Four new(ish) articles and the first few of many new colour worksheets on my much expanded colour vocabulary page, with everything from lots of colour word recognition activities for the young ones to discussion on the topic for adults, along with updated recommendations for colour vocab story books and colour songs:
Colours games, worksheets, stories and songs page
Just put up a new worksheet using this, one of my favourite ideas for practising tricky points which are different to think of other practice for, such as:
– collocations with words like “get” and “take”
– phrasal verbs
– word formation
– vocabulary on topics like health and love
It can also be used to practise grammar such as comparatives and articles.
You simply make some sentences describing problems like “I don’t get on with my eldest sister” and ask pairs of students to ask for, give and react to advice on how to solve those problems. Students can then make up similar problems to ask their partner’s for advice for. This activity is it a bit like making conversation questions with the language you want to practise, but I feel this makes the language more memorable – and it’s a nice break from students saying “I think…” at the start of every sentence… If your students also actually need the language of advice, all the better!
Here are some I prepared earlier:
Photocopiable classroom materials using giving advice to practise other language
Expressions with make and do giving advice speaking practice – NEW
Recommending arts and media (with lot of useful art and media language)
Comparatives and superlatives recommendations challenge
Recommendations with superlatives
Giving advice on personality problems
Love and marriage stories and advice (my lesson share winning LP and worksheet on Onestopenglish)
Relationships Advice and proverbs
Giving advice Vocabulary revision game
If I were you phrasal verbs Advice game
Recommending countries to visit Version 1 (with tricky names of countries and cities)
Recommending countries to visit Version 2 (ditto)
Recommending places to visit Advanced version (with useful vocabulary for describing different kinds of people, vocab for describing places, and tricky country and city names)
For 26 other teaching ideas worth using over and over again, see here:
Made a new list of every index page on TEFLtastic. There are quite a few! If you like all this reorganisation work and would like more, please support TEFLtastic.
All index pages A to Z
Academic applications games/ worksheets – See University Applications below
Academic discussions games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE
Academic English (EAP) games/ worksheets
Academic English first lessons page
Academic Word List (AWL) games/ worksheets page
Academic writing functional language page
Active listening page– LINK UPDATED
Adverbs of manner
Apologising games/ worksheets page
Architectural English – See English for Architects below
Arrangements – See Making arrangements below
Art – See Art and Media and/or English for Artists below
Arts and media vocabulary page
AWL games/ worksheets – See Academic Word List above
Beginning and ending conversations page
Body language and gestures games/ worksheets
Brainstorming in groups phrases page
British and American English games/ worksheets
British and American cultural page
British culture EFL materials page
BULATS Writing worksheets (reports, memos, emails etc)
Business advice/ recommendations page
Business comparatives and superlatives page
Business English games/ worksheets
Business functional language reviews page
Business Result Pre-Intermediate
Business second conditional page
Business tense review worksheets
Cambridge First Certificate – See FCE below
Cambridge Proficiency – See CPE below
Cause and effect – See Purpose, cause and effect below
Character vocabulary – See Personality below
Checking/ clarifying worksheets page – See Clarifying/ checking below
Clarifying/ checking worksheets page
Comparatives and superlative adjectives
Complaints games and worksheets page
Complaining and dealing with complaints page
Conjunctions games/ worksheets – See Linking Expressions below
Conversation questions games/ worksheets – See Discussion Questions below
Count/ Non-count – See Countable and Uncountable Nouns below
Countable and uncountable nouns
Counting syllables games/ worksheets – See Syllables below
Country and nationality words page
Cover letters games/ worksheets – See CVs and cover letters below
Cultural training games/ worksheets for EFL classes
Current affairs/ News vocabulary page
Cutting Edge games/ worksheets
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate
Dates games/ worksheets – See Time Expressions below
Days of the week games/ worksheets – See Time Expressions below
Days, months and dates games, worksheets, stories and songs – See Time Expressions below
Design games/ worksheets – See English for Designers below
Directions games/ worksheets – See Giving Directions below
EAP games/ worksheets – See Academic English above
EAP first lessons games/ worksheets – See Academic English First Lessons above
EAP writing games/ worksheets – See Academic Writing above
EFL exams games, worksheets, videos and teaching tips
Emails and letters games/ worksheets page
Email error correction worksheets page
Emailing functional language worksheets page
Email paragraphing and punctuation worksheets page
Email vocabulary worksheets page
Emotions – See Feelings below
English File 1 games/ worksheets
English for architects games/ worksheets
English for artists games/ worksheets
English for designers games/ worksheets
English for engineers games/ worksheets – See Technical English games/ worksheets link below
English for landscape designers and gardeners games/ worksheets
English for medical staff games/ worksheets – See Medical English below
English for Specific Purposes games/ worksheets
Environment – See Nature below
ESP – See English for Specific Purposes above
Examples games/ worksheets – See Giving Examples below
Experiences games/ worksheets – See Sharing Personal Experiences below
First Certificate – See FCE above
First lesson games/ worksheets – NEW
Food and drink cultural differences worksheets
Food and drink vocabulary page
Forgetting and remembering phrases page
Formal and informal emails worksheets page
Functional language games/ worksheets
Functional language for academic writing page
Functional language reviews page
Future forms games/ worksheets – See Future Tenses below
Future Perfect games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE
Future plans games/ worksheets – See Going To below
Gardening – See English for Landscape Architect above
Gestures – See Body Language and Gestures above
Get something done – See Have Something Done below
Gradable and extreme adjectives
Have something done/ Get something done
Headway Pre-Intermediate games/ worksheets
Hedging – See Generalising above
Homophones games/ worksheets page
Human resources page – See HR page above
IELTS Academic Writing games/ worksheets – See IELTS Writing below
IELTS Graduation materials page
IELTS Masterclass materials page
IELTS Objective Advanced materials page
Indirect speech games/ worksheets – See Reported Speech below
Japanese learners of English games/ worksheets
Korean learners of English games/ worksheets
Landmark Advanced games/ worksheets
Landscape Architecture – See English for Landscape Designers above
Language of trends games/ worksheets – See Trends below
Law – See Legal English below
Learner training games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Legal English games/ worksheets
Letters – See email and letters above
Looking at both sides games/ worksheets – See Advantages and Disadvantages above
Making complaints games/ worksheets – See Complaints above
Market Leader Intermediate page
Market Leader Pre-intermediate page
Market Leader Upper Intermediate page
Media vocabulary games/ worksheets – See Arts and Media above
Medical English games/ worksheets
Meeting people – See Meeting and greeting above
Minutes – See Writing Minutes below
Modals of obligation, prohibition and permission
Modals of probability/ possibility/ deduction
Months games/ worksheets – See Time Expressions below
Narrative tenses games/ worksheets – See Past Tenses below
Nationality words games/ worksheets – See Country and Nationality words above
Natural English Intermediate games/ worksheets
Nature and the environment page
Needs analysis games/ worksheets
New Cutting Edge – See Cutting Edge above
New Headway Pre-Intermediate games/ worksheets
News vocabulary – See Current Affairs above
Numbers games, worksheets, stories and songs for EFL learners
OA vocabulary games/ worksheets – See Office Vocabulary below
OABC 1 – See Oxford Activity Book for Children 1 below
Oxford Activity Book for Children 1 (OABC 1) page
Past Perfect Simple games/ worksheets – See Past Perfect above
Past Progressive games/ worksheets – See Past Continuous above
Phrasal verbs page – NEW LINK
Plans games/ worksheets – See Going To above
Politically correct language games/ worksheets – See PC Language above
Possessive adjectives games/ worksheets
Possessive S games/ worksheets
Predictions games/ worksheets – See Will below
Preferences games/ worksheets – See Likes and Dislikes above
Prepositions in emails worksheets page
Prepositions of location – See Prepositions of Position below
Present Continuous for arrangements
Present Perfect and Simple Past
Present Perfect Simple – See Present Perfect above
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Presentations games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Proficiency – See CPE above
Pronunciation games/ worksheets
Purpose, cause and effect page
Recommendations games/ worksheets – See Advice above
Reported speech/ Indirect speech
Reviews games/ worksheets – See Writing Reviews below
Sharing personal experiences games/ worksheets – See Personal Experiences above
Simple Past games/ worksheets – See Past Simple above
Simple Past/ Present Perfect – See Present Perfect and Simple Past above
Social studies – See Social Issues above
Songs and music games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Speaking games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE
Stories – See Writing Stories below
Suggestions games/ worksheets – See Advice above
Supporting your opinions – See Supporting arguments above
Syllables games/ worksheets page
Taboo topics cultural training worksheets
Talking about your week and weekend worksheets
Teacher training games/ worksheets for TEFL teachers
Technical English/ English for engineers games/ worksheets
Teleconferencing and video conferencing games/ worksheets page
Telephone interviews – See Telephone job interviews below
Telephoning games, worksheets, articles and e-book
They are – See It is/ They are above
Time expressions games, worksheets, stories and songs
Travel and tourism games/ worksheets
Trends games/ worksheets for EFL learners
UK culture games/ worksheets – See British Culture above
UK and US culture games/ worksheets – See British and American Culture above
University applications worksheets
Video games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Video conferencing games/ worksheets – See Teleconferencing and Video Conferencing above
Wallace and Gromit video worksheets
Writing academic bios games/ worksheets – See Academic Bios above
Writing emails games/ worksheets – See Emails and Letters above
Writing games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Writing minutes worksheets page
Writing reports games/ worksheets – See Reports above
Writing reviews worksheets page
Writing stories worksheets page
Young learner games, worksheets, flashcards, stories and songs for EFL learner
As part of the on-going reorganisation of TEFLtastic, am trying to make a complete list of the games/ worksheets index pages. That’s taking longer than I thought, but have done it for the most popular pages, namely grammar:
Comparatives and superlative adjectives
Conjunctions games/ worksheets – See Linking Expressions below
Count/ Non-count – See Countable and Uncountable Nouns below
Countable and uncountable nouns
Future forms games/ worksheets – See Future Tenses below
Future Perfect games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE
Future plans games/ worksheets – See Going To below
Get something done games/ worksheets – See Have Something Done below
Gradable and extreme adjectives
Have something done/ Get something done
Indirect speech games/ worksheets – See Reported Speech below
Modals of obligation, prohibition and permission
Modals of probability/ possibility/ deduction
Narrative tenses games/ worksheets – See Past Tenses below
Past Perfect Simple games/ worksheets – See Past Perfect above
Past Progressive games/ worksheets – See Past Continuous above
Plans games/ worksheets – See Going To above
Possessive adjectives games/ worksheets
Possessive S games/ worksheets
Predictions games/ worksheets – See Will below
Prepositions of location – See Prepositions of Position below
Present Continuous for arrangements
Present Perfect and Simple Past
Present Perfect Simple – See Present Perfect above
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Reported speech/ Indirect speech
Simple Past games/ worksheets – See Past Simple above
Simple Past/ Present Perfect – See Present Perfect and Simple Past above
They are – See It is/ They are above
My new favourite topic is teaching opposites, starting with the obvious hot-cold and big-little, but then using that simple idea to teach gradable and extreme adjectives, comparatives, appearance words, verbs, and all sorts. Two new articles and many worksheets on my much expanded page here:
Opposites games, worksheets, stories and songs
Not particularly good timing, but as part of the continuing polishing up of my Classroom Materials pages, have created a page of relevant links to articles and worksheets on needs analysis, language reviews, discussing language learning experience and tips, etc:
While fixing the several hundred links to the Englishclub.com articles mentioned below, I also found a whole load more broken links to fix, to which I have two reactions:
“So sorry!”
and
“Why did no one tell me???”
Anyway, it’s now been a couple of days since anyone clicked on a broken link, so I seem to have more or less sorted the problem out, but please let me know here or on the relevant page if anything else sends you to the wrong place.
Thanks to a reader comment, I’ve just noticed that all of my articles on EnglishClub.com have slightly different addresses. I’m going through one by one trying to mend the links, and if you find any please let me know and I’ll fix those ones asap.
In the meantime you’ll just get an error message if you click on a broken link. However, you can easily end up at the right place by googling the name of the article (maybe with my name or the name of the site) or the original address.
As part of the big reorganisation mentioned below, created a fair few new index pages full of lots of lovely worksheets. Here they are, A to Z:
Cambridge Proficiency Speaking page
Gradable and extreme adjectives page
IELTS Writing Part One line graph tasks page
Updated 22 March 2017
Thanks to the kind (and hopefully satisfied) people who bought a copy of my book, I’ve been able to turn down some particularly undesirable cover lessons and instead finally spend some serious time on sorting out TEFLtastic, starting with the naming and location of the index pages.
All pages now have the standard naming format “… games/ worksheets”, so Googling your chosen topic followed by that (e.g. “Business idioms games/ worksheets”) plus maybe the name “TEFLtastic” should hopefully bring a relevant page up (Google usually being preferable to the actual TEFLtastic search function).
If that doesn’t work, I’ve also sorted out the index pages so that they are in more logical locations and simplified the top worksheets page so that it only includes the main pages, which are now:
Classroom materials main index pages, in alphabetical order
Academic English (EAP) games/ worksheets
British and American English games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE
Business English games/ worksheets
Cultural training games/ worksheets for EFL classes
Cutting Edge games/ worksheets
EFL exams games, worksheets, videos and teaching tips
English File 1 games/ worksheets
English for architects games/ worksheets
English for artists games/ worksheets
English for designers games/ worksheets
English for landscape designers and gardeners games/ worksheets
English for Specific Purposes games/ worksheets
First lessons games/ worksheets – COMING SOON
Functional language games/ worksheets
Japanese learners of English games/ worksheets
Korean learners of English games/ worksheets
Landmark Advanced games/ worksheets
Learner training games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Legal English games/ worksheets
Medical English games/ worksheets
Natural English Intermediate games/ worksheets
Needs analysis games/ worksheets – NEW LINK
New Headway Pre-Intermediate games/ worksheets
Numbers games, worksheets, stories and songs for EFL learners
Presentations games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Pronunciation games/ worksheets
Songs and music games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Teacher training games/ worksheets for TEFL teachers
Technical English/ English for engineers games/ worksheets
Teleconferencing and video conferencing games/ worksheets page
Telephoning games, worksheets, articles and e-book
Time expressions games, worksheets, stories and songs
Travel and tourism games/ worksheets
Trends games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Video games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Writing games/ worksheets for EFL learners
Young learner games, worksheets, flashcards, stories and songs for EFL learner
Clicking on those categories and then the subcategories on them (e.g. “EFL exam games/ worksheets” then “FCE games/ worksheets” then “FCE writing games/ worksheets”) should quickly bring you to a page full of the kind of stuff you need. Alternatively, you can use the dropdown menus under the photo above in the same way. These also now work slightly better given the better organisation and the fact that after 10 years I finally worked out how to list all the pages alphabetically…
If there’s anything you can’t find, please leave a comment here. And if you’d like to help me find time to do some more work on the site, please support TEFLtastic.
