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Teaching functional language e-books
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 500 photocopiable pages of activities on 27 common and less common kinds of functional language, at just a penny a page) – NEW E-BOOK
Teaching functional language articles
Articles on teaching functional language
Lists of useful functional language
Mixed/ general functional language worksheets
Functional language reviews page
Functional language index pages A to Z
Apologising games/ worksheets page
Arrangements games/ worksheets page – See Making arrangements page
Bad news – See Good and bad news
Brainstorming in groups phrases page
Business English functional and social language page
Beginning and ending conversations page
Clarifying/ checking worksheets page
Complaints games and worksheets page
Dealing with complaints – See Complaints games and worksheets page
Defining your terms page – LINK UPDATED
Directions games/ worksheets – See Giving Directions below
Examples games/ worksheets – See Giving directions page
Experiences games/ worksheets – See Sharing personal experiences page
Favourites games/ worksheets page (for the incredibly popular “What’s your favourite…?” “My favourite… is…”)
Forgetting and remembering – See Remembering and forgetting page – NEW LINK
Formal and informal language games/ worksheets
Giving good and bad news – See Good and bad news
Hedging games/ worksheets page – See Generalising worksheets page
Looking at both sides games/ worksheets – See Advantages and disadvantages
Making complaints games/ worksheets – See Complaints games and worksheets page
Meeting people games/ worksheets – See Meeting and greeting page
Offers and requests page – LINK UPDATED
Personal experiences games/ worksheets – See Sharing personal experiences page
Preferences games/ worksheets – See Likes and dislikes page
Purpose, cause and effect page
Reactions – See conversational reactions
Recommendations games/ worksheets – See Advice activities page
Remembering and forgetting page – NEW LINK
Sharing personal experiences page
Suggestions games/ worksheets – See Advice activities page
Supporting your opinions games/ worksheets – See Supporting arguments
Other photocopiable functional language classroom activities
Compliments cultural differences and useful phrases (in this new e-book) – NEW
Complimenting discussion questions (in this new e-book) – NEW
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities e-book with 11 pages on filling silence and thinking aloud
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities e-book with 13 pages on feedback
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities e-book with 10 pages on keeping people waiting
Being sympathetic and unsympathetic
Pausing for thought game (IELTS speaking) – LINK UPDATED
Updated 22 September 2026
Are you developing anything for online platforms like Kahoot, Poll Everywhere, etc.? So nice to see you’re alive and kicking!