In countries like Greece the Michigan ECPE has now become the most popular EFL/ESL test of proficiency in English. The Fullspate EFL materials for students and teachers interested in the ECPE include:
Our massive collection (213 pages!) of engaging advanced-level EFL materials is still available for free. Download the first quarter of the Fullspate Primer as a taster.
A chapter we still really like is the one on gender. It contains the story of David Rheimer - a boy who was brought up as a girl - a story that really shook us up when we first came across it, and a story that raises a whole host of issues about just what makes boys boys and girls girls.
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Fullspate has a heck of a lot of materials for teachers that want to combine a concern for the English with a consideration of cultural and social values.
Teachers with a taste for controversy might like some of our Hot worksheets, which include one on the real Big Brother and the surveillance society.
Pop or poetry as EFL classroom material? We compare Katy Perry and Sylvia Plath. Who'll come out on top at putting teenage angst into words?
After all this time, this wonderfully satirical piece in The Onion is still one of our favourite bits of writing about an attitude that is not so very rare in the West. A great little article to fire a discussion in the EFL classroom about the trials of adolescence.
In place of a blog - with the title "EFL Bliss" - we are collecting pieces of writing that might be of interest to EFL/ESL teachers. Most are intended to be about the EFL business, but with a fair amount of fluff thrown in to lighten things up a little.
How about this for an essay topic? "Are humans better or worse than animals?" Jonathan Swift (who wrote "Gulliver's Travels") had more respect for his horses than for many of the people he saw around him. Mark Twain wrote a hard-hitting essay along the same lines entitled "The Character of Man". Click that link to download our PDF of his essay to get the discussion going.
Fullspate is keen to publish photos of successful EFL students who have made it to the top. To help emphasize the idea of getting to the top they have to be photographed up near some lofty forbidding peak. Panos is the first of our top English students. Here he is with only another kilometre or so to go before he gets to Mytikas - the highest peak in Greece (2917m).
Know any other hiking EFL students who have made it to the top both in English and in the mountains? Send your photos to us as email attachments, and if they are cracking photos, we will publish them.