Talk about places in your city.
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A: Can you tell me where there’s a good place to eat? B: Of course. What kind of food do you like? A: …
Sorry. I can’t help you.
Excuse me. Could you please tell me where the East Town is?
Sure. Take No. 23 Bus and you will get there.
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Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
Why does she look so worried? What’s wrong?
Could you please tell me where …? Do you know where/if …? Can you tell me how I can get to …?
Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?
Yes. There’s a post office on Center Street.
Excuse me. Do you know where I can save money?
Sure. There’s a bank on Main Street.
How would you ask?
•How can we try not to offend people when making requests?
•Is language etiquette as important as learning grammar or e concerts
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•Where do you usually hang out with friends?At your house? At school?At a mall?
•What are the advantages and disadvantages of each place?
drugstore furniture store
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A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can …? B: Sure. There’s a … on the …floor. Take the
escalator to the … floor and turn…
f) Choice of language depends on relationship, and the situation.
request
Suitable
More polite
situation
request
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Match each paragraph with its main idea.
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4
a) Requests are made in any language.
b) Using extra words helps to make language more polite.
c) Knowing how to make requests politely is important.
d) To become good English speakers, we need to do more than just learn language structure.
e) Requests in English are the same as in Chinese.
Writing
Zhang Ming is traveling in the USA.
He wants to go to a small town but he doesn't know the way now.
What should he do?
Hi! Where is the East Town?
•Do you know where I can buy shampoo?
•Could you tell me how to get to the post office?
•Could you please tell me where I can get a dictionary?
Make two conversations about asking for information.
Do 1a. Match each thing with a place in the picture. Many different answers are possible.
get/magazine get/dictionary
save money
buy stamps
buy/shampoo get information buy writing paper about the town
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can _____________ ?
B: Sure. There’s a ________ on River Road.
elevator
escalator mall
You will hear some of the directions below. Number the directions in the order that you hear them.