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Category Archives: Cultural differences/ cultural training
New Valentine’s Day teaching tips and materials page
Valentine’s Day games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE with two new articles and 10 new PDFs on linking the best topic for February with more useful language like common grammar points, plus a link to materials dealing with festivals and celebrations … Continue reading
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Grammar in Xmas lessons links
I gave teaching tips and PDFs for tenses in Xmas lesson here, so this is the same for other grammar points like modals, prepositions and adjectives. Teaching grammar in Xmas lessons article – NEW Relative clauses Xmas photocopiables Christmas vocabulary … Continue reading
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Teaching tenses Xmas lessons
Teaching past, present and future verb forms in end of the year lessons tips and photocopiables: Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons article -NEW Present tenses Xmas photocopiables Present Simple Xmas photocopiables It is and they are Xmas photocopiables It is … Continue reading
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Xmas activities for Business and ESP classes
I don’t see any reason why ESP classes can’t also have a bit of seasonal cheer, as long as you manage to tie it in with something useful such as meetings roleplays, pronouncing numbers, talking about trends, or telephoning practice. … Continue reading
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77 festivals and celebrations PDFs
Stacks of photocopiables on Xmas, New Year, Halloween, etc, and students’ own festivals, ceremonies etc. Many with links to many specific language points, including brand new ones on gerunds and gradable and extreme adjectives, and newish ones on recommendations, superlative, … Continue reading
57 Xmas and New Year links for TEFL teachers
Just put up a new worksheet with games linking Xmas to going to for future plans and predictions, adding to a surprising number of seasonal grammar activities. Also Xmas vocab, songs, videos, roleplays, discussions, and practice of business skills like … Continue reading
Lots of new country and nationality word activities
New article on the topic: How to teach country and nationality words – NEW and many of those ideas also available as photocopiable worksheets on my page on the topic, including a few new ones and with more coming soon: … Continue reading
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New Xmas worksheets
Updated 12 January 2017 More seasonal cheer for specific language points: Xmas and New Year negotiations – NEW Describing Japanese and British Xmas and New Year – NEW Seasonal trends meetings practice (language of trends tied in with festivals and … Continue reading
Seasonal pages just updated
Just in case 43 articles and worksheets on the topic of Xmas and New Year wasn’t enough for you, have added one more plus a link to my festivals and celebrations page in case you want to mention the time … Continue reading
Complete guide to British body language and gestures
Updated 13 February 2017 … or at least I hope it’s a full guide, given how I’ve just finished writing about over 100 gestures etc in three articles and over 10,000 words on the topic: 80 British gestures British body … Continue reading
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