REQUEST: IT'S A POLITE WAY TO MAKE A QUESTION.
* We use could you..... and would you ...... as a polite ways of telling or asking somone to do something :
Could you take a message , please?
Would you carry this for me , please?
* Can and will are less polite :
Can you take a message , please?
Will you carry this for me , please ?
Offers and invitations :
* We use can I to make offers :
Can I help you ?
Can I do that for you?
* We can also use Shall I .....
Shall I help you with that?
Shall I call you on your mobile ?
Exercises : With Can.
1.- Can you possibly lend me a pen , please ?
2.-........ I offer you something to drink?
3.-........ you switch off the light, please?
4.- ........ you lend me some money , please?
5.-......... you pass me the towel, please?
6.-.......... I have some coockies ?
7.-.......... I use your bathroom ?
Exercises : With Shall
1.-........... I make you a coffee?
2.-............. I cook pancakes for breakfast?
3.-........... we go to the cinema this evening ?
4.-........... we dance ?
5.-............ we go to the restaurant tonight ?
6.-............ I do the dinner?
7.-........... you marry me ?
8.-............ you have a date with me ?
9.-............ we buy a car?
10.-............ be friends?
Exercises : with could.
1.-Could I have a naptime , I didn't sleep well enough?
2.-...........we take a taxi?
3.- In 1900,people ............... watch tv.
4.- It ........... rain this evening .
5.- She ............... phone you .
6.- ........... you turn the volumne down please ?
7.- They ............... play chess together.
8.- It .............. rain this evening .
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