Audio Zepis no mer Dwinadcet Listen to the text and decide which of the facts in your workbook are true, false or not stated.0:00
How are your manners?0:09
American parents are much worried about the bad manners and rude behavior that young children are learning from television programs.0:11
Many of the families send their kids to manners camps.0:19
For about $100 a day.0:23
Young children can learn that it is rude to say yuk if they are given something to eat which they don't like.0:25
They will also learn that it is not amusing but rather rude to blow bubbles in their drinks.0:31
What can sometimes seem funny or amusing on a television sitcom, in other words, in a comedy television program is often accepted as embarrassing rudeness in real life.0:37
Nowadays, many American children spend part of their summer at manners camps where they learn to host a dinner party.0:47
They learn what the appropriate way to receive guests is, what food should be provided at such social events.0:54
They get information about how to hold a fish knife properly and even how to take phone messages.1:01
A lot of children at the beginning of the course don't know that it is not polite to say yeah to the person on the other end of the line.1:06
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, Millfield, one of the most expensive private schools, is also running 14 week courtesy classes, so to speak, classes of proper behavior and good manners for its teenagers.1:13
This is because employers think young people today lack social skills as they don't learn them at home anymore.1:26
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