Different levels of formality PDFs and teaching tips. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Teaching formal and informal language articles and blog posts
How to teach formal and informal language – LINK UPDATED
Politeness competition game (TEFLtastic Classics)
Photocopiable formal and informal language classroom activities
Too informal for IELTS Writing (in this very cheap e-book)
Emailing informal or error simplest responses game (in this very cheap e-book)
Dealing with problems and complaints by email politeness competition (in this very cheap e-book)
Emailing politeness competition game (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal email opening and closing phrases jigsaw (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal emails for making arrangements jigsaw texts (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal emails simplest responses game (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal group emails jigsaw (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal phrases for the body of an email jigsaw card games (in this very cheap e-book)
Too formal or informal for most business emails (in this very cheap e-book)
Formal and informal business communication matching activities
Formal and informal functional language dominoes
Your weekend formal and informal questions
Dealing with requests and enquiries politeness competition board game
Dealing with questions in presentations politeness competition game
Leading seminars and discussions politeness competition game
Ending presentations politeness competition game
Starting presentations politeness competition game
Turn taking politeness competition game
Telephoning politeness competition game
Responding to requests politeness competition game
Checking/ Clarifying politeness competition
Telephone and email politeness competition
Complaints politeness competition game
Teleconferencing politeness competition game
Meeting people politeness game
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Market Leader Pre-Intermediate Unit 3 politeness competition game
Emails dealing with problems and complaints politeness competition game
Emailing Differences in meaning and formality
Too formal or informal for most business emails
Positive and negative replies coin game (formal and informal functional language for emails review)
Classify and rank the formal and informal business emailing phrases
Classify and rank the formal and informal FCE email and letter phrases (version of the above with some changes such as more informal stuff)
Emailing Needs analysis and functional language review (including formality)
Opening and closing formal and informal emails
Opening and closing formal and informal emails jigsaw game
Emailing 1 (put the emails into order by formality) worksheets and lesson plan (my lesson on Macmillan’s Onestopenglish.com, so registration needed)
Formal and informal emails review (including game)
Formal or informal lift up the cards game (simpler version of the one above)
Too formal for most business emails (correct the outrageously formal sentences)
Too informal for most business emails (correct the correct but slangy phrases)
Making arrangements Change the formality
Formal and informal emails useful links
Formal informal emails reversi game
Formal and informal presentations
Starting and ending formal and informal presentations
Related pages
Formal and informal emails page
Updated 26 August 2022
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