Lesson plan language and culture in english classrooms: greetings, ways of expressing politeness activity type

Thailand: Wai
France: Kiss on each cheek
India: Namaste
Ukraine: A triple kiss
Tibet: Sticking your tongue out
The Philippines: Mano
Kenya: Jumping dance
Questions to discuss

1. 
   What is politeness?
   
2. 
   What can you say about people of other nationalities, how polite are they?What nationality you can consider as the most polite nationality (Uzbek, Russian, English)?
   

1. 
   Use the polite phrases in the box to make for the situations (1 to 10) below.
   

I wonder if I could… I’d be grateful if you could… Could you possibly…? Do you think you could…?

Is there any chance you could…? Would you mind +ing…? Would it be possible…? Do you mind +ing…?

1. 
   Ask a friend for a favour.
   

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2. 
   Ask a policeman to give you directions.
   

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3. 
   Ask someone to lend you something.
   

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4. 
   Ask a friend to get you something.
   

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5. 
   Ask somone to open the door for you.
   

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6. 
   Ask a friend to buy you something from the shop.
   

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7. 
   Ask a waiter to bring you the belt.
   

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8. 
   Ask someone top open the window for you.
   

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9. 
   Ask a friend to give you a lift somewhere.
   

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10. 
    Ask someone to tell you the time.
    

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Accepting requests	Declining requests
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2. 
   In pairs, take it turnd to make, accept and decline requests using the situations from exercise A and phrases Exercise B.