Category Archives: Speaking

New PDF handouts Jan 2010 Part Two

Posted on 18/01/2010 by alexcase

If you can’t open PDFs for any reason or want to edit before you print, just highlight the text on the webpage, right click, copy, paste into a word processor programme and format and edit to your heart’s content. Feel … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Discussion questions, Email, flashcards, Giving opinions, Phonics, Photocopiable worksheets, Question formation, Teaching young learners, TEFL games, tense review, Vocabulary, Writing | Tagged | 2 Comments

Two ways of livening up textbook dialogues

Posted on 17/06/2009 by alexcase

I’m going to write about how to use these in more detail later, but thought I’d give the links first in case this saves someone’s day: http://www.xtranormal.com – students can make an animated “film” from the script just by typing … Continue reading →

Posted in ELT publishing, Functional language, links, Macmillan, Roleplays, Speaking, Teaching teenagers, Teaching young learners, Technology, TEFL, TEFL games, Writing | 3 Comments

What to do with morphases.com

Posted on 05/06/2009 by alexcase

Morphases is a face photo manipulation programme that is easy to use and was the biggest hit of the month with my 8 to 11 year olds, with them fighting to speak English to tell me how to change the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Appearance vocabulary, Body parts vocabulary, Grammar, links, possessive s, Speaking, Teaching teenagers, Teaching young learners, Technology, TEFL, TEFL games, TESOL, Vocabulary, Vocabulary games | Tagged | Leave a comment

The best end of term revision games

Posted on 10/12/2008 by alexcase

One way of finishing the term is with Xmas-themed stuff (see the post below). Another good one is lots of fun revision games. As I’ve spent a few years teaching students who want to do every page in the book … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Business English games, Collocations, ELT publishing, English for study abroad, Functional language, Grammar, links, Materials, Personalisation, Photocopiable worksheets, Revision games, Speaking, Speaking games, Taboo, Teaching teenagers, TEFL, TEFL games, Usingenglish, Vocabulary, Vocabulary games | 2 Comments

TEFL conspiracy theory of the day

Posted on 12/11/2008 by alexcase

Talking of TEFL jargon , am I the only one to notice that since Scott Thornbury wrote “An A to Z of ELT” his other books have suddenly become full of more jargon than you can shake a dictionary at? … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge University Press, ELT publishing, links, Materials, Speaking, TEFL heroes- Scott Thornbury | Tagged | 2 Comments

Stolen teaching idea of the day

Posted on 05/11/2008 by alexcase

Backwards dialogues Students write a dialogue and then read it out starting with the last line, then the second to last line and last line, then the last three lines etc- working their way towards the beginning of the dialogue until the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, ELT publishing, Functional language, General English textbooks, links, Materials, Oxford University Press (OUP), Skills, Speaking, Speaking games, TEFL, TEFL games, Telephoning, textbooks | Leave a comment

New TEFL articles October 2008

Posted on 13/10/2008 by alexcase

I have to fly away from my Yahoo BB internet connection now, and I may be some time. So while I am gone from cyberspace, you all have a chance to read the over 200 articles I’ve written elsewhere- starting … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, Business English and ESP, Classroom dynamics, Classroom management, Cultural differences/ cultural training, ELT publishing, Error correction, getting into ELT publishing, Grammar, Needs analysis, Photocopiable worksheets, Pre-experience learners, Problem students, Skills, Speaking, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Finland, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching shy students, TEFL, TEFL career planning | Tagged | 3 Comments

Dr Johnson plays Call My Bluff

Posted on 12/10/2008 by alexcase

More making up for the fact that Dr Johnson was never lucky enough to be a TEFL teacher, this time with one of my favourite TEFL games ever, Call My Bluff. In the classroom version you get the students to … Continue reading →

Posted in call my bluff, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Materials, Speaking, Speaking games, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL games, Vocabulary, Vocabulary games | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Dr Johnson does TEFL

Posted on 10/10/2008 by alexcase

Even with all the things written about Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, I think I might be the first to try adding some TEFL-style pointless elicitation. And so here goes… Try to work out which word he was … Continue reading →

Posted in Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Materials, Speaking, Speaking games, Taboo, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL games | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Telephoning in English worksheets, games and lesson plans

Posted on 12/09/2008 by alexcase

Updated, expanded and with many more links here: https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/telephoning/

Posted in Answerphone messages, Business English and ESP, Business English games, Delta Publishing, ELT publishing, Functional language, links, Materials, Oxford University Press (OUP), Photocopiable worksheets, Skills, Speaking, TEFL, TEFL games, TEFL reviews, Telephoning, Usingenglish | Leave a comment