Category Archives: Collocations

Could SEO make strong collocations stronger?

Posted on 02/03/2013 by alexcase

When I was updating the post below listing all and every ELT publisher, I also changed its name from “Full list of ELT publishers” to “Complete list of ELT publishers” as it seemed something that people would be very slightly … Continue reading →

Posted in Collocations, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA | 2 Comments

Collocations/ chunks page much expanded

Posted on 01/09/2012 by alexcase

An article full of game ideas coming soonish, but in the meantime you’ll have to make do with 15 worksheets, two online games and three articles: Collocations/ chunks games, worksheets and teaching tips

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Teaching Chunks of Language review

Posted on 16/10/2011 by alexcase

Like most people, I didn’t take much convincing that students need to learn chunks of language such as idioms and verb + noun collocations, and have tried various ways of bringing them into the classroom over the years. However, I … Continue reading →

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New English teaching worksheets June 2011

Posted on 06/06/2011 by alexcase

Some nice ones in this bunch, I reckon. Then again, I was quite proud of my hideously over-complicated telephoning lesson on Onestopenglish when it first went up… Big emailing functional language review Different kinds of IELTS Writing Part Two questions (in … Continue reading →

Posted in BULATS, Collocations, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Email, IELTS, IELTS Writing, Present perfect, Present simple/ continuous, Teaching numbers | Leave a comment

Chunking in the New York Times

Posted on 19/09/2010 by alexcase

Nothing you haven’t heard before, but interesting that it is has (just ) gone that mainstream. Michael Swan also does his usual Doubting Thomas/ Voice of Good Sense bit. Can’t be many TEFLers who make it into the NY Times … Continue reading →

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New classroom language worksheets and phrase lists

Posted on 04/02/2010 by alexcase

For teacher training, self study and/ or classroom use, to get the teacher and/ or the students using more and better English in class. All mine and all on Usingenglish.com: Pronunciation what sound is it? Phraselist for praising, encouraging and consoling Classroom … Continue reading →

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Rules, Patterns, Words and Doubts

Posted on 12/08/2009 by alexcase

A continuation of Rules, Patterns, Words and Quotes and What I Learnt About Rules, Patterns and Words, obviously all about the quite wrong but quite interesting book of the same name. This will probably only be of interest to those who … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, Collocations, Functional language, Grammar, Grammar books, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, PPP (Presentation practice production), TBA (Task Based Approach), Teaching methods and methodologies, Test teach test, Vocabulary | Tagged | 4 Comments

What I learnt about Rules Patterns and Words

Posted on 18/07/2009 by alexcase

The promised but much-delayed continuation of Quotes from Rules, Patterns and Words, and hopefully a good example of an Easy TEFL Blog Post the busy or uninspired (like me) can copy On grammar “the present continuous and the present simple can … Continue reading →

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Some nice quotes about Rules Patterns and Words

Posted on 26/06/2009 by alexcase

Unsurprisingly, all taken from the book of the same name (some of which is viewable on Google Books here): “When our students produce accurate question tags, we feel we and they have succeeded. When they fail to do so, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, Collocations, Grammar, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Materials, Teaching methods and methodologies, TEFL, Vocabulary | 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