As communicative competence has achieved ascendancy in the goals of foreign and second language pedagogy,attention to function aspects of language identified as speech acts has also increased.This paper aims to explore how the teaching of communicative competence, especially the teaching of politeness can be approached by teaching materials.What kind of politeness strategies appear,how they are presented appropriately and whether they are effective or not are considered here.It focuses on the notion of politeness with special reference to the speech acts of requesting by means of analyzing some activities in the textbooks. As communicative competence has achieved ascendancy in the goals of foreign and second language pedagogy, attention to function aspects of language identified as speech acts has also increased.This paper aims to explore how the teaching of communicative competence, especially the teaching of politeness can be approached by teaching materials. What kind of politeness strategies appear, how they are presented appropriately and whether they are effective or not are considered here. It focuses on the notion of politeness with special reference to the speech acts of requesting by means of analyzing some activities in the textbooks.