Not quite a representative sample of my articles that people have taken most interest in (as most don’t have a comments function), but a mix of ones with strong opinions that you could join the debate on and ones with ..read more

While you’ve all been off spoiling Venice, Kyoto and Barcelona on your hols all summer, I’ve been keeping up a steady stream of new content that you’ve probably missed while you were tanning your belly buttons, reading Dan Brown and ..read more

When I have to explain the English teaching industry, I often feel like a Kremlinologist must have when they had to make assumptions about deeper changes from who the party leader was standing next to, or like a journalist trying ..read more

Have produced a sudden flurry of new materials to prepare students for IELTS Reading, some also linking to other IELTS papers. Not yet enough IELTS Reading stuff to add another title to my collection of Teaching IELTS… e-books, so that means these are all available for free on my IELTS Reading classroom materials page, along with freshly polished up older PDFs and some teaching tips: Different kinds of IELTS Reading task advice and practice IELTS Reading overview IELTS Reading homework instructions and reflection  IELTS Writing Task 2 tasks on IELTS Reading IELTS Speaking Part Three on IE ..read more

I recently put up second editions of my Teaching IELTS Listening and Teaching IELTS Writing e-books. They cost three pounds and five pounds, which might not seem shockingly cheap until you notice that they have over 500 and over 300 photocopiable pages . I’m fairly happy that such ridiculously low prices suit my own purposes (see below). However, I do sometimes worry that I might be helping to bring down prices in the already extremely undervalued profession of ELT, so I’d be interested in hearing what other people think. My pricing policy is in no way supposed to suggest that other people’s s ..read more

Over 350 pages of photocopiable classroom materials for Cambridge Proficiency and other very high level classes, covering all skills and parts of the exam, at just a penny a page: Teaching C2 Proficiency: Interactive Classroom Activities  If you haven’t bought one of my e-books recently, it’s also a great way to support TEFLtastic ..read more

I’ve mainly written articles on how to teach this, that and the other, so I only recently thought to make a page with links to all of my articles for people who are learning English. Was surprised to find that there are well over a hundred! Will add many more to that page in the next few months and years, but here are the 121 articles up until the end of Feb 2024, covering better exam scores, language learning for children, cultural knowledge, grammar, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, speaking, reading, writing, and Business English: New articles for English language learners How to count ..read more

Valentine’s Day games/ worksheets – NEW PAGE with two new articles and 10 new PDFs on linking the best topic for February with more useful language like common grammar points, plus a link to materials dealing with festivals and celebrations more generally ..read more

Over 300 photocopiable pages on the most important tactics and language for the vital skill of negotiating, including much improved versions of some of my favourite activities ever and stacks of new materials: Teaching Negotiating: Interactive Classroom Activities – NEW E-BOOK  At under a penny a page, hopefully cheap enough even for those who don’t teach negotiating very often, and also a reasonable level at which to support TEFLtastic (as I still haven’t got around to making a Patreon page ..read more

I gave teaching tips and PDFs for tenses in Xmas lesson here, so this is the same for other grammar points like modals, prepositions and adjectives. Teaching grammar in Xmas lessons article – NEW Adjective word order Xmas photocopiables The best Xmas adjectives word practice – NEW There is/ are Xmas photocopiables There is/ There are and Xmas vocabulary drawing game Possessives Xmas photocopiables Possessive S Xmas vocabulary drawing games Prepositions Xmas photocopiables Xmas vocabulary prepositions of position games Like and be like Xmas questions Superlatives Xmas photocopiables Xmas and N ..read more