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1. The Rules of the Queue

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

   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.

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

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

   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.

3. Chapter 1: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 1 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

4. Chapter 2: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 2 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

5. Chapter 3: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 3 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

6. Chapter 4: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 4 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

7. Chapter 5: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 5 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

8. Chapter 6: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 6 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

9. Chapter 7: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 7 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

10. Chapter 8: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

    In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

    Chapter 8 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

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