37 articles on teaching functions such as requests and offers. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Updated 17 November 2019
How to teach recommendations, advice and suggestions – NEW
How to teach making and responding to invitations – NEW
How to teach small talk – NEW
How to teach small talk questions with how – NEW
How to teach British and American functional language (with differences in requests, small talk, etc)
How to teach shopping language
How to teach like and would like
Getting students to use more complex language Part Two
Getting students to use more complex functional language Part One
How to teach comparing and contrasting
How to teach hedging and generalising
How to teach advantages and disadvantages/ looking at both sides
How to teach supporting your arguments
How to teach the language of likes and dislikes
Sharing personal experiences in EFL classes (including useful functional language for that purpose)
Activities for making requests
How to teach dealing with enquiries
How to teach the language of prohibition
How to teach checking/ clarifying
How to teach the language of opinions
Classroom speaking for the language of opinions
Tying functional language in with your syllabus
Teaching formal and informal language
Functional language for IELTS Speaking
What your students need to know about thanking in English
Classroom activities for the language of thanking
Classroom activities for the language of requests
How to teach dealing with enquiries
15 things to teach about apologizing
15 games for likes and dislikes
How teach directions to young learners
Practice activities for can/ can’t
How to teach modals of possibility/ probability/ deduction
