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Making Polite Requests and Asking for Favors

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to make polite requests in social, professional, and service situations.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. Could you help me carry these boxes, please?
    2. Would you mind sending me the information by email?
    3. Do you think you could give me a few more minutes?
    4. Would it be possible to change the appointment to Friday?
    5. I was wondering if you could explain this part again.
  • Grammar Focus: Indirect and modal request structures with could, would, would mind, and I was wondering
  • Vocabulary Focus: request, favor, appointment, assistance, convenient
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