ESL Lessons and speaking activities
for complaints

Talking about annoyances (PDF)

Urban complaints guided conversation lesson (PDF)

Speaking lesson "Get something done" for complaints (PDF)

ESL exercises (with pictures) for describing houses using language for household objects, adjectives, problems, pests & complaints (PDF)
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ESOL housing/plumbing complaints/problems
(with vocab and pictures) (PDF)

Responding to client complaints: vocabulary,
situations and sentence exercises (PDF)

Responding to Customer Complaints dialogue
and discussion questions (PDF)

What's your pet peeve? lesson (PDF)

"Judge your neighbor" complaints worksheet(PDF)

Making polite requests exercises (PDF)

"Call the plumber"- tell the story from the
pictures (PDF)

Neighbors at odds role cards - a complaint roleplay for ESL or EFL students

Discussion cues: Giving opinions with feeling
about everyday annoyances

Workplace Lesson Idea:
Responding to Customer Complaints

Complaints Lesson 1

Complaints Lesson 2

Annoying Habits Lesson Outline

Complaints (Teaching ideas from New Interchange)

Personal Complaint Menu Roleplay

Consumer Complaint Menu Roleplay

Housing Complaints Dialogue

List of most common consumer complaints (PDF)

ESL teaching ideas for requests

Telephoning & request picture worksheet (PDF)

Husband-wife phrasal verb/request roleplay (PDF)

Borrow and lend vocabulary worksheet (PDF)

Borrow/lend exercise (PDF)

Picture card cues for making requests (PDF)

Asking permission & making requests worksheet
(PDF)

Intermdiate requests vocabulary worksheets (PDF)

Sentence reconstruction worksheet (PDF)

Saying no to client requests: vocabulary,
situations and sentence exercises (PDF)

In the workplace: Polite requests for information
(PDF)

Direct/indirect questions quiz (PDF)

Lesson Plans for reporting and explaining the  need for household repairs and making a consumer complaint

Lesson Plan for  'Could I + inf' and 'Could you + inf' as polite requests for Hotel English

Reported speech worksheet (PDF)

Embedded/indirect questions (PDF)

Polite requests lesson plan (PDF)

Apology excuse board race

Requests (Teaching ideas from New Interchange)

Requests at work quiz

Requests activity (elementary)

Requests & Roleplaying

Reporting  Verbs Lesson outline (advanced)

Model Letter of Request

Complaining about products and services

Complete the complaint letter exercise
(see p. 4) (PDF)

Writing a complaint letter: sample
product complaint letter

Model for faulty goods letter (PDF)

Product complaint letter layout (PDF)

Customer Service - Dealing with Complaints

Customer complaints pie charts (PDF)

Customer service lessons, questionnaires and surveys

Products and service cutomer questionnaire (PDF)

Business services customer satisfaction
questionnaire (PDF

Kitchen products customer questionnaire(PDF)

Complaint customer satisfaction questionnaire (PDF)

Examples of strategies you may consider using
with difficult Customers (PDF)

Customer Service Questionnaire (PDF)

Customer service dialongue - Dealing with Complaints

Customer satisfaction  questionnaire (PDF)



Complaints about the workplace using pictures

"Find the hazards" in the workplace pics  (PDFs)

Find the hazards in the office and factory pics and lesson (PDF)