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Task 6. Complete this text about basic principles of mobile telephony
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Task 6. Complete this text about basic principles of mobile telephony with the following words.
Mobile phones, also called (1) cellular phones, or cell phones for short, need a network of towers or antennas to transmit calls. In a cellular system, a city is divided into smaller sections or (2) cells where the (3) base stations usually occupy a central position. When you are outside your service provider’s (4) coverage area, your telephone may become out of (5) range unless your telephone allows (6) roaming i.e. the ability to use another service provider’s network.
2. ASKING POLITE QUESTIONS (with can/could)
Task 1. Study the grammar materials.
An important feature of the English language is the ability to ask questions in a polite way. Polite questions are useful in situations such as business, you might
be asking a client some difficult questions (personal questions, for example), or situations when you need somebody, who you do not know, to help you; possibly you are on the phone asking for train tickets or booking a hotel room, for example. When speakers of English use polite question forms, theytake direct questions or statements and use a different sentence structure. Sometimes the word order is different in polite questions, sometimes other words are used (See table 1).
Table 1. Polite question forms - Could you…?
Direct statement/question
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Polite question form
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Explanation
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Open the door
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Could you open the door?
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One way of making an imperative/statement more formal/polite is by using the construction could you. When we use statements in this way, the word order stays the same.
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Where is the garage?
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Could you tell me where the garage is?
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With conventional questions without an auxiliary verb, the word order changes in the polite question form. With could you, the verb is moved to the end of the question. Also, you will notice the addition of tell me when we adapt direct questions in this way
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Is there more cheese?
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Could you tell me if there is anymore cheese?
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If the question is a yes/no question and we use the could you tell me construction, the word if is used and the word order changes to that of an affirmative sentence
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Where do you live?
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Could you tell me where you live?
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When we change questions with an auxiliary verb (do/did, for example) with the polite question form could you, the auxiliary verb is removed.
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