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1. Comment-Response Mingle

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Hello, I must be going!

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   This lesson aims for students to become more fluent in using and understanding basic greetings and leave-takings in brief "small talk" encounters.

5. How Do You Say Good-Bye?

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   This lesson aims to help students gain confidence in conducting interactional conversations, with emphasis on conversational closings.

6. Telephone Conversation Openings

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   This lesson aims to develop awareness and understanding of the nature of telephone conversation openings from a social, interactional perspective.

7. Requesting the Main Point in the Classroom

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   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to request the main point.

8. Using the Telephone to Teach Pragmatics

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   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.

9. Complaining Successfully: Negotiating Redress in Service Encounters

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   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.

10. PBS Kids

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    PBS Kids helps to educate young learners in creative and fun ways. The educational content is aimed at children, with many interactive games and activities to aid in learning.

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