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Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts
Contents
Chapter 4. I Want You to Help Me: Learning to Soften English Requests
Chapter 6. Soften Up! Successful Requests in the Workplace
Chapter 7. Teacher, You Should Lose Some Weight: Advice Giving in English
Chapter 8. Moving Beyond “In My Opinion”: Teaching the Complexities of Expressing Opinion
Chapter 10. Indirect Complaints as a Conversational Strategy
Chapter 11. I’m Sorry—Can I Think About It? The Negotiation of Refusals in Academic and Nonacademic Contexts
Chapter 12. They Made Me an Invitation I Couldn’t Refuse: Teaching Refusal Strategies for Invitations
Chapter 14. Assessing Learners’ Pragmatic Ability in the Classroom
Chapter 4. I Want You to Help Me: Learning to Soften English Requests
- Activity 4 - Natural-No Repeat
- Activity 4 - Natural-Repeat
- Activity 4 - Slow-No Repeat
- Activity 4 - Slow-Repeat
- Follow-Up Activity - Natural-No Repeat
- Follow-Up Activity - Natural-Repeat
- Follow-Up Activity - Slow-No Repeat
- Follow-Up Activity - Slow-Repeat
- Transcripts
Chapter 6. Soften Up! Successful Requests in the Workplace
Chapter 7. Teacher, You Should Lose Some Weight: Advice Giving in English
Chapter 8. Moving Beyond “In My Opinion”: Teaching the Complexities of Expressing Opinion
Chapter 10. Indirect Complaints as a Conversational Strategy
Chapter 11. I’m Sorry—Can I Think About It? The Negotiation of Refusals in Academic and Nonacademic Contexts
- Activities 1B and 3 - A Professor's Advice 1
- Activity1B - A Professor's Advice 2
- Activity 4 - Situation 1
- Activity 4 - Situation2
- Activity4 - Situation 3
- Activity 4 - Worksheet 4 - Answer Key
- Follow-Up Activity - Female-Male
- Transcripts