Functional Language

How 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
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How to present helping others and reacting to offers

Making and Responding to Offers Practice Activities
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Fun practice activities for offering, accepting, and rejecting offers

How to Teach Interrupting
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Politely and smoothly getting the chance to speak teaching tips

15 Fun Complaining and Dealing with Complaints Activities
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Stimulating classroom practice for the language of making and receiving complaints, with complaining and dealing with complaints games

How to Teach Making Enquiries
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Politely asking for information teaching tips and classroom activities, including making enquiries games

How to Teach Ending Conversations
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Stimulating presentation and practice activities for smoothly finishing small talk, business meetings, etc, with ending conversations games.

12 Fun Turn-taking Practice Activities
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Stimulating practice of interrupting, getting others to speak, etc, including turn-taking games

Fun Apologising Activities
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Entertaining presentation and practice for the essential skill of saying sorry, including apologising games

12 Fun Checking/ Clarifying Practice Activities
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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
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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
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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