Category Archives: TEFL

21 discussing your week(end) to practise particular language activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 43)

Posted on 09/03/2020 by alexcase

Discussing your week and weekend to practise grammar Discussing your week and weekend to practise tenses Past, present and future weekends storytelling – NEW LINK Weekends Past Perfect and Past Continuous Next weekend and future tenses – LINK UPDATED Weekends questions … Continue reading →

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27 small talk for specific language points activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 42)

Posted on 19/02/2020 by alexcase

There is perhaps no smoother introduction to and no more realistic way of practising language than a set of especially chosen small talk questions. These could be questions including the grammar etc that you want to practise, e.g. small talk … Continue reading →

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36 functions card games (TEFLtastic classics Part 41)

Posted on 12/02/2020 by alexcase

As usual with this series of posts on the most adaptable activities in TEFL, this game is simplicity itself but surprisingly effective. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. Functions card game instructions Groups of two or three … Continue reading →

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Difficult to find TEFLtastic pages

Posted on 29/01/2020 by alexcase

When linking to the new indirect questions page in my last post, I suddenly realised how difficult it would be to find if I hadn’t mentioned it, what with being a sub-page of question formation, which for some reason I … Continue reading →

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16 meeting criteria games (TEFLtastic classics Part 40)

Posted on 01/12/2019 by alexcase

Another instalment in my series on posts on the most useful and adaptable TEFL activities, for once for an activity that I (probably) invented. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. This is one of the … Continue reading →

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The (mildly) autistic TEFL teacher

Posted on 29/10/2019 by alexcase

While adding two new articles and a list of useful phrases to my rapidly expanding small talk for EFL learners page, it suddenly struck me how ironic people who know me would find it that I’m teaching small talk, let … Continue reading →

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19 disappearing text memory games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 39)

Posted on 16/10/2019 by alexcase

This is another activity that I’ve used regularly as long as I can remember and I’ve finally got around to writing about, inspired by its appearance in my new e-book. If you like anything here and want more, please support … Continue reading →

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New songs and music worksheets pages

Posted on 13/10/2019 by alexcase

Halfway through my big reorganisation of TEFLtastic, found that I had, for some strange reason, combined music and song worksheets on one page. Have therefore split it into two updated and expanded pages, one on music (describing and discussing music, … Continue reading →

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TEFLtastic index page now easier to use

Posted on 01/10/2019 by alexcase

While using my worksheet pages A to Z list myself, noticed that for some reason I’d rather inconveniently added “See… above/ below” like a book index when I first made it. Now added proper hyperlinks to all those instead, so … Continue reading →

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22 good and bad responses activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 38)

Posted on 15/09/2019 by alexcase

The first in a few additions to my occasional series on the most adaptable games/ activities in TEFL, revived due to finding that there are some real TEFL classics that are in my new e-book and I use all the … Continue reading →

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