Category Archives: TEFL games

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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Matching Games Part Two – Pelmanism

Posted on 09/09/2018 by alexcase

Pelmanism in ELT article and PDFs. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. I’ve written a lot about pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game before. However in the second half of the latest of my ETP articles … Continue reading →

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New teaching time expressions materials and ideas

Posted on 15/08/2018 by alexcase

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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28 discuss and agree activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 35)

Posted on 10/06/2018 by alexcase

Simplicity itself, and almost infinitely adaptable – students try to come to agreement with the words, phrases, gapped sentences, sentence stems, etc that you give them, making it like an opinions version of Things in Common. Then they try to remember and/ … Continue reading →

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Having a Ball: EFL ball games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 34)

Posted on 03/06/2018 by alexcase

Another of my articles for ETP on basic TEFL games and their many uses and variations. Not many photocopiables possible for this one, but one example included below.   Although I would put the blocks that I wrote about here … Continue reading →

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Stacks of fun: EFL blocks games (TEFLtastic classics Part 32)

Posted on 06/03/2018 by alexcase

Fourth in my recent series of articles in English Teaching Professional. See bottom of the page for links to a couple of photocopiables, two other articles on the topic, and lots more posts on classic TEFL games. If you like … Continue reading →

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42 EFL sentence completion games (TEFLtastic classics Part Two revisited)

Posted on 19/01/2018 by alexcase

Just after previously writing about sentence completion guessing games, I realised that the sentence stems were perfect for a bluffing game in which students completed the sentences with a mix of true and made up info – especially useful if … Continue reading →

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Three new Xmas worksheets

Posted on 19/12/2017 by alexcase

Some rather last minute or slightly early (depending on how you think about it) Xmas presents from me to you: Xmas and New Year meetings – NEW Xmas vocabulary passive voice guessing game – NEW Xmas vocabulary yes/no questions games (20 … Continue reading →

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New Yes/ No questions classroom activities article and page

Posted on 08/12/2017 by alexcase

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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Lots of new country and nationality word activities

Posted on 21/11/2017 by alexcase

New article on the topic: How to teach country and nationality words – NEW and many of those ideas also available as photocopiable worksheets on my page on the topic, including a few new ones and with more coming soon: … Continue reading →

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