Category Archives: Complaints

Step by step roleplays (TEFLtastic classics Part Five)

Posted on 02/03/2012 by alexcase

Not quite a game, but a lot more fun and useful than it sounds. If you like this and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  Students do a short and easy roleplay, then the next roleplay card asks them to do … 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

Free functional language worksheets

Posted on 02/11/2010 by alexcase

On sorting my Functional and Social English Games and other Worksheets out and adding links to relevant stuff on my Business/ESP and various textbook pages, I was surprised to find that I have about 60 of the little buggers, which is … Continue reading →

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Something for post-weekend

Posted on 17/01/2010 by alexcase

Inspired by the song “Something for the Weekend” by Divine Comedy, a list of all my talking about the weekend worksheets for Monday (or even Tuesday) lessons. No time to hyperlink them properly before Monday as I spent the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English games, Complaints, IELTS, links, Materials, Photocopiable worksheets, Speaking games, TEFL, TEFL games | 3 Comments

New stuff July 2008 Part Two

Posted on 30/07/2008 by alexcase

As mentioned in a comment or two below (and in every other sentence in my real life conversation), I am off on my reasonably well deserved hols from Friday and won’t even be looking at a computer screen for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Business English games, Complaints, Compound nouns, Cross cultural training in EFL, Cultural differences/ cultural training, ELT publishing, Functional language, Grammar, Grammar games, Learner training, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, links, Materials, Pairwork and groupwork, Personalisation, Prepositions, Present simple/ continuous, Present tenses, Pronunciation, TEFL, TEFL games, TEFL reviews, Usingenglish, Vocabulary | Comments Off on New stuff July 2008 Part Two