Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Gestures and Manners

Lesson Notes May 30, 2023 (Vocabulary Building)

• Compare these two sentences

• Four of you are wearing blue shirts today, you look very cool. (= I am not wearing blue, but four other people are …)

• Four of us are wearing … (= Three people and I are wearing …)

• Paisley; a distinctive, intricate design motif, typically consists of a curved teardrop with a curved top and a pointy end, often resembling a stylized a droplet

• Is that a paisley pattern?

• I’m looking for a paisley tie, do you carry any in your store?

• I bought a beautiful scarf with a paisley design, and it has colourful curved shapes on it.

• A: I can’t sing, but I have played piano since I was a child.
  B: You’ve been playing a long time. (NOT you played a long time)

Gestures

• It’s bad manners to throw garbage (away) on the street.

• It’s good manners to hold the elevator door open.

• It’s good manners to clean up your dog’s droppings on the street.

• Droppings; (plural noun) the excrement of certain animals, such as rodents, sheep, birds, and insects

• It’s good manners to greet your neighbour’s when out walking.

• In libraries it’s good manners to put (back / away) books where they belong.

• What do you do when you meet someone for the first time?

• What gestures do you use to end a conflict with someone?

• At a baseball game when the other team is at bat we often stomp our feet.