Category Archives: past tenses

Teaching tenses Xmas lessons

Posted on 11/12/2023 by alexcase

Teaching past, present and future verb forms in end of the year lessons tips and photocopiables: Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons article Present tenses Xmas photocopiables Present Simple Xmas photocopiables It is and they are Xmas photocopiables It is and … Continue reading →

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Two nice new activities for mixed future tenses

Posted on 07/07/2015 by alexcase

Along with the fact the authors have done boring stuff like workbooks so I don’t have to, what I most like about teaching with textbooks is the challenge of trying to come up with activities to tie together with whatever … Continue reading →

Posted in Food vocabulary, Future tenses, Grammar games, Present perfect, Speaking games | Leave a comment

9 ESL accusations games (TEFLtastic classics Part 15)

Posted on 11/06/2013 by alexcase

A classic Past Continuous activity with variations for Present Continuous, vocab, young learners, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  I’m not claiming any particular originality for the ideas I’m including in this series (hence … Continue reading →

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My new TEFL stuff (Dec 2012 – Jan 2013)

Posted on 02/02/2013 by alexcase

Articles Gardens/ gardening in EFL classes – LINK FIXED TPR for can/ can’t  – LINK FIXED Games for can/ can’t – LINK FIXED Teaching future continuous – LINK FIXED Future continuous games  – LINK FIXED Future continuous speaking practice  – LINK FIXED Movement in adult classes – … Continue reading →

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A nice fun personalised speaking activity for Past Continuous

Posted on 28/07/2012 by alexcase

As I’ve written before, when I do use a PPP methodology I tend to present the grammar near the end of the lesson, let them get their heads round it for homework, and then do the speaking practice in the … Continue reading →

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Sentence completion guessing games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two)

Posted on 03/08/2011 by alexcase

Update: Now moved to 34 Sentence Completion Games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two revisited) 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 … Continue reading →

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

New ELT photocopiables April 2011

Posted on 23/04/2011 by alexcase

Many thanks again to Usingenglish.com  for putting these up, and for motivating me to do answer keys etc – something my students are appreciating too! In no particular order: Teleconferences and video conferences stages game (a much neglected point made … Continue reading →

Posted in BULATS, Business English games, Feelings vocabulary, interrupting, Past continuous, Photocopiable worksheets, Present simple/ continuous, TEFL games, teleconference, video conference | Leave a comment

Teaching tenses Grammar games

Posted on 28/10/2010 by alexcase

Much updated list here: Teaching tenses games and tips

Posted in Conditionals, Future tenses, past tenses, Present tenses, TEFL | 2 Comments

New Technical and Medical English worksheets

Posted on 08/03/2010 by alexcase

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 TEFL articles etc October 2009

Posted on 20/10/2009 by alexcase

Chuseok holiday came just at the right point for me, so for once you can actually read my articles in the month which they are supposed to be for: Natural Interactions (in HLT magazine for the first time in many … Continue reading →

Posted in EFL CD ROMs, ELT World, Grammar games, HLT magazine, Present Perfect Continuous, Specific English, Teaching English in Turkey, TEFL, TEFL blogs, TEFL games, TEFL Tradesman | 9 Comments