Carefully selected lists of the most useful functional language, vocab and words with particular grammar and pron to learn and teach. If you find anything useful here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Lists of useful language index pages
Body language and gestures lists page
Most useful phrases for business communication lists
Most useful phrases for business communication lists
The 100 most useful socialising phrases
The 100 most useful small talk questions
The 100 most useful phrases for business meetings
The 100 most useful emailing phrases
The 100 most useful English telephoning phrases
Lists of functional language
The big list of useful emailing phrases (in this bargain e-book)
The big list of useful presentation phrases (in this very cheap e-book)
The big list of useful telephoning phrases (in this great value e-book)
The big list of social English phrases (in this really reasonable e-book)
The big list of turn taking language (by function, at the end of this article)
222 checking/ clarifying phrases (A to Z, at the end of this article)
List of giving advice phrases by level
List of making requests phrases by level
List of apologising phrases by level
List of giving bad news phrases by level
List of agreeing phrases by level
List of disagreeing phrases by level
List of disagreeing strongly phrases by level
List of offering phrases by level
List of asking for opinions phrases by level
List of giving opinions phrases by level
Hedging/ generalising words and phrases list (scattered through this article)
Likes and dislikes language list (in order of usefulness, at the beginning of this article)
List of phrases for talking about experiences (near the beginning of this article)
Pronunciation lists
Minimal pairs for Japanese learners of English
Minimal pairs for Korean learners of English
Minimal pairs for Spanish speaking learners on English
Useful language for EFL exam preparation lists
The big list of useful phrases for IELTS Speaking Part One (in this bargain e-book)
The big list of useful phrases for IELTS Speaking Part Three (in this very cheap e-book)
The big list of useful phrases for IELTS Speaking Part Two (in this great value e-book)
The big list of useful vocabulary for IELTS Speaking Part One (in this really reasonable e-book)
list of typical language in IELTS Listening (in the answer key to Brainstorming language for IELTS Listening)
list of useful language for FCE reviews (in the answer key to this brainstorming task)
list of useful phrases for IELTS Writing Part One (in the answer key to Brainstorming useful phrases for IELTS Writing Part One)
135 typical IELTS Speaking Part One questions
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks related to typical IELTS Speaking Part One topics
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks related to actions, places, people, things and times
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks on the past, present and future
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks on sports, hobbies and free time
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks on rare and/ or difficult topics
Lists of classroom language
The big list of classroom language with body language and gestures
The big list of discipline classroom language – LINK UPDATED
Phrase list of praising, encouraging and consoling – LINK UPDATED
Useful classroom language for moving around – LINK UPDATED
Classroom language when using the board
Classroom language for starting lessons
Lists of useful vocabulary
False friends lists
Janglish (Japanese English) A to Z
Konglish (Korean English) A to Z
British and American English lists
The big list of British and American vocab differences by topic (on food, travel, places, people, law and order, education, medicine, STEM subjects, business, sports and games, multi-word verbs, idioms, office vocab, the arts and media, nature, and politics)
100 words and expressions with different meanings in British and American English
Abbreviations lists
The 100 most useful acronyms for EFL learners
The 100 most useful abbreviations for EFL learners
The 150 most useful Business English abbreviations
List of Latin abbreviations in order of usefulness (in the middle of this article)
300 Technical English abbreviations list
The 250 most useful British abbreviations list
Other vocabulary lists
list of music vocabulary (genres, venues, people, etc – in the answer key to these brainstorming worksheets)
list of food vocabulary (kitchen equipment, ways of cooking, etc – in the answer key to this brainstorming worksheet)
list of travel vocabulary (in the answer key to this brainstorming worksheet)
list of medical vocabulary (in the answer key to this brainstorming worksheet)
list of regular plurals (+ ies etc) by level (at the end of this article)
list of irregular plurals by level (midway through this article)
List of useful opposites (of appearance, personality, feelings, describing objects, describing places, other adjectives, verbs, phrasal verbs and other multiword verbs, prepositions and directions, relationships, time expressions, etc – at the end of this article)
Gradable and extreme adjectives list (at the end of this article)
ed and ing adjectives list (in alphabetical order and by meaning, at the end of this article)
Colloquial expressions for medical terms list
An EFL Xmas and New Year glossary
Transport vocabulary list (in order of usefulness, near the beginning of this article)
List of newspaper headline language (near the end of this article)
The answer key to brainstorming useful language for describing places FCE version
Updated 1 May 2024
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