Category Archives: Vocabulary

New ELT worksheets and articles October 2011

Posted on 28/10/2011 by alexcase

Articles The advantages and disadvantages of blind observations When the demands of the students and the person who is paying clash Why does my teacher make me correct my own answers? Why does my teacher stop me using my dictionary? … Continue reading →

Posted in BULATS, Determiners and articles, Email, IELTS, personality vocabulary, TEFL, Thanking | Leave a comment

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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Vocab worksheets much improved

Posted on 29/09/2011 by alexcase

PDFed, reorganised into sections (phrasals, idioms, food, describing people, describing places, euphemisms and PC language, proverbs, etc), and some dodgy ones deleted: Vocabulary games and other worksheets Click on any of the index pages for links to at least three … 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

New ELT photocopiables April 2011

Posted on 23/04/2011 by alexcase

Many thanks again to Usingenglish.com  for putting these up, and for motivating me to do answer keys etc – something my students are appreciating too! In no particular order: Teleconferences and video conferences stages game (a much neglected point made … Continue reading →

Posted in BULATS, Business English games, Feelings vocabulary, interrupting, Past continuous, Photocopiable worksheets, Present simple/ continuous, TEFL games, teleconference, video conference | Leave a comment

New photocopiable worksheets March 2011 Part Two

Posted on 31/03/2011 by alexcase

These are just in reverse chronological order by when they went up, so you’ll need to use your skimming and scanning skills. A couple each on the topics of relationships, proverbs, how to say numbers, business English and BULATS (again). … Continue reading →

Posted in BULATS, Business English and ESP, Business English games, Family vocabulary, Future tenses, Teaching numbers, tense review | Leave a comment

New UsingEnglish worksheets Mar 2011

Posted on 06/03/2011 by alexcase

Being like like the TEFLtastic worksheets that I used to plug every month before my blog protested, but with proper formatting, answer keys etc. Another reason to be grateful to WordPress! Big numbers in British and American English Telephoning practice … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, BULATS, Dependent prepositions, nationality adjectives, Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching numbers, Telephoning, TOEIC, verb patterns | Leave a comment

New ELT articles Jan 2011

Posted on 29/01/2011 by alexcase

Really must write an actual blog post soon… As you can see, though, have been busy doing other things online: 10 fun activities for adjectives of character – LINK FIXED Politically correct language in the EFL classroom – LINK FIXED Speaking activities … Continue reading →

Posted in Going to for future plans, Going to for predictions with present evidence, personality vocabulary, TEFL certificate | 1 Comment

New TEFL articles and worksheets December 2010

Posted on 18/12/2010 by alexcase

Because I’d like to send every reader a real Xmas present each, but I don’t know where either of you live… Talking of Xmas, even more worksheets on that topic at the bottom, in case your students aren’t already sick of the topic … Continue reading →

Posted in Future perfect, Past perfect, Present perfect, Present simple/ continuous, Vocabulary games | Leave a comment

New EFL articles November 2010

Posted on 25/11/2010 by alexcase

As I am currently between jobs, the top articles are to make the rest of you unemployed too by making students suddenly realise how much they can do with conversation exchanges or self-study instead! Articles for students Activities for conversation … Continue reading →

Posted in Feelings vocabulary, Past continuous, pre-school/ kindergarten/ very young learners, Pronunciation | Leave a comment