{"id":994,"date":"2018-12-15T01:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2018-12-15T01:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:29:56","slug":"bc-the-art-of-the-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/bc-the-art-of-the-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"BC: The art of the offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-summary\">Summary<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-aim\">Making polite requests and offers<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">The topic of this lesson is politeness. You will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>role play making a variety of requests and offers<\/li>\n<li>focus on ways to ask for something politely<\/li>\n<li>learn phrases for accepting and refusing offers<\/li>\n<li>practise sounding polite when accepting and rejecting offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Conversation 1<\/h3>\n<p>Customer:<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>I\u2019d like to <\/strong><\/span>book a vacation to CDG next month, from the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to the 19<sup>th<\/sup>, with flight and hotel for two.<\/p>\n<p>Travel agent:<b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ok, let me just check for you. <\/span><\/strong>Actually, if you\u2019d like to stay an extra day, we have a 5 day, 4 night package from the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to the 20<sup>th<\/sup>. That\u2019s cheaper than staying for three nights.<\/p>\n<p>Customer: <strong>That sounds great!<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>I\u2019ll take it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Travel agent: And you could upgrade those flights to first class for \u00a350 more per person. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Would you like to do that?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Customer: No, thanks. Economy\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<h3>Conversation 2<\/h3>\n<p><b>Tourist (f)<\/b>: Excuse me, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>do you know which stop I need to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> get off at for<\/span><\/strong><\/span> the convention centre<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\/\/NOTES: [\u97f3] get of fat for\/\/<\/p>\n<p><b>Local<\/b>\u00a0<b>(f)<\/b>: Yes,<strong> you need to get off at<\/strong> High Street. <strong>That\u2019s just three stops from here.<\/strong> But<strong> you\u2019ll need to walk a bit<\/strong> to get to the convention centre. <strong>It\u2019s a three minute walk<\/strong> from the bus stop.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tourist<\/b>: Thanks, <strong>that\u2019s really helpful.<\/strong> Could you tell me which way to go from the bus stop?<\/p>\n<p><b>Local<\/b>:<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> I\u2019m getting off at that stop too.<\/strong><\/span> <strong>I can show you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Tourist<\/b>: Thanks,<strong> I\u2019d really appreciate that!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Making polite requests and offers The topic of this lesson is politeness. You will: role play making a variety of requests and offers focus on ways to ask for something politely learn phrases for accepting and refusing offers practise sounding polite when accepting and rejecting offers. Conversation 1 Customer:\u00a0I\u2019d like to book a vacation<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/bc-the-art-of-the-offer\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}