Category Archives: slang

New Advanced level worksheets

Posted on 05/06/2010 by alexcase

All designed for and used with Landmark Advanced (boy, is that a book that needs some supplementing!), but most easily useable with any Advanced or high Upper Intermediate class,and all copiable from here into Word or printable as PDFs. Topics include: … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Cultural differences/ cultural training, euphemisms, Language of generalisation, Past continuous, Photocopiable worksheets, Present perfect/ simple past, slang, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL games, Vague language and hedging, Webquest | Leave a comment

New words in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Posted on 03/12/2007 by alexcase

Even the name of this dictionary is a kind of pedantic trick (it’s actually huge, and only “shorter” because it’s shorter than the actual Oxford English Dictionary- which is 12 volumes if I remember correctly), and I have a feeling … Continue reading →

Posted in slang, Vocabulary | 2 Comments

The Alternative TEFL jargon dictionary Part Six

Posted on 30/09/2007 by alexcase

After rather a long break, the Alternative TEFL Jargon Dictionary is back! Defective modals– This somewhat negative expression for modals that do not have a seperate past or future form (e.g. must) is now being replaced by the expression “modal … Continue reading →

Posted in Classroom management, Future tenses, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, past tenses, PPP (Presentation practice production), Present simple for routines etc., slang, Teaching mixed level classes, TESOL, Vocabulary, Writing | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Emotican't, emotiwon't

Posted on 30/07/2007 by alexcase

You may have noticed that this blog is entirely emoticon free. Partly choice, partly old-fogey-beyond-my-years-ism. Couldn’t work out any of these either: 3:-o @>–> — ~(_8^(I)  

Posted in slang, Teaching teenagers, TEFL, TESOL, Writing ELT textbooks and materials | Leave a comment

X in the classroom

Posted on 19/06/2007 by alexcase

Teaching (college student) teenagers again despite my best efforts to avoid it, there is one factor in the classroom that stands out more than other kinds of classes and, subtly or sometimes not so subtly, affects the classroom dynamic of … Continue reading →

Posted in English for study abroad, IELTS, Lesson observations, Needs analysis, slang, Teaching shy students, Teaching teenagers, TEFL, TESOL | 20 Comments