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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
Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Grammar games, Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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New pronunciation pages
New and newish pages on connected speech, schwa, magic E, doubled letters, and IELTS pronunciation, available with many other pronunciation pages here: Pronunciation games/ worksheets
Posted in Photocopiable worksheets, Pronunciation, pronunciation games
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Three nice new this/ that/ these/ those activities
There are so many possible fun presentation and practice activities for “This is/ That is/ These are/ Those are…” that you have to be careful not to spend more time on this minor grammar point than it deserves… However, I … Continue reading
Posted in Grammar games, Teaching young learners
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New participle clauses page
I’m still struggling with how best to teach this tricky bit of grammar, and have twice given up on articles I was trying to write on the topic. However, I have come up with two nice communicative practice activities and … Continue reading
Posted in Grammar games, Photocopiable worksheets
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The best end-of-term revision game
I already did a post on “The Best End-of-term Revision Games”, but here I am again many years later without the final -s, because I think there is a clear winner: Rotating revision board game (TEFLtastic classics part 14) a … Continue reading
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Three new kinds of TEFL board game
I came up with the first of these as part of my trivia quizzes boom, and used it to make this narrative tenses board game. Students work their way around a board game by guessing numbers. On each square they … Continue reading
New be used to and get used to page
New article and worksheets up on this brand new page on how to talk about being and becoming accustomed to things: Be and get used to games/ worksheets – NEW Stuff on that plus the past form “I used to” … Continue reading
Posted in Grammar games, Photocopiable worksheets
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New Teaching IELTS Writing e-book
My latest magnus opus provides over 300 pages of stimulating intensive practice of IELTS Academic Writing language, planning techniques and editing of typical mistakes: Teaching IELTS Writing: Interactive Classroom Activities– NEW As usual, buying a copy not only gives you … Continue reading
Posted in IELTS Writing, Photocopiable worksheets, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, TEFL e books, Writing games
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49 trivia quizzes for EFL students (TEFLtastic Classics Part 44)
When I was posting my list of the best of 2020, I noticed that a couple of the top ones were trivia quizzes and thought I should make sure that I had linked to them from my TEFLtastic Classics post … Continue reading
New spelling games/ worksheets page
Perhaps because of all that brainwashing in communicative language teaching , it’s taken me 14 years to realise that a page of my spelling PDFs might help students who want to spell properly and teachers who want to help them … Continue reading
Posted in Spelling, Spelling games, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Writing
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