Functional Language
Ideas on functional language like apologizing or offering adviceHow to Practise Offers and Requests
Alex Case
13 fun activities combining requests and offers like “Can you… for me?” and “Can I help you?”
How to Teach Offers
Alex Case
How to present helping others and reacting to offers
Making and Responding to Offers Practice Activities
Alex Case
Fun practice activities for offering, accepting, and rejecting offers
How to Teach Interrupting
Alex Case
Politely and smoothly getting the chance to speak teaching tips
15 Fun Complaining and Dealing with Complaints Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice for the language of making and receiving complaints, with complaining and dealing with complaints games
How to Teach Making Enquiries
Alex Case
Politely asking for information teaching tips and classroom activities, including making enquiries games
How to Teach Ending Conversations
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities for smoothly finishing small talk, business meetings, etc, with ending conversations games.
12 Fun Turn-taking Practice Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating practice of interrupting, getting others to speak, etc, including turn-taking games
Fun Apologising Activities
Alex Case
Entertaining presentation and practice for the essential skill of saying sorry, including apologising games
12 Fun Checking/ Clarifying Practice Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating practice activities for the vital communication skills of confirming the meaning of what is said, including essential classroom questions like “How do you spell…?”
12 Fun Business Socialising Language Activities
Alex Case
Useful and stimulating practice of being a host and guest in restaurants, bars, sporting events, etc, with business socialising games
12 Fun Agreeing and Disagreeing Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities of phrases for strong and weak agreement and disagreement
How to Review Functional Language
Alex Case
Fun and manageable lesson ideas for reviewing lots of useful functions like requesting, offering, apologising and thanking
How to Teach Giving Examples
Alex Case
Going beyond phrases such as “like” and “for example”.
How to Teach the Language of Prohibition
Alex Case
Presentation and practice ideas for adults and young learners studying “You can’t…”, “… isn’t allowed”, etc.
How To Teach Want/Want To
Alex Case
How to present and practise a much neglected and badly taught verb for expressing desires.
How to Teach Requests
Alex Case
Presentation and practice of polite requests in communication inside and outside the classroom, including typical student problems.
How To Teach The Language Of Opinions
Alex Case
Teaching the language that students need in order to give and ask for opinions, rather than just asking them to do so.
Tying Functional Language In With Your Syllabus
Alex Case
Making sure that all classes get lots of functional language and that those lessons are useful for everyone.
What Your Students Need To Know About Thanking In English
Alex Case
Things to teach to students of all levels about the most important kind of politeness.