Category Archives: Vocabulary

New teaching acronyms and other abbreviations resources

Posted on 11/09/2017 by alexcase

Two new articles with many teaching ideas and a few photocopiable examples on two brand new pages on the topic: Abbreviations games/ worksheets page – NEW PAGE Acronyms games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE

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Linking food and drink to other language points

Posted on 20/07/2015 by alexcase

While reorganising my food and drink vocab index pages, noticed that many of them tied it in quite nicely with other language points – buy one language point, get one free! Here are the ones that do that: Food and … Continue reading →

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Two nice new activities for mixed future tenses

Posted on 07/07/2015 by alexcase

Along with the fact the authors have done boring stuff like workbooks so I don’t have to, what I most like about teaching with textbooks is the challenge of trying to come up with activities to tie together with whatever … Continue reading →

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Using video to practise specific language points

Posted on 10/10/2013 by alexcase

Updated 9 March 2017 Been inspired by TEFL star Vicki Hollett’s blog carnival on the topic of video in ELT to finally put together a list of my many articles and worksheets on the topic in a more accessible way, including … Continue reading →

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A new word formation game

Posted on 01/08/2013 by alexcase

Came up with this one a bit too late to put it in my new article on the topic, but possibly better than any of the ones that did get in there. Students get one point for each correct statement about other parts … Continue reading →

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21 resources for teaching transport vocabulary

Posted on 16/06/2013 by alexcase

To go along with my fairly popular Travel English page, I’ve created a new page dedicated to the vocabulary of transport and things related to it, including this brand new article: Teaching transport vocab to kids The worksheets etc on my … Continue reading →

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Making current affairs lessons less temporary

Posted on 10/06/2013 by alexcase

I’d always assumed that the reason why I hate teaching current affairs lessons is pure laziness, given how quickly the lesson generally becomes impossible to use with later classes. Recently, though, I’ve started to think that maybe my lack of … Continue reading →

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Personality games/ worksheets page expanded

Posted on 04/06/2013 by alexcase

Somehow took me two and half years to add my two relevant articles, and have also put an extra three worksheets up. As well as some fun practice (including videos), I’ve also tied it in with question formation (including those … Continue reading →

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Teaching headlines vocabulary

Posted on 20/05/2013 by alexcase

It’s my latest big thing, so quite a bit of stuff. Links near the top are new. Article Teaching headlines language Worksheets Headlines vocabulary guess the story and Version 2 Headlines vocabulary extended speaking and test each other Headlines vocabulary Strong … Continue reading →

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New education vocabulary page

Posted on 20/04/2013 by alexcase

Particularly useful for listening in academic exams like IELTS and ToEFL, and also for Part One of speaking exams like FCE and CAE – but also for anyone who might ever need to explain their past, present or future education. … Continue reading →

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