Category Archives: Punctuation

New articles and worksheets Sept 2011

Posted on 22/09/2011 by alexcase

Classroom activities to practise planning and paragraphing – LINK FIXED How to teach FCE Use of English Part One – LINK FIXED What your students need to know about BULATS Writing Part One – LINK FIXED Fun activities for the second conditional – LINK … Continue reading →

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Surprises about English punctuation

Posted on 13/07/2008 by alexcase

I’m continuing to learn from and ponder on the information in the Cambridge Grammar of English, and as before testing the matters I’ve been chewing on against your native speaker intuitions would be appreciated (sorry for the very unpleasant mental picture from … Continue reading →

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TEFL writing- done and done!

Posted on 17/08/2007 by alexcase

How to make writing fun seems to be a “popular” problem, so here is a list of links I promised someone on the TEFL.net forums: All good TEFLtastic writing fun: Writing games and worksheets Many apologies that most of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, Business English and ESP, EFL exams, Email, Error correction, False friends, IELTS, links, Pairwork and groupwork, Paragraphing, Punctuation, TEFL, TEFL games, Telephoning, TESOL, Travel and tourism, Writing games | Leave a comment

Believing everything about Hiroshima

Posted on 09/08/2007 by alexcase

A recent editorial from the Asahi Shimbun gives a perfect illustration of the difficulties of teaching English and American academic writing and debating style to Japanese and other Asian students. First of all it does that great Asian almost zen-like trick … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic writing, Cultural differences/ cultural training, EFL exams, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Paragraphing, TEFL, TESOL | 3 Comments

Those pesky emails are now done!

Posted on 07/08/2007 by alexcase

Trying to find fun stuff to practice emailling in class is one of the banes* of my life, so I think I deserve a little smugness on having come up with a new idea on how to do so. You … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Email, Error correction, Lesson planning, Pairwork and groupwork, Paragraphing, TEFL, TEFL games, Writing games | 2 Comments