Category Archives: TEFL

The best IELTS Listening practice test?

Posted on 08/04/2025 by alexcase

An IELTS Listening practice test wish list, then two candidates for the prize. The perfect IELTS Listening test would have: It would also be nice to have a flowchart in Part 3 to tie in with Writing Task 1, even … Continue reading →

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The most TEFLtastic new content of summer 2024

Posted on 01/09/2024 by alexcase

While you’ve all been off spoiling Venice, Kyoto and Barcelona on your hols all summer, I’ve been keeping up a steady stream of new content that you’ve probably missed while you were tanning your belly buttons, reading Dan Brown and … Continue reading →

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Kremlin-watching in ELT publishing and exams

Posted on 07/08/2024 by alexcase

When I have to explain the English teaching industry, I often feel like a Kremlinologist must have when they had to make assumptions about deeper changes from who the party leader was standing next to, or like a journalist trying … Continue reading →

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28 pages of new free IELTS Reading classroom materials

Posted on 23/07/2024 by alexcase

Have produced a sudden flurry of new materials to prepare students for IELTS Reading, some also linking to other IELTS papers. Not yet enough IELTS Reading stuff to add another title to my collection of Teaching IELTS… e-books, so that … Continue reading →

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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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Teaching tenses Xmas lessons

Posted on 11/12/2023 by alexcase

Teaching past, present and future verb forms in end of the year lessons tips and photocopiables: Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons article Present tenses Xmas photocopiables Present Simple Xmas photocopiables It is and they are Xmas photocopiables It is and … Continue reading →

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