Chapter 5 draws on the description of the meaning and form of directive speech acts reported in Chapter 4 in order to offer a collection of practical activities for their teaching. Activities will be grouped attending to the semantic, formal, or contrastive aspects that need to be taught. Some of them will be designed to improve the students recognition and production of those illocutionary constructions and linguistic realisation procedures which allow the communication of the different illocutionary forces.

Others will be devoted to help teachers and textbook developers show students (1) the motivation of the form of directive speech acts in their underlying semantics and force dynamics, (2) the role of conceptual metonymy in the production of directive speech acts, and (3) the existence of families of speech act base constructions whose illocutionary force can be further modulated by means of linguistic realisation procedures.