Archive for the ‘Teaching numbers’ Category

For those of you who haven’t been on the Worksheet pages yet (although surely no one would waste their time reading the blog when they could save planning time by using the worksheets??) and the many more of you who are going to end up here after the error messages because I’ve shortened lots of html names (because good names are good apparently), here is where the worksheets are now:

Medical and Pharmaceutical worksheets

Business English and ESP Games and Worksheets

Telephoning Games and Worksheets

Technical English and Numbers Games and Worksheets

EFL Exam games and worksheets- IELTS, TOEIC etc.

Travel English, Tourism and Study Abroad worksheets

Writing Games and Worksheets

Vocabulary Games and Worksheets

Functional and Social English Games and Worksheets

Video worksheets

Song worksheets

Cultural training worksheets for EFL classes

Grammar games and worksheets

This post might just seem like a list of links, but actually this is the good stuff- TEFLtastic was started as a way of linking to my much more serious and useful stuff elsewhere on the web, and to be honest the actual blog entries just remain a bit of padding between the links. So, click away and see if you agree that I am capable of more than vaguely funny attempts at satire and self-indulgent musings on the meaning of TEFL:

On Usingenglish.com

Worksheets

Business English- Words that can and can’t be shortened

Articles for students (but hopefully of interest to teachers too)

Why does my teacher make me use an English-English dictionary?

Why does my teacher make me learn English grammar words?

On TEFL.net

Games and other practical teaching ideas in the Idea Thinktank

15 uses for guessing games in any pre-school English class

15 problems and solutions for large pre-school classes

15 variations on TPR for little kids

The 15 stages of teaching numbers- for everyone from 2 year olds to financial analysts

15 ways to simplify reading texts

15 ways to reproduce exam conditions

15 ways to make EFL exam tasks fun

15 ways to make EFL exam tasks easier

15 fun ways to score points

Slightly more general and theoretical stuff in the TEFL articles section

15 problems and solutions for large pre-school classes

15 ways to judge an EFL textbook for adults

15 criteria for a good pre-school English class

15 reasons why PPP is so unfashionable

And if all that ain’t enough for yer, here’s the link to all my publications on the Net since 1874.

Might just be the physics graduate in me coming out, but I seem to find myself teaching numbers in my classes all the time- be it shouting “seven Eight NIne TEEEEEEN!” at the top of my voice in my kindy classes or bringing my tape measure into my Technical English classes to liven things up by measuring the table and people’s noses.

Here’s a selection of games ideas and worksheets on teaching everything from “How old are you?” “I am three” to kids who are actually two but have been trained to say “I am three” by overambitious Thai parents to get them into class to “one billion seven hundred and two million point one” and the difference between “zero”, “nought”, “nil” and “oh” to Financial English students who need to learn something from you for once rather than teaching you about the weaknesses in your financial portfolio as usual.

So here they are, starting with a brand new article on the TEFL.net Idea Thinktank page:

The fifteen stages of teaching numbers with possible problems and game ideas for each stage

Business and ESP first lesson lesson plans with a number review including pairwork 

Fun for all the family 1- 22 games for teaching numbers

Numbers practice idioms and proverbs

Xmas trivia numbers pairwork

On the TEFLtastic worksheets page (easy to rip off, difficult to print out)

Technical English Japan by numbers pairwork game

Japan numbers trivia Elementary team game

And stuff you have to pay for on Onestopenglish.com:

Medical English numbers trivia

Business English numbers trivia

IELTS Writing- describing graphs

Sorry there hasn’t been a lot going on the blog page of my blog. It’s all going on elsewhere though: (more…)

By the kind of happy coincidence that only happens once in a blog lifetime a reader has mentioned they are looking for some flashcard games (see Ana’s question below), a friend has asked me for some kids’ games for a workshop, and I happen to have all the ideas already written up for a book proposal I wrote a few years ago. The ideas are below, and I’ve also included the book proposal as a page on the right (Book proposal- Kids’ activities for everything) in case anyone wants to write one too- bear in mind that this one was unsuccessful though!

Flashcard and Drilling Games
Introduction
One of the main reasons why parents and education authorities want children to start learning foreign languages early is so they can pick up correct pronunciation while their brains are still young. Especially at the younger ages, correction has little effect and children pick up correct pronunciation as they hear and use the language many times. The problem then is that (more…)

Two thirds- Fraction of women in Japan who have been groped on a train.
8%- the amount of park space Tokyo has compared to London 42.8 servings a year- the number of servings an average ramen noodles eater eats
60- The number of exits from Shinjuku station
243- The number of different vendors in the food hall of the Tobu department store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo’s largest department store
532- the number of MacDonald’s restaurants in Tokyo.
2,300 tonnes- The weight of fish delivered to the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo everyday.
80,000- The number of restaurants in Tokyo (there are 15000 in New York and 6000 in London)
250,000 The number of people who cross Shibuya pedestrian crossing in central Tokyo every Saturday.
3, 200,0000- The number of people who pass through Shinjuku station in Eastern Tokyo everyday. This is more than the total population of Panama.
1,400,000,000,000 yen- The total cost of Tokyo’s Oedo circular underground line,  the most expensive underground railway line ever built.

There’s a pairwork game worksheet of this for student practice of numbers (especially useful for Financial English and Technical English classes) here:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets-japan-by-numbers-pairwork-game-numbers-practice-technical-english-financial-english/

Please let me know if there is any more demand for numbers practice and/ or Technical English worksheets, because I’ve got loads more I could put up.