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Teaching requests articles
How to teach requesting – LINK UPDATED
Classroom activities for the language of requests
The two blocks games in the last section of this article:
Blocks games for different language points – LINK UPDATED
Lists of useful language for making requests
Useful language for making requests by level
Photocopiable requests classroom activities
Email enquiries and requests the same or different (in this very cheap e-book)
Emailing line by line brainstorming (in this very cheap e-book)
Email requests and enquiries coin game (in this very cheap e-book)
Email requests and enquiries error correction pairwork (in this very cheap e-book)
Emails turning down requests giving reasons practice (in this very cheap e-book)
Offers, commands and requests in emails (in this very cheap e-book)
Responding to email enquiries and requests simplest responses game (in this very cheap e-book)
Informal request phone call line by line brainstorming (in this very cheap e-book)
Telephone requests and offers simplest responses game (in this very cheap e-book)
Requests and enquiries with have games
Requests and imperative in travel English
If You Ask Nicely, a story teaching polite requests
Dealing with requests and enquiries responses card games
Do you have and May I have games (including practice of names of places and basic numbers)
Requests and comparative adjectives speaking and presentation
Longer request phrases card game
Responding to requests politeness competition game
Requests in the classroom game (for adults or young learners, with practice of lots of lovely verbs)
Sentence construction requests game (for Everybody Up 4 but easily adaptable for other young learner or adult classes)
Asking for letters spelling requests game (for young learners, teens or low level adults who also need help with basic spelling)
Requests and indirect language politeness competition game
Dealing with requests and enquiries line by line brainstorming (including telephoning language and roleplays)
Dealing with requests and enquiries politeness competition board game
Please + imperative for offers and commands in presentations (especially useful to stop student using imperative for requests)
Please + imperative for offers and commands in emails (ditto)
Requests stories
If You Ask Nicely, a story teaching polite requests
My Gumpy’s Outing (link is reading of book on YouTube)
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus (link to read through on YouTube)
Requests and offers songs
Quiet please (Can I have a pencil, please? etc)
Related pages
Requests and offers games/ worksheets page (combining the two topics)
Dealing with enquiries page (including lots of stuff relevant to requests like very useful saying no phrases)
Updated 12 September 2022
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