节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-06-23
难易度:Low
关键字:manners, upset, elbow, tray, enjoyable, recline, upright
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom.
Thanks for joining us today.
As always, my name is Steve.
Recently in the news, there's been an outbreak of stories about passengers who
behave badly on airplanes.
They don't want to be told what to do by flight attendants, or they think
certain safety rules don't apply to them.
In other words, they think they can do whatever they want whenever they want.
Well, traveling with these kinds of people can make a flight unpleasant and
problematic.
Today let's see how airplane travel can be made a little more enjoyable as we
open our magazines to page 44 and read Airplane Manners.
Airplane Manners.
How to make airline travel pleasant for everyone.
You board the plane, take your seat and try to get as comfortable as possible.
But just minutes into the flight, the person behind you starts kicking your
seat.
You feel irritated.
But are you irritating others?
Here are six tips to help you avoid behavior that can upset your fellow
passengers:
Carry in front.
As you walk to your seat, carry your bag in front of you.
If you carry a bag over your shoulder, you can easily hit those already seated.
Respect your neighbor's space.
Don't put your legs, head or elbows in your neighbor's space.
And never sleep on your neighbor's shoulder.
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us right here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
And my name is Ryan.
Now Kaylah, are you planning on flying anywhere anytime soon?
In fact, I am.
I am going to visit a friend for her wedding.
I will have to fly to get there.
Congratulations! So you will be flying on a long flight back to America.
Well, just for a short trip home, yes.
OK. So it might be important for you to pay attention to today's article, which
is all about Airplane Manners.
Oh. That is a good point.
It's summer, and often we go on vacation in the summer.
We get to fly in an airplane, which is very exciting.
But that doesn't mean we can be rude to people.
That's right.
And that's why we're talking about manners.
In this article is in a new section called the MANNERS topic.
OK, so we're talking about "manners," which has to do with the way you behave
around other people.
That's right.
Now if you are rude, you have bad manners.
So you need to have good manners.
Now airplane manners are important because everyone is stuck in the same place
for a certain amount of time.
And this is going to show us how to make airline travel pleasant for all of
those people that are in that location.
OK. So we start off with a scenario, kind of a story here.
It says you board the plane, take your seat and try to get as comfortable as
possible.
And most of you, if you have flown, you know that happens every time you fly.
That's right. You board a plane.
When you board something, that means you get on to it.
You board a ship.
You board a train.
And you can board a plane.
So these are... this is just getting on to the plane itself.
Yeah. But just minutes into the flight, the person sitting behind you starts
kicking your seat.
Oh, no. That... that would not be good.
That would be awful.
The person behind you is kicking your seat.
Now Ryan, I have sat in front of a child before who thought it would be fun to
bounce her legs and kick my chair the entire time.
It's not fun.
Yeah. Most of us have dealt with that.
There has been a child around us making noise or behind us kicking on our seats
or in front of us moving the tray.
And it can be a problem.
So that's why we are learning about airplane manners.
Well, that is also our Grammar on the Go sentence.
So let's visit Liz.
Hello, friends.
How are you doing today?
My name is Liz.
And it's time for Grammar on the Go.
Our article is about Airplane Manners.
For those of us who have traveled often, it is unfortunate that we have all met
people who are not so considerate of other passengers on the plane.
Like as the writer of our article describes:
... just minutes into the flight, the person behind you starts kicking your
seat.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Notice how the sentence begins with "minutes into the flight." It's a short way
of saying a few minutes after the plane is in the air.
We can use "minutes into the something" to describe how an event takes place
just a few minutes after something begins.
For example, we can say minutes into the movie, like: Minutes into the movie,
Teresa's phone rang.
Or minutes into one's speech, like: Minutes into his speech, John felt his
throat getting dry.
Or minutes into the show, like: Just minutes into the show, the power suddenly
went off and the entire room was dark.
So give this phrase a try next time when you want to describe how something
happened just a few minutes after an event started.
And that's all the time we have for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
See you next time.
OK. So if someone is sitting behind you on an airplane kicking your seat, you
might feel irritated, or annoyed.
But are you irritating others?
This is a good question.
Here are six tips to help you avoid behavior that can upset your fellow
passengers.
OK. Now if you're "upsetting" other people, that means you are causing them to
feel worried, angry or upset.
That's right.
You make them feel unhappy.
Unhappy.
That's another way of saying they're upset.
They're very frustrated, or they're angry with you.
Well, the person behind you might not know they're kicking your seat.
So what can you do to avoid upsetting other people?
OK. First, as you are getting on the plane, carry your bag in front of you.
So as you're walking to your seat, have that bag not on your back but in front
of you.
That's right.
Now if we think about the way an airplane is laid out, the aisles are very, very
skinny.
So if you carry a bag over your shoulder, you can easily hit those already
seated.
So you want to respect them and carry it in front.
That's right.
So if you're carrying a bag over your shoulder, like Kaylah just said, you can
be hitting other passengers around you.
We said earlier "fellow" passengers.
That means people who are in the same group as you.
They are also passengers with you.
That's right.
And they're already sitting down; they're already seated.
So you need to make sure that you don't hit them because you'll be hitting their
faces.
Well, you should also respect your neighbor's space.
Don't put your legs, head or elbows in your neighbor's space.
Right. So your neighbor is sitting next to you, and your "elbows" can be right
next to them.
That is the point on your arm that is at the place where it bends at the very
end.
That's right. So where your arm bends that is called your elbow.
Now when you're sitting down and you bend your arms and put them down, it's easy
to put your elbow in somebody else's space.
Make sure you don't because that's just very rude.
Yeah. That's not very much fun if someone else is doing that to you.
So don't do it to them.
And we also see here, Kaylah, I've had this happened to me before.
And our... the last part of respecting your neighbor is to never sleep on your
neighbor's shoulder.
That's very rude.
Yes. I've had someone fall asleep on my shoulder before, and I didn't know them.
It's not very fun.
All right. Now let's go visit Ken in the Chat Room.
Thank you.
Please take a seat, and your card will be ready shortly.
Hey, Bryan.
I don't think I've seen that woman before.
Is she new to the area?
Yeah. She just moved here, so she's getting her library card.
I remember when I got my first library card.
I had to come back the next day to pick it up.
Yeah. Well, we've improved the process a lot since then.
So now it just takes a few minutes.
Oh. So that's why you told her to take a sit and wait for it, right?
Right, except I think you mean take a seat.
Take a seat?
So it's not take a sit?
No.
Remember, things you take are nouns.
So you have to use the noun seat, not the verb sit.
Oh, OK.
By the way, is there a difference between take a seat and take your seat?
I don't think so.
They mean pretty much the same thing.
OK, that's easy.
And what about please be seated and please sit down?
They're both correct.
But they're used in different context.
Hey, let's have Studio Classroom's founder Doris Brougham explain when to use
them.
OK.
"Take a seat," "Please be seated" is used in formal context while "Please sit
down" is more casual.
For example, at a professional conference, before a lecture begins, the
announcer may tell the crowd: please be seated.
But if you're talking to a friend, you'll probably say: Please sit down.
OK. So which one of those could you have used with the woman just now?
I'd probably have said please sit down because this isn't a very formal
interaction.
And now I should check to see if her card is ready or not.
OK. Thanks for the help.