📄️ Commands and instructions
Giving commands
📄️ Commentaries
Commentaries are reports on events such as a public ceremony or a football match. They are usually spoken while the events are being viewed. We use both the present simple and the present continuous. The present simple is used to make the commentary sound more immediate:
📄️ Greetings and farewells: hello, goodbye, Happy New Year
Saying hello
📄️ Invitations
When we give somebody an invitation, we ask if they would like to go somewhere or do something or have something. We can use the formal phrase would you like (to) and the more informal phrase do you want (to):
📄️ Offers
When we offer, we ask someone if they would like to have something or if they would like us to do something for them. We usually say yes, please or no, thanks when we reply to offers.
📄️ Please and thank you
Please and thank you are usually associated with politeness. We use them a lot in English.
📄️ Politeness
Politeness is about keeping good relations with your listener or reader. There are two types of politeness:
📄️ Requests
When we make a request, we ask someone for something, or we ask someone to do something.
📄️ Suggestions
If we make a suggestion, it means that we mention a possible course of action to someone. There are a number of expressions which we can use to make suggestions.
📄️ Telephoning
Making and answering a telephone call
📄️ Warnings
A warning is something that makes us aware of possible danger. There are a number of ways of warning someone. Warnings can be weak or strong.