New TEFL/ TESOL/ TESL/ TEFAL/ TEFLON articles etc July 2009

Too tired after trying to come up with that Google friendly blog post article to write anything about these, so here is just the list:

Problems, solutions and variations with hangman in EFL classes (including links to online hangman games)

Speaking games for beginners and false beginners (kindly mentioned by the official new hardest working man in the TEFL blogosphere, Jason Renshaw)

Four approaches to teaching vocabulary (something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, as you can see if you compare my older worksheets with some newer ones)

Using the storybook “From Head to Toe” in EFL classes (a little specialist perhaps?? The idea is that it will also be useful for people thinking of using other books with three to ten year olds and brainstorming their own ideas, but I’ll let you be the judge of that)

25 defining and non defining relative clauses games (just in case I got pigeon holed as Alex 15 Ways Case)

And in case you think I only blow my own trumpet, here is some stuff I have been following elsewhere this month* and haven’t mentioned here before:

An interesting new way to get published by CUP on Humanising Language Teaching (to bring it back to me me me, let me know if you’re interested in my interesting new way of getting slightly published by OUP)

Research on using storybooks for the first time with Japanese primary school kids (getting non native teachers to use English only) from Jimbo’s English Teaching in Japan blog

A huge list of downloadable podcasts of university lectures (hat tip to whichever blogger guided me there, may the force still be with you wherever you are)

And everything so far on From Teacher to Manager

* Actually just this week in the end, ran out of steam with the clicking and the linking and opening and the closing windows and the McAfee slowing me down and the Skype interrupting me and the noisy computer fan and the turning into Professor Frink from the Simpsons and the crashing and…

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