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English Grammar Teaching Strategies

The document outlines various functions of language including requests, offers, suggestions, and negotiations, along with examples of each. It also covers modals related to ability, permission, and obligation, as well as imperatives, gerunds, adjectives, comparatives, numbers, reported speech, and relative clauses. The document serves as a guide for teaching these areas effectively.

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English Grammar Teaching Strategies

The document outlines various functions of language including requests, offers, suggestions, and negotiations, along with examples of each. It also covers modals related to ability, permission, and obligation, as well as imperatives, gerunds, adjectives, comparatives, numbers, reported speech, and relative clauses. The document serves as a guide for teaching these areas effectively.

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1.

Function Example sentence How would you


teach these areas?
Requests We would be grateful if you
could confirm your attendance
1. Offers Would you like some water?

2. Suggestions How about looking it up online?

3. Negotiations If you can deliver by the 10th I


would be willing to increase the
order by 10%
4. Modals - Ability Can you arrange a meeting for
next Wednesday?
5. Modals – Permission Can I leave this meeting early,
please? I have to make an
urgent call
6. Modals - Obligation You must arrive by 9am.

7. Imperatives Pass the agenda round please.

8. Gerund or infinitive Stop interrupting me!


He stopped (what he was
doing) to interrupt (the speaker)
9. Adjectives/ adverbs He is a fast worker
He works fast.
10. Comparatives/ He is the biggest client we
superlatives have.
He’s a bigger client than
11. Numbers Fifteen
Fifty
(Pronunciation)
If anyone wants a ticket, they’d
better hurry
12. Reported speech “Where is Room 101?” - I
asked him where Room 101
was.
13. Relative clauses I know someone who got fired
for stealing from work

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