FIXED Functional language for IELTS Speaking – LINK FIXED How to practise Used to  – LINK FIXED Worksheets IELTS Speaking Clarifying language Cambridge … Continue reading →

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New TEFL articles and worksheets November 2011

Posted on 30/11/2011 by alexcase

I’ve mentioned some of these in my posts on tips and useful language etc, but the ones near the top of each section are those that have just gone up and I haven’t linked to before: Articles Teaching grammar in Business … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic writing, BULATS, Business and ESP writing, Cambridge First Certificate, comparatives, Complaints, Future tenses, IELTS Speaking, IELTS Writing, Language of meetings, Modals of possibility probability, Politeness, Reports, Requests, Social English, teleconference, unreal past | 2 Comments

Lots of lovely new articles and worksheets

Posted on 24/07/2011 by alexcase

Actually, I have no way of judging the loveliness of my own stuff, of course, just had a nice ring to it. Actually, lots could be an exaggeration too… Articles Adverbs of frequency games – LINK FIXED What your students need … Continue reading →

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EFL exam materials

Posted on 14/03/2011 by alexcase

Classes cancelled again, I think mainly because of trains not running more than risk of more earthquakes or the wind blowing radioactive gas all this way. As the planned power cuts didn’t materialise today and anyway will probably not include … Continue reading →

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New EFL worksheets November 2010

Posted on 24/11/2010 by alexcase

November 2010 Part One and Only (a bit more realistic than usual about my blogging abilities this month…) Starting and Ending Meetings (loads of lovely Business English functional language) Language of trends- Your week and life (personalisation for this vital IELTS … Continue reading →

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