Hedging Language — Spotify's Playlist Gamble
Grammar: Hedging and diplomatic language in professional contexts
Free ESL grammar exercise on hedging language themed around spotify's playlist gamble. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on media, practising hedging and diplomatic language in professional contexts. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The free tier, it could be argued, functioned as a long, patient sales pitch. Whether the model is genuinely sustainable remains an open question, although it seems fair to say that Spotify has reshaped how the world listens.
Grammar
- Hedging verbs
- The model seems sustainable. — softens a strong claim
- Modal hedging
- This could be argued. — polite possibility
Sample items
- The free tier ______ be seen as a sales pitch.
- Margins ______ to be thin.
- It ______ that listeners stay longer with playlists.
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