Category Archives: IELTS

100 years of Cambridge ESOL timeline

Posted on 17/08/2013 by alexcase

As promised, here the more useful but less interesting list of dates and events, to accompany my list of more interesting but less useful stats and my review of the book they all came from. 1857 – Founding of the University … 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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New ELT articles and worksheets November 2012

Posted on 26/11/2012 by alexcase

Good for articles but not so hot for worksheets this month: Articles Comparative adjective games Advantages and disadvantages of using authentic texts in class Collocations games Different methods for ELT brainstorming Teaching the Future Perfect tense Prepositions for YLs – LINK … Continue reading →

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IELTS Writing and trends pages sorted

Posted on 14/10/2012 by alexcase

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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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 →

Posted in Academic writing, Apologies, Business English and ESP, Business English games, countable and uncountable nouns, Determiners and articles, Email, Future tenses, IELTS Speaking, IELTS Writing, Interactive whiteboard, Modals, Photocopiable worksheets, Prepositions, Present Perfect Continuous | Leave a comment

Whatever happened to Online IELTS?

Posted on 03/02/2012 by alexcase

The recent changes to BULATS made me wonder whether IELTS might be next to go computer based. I got onto Google to try and find any rumours of such changes, but blow me down – there had already been an … Continue reading →

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EFL exams articles and tips for students and teachers

Posted on 30/01/2012 by alexcase

I’ve written at least 50 things on this over the years (for Onestopenglish, EnglishClub, Usingenglish and TEFL.net), so I’ve expanded and reorganised my lists of links so that there are separate pages for IELTS, TOEIC, FCE and BULATS. There are also general articles … 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 →

Posted in British and American English, BULATS, Cambridge First Certificate, clarifying, Email, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS Speaking, IELTS Writing, ordinal numbers, past tenses, Photocopiable worksheets, Technical English, Telephoning, unreal past, Used to | Leave a comment