🎭 Horizon: Style Shifting Live
Third lesson of the register module and the live-performance session. Learners deliver the same message to a friend, a teacher and an official on demand, controlling the request ladder (Can you…? → Could you…? → Would you mind + -ing? → I would be grateful if you could…), indirect-question word order and the polite distance of past forms. In the story, Coach Deniz unveils a carnival wheel with three audience sectors: Marco lands a perfect teacher-register apology, Priya writes a faithfully-signed noise complaint, Sam discovers his most fluent register is borrowing money from friends, and the whiteboard becomes a mismatch clinic for crimes like “Yo, esteemed council members”.
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Lesson Plan
- Would you read your last message to your head teacher?
- One request, three listeners
- Which direction of shifting is harder?
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Request ladder by formality: Can you…? → Could you (possibly)…? → Would you mind + -ing? → I would be grateful if you could + base verb
- Would you mind is always followed by the -ing form: Would you mind sending…, never to send
- Indirect questions keep statement word order: Could you tell me when the office opens? — no auxiliary do and no inversion
- Past forms create polite distance in present-time requests: I was wondering if you could… / I wanted to ask…
- Sign-off convention: Dear Sir or Madam → Yours faithfully; a named recipient → Yours sincerely
