This comprehensive teaching resource explores politeness strategies in English communication across four detailed information pages and extensive exercises. It covers hedging, indirectness, positive politeness, negative politeness, formality, respectful requests, tone of voice, modal verbs, and mitigation techniques. Students learn to use softening expressions, polite language structures, cultural politeness norms, and formal expressions. The material includes rules for expressing disagreement politely, avoiding face-threatening acts, and using indirect speech acts in English. The unit explains strategic politeness choices, expressions of respect, and nonverbal cues like facial expressions and gestures. It also teaches how social roles, power dynamics, and context affect politeness.
Included are 4 information pages, a large summary, and a complete task set with sentence completion, gap fill, matching vocabulary, true/false activities, definition tasks, a 330-word cloze text with 18 gaps, and a creative writing prompt—all with solutions. Ideal for grades 8–11 in EFL, ESL, and intercultural communication lessons, this resource supports pragmatic competence, politeness theory, and communicative strategies. Useful for exam prep, classroom discussion, and cultural comparison.
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