Asking for information 1. help is a very common and necessary thing. So knowing how to ask for information 2. (polite) is important in English." Where are the restrooms?" and" Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?" are similar requests and both are correct English, but the first could sound rude. It’s important 3. (use) correct languages, but sometimes this 4. (lonely) is not enough. We need to learn how to be polite when we make requests.

In English, just 5. in Chinese, we change the way we speak when 6. (talk) with different people. The 7. (express) you use might depend on whom you are speaking to or how 8. (good) you know them. Usually in English polite questions are 9. (long) and include extra language such as "Could you please..." or "Can I ask...". Sometimes we might even need to spend some time 10. (lead) into a question or request.