Category Archives: Vocabulary

Two nice new British and American English activities

Posted on 16/02/2021 by alexcase

It had been well over a year since I’d posted anything new on my worksheets page on UK and US English, but made up for lost time with this double whammy. The first idea was one I came up with … Continue reading →

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49 trivia quizzes for EFL students (TEFLtastic Classics Part 44)

Posted on 18/01/2021 by alexcase

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 →

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New daily routines vocabulary page

Posted on 11/08/2020 by alexcase

Yet another vital page that I somehow forgot to make for 13 years, in this case on “get up”, “have a shower”, “eat breakfast”, etc. Finishing an article and more worksheets on the topic at the moment, but in the … Continue reading →

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New household vocabulary page

Posted on 30/07/2020 by alexcase

I’m planning to write an article or two on the topic, but so far already have 16 PDFs on rooms and furniture vocabulary, plus links to five related picture books, four related songs, my architecture page, my (newly tidied up) … Continue reading →

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New positive and negative connotations PDFs and teaching tips

Posted on 09/12/2019 by alexcase

Not much more to say about this, it’s all in the title and in the article and worksheets, here: Positive and negative connotations games/ worksheets

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New jobs vocabulary page

Posted on 03/06/2019 by alexcase

I’ve published a stack of PDFs on names of jobs over the years, so not sure how I never thought of making a page of worksheets on the topic before, but here it finally is: Jobs vocabulary page – NEW … Continue reading →

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New describing objects page

Posted on 07/04/2019 by alexcase

Put up a new worksheet on “How long is it?”, “What does it look like?” etc and then realised there was no page on the topic. So now there is one, with links to related stuff on colours, materials, etc: … Continue reading →

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Lots of new British and American English resources

Posted on 26/02/2019 by alexcase

Over the last few months I’ve put up articles on teaching UK and US grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, numbers, body language and gestures, dates and times, and functional language, plus carefully collated lists of the important vocabulary differences to teach … Continue reading →

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Emotions vocabulary page much expanded

Posted on 27/08/2018 by alexcase

New article, many new worksheets and flashcards, plus new links to songs and stories here: Feelings vocabulary index page

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Lots of new country and nationality word activities

Posted on 21/11/2017 by alexcase

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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