Category Archives: Photocopiable worksheets

New pronunciation pages

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!

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

A list of new content on TEFLtastic, sometimes mixed with classic materials that are well worth remembering. Updated every couple of days. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. World cup modals practice – NEW Interview … Continue reading

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New TEFL stuff 2022 H1*

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

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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New Like as a Preposition and Verbs of Sensation pages

A mix of old and new materials on “be like”, “look (like)”, “taste (like)”, etc. At the moment the two pages are just the same worksheets arranged differently depending on what your main language focus is, but as usual with … Continue reading

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New participle clauses page

I’m still struggling with how best to teach this tricky bit of grammar, and have twice given up on articles I was trying to write on the topic. However, I have come up with two nice communicative practice activities and … Continue reading

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The most TEFLtastic worksheets of 2021

As the TEFL blog boom years during which I started TEFLtastic fade further from view and more social-media-savvy generations have taken over, I more and more picture myself as an ageing rock star saying “We feel like our new album … Continue reading

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Xmas activities for Business and ESP classes

I don’t see any reason why ESP classes can’t also have a bit of seasonal cheer, as long as you manage to tie it in with something useful such as meetings roleplays, pronouncing numbers, talking about trends, or telephoning practice. … Continue reading

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New TEFL PDFs and articles autumn 2021

Favourite and/ or newest stuff that I haven’t mentioned yet top of each section. New TEFL articles autumn 2021 How to teach defining and non-defining relative clauses How to teach a/ an and the How to teach relative pronouns How … Continue reading

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