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New EFL handouts Feb 2010 Part Two

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Prepositions and body part mimes

Comparative and superlative plus adverb Speaking

Health problems mimes

Revision presentations rotating board game (for fun extended speaking)

Writing reviews in English- Harry Potter

Words often used in newspaper headlines Webquest

Social customs in your country (expanded and polished up version with lots more language of generalisation)

Reading in English discussion questions

and on my much neglected admin and ELT management page

Parent observation letter

New games and other photocopiables November 09 Part Three

Monday, November 30th, 2009

As promised, here are the good ones to make up for the crappy ones in Part Two below. Btw, if something sounds almost what you are looking for but not quite, a good tip I’ve worked out over far too many hours on the internet is to click on the link anyway then to delete just the last part of the URL in your web browser (for example leaving http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/telephoning where once there was http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/telephoning/phone-phrasals/), and see what the rest of that section has to offer.

Plot summaries add the relative clauses (this is the kind of thing I should do more of- ignoring copyright law to add some skills work to my grammar games)

Superstitions going to predictions (with a surprising amount of reading- for me- in this one too. Also with lots of cultural bits, which is much more like my usual kind of thing)

Six word murder mystery challenge (with no language focus of any kind whatsoever- don’t know what was coming over me that month!)

Telephoning getting through or not (back to my “classics”- as functional language is at least as unteachable as grammar, just throw a whole lot at them in the hope that a different one will be new and memorable for each student or heard by them and so reinforced soon)

Present Perfect sentence completion guessing game (another of the most adaptable games in TEFL, the subject of my book that never was- long story!)

Superlatives numbers trivia (two more things you can never go wrong with- numbers practice and trivia- this time tied in with superlatives)

Possessive S Simon says (very fun TPR game for young learners, though you are welcome to try it with your Market Leader Pre-Intermediate group if you like)

Possessive S pictionary (ditto)

This that these those pictionary (and again, although this one I have used a variation on with Elem adults to good effect)

Spelling code game (ditto- meaning ditto the last one, not ditto the ones it was dittoing)

Idioms of success and failure (an easy intro, but still more one for Market Leader than young learners, although again…)

List of phrasal verbs using for telephoning (not ready for class, but took me a while to put together so might save you that while some time)

Technology find things in common (also more of a list than a worksheet, but just enough effor put in to make it the latter)

Chrimbo and NuYear worksheets coming up in December. Just the same ones as last year, but will try to arrange them more conveniently.

New ESL handouts November 2009 Part Two

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Been a while since Part One, due to mainly teaching under 7s recently and not needing handouts for hopping round the class whilst touching yellow things and screaming. So, here are some of the hundreds of worksheets that I have never found time to put up before. I’ve been putting them up in alphabetical order and looking at this batch they aren’t the best, but better ones coming up in the next lot soon.

In approximate order of how much I like them:

Travel going to mimes and useful phrases (quite a neat way of combining grammar, TPR and functional language, though I say so myself)

Travel problems “What are you going to do?” Elementary version (this time combining grammar, travel vocab, and discussion of real problems our more naive students might actually experience abroad)

Marketing vocabulary and discussion questions

Hotel negotiations roleplay cards (also suitable for travel English, English for travel industry staff, or also for business classes on negotiations)

Like/ would like and comparatives/ superlatives discussion questions (if you ever want to combine those points, here is possibly the only way to do it!)

How questions Answer Me speaking game

Upper intermediate art vocabulary

Intelligent Business Mid-course boardgame

Inside Out Upper Intermediate Pictionary

Inside Out Upper Units 1 to 9 Ask and tell speaking game

Steve Jobs article and business idioms (Market Leader Upper Intermediate)

More academic word list collocations (just a list- did warn you these weren’t the best worksheets ever! For more useful academic word list stuff look here)

New TEFLtastic worksheets October 2009 Part Two

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Have to try and get this done before the baby wakes up, so here it is, no messing:

Mr Bean narrative tenses (with which my students truly got Past Continuous and Past Perfect for the first time, and all while I was out of the classroom doing student counselling!)

Narrative tenses storytelling game (a great personalised follow up on the same grammar)

Body part positions Normal or Strange? (an attempt at motivation by bizarrisms for body part vocab and prepositions of position)

Body parts prepositions brainstorming (same language, totally different activity)

Our topsy turvy school project (another attempt to get kids using their naturally quirky humour in English class, for the same language as the game below)

Ghosts prepositions of position and classroom language game

Functions language reported speech storytelling game (at least 3 for the price of one!)

A person I admire extended speaking

Ideal personality guessing game (character adjectives and jobs vocab)

Classroom questions auxiliary verbs

Korean festivals, ceremonies and life events speaking

Have a click above, who knows what surprises may await you? Now, I’m off to change a nappy. Who knows what surprises…

New worksheets of the month Part One is here.

Comparative and superlative adjectives worksheets and games

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Twice as many worksheets, cross referenced to other parts of my worksheet pages, totally PDFified, and now with links to some great online games elsewhere:

Comparatives and superlatives worksheets and games

As I am getting too little sleep to concentrate on anything else and am trapped in the house, and trying to update all my worksheet pages like this by mid Sept.