Category Archives: links

An interview with EFL Geek, the real grandfather of TEFL blogging

Posted on 25/04/2010 by alexcase

Hopefully he won’t mind the grandfather bit, seeing as we are almost exactly the same age (along with a surprisingly large number of other bloggers- is it a middle aged crisis thing to do??) I’m also hoping that he won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in EFL geek, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL | Tagged , | 4 Comments

A history of TEFL blogging Part One

Posted on 22/04/2010 by alexcase

UPDATE: List now includes most of people’s suggestions, and have also added a History of TEFL Blogs tag that you can follow to the many later posts on the topic. TurklishTEFL was kind enough to publish a piece of fluff … Continue reading →

Posted in EFL geek, Englishteacherx, TEFL, TEFLlogue | Tagged | 18 Comments

Keeping YLs on Task Part One

Posted on 20/04/2010 by alexcase

A guest piece by new(ish) blogger Leahn Stanhope http://www.earlyefl.blogspot.com “Part of the battle of teaching YLs (young learners) is keeping them interested and on task. Here is the first part of a series of activities that I have tried and … Continue reading →

Posted in Classroom management, Discipline in the classroom, Teaching teenagers, Teaching young learners, TEFL blogs | Tagged | 5 Comments

‘Shane English School (NZ) faces liquidation’?

Posted on 17/04/2010 by alexcase

Don’t know if it’s true, and don’t know what it would mean if it was, but it would have a strange and worrying symmetry with the recent problems with GEOS Australia, also a mainly Japan-based chain with branches in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Eikaiwa, Geos, Let's Japan, Shane Language Schools, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL chains | Tagged | 5 Comments

The Diving Bell and the Lesson Plan

Posted on 21/03/2010 by alexcase

After surprising myself by getting through three months of walking to work in the record Korean snow injury free, I rather ironically slipped over on a slightly wet wheelchair ramp in the land of go chuui kudasai (please be careful, … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, links, TEFL, TEFL career planning | 7 Comments

Next time a publisher tries to sell you a new textbook

Posted on 15/03/2010 by alexcase

… remind them that there is already a title available that is, according to their own website, ‘Flexible, stimulating, enjoyable, simply PERFECT.’ That’s right, it’s The New Cambridge English Course, still being sold and with its own brand new, funky … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge University Press, ELT publishing, ELT World, General English textbooks, New Cambridge English Course, TEFL forums | 7 Comments

When needs analysis goes wrong

Posted on 21/02/2010 by alexcase

I don’t mean when they find nothing to say about their needs (I’ve got it set up so that it’s useful as a language task even when it is not as a needs analysis). What I’m talking about here is … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Learner motivation, Needs analysis, Onestopenglish, TEFL, Usingenglish | 5 Comments

Another TEFL conspiracy theory proved

Posted on 10/02/2010 by alexcase

When people claim that there is a direct link between advertising and censorship on Rave Spelling’s ESL Au Lait, I’d always assumed that they were exaggerating and things were at least a little more subtle than that. Apparently not: “I … Continue reading →

Posted in Teacher forums, TEFL certificate | 6 Comments

New TEFLtastic worksheets Feb 2010 Part One

Posted on 08/02/2010 by alexcase

Your city and life Add the quantifiers speaking Next weekend and future tenses Describing objects 20 questions and extended speaking A report on weekends- Language of generalisation or phonics picture flashcards ee phonics picture flashcards Writing reports in English useful … Continue reading →

Posted in board games, countable and uncountable nouns, Future tenses, Language of generalisation, links, Photocopiable worksheets, Reports, Speaking, Speaking games, Technical English, Writing | Tagged | 1 Comment

Reviewing graded readers

Posted on 01/02/2010 by alexcase

… is tricky, possibly second only to dictionaries in being difficult to write about. You can of course list their component bits (CD, exercises at the back, glossary, illustrations, list of characters) and judgements on them, but the main things … Continue reading →

Posted in ELT publishing, Graded readers (easy readers), links, Materials, TEFL reviews | 4 Comments