Checking, clarifying and confirming PDFs and teaching tips. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Updated 24 December 2019
Teaching checking/ clarifying article
How to teach checking/ clarifying
Lists of checking/ clarifying phrases
222 checking/ clarifying phrases (A to Z, at the end of this article)
Photocopiable checking/ clarifying classroom materials
Meeting people and indirect checking/ clarifying questions practice – NEW
Checking/ Clarifying error correction
Needs analysis and clarifying language (great for getting this vital classroom language in from the first lesson)
Telephoning dictating and checking/ clarifying (including useful phrases and checking/ clarifying roleplays on the last page)
Clarifying language and numbers review
Checking/ clarifying roleplays and card game
Brainstorming checking/ clarifying phrases by key word
Checking/ Clarifying politeness competition
Checking/ Clarifying and marketing vocabulary (with marketing collocations and correction of typical checking understanding phrases)
Clarifying the meaning of questions (designed for IELTS but useful for many)
Checking your understanding and their understanding phrases games
Academic English clarifying phrases practice (with a huge list of phrases, useable for all kinds of classes if you skip or adapt the first page)
Classroom questions auxiliary verbs
Test each other on headlines vocabulary (practice of classroom questions)
Ranking current affairs topics pairwork (for clarifying phrases)
Technical and medical a and u pairwork (with phrases for correcting people)
Checking English, Australian and NZ names (ditto, plus some useful cultural knowledge)
Related pages
Telephoning page – NEW LINK
Functional language main page – NEW LINK
