Category Archives: Photocopiable worksheets

The most popular TEFLtastic photocopiables in 2014

2014 was a record breaking year for TEFLtastic, finally recovering from the chaos after the split from TEFL.net and then reaching over 1,500,000 annual page views. I’d love to think that was because my attempts at humour have been wonderfully … Continue reading

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New ELT games and other photocopiable activities October 2014

Actually more than a month’s supply as it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, but with most recent top: Making Arrangements Phone Calls Game Analyse and write IELTS Speaking Part Two Tasks Past or Present? Used … Continue reading

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Why my worksheets don’t have numbers

Along with my complete disregard for appearance and even hatred of pointless illustrations, probably the biggest difference between my photocopiable materials and paper-based published ones is how mine almost always use bullet points rather than numbers and letters. Unlike the … Continue reading

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Over 100 IELTS worksheets now easier to find

As part of the continuing reorganisation of my many worksheets pages, have added all the relevant index pages to my main IELTS games/ worksheets page, making it hopefully only two or three clicks from there to materials for just the task or … Continue reading

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Games/ worksheets for 47 grammar points now easier to find

Have begun the reorganisation mentioned in my last post, making sure you don’t have to open and then close so many windows to get at the worksheets you are after, starting by adding all the grammar sub-menus to the main grammar … Continue reading

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New EFL worksheets May 2014

In more or less reverse chronological order, but with some moving of less generally useful stuff to lower down the list: Self-study tips comparative adjectives presentation and practice (combining learner training and grammar) Needs analysis and language learning rules discussion (ditto, … Continue reading

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The only photocopiable books still worth paying for?

With people like me having shamelessly copied ideas from classic photocopiable books (and even maybe improved on them) then offered our stuff for free, it no longer seems to be worth paying actual money for formerly indispensible books like Communication … Continue reading

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New teaching English articles and worksheets March 2014

I’m off to the UK on Sunday to take part in Occupy IATEFL*, so here are lots of worksheets and not lots of articles to keep you busy until I get back. Recent stuff I haven’t mentioned yet top: Worksheets … Continue reading

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Present Simple activities page much expanded

Still not the biggest of page even after doubling in size, but I think it’s much more useful to teach contrasting it with Present Continuous or third person S, both of which I have many more ideas for linked to from there: Present … Continue reading

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New TEFL articles and worksheets Oct-Nov 2013

The surprising popularity of one of my recent attempts at humour and something that started as an attempt at an actual article have somewhat made up for the lack of blog posts recently. I’ve also been pretty busy elsewhere. In … Continue reading

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