Hedging & Diplomatic Language — The Face Knows No Borders — Or Does It?
Grammar: Advanced hedging and diplomatic language
Free ESL grammar exercise on hedging & diplomatic language themed around the face knows no borders — or does it?. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising advanced hedging and diplomatic language. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What this means for emotional intelligence in practice is less than comfortable. The frameworks popularised by Daniel Goleman were largely constructed from Western data. Applying them globally without cultural adjustment risks producing a new kind of social illiteracy.
Grammar
- Modal hedge
- Use might, may, could to soften a claim. This could reflect a cultural bias. Avoids sounding absolute.
- Lexical hedge
- Use arguably, to some extent, somewhat. Arguably, no single model fits every culture. Signals openness to debate.
Sample items
- Emotional intelligence ______ be more culturally specific than Goleman suggested.
- ______, facial expressions do carry some universal meaning across cultures.
- ______ that sustained eye contact has different meanings in different cultures.
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