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Asking for Permission and Making Polite Requests

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to ask permission, request help, and respond appropriately in everyday situations.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. Can I use your phone for a minute?
    2. Could you open the window, please?
    3. May I sit here?
    4. Would you please help me carry this box?
    5. Of course, I would be happy to help.
  • Grammar Focus: Can, could, may, and would for permission and polite requests
  • Vocabulary Focus: permission, request, borrow, carry, certainly
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