All articles by Alex Case – Page 2

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Business needs analysis: What is a needs analysis?

What is a needs analysis? Alex Case explains all, offering tips on how to design and conduct one for your business English students.
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One-to-one methodology: Situation two – dealing with reluctant business English learners

How do you encourage an in-company student to learn business English, when they'd prefer to chat about their family? Alex Case provides tips and advice for dealing with this situation, including a sample lesson plan.
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Exams: FCE or CAE cloze practice games

Three games to liven up exam class practice for the open cloze exam tasks, and to make sure students really know their way around the exam.
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One-to-one methodology: Situation one – dealing with students who just want to chat

How do you encourage a one-to-one student to focus on grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation, when all they want to do in their lessons is chat? Alex Case provides tips for dealing with this situation, along with a sample lesson plan.
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Lesson Share: Writing: Fun with formal letter writing

A fun, interactive lesson to introduce formal letters for pre-intermediate and above. Students analyze useful sentence stems in context and then practise them with an interactive, competitive writing game.