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Perspective Taking Worksheets: Polite Wording
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Polite Wording
How we say something is often as important as what we say. This worksheet gives students practice at modifying simple requests and opinions by using polite phrases in order to “soften” the statements to better received.
Perspective Taking Worksheets: Polite Wording
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Welcome to my Polite Wording worksheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. Polite Wording comes next. I cannot overestimate the importance of likability. I want my students to be likable because then they go out into the world and people are going to be more likely to help them, to do things for them, they're going to be more likely to do well at a job, and get promoted, more likely to get friends, to get a romantic partner. And a big part of being likable is being polite: “please” and “thank you” go a long way. So, for this activity they're given a number of statements and they have to use some of the given phrases to “soften” the statement. So, for example, instead of “Give me a hamburger” - “Can I please have a hamburger?” Instead of “Go talk to Larry” - “maybe you should go talk to Larry”, and kind of softening their opinions and their requests so that people will be more amenable to what they have to say. Thanks for viewing my description of my Polite Wording worksheet. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!
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Perspective Taking Worksheets: Polite Wording
This PDF worksheet addresses listener presupposition by focusing on modifying verbal opinions and requests before speaking so as to yield improved responses.
This worksheet endeavors to improve perspective-taking skills through a focus on listener presupposition. Beginning with a written discussion about considering your listener prior to speaking (and why it's important to adjust your comments and requests to yield superior results). The activity supplies examples of polite phrases to apply to opinion statements and requests as well as a number of sentences in which students can incorporate these phrases. This helps students practice modification of their wording while simultaneously considering the needs of their listeners.
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