Babe a polite sheepdog

Babe is a nice pig who wants to become the perfect sheepdog, you can see that it is hard for Babe to lead the sheep, and the success comes when Babe moves the sheep with no force but politeness.

A request is asking another people to do something, if you do not want to be a rude person when you talk in English, you must try to be nice and polite when you make a request.

Here you have some nice ways to ask your friend to do something:

Can you Will you Could you	pass me the dictionary, please?
would you mind	helping me with my luggage ?

Click to listen to some examples by the BBC.
You usually use a modal verb to make a request: check the video by the British Council.
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British or American English?

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The English language that British people speak is different from the English that you can hear in an American movie.
Read and listen while you read this article about differences between British and American English, as you can see, you can select to listen to it with a British or an American pronunciation. This article is from a magazine called Teatime magazine, you can also download the mp3 audio file or the pdf if you want.
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Some differences in British and American spelling.

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And British versus American English: