Intermediate functional language review activities
A: Extreme functions
Compete to say one of the things below. You might need to set up the situation, e.g. decide what you are thanking people for. Continue getting more extreme for as long as you can, stop when you give up or are starting to get less extreme, discuss which is probably best in real life, then do the same for other situations in the list.
- The longest thank you/ The most extreme thank you
- The deepest apology
- The best reason for the bad thing that you did
- The most helpful offer
- The most persuasive invitation
- The politest request
- The most emotional farewell/ The longest farewell
- The politest disagreement
- The strongest disagreement
- The strongest agreement
- The politest interruption of your partner’s story
- The greatest number of polite interruptions of your partner’s one minute story
- The politest turning down of an invitation/ The best reason for turning down an invitation
- The politest refusal to help/ The best reason for refusing to help
- The most enthusiastic greeting/ The friendliest greeting
- The best advice for the problem that your partner tells you
B: Situational functions
Use as many of the functions on the next page as you can in one of the following situations, taking a card or ticking it off the list as you use it. The person who has used the most in that situation wins, then start again with a new situation. If anyone uses the same function again, the language must be different each time.
In the street A supermarket
A market A department store
A convenience store/ corner shop A club
A bar/ A pub A fast food restaurant
A posh restaurant A cinema (= movie theater)
A theatre A hospital or surgery
At home In or near someone else’s house
On the phone By email
By text (= SMS) On your blog/ Facebook page
A bus, coach or train A hotel check-in desk
A taxi A spa, public baths or sauna
A swimming pool or gym A train station or underground station
A library or bookshop A stadium or other sporting venue
A museum or art gallery A concert or music venue
A post office Immigration
On a plane An airport check-in desk
At work
Cards to cut up or tick off
| Farewell | Greeting | Apology | Request |
| Offer | Invitation | Introduction | Suggestion/ Advice |
| Refusal | Thanks | Excuse | Opinion |
| Agreement | Disagreement | Acceptance | Complaint |
| Farewell | Greeting | Apology | Request |
| Offer | Invitation | Introduction | Suggestion/ Advice |
| Refusal | Thanks | Excuse | Opinion |
| Agreement | Disagreement | Acceptance | Complaint |
| Farewell | Greeting | Apology | Request |
| Offer | Invitation | Introduction | Suggestion/ Advice |
| Refusal | Thanks | Excuse | Opinion |
| Agreement | Disagreement | Acceptance | Complaint |
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