44articles on teaching functions such as requests and offers. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Fun apologising activities – NEW
12 fun checking/ clarifying practice activities
12 fun agreeing and disagreeing activities
How to review functional language
12 fun recommendations activities
How to teach starting and ending conversations
How to teach restaurant language
How to teach recommendations, advice and suggestions
How to teach making and responding to invitations
How to teach small talk questions with how
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)
How to teach requests – LINK UPDATED
Activities for making requests
How to teach dealing with enquiries
How to teach giving examples – LINK UPDATED
How to teach the language of prohibition – LINK UPDATED
How to teach checking/ clarifying
How to teach the language of opinions – LINK UPDATED
Classroom speaking for the language of opinions – LINK UPDATED
Tying functional language in with your syllabus – LINK UPDATED
Teaching formal and informal language – LINK UPDATED
Functional language for IELTS Speaking – LINK UPDATED
What your students need to know about thanking in English – LINK UPDATED
Classroom activities for the language of thanking – LINK UPDATED
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
TPR for can/ can’t – LINK UPDATED
Practice activities for can/ can’t – LINK UPDATED
How to teach modals of possibility/ probability/ deduction
Games to practice want/ want to
Updated 4 December 2022