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Category Archives: Skills
The best IELTS Listening practice test?
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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Business communication reviews (TEFLtastic Classics Part 51)
Often after my last TEFLtastic Classic (needs and instant personalised practice), I often start business courses with a big review of the basic language for electronic and face-to-face communication, with materials like these: First contact and further contact picking roleplays … Continue reading
Guest post: 11 tips for teaching controversial topics in the ESL classroom
A great post from Alice of Hot Take English, hopefully re-starting the once numerous and always popular TEFLtastic guest posts. For a lot of English language teachers, the mere thought of teaching a so-called “controversial” discussion topic in class is … Continue reading
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New Teaching Emailing book out now
300 photocopiable pages on opening and closing every kind of email, being formal and friendly, planning and paragraphing, fixing common emailing problems, etc – all with a surprising amount of classroom communication for a book on writing: Teaching Emailing: Interactive … Continue reading
New articles on telephoning page
With 10 articles on telephoning and teaching telephoning already up and about 10 more to add soon, thought it was worth tidying up my telephone English worksheets page by moving the articles to a page of their own: Telephone English … Continue reading
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New Teaching Telephoning e-book out now!
While the rest of you were taking up new hobbies and having Zoom parties (?), I used my lockdown to finally keep my promise to those who were kind enough to buy a copy of my one of my previous … Continue reading
21 discussing your week(end) to practise particular language activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 43)
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
The (mildly) autistic TEFL teacher
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
New Xmas worksheets
Updated 12 January 2017 More seasonal cheer for specific language points: Xmas and New Year negotiations – NEW Describing Japanese and British Xmas and New Year – NEW Seasonal trends meetings practice (language of trends tied in with festivals and … Continue reading
Complete guide to telephoning in different cultures
Three new articles on the topic published this month: British and American phone calls – NEW 50 ways to answer the phone (in English and other languages) – NEW Cultural differences in telephoning – NEW These links and many more … Continue reading
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