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Articles on teaching Technical English (with game ideas)
How to teach English for engineers
Lessons on inventions in EFL classes
Lists of technical English language
British and American technical English vocabulary list – the eleventh list here
300 Technical English abbreviations list
Technical English textbook reviews
Tech Talk Pre-Intermediate review
Technical English lesson plans with worksheets
originally written for Onestopenglish
Technical and medical numbers game lesson
Technical English measurements and superlatives lesson
Photocopiable Technical English classroom activities
Countable and uncountable technology activities
Describing technology with passive voice
British and American engineering vocabulary games (including miming, drawing, jigsaw, reversi, and dominoes, plus collocations practice)
Engineering vocabulary list dictation
Engineering dimensions and comparing games (including nouns to make uncountable things countable)
Science and technology vocabulary in IELTS Listening (in the new edition of this e-book)
Cambridge Proficiency Writing Part One on science speaking (in this new e-book)
Negotiations on technology topics (in this bargain new e-book)
Describing chemicals with passive voice
Metals industry pairwork numbers guessing game
Designing and selling inventions passive voice practice
How British is your technical English?
British and American technical English collocations dominoes
Opinions on science and technology
Speaking about CPE Writing Part One (with essay task on science and planning practice)
Cambridge Speaking Part Three on science
Passive voice free and controlled speaking
Processes in planes and airports present and past passive practice (with describing process phrases, and on a nice easy topic that everyone can talk about)
Verbs for describing processes
Past, present and future inventions vocabulary and speaking
Office inventions Tense review and speaking Extended version
Future inventions guess the year game
Advantages and disadvantages of future technologies
Technical countable/ uncountable nouns game
Technical English mimes version 2
Numbers review from computer engineers
Technology vocabulary guessing and discussion
FCE speaking on the future and technology (with future tenses review)
Technical/ Medical regular simple past verb list
Technology find things in common
Inventions guessing game (modals of deduction)
IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations on technology
Related pages
English for the packaging industry – NEW
IELTS describing processes task index page
Passive voice games/ worksheets page
Zero conditional games/ worksheets page
Writing reports worksheets page
Countable and uncountable games/ worksheets page
Other sources
Teaching English to engineers blog
Updated 26 November 2025
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Thank you for your extremely informative posts on technical English for Engineers. I am an ESL teacher, who on ocassion, teaches an occupation specific language course to foreign-trained professionals. I especially liked the games.
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I taught English for 42 years, thought I had retired, now I’ve been asked to teach English for Computer Science at a new Polytechnic (Fachhochschule). As there seem to be no materials yet,
I found this site to be a great place to get ideas for active lessons(the students have to stay awake for 3 hours, and so do I!) Thanks a lot.
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Excellent content on specialist topics not normally found in standard tefl books
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Thank you so much for sharing all this incredible material! It’s really hard to find activites for technical english lessons!
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Thank you! This is brilliant and thorough work that will help me in teaching my engineering students in Mexico.
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Great job! excellent content and very useful. Thanks for your contribution to our work.
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Thank you so much for sharing with the community of EFL teachers. It is fabulous !
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is there some book i can buy?
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If you mean Technical English textbooks, have just added links to two possibilites. If you mean books by me, only managed one on telephoning so far:
https://www.usingenglish.com/e-books/telephoning/
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Nice
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Thank you so much! the materials are fantastic! ecspecially for the engineering students, as it isnt something straight forward, would you be able to do the same for digital marketing and data analyst please, it will help as there is a demand.
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Thanks Anat. I make these materials for my own students, so if I ever have a class full of them will stick my materials up here.
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Amazing!!!
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful didactic resources!!!
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This is a treasure chest!! I’m teaching in a vocational school this year and need basic english based on technical concepts. Your lessons and games will help me out tremendously. Thanks for sharing :)
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Glad you like it – spread the word!
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