If you wish to succeed in the study of English, you should stop translating literally from Spanish into English and start thinking in terms of language functions.
Below you can find useful language used both in oral and/or written texts, sorted out by language function and including a link to the corresponding audios on the TP Podcast. Listen-n-Repeat, learn sentences by heart. It's very helpful in various ways.
Sentences for Your Grammar - remembering a sentence you remember all the grammar and how to use it! ![]()
Useful Language - Banks & Money 01 ![]()
Useful Language for Traveling
Useful Language for Conversations and Communicative Strategies!
Saying you're sorry / Apologizing
Saying thank you (in oral & written texts; formal and informal language)
Saying good-bye (in oral & written texts; formal and informal language)
Saying hello (in oral & written texts; formal and informal language)
Making Requests /Responding to Requests (in oral & written texts; formal and informal language)
Giving contact information
Giving Feedback on Websites
Hedging (mostly in writing)
Exercises with Vocabulary & Useful Language at TP Exercises
FAQ webpage on English - Teaching/Learning
Songs for Your Grammar -
songs which help in specific language items
Learn to Speak/Write using Literature! - passages with useful language you could learn! describing people, things, places, and narrating actions, events which could be in your lives too!
Useful Classroom Language (1)
Useful Classroom Language (2) for Elementary Students
Useful Language for Primary Teachers
Talking about your winter holidays
Talking about clothes
Using the verbs of the senses
Useful Language for Letter-Writing (sorted out by Language Function)
Useful language in Written Applications
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in complaints ![]()
in CVs/resumés ![]()
in requests

If you want to help in this section: Find useful sentences and expressions connected to language functions, and send them in! We can expand existing sections and/or create new ones. You can also help recording sentences from this section and sending in your audio files (mp3) for publication.
More: Check out our Writing and Speaking sections, Functional Grammar