Grammar: Groups & phrases: Verb group: Adjusting interactions: modality

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Modality and politeness: Try it out!

This activity is provided for your own practice. It is not intended for use with your students, but you might like to develop your own activity using it as a model.

Here is a list of things which Miss Lee has heard the Gong children saying:

Give it to me.
That isn't true.
Could you pass it here.
Don't do it like that.		 Could you try it this way, perhaps?
Stop doing that.
It might be.
I don't think you should do that.

Your task is to decide how polite they sound. For a demonstration, click here. Animation

For the answers, click here. Key

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