Vocabulary TEFL Ideas
How to Teach Negative Prefixes with Adjectives
Alex Case
Negative prefixes before adjectives teaching tips, including how to present and present and practise un-, in-, im- etc
Alex Case
Negative prefixes before adjectives teaching tips, including how to present and present and practise un-, in-, im- etc
How to Teach Adjective + Preposition Collocations
Alex Case
How to present prepositions after adjectives, including the most useful examples to teach, and suitable topics for the presentation stage
Alex Case
How to present prepositions after adjectives, including the most useful examples to teach, and suitable topics for the presentation stage
11 Adjective Plus Preposition Games
Alex Case
Fun collocations between adjectives and prepositions activities, including card games and oral communicative practice
Alex Case
Fun collocations between adjectives and prepositions activities, including card games and oral communicative practice
Fun MAKE and DO Controlled-practice Activities
Alex Case
Collocations with MAKE and DO games + other stimulating practice activities
Alex Case
Collocations with MAKE and DO games + other stimulating practice activities
How to Teach MAKE and DO
Alex Case
How to present and practise collocations with the verbs MAKE and DO
Alex Case
How to present and practise collocations with the verbs MAKE and DO
How to Teach Comparative Adjectives
Alex Case
Adjectives with -er and more teaching tips, including what students find difficult about comparatives and ways to present them
Alex Case
Adjectives with -er and more teaching tips, including what students find difficult about comparatives and ways to present them
How to Teach Play, Do and Go
Alex Case
Verbs with sports teaching tips, including verb + sport collocations games
Alex Case
Verbs with sports teaching tips, including verb + sport collocations games
12 Fun MAKE and DO Speaking Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating verb + noun collocations with “make” and “do” classroom activities
Alex Case
Stimulating verb + noun collocations with “make” and “do” classroom activities
12 Fun Describing Objects Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating practice of language for describing materials, shapes, uses, etc of physical things such as products
Alex Case
Stimulating practice of language for describing materials, shapes, uses, etc of physical things such as products
How to Teach Describing Objects
Alex Case
Describing physical things teaching tips, including presenting and practising how to describe objects, and describing objects games
Alex Case
Describing physical things teaching tips, including presenting and practising how to describe objects, and describing objects games
9 Fun Activities for Words with Opposite Meanings
Alex Case
Stimulating communicative opposites practice
Alex Case
Stimulating communicative opposites practice
The Most Useful Colour Vocabulary Activities
Alex Case
Colour word activities with other useful language and skills practice
Alex Case
Colour word activities with other useful language and skills practice
10 Fun Compound Noun Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities for noun + noun, adjective + noun, etc.
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities for noun + noun, adjective + noun, etc.
Stimulating Acronyms Activities
Alex Case
Interesting presentation and practice activities for abbreviations made from initial letters
Alex Case
Interesting presentation and practice activities for abbreviations made from initial letters
7 Acronyms Games for ESL Classes
Alex Case
Fun acronyms and initialisms activities for English language learners
Alex Case
Fun acronyms and initialisms activities for English language learners
How to Teach Describing Appearances
Alex Case
How to present and practise language for describing how people look
Alex Case
How to present and practise language for describing how people look
12 Describing Appearances Games
Alex Case
Describing how people look games, including fun practice of opposites and typical expressions with “have” and “be”
Alex Case
Describing how people look games, including fun practice of opposites and typical expressions with “have” and “be”
How to Teach Idioms with AS…AS
Alex Case
How to present and practise as…as idioms like “as hungry as a wolf”
Alex Case
How to present and practise as…as idioms like “as hungry as a wolf”
How to Teach ESL Vocabulary and Make it Stick
Armando Pannacci
Put yourself in your students’ shoes and imagine yourself sitting at an exam table. When you need to recall a word learned in class, what would make the word stick when it counts?
Armando Pannacci
Put yourself in your students’ shoes and imagine yourself sitting at an exam table. When you need to recall a word learned in class, what would make the word stick when it counts?
15 Confusing Vocabulary Questions My ESL Students Ask
Armando Pannacci
Armando Pannacci on the confusing vocabulary questions his students ask him and how he answers them
Armando Pannacci
Armando Pannacci on the confusing vocabulary questions his students ask him and how he answers them
The ATONIN Time Pyramid
phrazzleme
The ATONIN Time Pyramid can help people remember which preposition – at, on or in – to use with hours, days, months, years, etc. Written by phrazzleme for TEFL.net An easy way to remember which preposition to use with hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, ages. Do you have a difficult time remembering which preposition […]
phrazzleme
The ATONIN Time Pyramid can help people remember which preposition – at, on or in – to use with hours, days, months, years, etc. Written by phrazzleme for TEFL.net An easy way to remember which preposition to use with hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, ages. Do you have a difficult time remembering which preposition […]
Fun Activities For Architecture Vocabulary
Alex Case
Stimulating practice of words to explain buildings for architects, designers and advanced level learners.
Alex Case
Stimulating practice of words to explain buildings for architects, designers and advanced level learners.
Fun Teaching Ideas On The Topic Of Toys
Alex Case
Making one of the most interesting topics even more so, and useful communication too.
Alex Case
Making one of the most interesting topics even more so, and useful communication too.
Playing With Our Word Bag
Alex Case
Games and fun activities for revising vocabulary chosen by your students.
Alex Case
Games and fun activities for revising vocabulary chosen by your students.
Essential Time Expressions
Alex Case
Common time expressions that students often misunderstand or are unaware of
Alex Case
Common time expressions that students often misunderstand or are unaware of
20 Fun Ways to Teach Kids Body Vocab
Alex Case
Games and other ideas for teaching the useful and fun topic of body parts vocab to kids
Alex Case
Games and other ideas for teaching the useful and fun topic of body parts vocab to kids
Picture Dictionary Games and Activities
Alex Case
Successful ideas for using picture dictionaries for fun activities with your students.
Alex Case
Successful ideas for using picture dictionaries for fun activities with your students.
Problems, Solutions and Variations with Hangman in EFL
Alex Case
Hangman is a game in which students try to guess what letters are in the word before a complete picture of their man getting hanged appears, with one element of the man and scaffold being added for each time they choose a letter that isn’t in the word. It is popular with native speaker children, […]
Alex Case
Hangman is a game in which students try to guess what letters are in the word before a complete picture of their man getting hanged appears, with one element of the man and scaffold being added for each time they choose a letter that isn’t in the word. It is popular with native speaker children, […]
Fun Practice Activities for There Is, Are, Was, Were
Alex Case
1. The worst school in the world Students compare their primary schools, with the aim of showing that their school was worse than their partners’, leading to sentences like “There was a swimming pool, but there was only cold water in
Alex Case
1. The worst school in the world Students compare their primary schools, with the aim of showing that their school was worse than their partners’, leading to sentences like “There was a swimming pool, but there was only cold water in
Fun Practice Activities for Family Vocabulary
Alex Case
1. Men and women stations The teacher or one of the students says a family relations word like “mother-in-law” or “grandfather”, and students run and touch the right wall if it is a female word or the left wall if it is a male word. Less noisy versions include jumping right or left of a […]
Alex Case
1. Men and women stations The teacher or one of the students says a family relations word like “mother-in-law” or “grandfather”, and students run and touch the right wall if it is a female word or the left wall if it is a male word. Less noisy versions include jumping right or left of a […]
Fun Ways to Teach Young Children Vocabulary
Mariana Popescu
As language teachers with more or less teaching experience, we have often wondered how we can better educate our pupils so that they gain self-confidence speaking their second language, as well as being able to read, write and even more important speak it. In fact the answer is found when we ask another common question: […]
Mariana Popescu
As language teachers with more or less teaching experience, we have often wondered how we can better educate our pupils so that they gain self-confidence speaking their second language, as well as being able to read, write and even more important speak it. In fact the answer is found when we ask another common question: […]
15 More Ways of Eliciting Vocabulary
Alex Case
1. Mime/ gestures The communication survival technique of gesturing can also easily be adapted to classroom elicitation, especially easily for action verbs, but also feelings, other adjectives etc. You might want to check that the gestures you want to use are culturally appropriate, especially that they will not be misinterpreted or even found offensive. 2. Pairwork Many […]
Alex Case
1. Mime/ gestures The communication survival technique of gesturing can also easily be adapted to classroom elicitation, especially easily for action verbs, but also feelings, other adjectives etc. You might want to check that the gestures you want to use are culturally appropriate, especially that they will not be misinterpreted or even found offensive. 2. Pairwork Many […]
15 Real Life Situations for the Language of Describing People
Alex Case
Teaching the vocabulary of appearances that people actually use outside of class
Alex Case
Teaching the vocabulary of appearances that people actually use outside of class
15 Games for the Language of Describing People
Alex Case
Fun games for learning the vocabulary of appearances
Alex Case
Fun games for learning the vocabulary of appearances