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

Past, presesent and future verb forms teaching tips and photocopiables: Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons article -NEW Present tenses Xmas photocopiables Present Simple Xmas photocopiables It is and they are Xmas photocopiables It is and They are with adjectives Xmas pick and draw game Xmas pictures for It is/ They are It is/ They are Xmas flashcards Xmas vocabulary categories activities (it is and they are) Other Present Simple Xmas photocopiables Xmas mix and match (third person S, Present Simple and Xmas vocabulary) Christmas Adverbs of Frequency– Present Simple and lots o ..read more

After a bit of a break, I’ve accelerated my efforts to polish up all 1355(!) of my UE photocopiables, with clearer instructions, more answers, few pages, easier and/ or less cutting up, fixed typos, etc. If you have any old Usingenglish PDFs and think you might use them again, it might be worth googling to see whether a new version is available. (New versions have “2023” along with the original date in the footer). And please let me know if you’ve found any mistakes, outdated content, things in wrong or useless categories, etc that I can fix as I’m working on the rest of them. Thanks ..read more

New and newish pages on connected speech, schwa, magic E, doubled letters, and IELTS pronunciation, available with many other pronunciation pages here: Pronunciation games/ worksheets ..read more

Over 200 pages to teach students what IELTS Listening really involves, giving them knowledge of the key vocabulary, typical phrases, trick questions, difficult things to listen for, hard spellings, etc in the test.  All without any boring recordings or awkward silence in class! Available here now: Teaching IELTS Listening: Interactive Classroom Activities – NEW If you haven’t bought any of my books (recently), you could also think of buying a copy as your (tiny) Patreon-style donation to support me in producing more materials and teaching ideas. If you’re not interested in IELTS Listening ..read more

Often after my last TEFLtastic Classic (needs and instant personalised practice), I often start business courses with a big review of the basic language for electronic and face-to-face communication, with materials like these: Starting and ending business communications simplest responses – NEW Different kinds of business communication dice game Market Leader Int version Communicating before, during and after meetings practice (emailing, telephoning, etc – in this bargain e-book) First contact line by line brainstorming and jigsaw First contact functions card game (face to face, email and tele ..read more

Have finally finished my biggest writing challenge of the year, divided into four slightly more manageable lists of 100 tips for teachers and candidates on Task 1 and Task 2. 100 IELTS Writing Task 1 teaching tips 100 IELTS Writing Task 2 teaching tips 100 IELTS Writing Task 1 Tips 100 IELTS Writing Task 2 tips ..read more