Category Archives: Prepositions

New TEFLtastic worksheets May 2010 Part Two

Posted on 17/05/2010 by alexcase

Recommending countries to visit Version 2 Suggestions language Your weekend Prepositions Your weekend Functional language Your week negotiations Your weekend Functional language Version 2 Weekend Simple Past Present Perfect

Posted in Functional language, Language of negotiation, past tenses, Photocopiable worksheets, Prepositions, Present perfect, suggestions, TEFL | Comments Off on New TEFLtastic worksheets May 2010 Part Two

New fun classroom handouts May 2010 Part One

Posted on 10/05/2010 by alexcase

Adjectives compare your weeks Body parts definitions game Business prepositions pairwork (making preps fun and hopefully making connections) Meetings and negotiations prepositions and articles (all that tricky stuff with one fun game!) Conditionals review sentence completition guessing game Next weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Body parts vocabulary, Business English and ESP, Business English games, Conditionals, Determiners and articles, Photocopiable worksheets, Prepositions, TEFL games | Tagged | Comments Off on New fun classroom handouts May 2010 Part One

New TEFL PDFs April 2010 Part One

Posted on 11/04/2010 by alexcase

Your stressful week (Simple Past and Present Perfect, with bluff game) https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/business-esp/market-leader/ml-pre/stressful-week/ Stress at work Guess the job Rules for host families sentence completion pairwork (dependant prepositions and verb patterns) https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/inside-out/io-upper-u2/host-family-rules/ Describing your city Similarities and differences Possessions discussion questions … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, call my bluff, Dependent prepositions, Discussion questions, Photocopiable worksheets, verb patterns, Vocabulary, Vocabulary games | Tagged | 1 Comment

Writing and teaching

Posted on 25/02/2010 by alexcase

Sometimes, quite frankly, combining them is a pain in the arse and I wish I could just choose one or the other, like last week when saving the time and energy to write meant gettting up at 5:30 to plan the … Continue reading →

Posted in English through craftwork, Household vocabulary, Prepositions, prepositions of position, Teaching young learners, Using storybooks, Vocabulary | 4 Comments

New EFL handouts Feb 2010 Part Two

Posted on 17/02/2010 by alexcase

Prepositions and body part mimes Comparative and superlative plus adverb Speaking Health problems mimes Writing reviews in English- Harry Potter Words often used in newspaper headlines Webquest Reading in English discussion questions

Posted in comparatives, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Discussion questions, ELT management, Materials, Medical and pharmaceutical English, Prepositions, Reading, Reviews, superlatives, Technology, TEFL, Webquest, Writing | Tagged | Comments Off on New EFL handouts Feb 2010 Part Two

Prepositions and directions worksheets etc

Posted on 05/09/2009 by alexcase

Like the other recent ones below, expanded, updated, cross referenced, linking to the finest of resources and generally buffed to a fine shine, but this time with songs and video lessons too Prepositions and directions games, worksheets, songs and videos

Posted in Dependent prepositions, giving directions, Grammar games, links, Materials, Photocopiable worksheets, Prepositions, prepositions of movement, prepositions of position, prepositions of time, Teaching young learners, TEFL games | 1 Comment

New ELT articles May 2009

Posted on 30/05/2009 by alexcase

15 ways of making writing interactive – LINK FIXED 15 countable and uncountable noun games – LINK FIXED 15 fun activities for prepositions of time (and boy do we need ways of making this fun!) – LINK FIXED As a brief aside, … Continue reading →

Posted in countable and uncountable nouns, Grammar, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, links, Prepositions, prepositions of time, Skills, TEFL, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL games, TEFL heroes- David Crystal, TESOL, Writing | Comments Off on New ELT articles May 2009

New photocopiable worksheets May 2009

Posted on 25/05/2009 by alexcase

These ones on Usingenglish.com: Timetable Battleships (telling the time, Present Simple for routines and school subjects- for young learners and beginner adults) Telephoning Communication Breakdowns Roleplays (see my telephoning worksheets for more of the same) Present Simple and Continuous Taboo Topics … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Business English and ESP, Business English games, countable and uncountable nouns, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Food vocabulary, Grammar, Materials, nationality adjectives, Photocopiable worksheets, postcards, Prepositions, prepositions of position, Present simple/ continuous, Present tenses, Teaching young learners, TEFL, TEFL games, Telephoning, TESOL, Usingenglish, Vocabulary, Writing, Writing games | Tagged | 1 Comment

History for ESL students

Posted on 12/04/2009 by alexcase

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

TEFL tip of the day- Prepositions of time

Posted on 14/03/2009 by alexcase

Marcelo Montecinos, an English teacher from Chile, suggests the ATONIN Time Pyramid- which is basically to get your students to learn the “word” ATONIN and then to remember that the three prepositions in it are in order of the lengths … Continue reading →

Posted in Grammar, links, Prepositions, prepositions of time, TEFL | Comments Off on TEFL tip of the day- Prepositions of time