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Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Step up the pressure roleplays (TEFLtastic activity of the year so far)”.
Alex Case says, “Not quite a game, but a lot more fun and useful than it sounds.
Students do a short and easy roleplay, then the next roleplay card asks them to do basically the same thing with a tiny extension and/ or twist.
Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Whatever happened to Online IELTS?”.
Alex Case says, “The recent changes to BULATS made me wonder whether IELTS might be next to go computer based. I got onto Google to try and find any rumours of such changes, but blow me down – there had already been an equivalent Online IELTS released in 2005!
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Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “My new favourite GTKY for one to one classes”.
Alex Case says, “I was surprised that the news that BULATS will include listening and speaking to a computer rather than a human didn’t get more reaction – although that is probably because most people are hardly aware that Cambridge has an exam that tries desperately to compete with TOEIC
Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “My new favourite GTKY for one to one classes”.
Alex Case says, “Particularly good for first classes with low level private students. It’s the simplest thing in the world and it goes like this:
- Ask the student some questions about themselves whose answer will lead to a drawing or a word or two next to a drawing
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Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Teaching ideas and worksheets for “used to””.
Alex Case says, “All new this month, and more coming soon.
Article with teaching ideas
Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Graded readers in the classroom”.
Alex Case says, “An old article of mine, I forget which magazine it was first in:
Most schools have at least a couple of graded readers somewhere around the place, if only freebies that were sent unsolicited by publishers, and if not it is easy enough to get hold of some. In too many schools, however, they lie around gathering dust on a shelf in the teachers’ room or the Self Access Centre.
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Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Business English functional language worksheets pages polished up”.
Alex Case says, “Have created new pages on social English/ business entertaining, business language of advice , talking about your company and job, and functional language reviews, so that’s also made
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Alex Case’s latest blog post is titled “Conflicts of interest and disclosure in the age of TEFL online”.
Alex Case says, “Given what an incestuous little industry we work in, I’m quite surprised that I rarely if ever read disclosure of links to authors in TEFL reviews. Just to start, with there must be loads of reviewers and writers who:
- Work for the same chain
- Work in a school that the other worked in at another time
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