Functions like requests and giving examples are the most undertaught parts of everyday English. This is the perfect book if you think you should spend more time on functions like offers and thanking, and/ or if:
- you want a standalone lesson on an important function like enquiries or dealing with complaints
- you want to do a whole course on functional language/ everyday English
- you want to supplement how your textbook covers giving opinions, etc
- you want functional language activities that are fun, intensive and/ or tailored to your students’ levels and uses of English outside class
- you want something on less commonly covered functions like complimenting and giving feedback
- you want to combine functions with grammar, with vocabulary and/ or with particular topics (to fit in with the textbook, to not break class pacing, etc)
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities contains over 500 pages of photocopiables to make sure that students can fully understand and use 27 functions like apologies and supporting opinions. It includes:
- lots of useful phrases for each function, at all levels from A1 to C1/ C2
- stimulating ways of memorising the phrases
- needs analysis and practice of the most useful situations for each student
- more fun and/ or challenging roleplays
- games involving lying, quick responses, cards, guessing, miming, ranking, boards to move their counters around, rolling a dice, flipping a coin, points for using language naturally, and trying to get particular responses
- work on formality and politeness
- materials examining common errors and misunderstandings
- discussion of cultural differences
- plenty of activities combining two or more different functions
- links to topics like business, EFL exams, travel and transport, word formation, collocations, time expressions, superlative, social studies, different tenses, irregular plurals, countable and uncountable, news/ current affairs, writing, entertaining, verb patterns, saying numbers in English, giving presentations, small talk, and varieties of English
- an index to help find materials by activity and by language point
As the book’s name suggests, the materials in Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities are all designed to stimulate classroom interaction, with no awkward silences and no wasting time on things that would be better done as self-study. Stimulating pairwork and groupwork activities also help make the language more memorable, and include more intensive practice than traditional activities would. Such activities include:
- bluffing
- boasting games
- coin games
- cultural differences and useful phrases
- dice games
- discussion questions
- functions card games
- instant personalised practice
- jigsaw activities
- key word card games
- ladder games
- longer phrases card games
- make me say yes
- meeting criteria and other board games
- needs analysis
- pairwork error correction
- politeness competitions
- prepositions and determiners and other guessing games
- problem roleplays
- racing to raise the right card games
- random pelmanism
- related speaking exam questions
- step by step roleplays
- strangers on a train
- TPR
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities can be used for everything from a one-off lesson to a whole course, including as a supplement to less interactive textbooks and other materials.
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