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1. In the Mood: Introducing Pragmatic Awareness at Low Levels

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   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on raising pragmatic awareness in students using the concept of "mood."

2. Speakers and Task Type: Increasing Awareness of Factors Involved in Speech Act Production

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   The goal of this article is to increase awareness of the factors that affect the linguistic realization of speech acts in American English.

3. Greetings with a Difference

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   This lesson examines different ways of greeting people.

4. Promoting Solidarity in Short Interactions

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   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise awareness of and give practice in using strategies of relexicalisation for descriptive accounts and for promoting solidarity in short interactions. A sub-goal is to provide students with interesting and natural vehicles for vocabulary development, recycling and revision.

5. Discourse Markers Well and Oh

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   This lesson focuses on using the discourse markers well and oh for smoother discourse flow.

6. Comment-Response Mingle

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   This lesson aims to help students become more aware of and have practice in using appropriate formulaic responses to common situations.

7. Improving the Friendly Discussions of Controversial Issues

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   This lesson aims to introduce students to a variety of pragmatic routines and lexical phrases employed in disagreements between peers.

8. Polite Ways of Correcting or Contradicting our Conversation's Partner's Assumptions

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   This lesson aims to raise learners' pragmatic awareness towards an important conversational function and to help them to be aware of the negative impression brought about by the non-use of actually (or other softeners of contradiction or correction) and for students to learn to produce corrections or contradictions prefaced by actually.

9. Making Contrasts in English

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   This lesson aims to help students learn how to make contrasts using intonation.

10. Listen Actively! You can Keep that Conversation Going!

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    This lesson aims to help students learn to respond appropriately to maintain a conversation.

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