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New stuff July 2008 Part Two

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

As mentioned in a comment or two below (and in every other sentence in my real life conversation), I am off on my reasonably well deserved hols from Friday and won’t even be looking at a computer screen for the next 10 days. For those of you who can’t live without an opinionated TEFL rant until I get back, I’m sure there must be something in my 458 posts over the last 14 months that you must have missed, so have a little trawl through the archives here- I’m sure there must be something there to entertain and/ or offend you!

For those of you still here for the serious stuff that I was supposed to have set this blog up for, here are the links to bits and pieces I have been involved in elsewhere in the world on TEFL. The top two are my own particular favourites from the last few months:

15 ways to help your students forget

15 ways to help your students dream in English

15 games for the language of describing people

15 real life situations for the language of describing people

15 typical textbook activities you can personalize

15 difficulties in teaching the language of describing people

15 ways to write a TEFL review

Office vocabulary compound noun stress

Why does my teacher make us work in pairs?

Talking about your job and company first class

Business English prepositions

Present Simple/ Continuous and Tense Review Guessing Game

Complaints prepositions practice

Grade up with graded readers

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

The last of the zannshou (lingering heat) has sapped me of blog entry ideas today, but I have continued with the endless task of updating my list of publications. The latest to go up is an article from the now defunct teflfarm.com that I have managed to drag up from the depths of my hard disk and I now offer to those who weren’t around in the stone ages of TEFL websites… It’s on how to use graded readers (easy readers) to liven up your classes and how using graded readers in class can persuade students to use them at home too

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/article-bringing-graded-readers-into-the-classroom/

Somewhere along the way I also wrote a game-based lesson plan on the same subject

http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=58136&docid=145128

And if you haven’t got any graded readers to try these with, there are plenty of reviews on

www.tefl.net/reviews