Lesson 13 Exercise Title: Making Requests and Offering Help
Subtitle: Lesson 13 Exercise
Presented by: Fatima
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Grammar Focus

Transform the sentence:
Make the following requests more polite.

1. Send me the report.

2. Open the door.

Answers

1. Could you please send me the report?

2. Would you mind opening the door?

Offering Help – Formal and Informal Structures

Match the offers to the situation

Scenario 1:
Someone is carrying a heavy box.

Scenario 1:
A colleague is struggling with a task at work.

Answers

Offer A:
Would you like some help with that?

Offer A:
May I assist you with that?

Practice

1. Role-play the following scenarios with a partner. Use polite language for making requests and offering help.

Scenario 1:
You need help moving furniture.
Make a polite request.

Scenario 1:
Your colleague looks overwhelmed with paperwork.
Offer assistance

2. Write a dialogue between two people where one person makes a formal request, and the other person offers help in response.

1. Example Request:
Could you possibly help me move this table?

1. Example Offer:
Would you like some help with those documents?

2. Example Dialogue:

Person A: I was wondering if you could assist me with this report.

Person B: Of course! Would you like me to proofread it for you?