Category Archives: Grammar games

Grammar in Xmas lessons links

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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Three nice new this/ that/ these/ those activities

There are so many possible fun presentation and practice activities for “This is/ That is/ These are/ Those are…” that you have to be careful not to spend more time on this minor grammar point than it deserves… However, I … Continue reading

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New participle clauses page

I’m still struggling with how best to teach this tricky bit of grammar, and have twice given up on articles I was trying to write on the topic. However, I have come up with two nice communicative practice activities and … Continue reading

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New be used to and get used to page

New article and worksheets up on this brand new page on how to talk about being and becoming accustomed to things: Be and get used to games/ worksheets – NEW Stuff on that plus the past form “I used to” … Continue reading

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52 trivia quizzes for EFL students (TEFLtastic Classics Part 44)

When I was posting my list of the best of 2020, I noticed that a couple of the top ones were trivia quizzes and thought I should make sure that I had linked to them from my TEFLtastic Classics post … Continue reading

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Grammar practice drawing games

Have just rearranged my list of 80 drawing game PDFs to be more organised by individual topic, and there were enough grammar ones for enough different language points to be worth a post all of their own. Will also expand … Continue reading

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New teaching time expressions materials and ideas

I start far too many of my articles with suggestions to teach more of this and less of that, but this time I really really really really really really mean it! Perhaps the most shocking weakness I have found in … Continue reading

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New plurals teaching tips, games and pdfs

Not quite sure how I managed to churn out pages of stuff on Present Perfect Continuous and not a single teaching idea or photocopiable on plural nouns in the first ten years of this blog. I kind of feel like blaming Headway, … Continue reading

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New Yes/ No questions classroom activities article and page

Not sure how in ten years and over 200 articles it never occurred to me before, but have finally written a how to article and made a page for it to live on, with 26 photocopiable worksheets on the topic, … Continue reading

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TEFLtastic grammar pages A to Z

Tens of pages of grammar with hundreds of PDFs, arranged alphabetically. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. Adverbs Adverbs of frequency Adverbs of manner  Articles Be and get used to Can/ Can’t Comparative adjectives games/ … Continue reading

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