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Speaking and writing activities for the new 2008 FCE format can be downloaded free from http://www.eltpublishing.com/resources.htm.

And if you don't yet know about the changes to the format, you can download a free guide from www.cambridgeesol.org

Yes - some nice cartoon strips with empty voice balloons from Grammarman. I think the URL is grammarmancomics.com, but failing that just put "grammarman" into Google, and you'll get there.

I was quite surprised by a very polite Japanese student of mine. He wanted to leave the class early and when I asked him why, he announced ' I am going, b*tch'. I worked out afterwards that he was off to the beach. The same student, living in Portsmouth, had picked up what he thought was an nice idi...

Oops! I thought I had!

It's www.langwichscool.com

There are some nice communication games to practise the present perfect on this site: www.eltgames.com There's a nice simple preintermediate level activity on this page, where students have to complete some questions, then move around the room talking to other students: http://www.eltgames.com/gramm...

For some funny jokes about EFL / ESL teaching to children have a look at this page of the langwich scool website:

http://www.langwichscool.com/ESL%20youn ... nglish.htm

Have a look at this site about teaching English as a foreign language. It's a collection of cartoons by Jon Marks (previously published in ETP magazine.)

There's some really funny jokes there - I like the third one on the 'methodology' page best.

There's another good site for teachers at www.eltgames.com - it's all free to use and it doesn't take ages to download. Lots of communication games and speaking activities at different levels.