Category Archives: past tenses

Teaching yet and already

Posted on 19/04/2012 by alexcase

Two articles on the topic just up: Teaching Present Perfect with yet and already – LINK FIXED Speaking practice for yet and already – LINK FIXED Worksheets plus links to articles on other uses of Present Perfect here: Present Perfect Worksheets and … Continue reading →

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Teaching Have you ever (Present Perfect for experiences)

Posted on 28/03/2012 by alexcase

I really thought I’d written an article on every tense going, but then I realised I’d made the classic mistake of mixing up different uses of the Present Perfect when I wrote about that tense before. Have started fixing that here: … 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 | Comments Off on My new stuff last month

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 | Comments Off on New ELT articles and classroom handouts January 2012

Teaching ideas and worksheets for "used to"

Posted on 23/01/2012 by alexcase

Many new this month, and more coming soon. Used to ideas and photocopiables page

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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

Teaching tenses games and tips

Posted on 05/09/2011 by alexcase

Like many of my students, I started on tenses thinking I’d quickly get them out of the way and then get onto something more interesting. However, five years later and here I still am writing articles on the little buggers… … Continue reading →

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Sentence completion guessing games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two)

Posted on 03/08/2011 by alexcase

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

New English teaching worksheets June 2011

Posted on 06/06/2011 by alexcase

Some nice ones in this bunch, I reckon. Then again, I was quite proud of my hideously over-complicated telephoning lesson on Onestopenglish when it first went up… Big emailing functional language review Different kinds of IELTS Writing Part Two questions (in … Continue reading →

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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 | Comments Off on New ELT photocopiables April 2011