Archive for the ‘Photocopiable worksheets’ Category

Still ruminating on the details my next big post, which will be “Why you should take the latest TEFL research with several buckets of salt”, but thought I should reassure my faithful reader(s?) that I haven’t abandoned you in the TEFL wilderness in the same week as Katie from TEFLlogue found a good man and hung up her TEFL blogging boots for good.

While I have been maintaining radio silence on TEFLtastic, I’ve been busy working on my two new blogs, JapanExplained (of which the English Words from Japanese explained, Japanese Education Explained  and Japanese Company Names Explained pages might interest TEFLers and other language buffs) and QuoteJapan. I’ve also written loads more new stuff for UsingEnglish.com and put new Medical English worksheets and Business English and ESP games and worksheets here on TEFLtastic, including most as pdf for easy killing of trees with the photocopier.

You’ll be most excited to hear, though, that I will soon be available in your pocket. I’ll let your imaginations go on that one for a while before I give any details…

Talking of the power of imagination, I actually have no evidence at all on Katie de Teflogue’s love life, but the TEFL world needs some good gossip I reckon. I’m picturing her man coming into the English school halfway through class, picking her up and sweeping her out of a life of drudgery like Richard Gere in “An Officer and a Gentleman” (as also featured in the Simpsons episode where Marge takes bowling lessons)…

And there’s more! As much as I complain about TOEIC, it seems to have caused such a creative (?) outpouring that I’d even forgotten I’d written half of these. Think of the articles as my Kublai Khan:

TOEIC FAQs

How to choose a good TOEIC class and TOEIC teacher

100 Ways to Improve your TOEIC Listening

Those are all designed for students, although they could also help teachers give their students the right hints. Lesson plans, game ideas and tips for teachers all in the post below.

It might have just been an excuse to quit my gym session early, but got a sudden urge to sort TEFLtastic out. That means that my new favourite site has helped me convert all the Medical and Pharmaceutical worksheets into easily printable pdf files, and I’ve stuck them in as Word documents so you can correct my spelling mistakes before you use them as well.

Now that you can download Word documents and make all the changes you like, I’ve also started including stuff that is the raw material for a good Medical English lesson but that I didn’t get to make into a good worksheet before all my Medical English classes disappeared:

More words from Greek

More medical word roots

And don’t forget to have a look at my own personal Usingenglish page for new stuff on there:

As people searching for Xmas themed lessons seems to finally be over, here comes the New Year worksheets to ease yourself back into your classes with: (more…)

By a superhuman struggle with the technology that I can not even understand, let alone reproduce, the TEFL.net editor has made it possible to put PDF and Word files on the Worksheets page, and if I can stop myself starting a new blog everyday in the near future I will do precisely that.

The first worksheet available in not one but two formats is the latest Friends video worksheet of mine I believe I have been trying to get you all to use before- Friends Series One New Year Episode (the one with the monkey).

Also a (less personal) thank you to PDFonline, which is an amazingly quick and totally free way of converting Word documents to PDF worksheets that I stumbled on.

Bored of Xmas before it’s even arrived as usual, so here comes with the New Year theme ones instead:

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Don’t know how and when it happened, but no kids’ classes at all this year so had no chance to see their happy and snotty little faces when doing the lessons below, but WiseHat lessons are usually very stimulating for both teacher and students, very occassionally in a slightly odd way! (more…)

More to come over the weekend, but here are a couple of stocking fillers to keep you happy until you can open the big lesson plans under the tree on Sunday or Monday:

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In my endless quest to make Business English fun and to tie together seemingly unrelated topics (why I can’t just say “Right, that’s done, let’s move onto page 53″ like normal people, I really don’t understand!), I have come up with a fun way of practising negotiations that also brings up planning how to give a presentation:

Presentation/ workshop preparation checklist and negotiations

Enjoy! Feedback gratefully accepted below:

It’s got “going to”, it’s got countable and uncountable, it’s got Travel English, miming, grammar discovery… what more could you possibly ask for?

Countable uncountable travel English going to mimes

See the Travel and Tourism worksheets section and the Grammar games and worksheets section for more of the same TEFLtastic thrills.