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Category Archives: Giving opinions
Teaching advantages and disadvantages/ looking at both sides
I started teaching this just as an essay construction, then started adding the surprising number of useful phrases there are to talk about both sides of an argument, and the more generally useful things like concessive linking expressions that comes … Continue reading
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Teaching supporting your arguments
My regular reader might remember that a year or so ago “my boom” (as we say in Japan) was getting students to use opinions phrases that were more complex and more attuned with their strength of their opinions. However, on the … Continue reading
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Longer phrases games (TEFLtastic classics Part 12)
Updated version of this post with more worksheets and explanation here. In my endless quest to get students using higher level functional language, I invented this simple but popular game. Students match up beginnings and ends of useful phrases, then … Continue reading
Teaching the language of giving and asking for opinions
Updated 12 March 2017 In your average CELTA or textbook-based class, the most common kind of real communication is asking students to give their opinions. Strange, then, that the average CELTA or textbook-based class doesn’t spend more time on teaching the language … Continue reading
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New EFL worksheets November 2010
November 2010 Part One and Only (a bit more realistic than usual about my blogging abilities this month…) Starting and Ending Meetings (loads of lovely Business English functional language) Language of trends- Your week and life (personalisation for this vital IELTS … Continue reading
Free functional language worksheets
On sorting my Functional and Social English Games and other Worksheets out and adding links to relevant stuff on my Business/ESP and various textbook pages, I was surprised to find that I have about 60 of the little buggers, which is … Continue reading
New PDF handouts Jan 2010 Part Two
If you can’t open PDFs for any reason or want to edit before you print, just highlight the text on the webpage, right click, copy, paste into a word processor programme and format and edit to your heart’s content. Feel … Continue reading
