Category Archives: Materials

Are my e-books too cheap?

Posted on 16/07/2024 by alexcase

I recently put up second editions of my Teaching IELTS Listening and Teaching IELTS Writing e-books. They cost three pounds and five pounds, which might not seem shockingly cheap until you notice that they have over 500 and over 300 … Continue reading →

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New Teaching C2 Proficiency e-book out now!

Posted on 20/05/2024 by alexcase

Over 350 pages of photocopiable classroom materials for Cambridge Proficiency and other very high level classes, covering all skills and parts of the exam, at just a penny a page: Teaching C2 Proficiency: Interactive Classroom Activities  If you haven’t bought … Continue reading →

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New Valentine’s Day teaching tips and materials page

Posted on 06/02/2024 by alexcase

Valentine’s Day games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE with two new articles and 10 new PDFs on linking the best topic for February with more useful language like common grammar points, plus a link to materials dealing with festivals and celebrations … Continue reading →

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New Teaching Negotiating e-book

Posted on 06/02/2024 by alexcase

Over 300 photocopiable pages on the most important tactics and language for the vital skill of negotiating, including much improved versions of some of my favourite activities ever and stacks of new materials: Teaching Negotiating: Interactive Classroom Activities – NEW … Continue reading →

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Grammar in Xmas lessons links

Posted on 13/12/2023 by alexcase

I gave teaching tips and PDFs for tenses in Xmas lesson here, so this page is the same for other grammar points like modals, prepositions and adjectives. Teaching tenses in Xmas lessons links Teaching grammar in Xmas lessons article Adverbs … Continue reading →

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New pronunciation pages

Posted on 05/09/2023 by alexcase

New and newish pages on connected speech, schwa, magic E, doubled letters, and IELTS pronunciation, available with many other pronunciation pages here: Pronunciation games/ worksheets

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New IELTS Listening e-book out now!

Posted on 07/03/2023 by alexcase

Over 200 pages to teach students what IELTS Listening really involves, giving them knowledge of the key vocabulary, typical phrases, trick questions, difficult things to listen for, hard spellings, etc in the test.  All without any boring recordings or awkward … Continue reading →

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Latest and greatest on TEFLtastic

Posted on 26/07/2022 by alexcase

A list of new content on TEFLtastic, sometimes mixed with classic materials that are well worth remembering. Updated every couple of days. See here for e-books, here for other photocopiables, here for articles, and here for how to support TEFLtastic. … Continue reading →

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New TEFL stuff 2022 H1*

Posted on 13/06/2022 by alexcase

Much less stuff than in the good ole days, but hopefully less quantity finally means more quality. Latest items top of each section. New TEFL e-book Teaching IELTS Speaking: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 300 pages on tips, vocabulary, functional language phrases, … Continue reading →

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New Teaching IELTS Speaking e-book out now

Posted on 31/05/2022 by alexcase

As Teaching IELTS Writing: Interactive Classroom Activities seems to have been quite popular, I’ve now put together over 300 photocopiable pages of thoroughly classroom-tested materials that help really teach (not just practise) IELTS Speaking: Teaching IELTS Speaking: Interactive Classroom Activities … Continue reading →

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