Category Archives: Second conditional

New articles and worksheets Sept 2011

Classroom activities to practise planning and paragraphing – LINK FIXED How to teach FCE Use of English Part One – LINK FIXED What your students need to know about BULATS Writing Part One – LINK FIXED Fun activities for the second conditional – LINK … Continue reading

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Sentence completion guessing games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two)

Updated 1 January 2018 I almost certainly didn’t make this game up, but I publically challenge anyone to prove that they’ve overexploited it as much as me! The rules are incredibly simple: Students complete at least some of the sentence … Continue reading

Posted in Adjectives, Adverbs, Adverbs of frequency, First conditional, Mixed conditionals, Present perfect, Second conditional, TEFL games, Third conditional | Tagged | 6 Comments

Best of Mastertalker Interactive Games and Activities

Not like me to actually have useful ideas on TEFLtastic I know, but as I ripped all these ideas off one TEFL e book I can hardly claim it is even as much an article as the other things that … Continue reading

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History for ESL students

Updated 13 June 2022 I am in no way an expert in either history or CLIL, but as I’ve written this material and there didn’t seem to be much available when I was looking thought I may as well put … Continue reading

Posted in CLIL, Conditionals, conjunctions, Determiners and articles, Future tenses, Grammar games, infinitive of purpose, Modals, past tenses, Prepositions, reported speech, Second conditional, Teaching methods and methodologies, TEFL, Will for predictions | 11 Comments

Busy making others busy

As a blogger and writer of articles on the internet whose technical knowledge stops at Word, as usual I feel half chuffed at churning out so many articles, including a good one here and there, and half guilty at creating … Continue reading

Posted in BULATS, Business English and ESP, EFL exams, IELTS Speaking, links, Materials, Photocopiable worksheets, Pronunciation, pronunciation games, Second conditional, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL games, TEFL reviews, TEFL workshops, TESOL, Using a whiteboard, Using L1 in class, Whiteboard games | Comments Off on Busy making others busy

TEFL fun and games Part one- Guess me!

Mondays are not a day for pontificating, and anyway I’m a bit ponficated out at the moment, so here are some fun and games instead- This is one that fits into my ultimate TEFL desert island survival game kit. It … Continue reading

Posted in adjective plus preposition, Adjectives, Grammar, Grammar games, Mixed conditionals, Photocopiable worksheets, PPP (Presentation practice production), Present perfect, Second conditional, Staging, TEFL, TEFL games, Third conditional | Comments Off on TEFL fun and games Part one- Guess me!

Ask Auntie Alex- Solve all your troubles with TEFL Part Two

After making voting easier and even finally bringing peace to Japanese/ Chinese relations, our resident Agony Aunt is back to use the tools that we learn on our CELTAs to solve problems personal and universal, big and small. Today it’s … Continue reading

Posted in EFL exams, Grammar games, IELTS, Language of generalisation, Second conditional, TESOL, Writing games | 6 Comments