TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

Suggested levels: beginner to advanced.
Aims: to revise vocabulary and the spelling of newly-acquired words.
Materials: a word search grid on a familiar coursebook theme for each pair of students (a crime one is here); a blank word search grid (here).
Preparation: photocopies of the two grids.
This is a good vocabulary revision exercise, wherein students focus on word [...]

Note: This idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri (used with permission). I’ve found it to be a very useful way of practicing clear articulation, splitting sentences into meaningful chunks (“connected speech”), listening, writing, and various vocabulary, spelling and grammatical points.
Suggested levels: strong elementary to advanced.
Aims: to encourage attentive listening; to experiment with [...]

Note: this idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook, by Mario Rinvolucri. It is used here with permission.
Suggested levels: strong pre-intermediate to advanced.
Aims: to listen for detail; to practise clear articulation of English sounds; to revise grammatical points; to revise vocabulary; to focus on English sentence construction and cohesion.
Preparation:
Make copies of a reading passage from the [...]