jueves, 9 de enero de 2014

Politeness


Manners

Manners

  1. What are some examples of bad manners on the bus?
  2. What are some examples of good manners on the subway?
  3. What are some examples of bad manners that you HATE?
  4. Do you think people are more polite or less polite now than in the past?
  5. Do you know someone who is often rude?
  6. Can you think of some examples of how manners have changed in your country?
  7. How are manners different in other countries?
  8. How important is it to be polite to older people even though they are often rude?
  9. What is something that isn’t considered rude but should be?
  10. When someone is rude in a public place, do you say something or try to ignore the person?

That's English - Module 5 - Unit 9B: Good manners 12 dic 2013

That's English - Module 5 - Unit 9B: Good manners



miércoles, 8 de enero de 2014

Why women judge a man by his manners


Women Explode - Political Correctness

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Actor Robert Davi » Political Correctness Is Ruining America


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welcome back everyone with memorable roles in everything from die hard to be
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good news to buy movie: license to kill robert downey
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is one of hollywood's most recognizable faces and he isn't afraid to speak his
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own mind particularly about how
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political correctness he believes is affecting America
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an actor joins us today good morning good morning good morning all is so what
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did you tweet
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I tweeted something a was right after the year
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the interrogation stopped and I'll say in Boston
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interrogation stuff in Boston and I started to think about
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when I was a kid growing up how political correctness
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there was a respected there was it was in any
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you know I mean no filter no filter the Rat Pack those guys could make fun of
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each other
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the racial slurs everything else everybody left that they had a good time
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doing it
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and a nowadays political I put that political correctness is a lose-lose
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situation on but we think it's hurting freedom speech its
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ok it's absolutely crushing our freedom of ideas
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speech when she start controlling society and you have to watch
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I'm even aware that I have to watch what I say because I'm in Hollywood if I say
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the wrong thing
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I'll be ostracized by is certain but US work
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and you won't work in you will do this well they'd made this continually do
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this they continue bring this down you know into a
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but even as Tiger baby thing I saw this morning anything look at my parents
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wanted me to excel
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there's nothing wrong with excelling and left there's nothing wrong with making
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you be the best you can let me know that's become a negative it's become a
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negative so continually we have this
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overall a a collapse
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our ability to have our own freedom of speech and expression you just miss the
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old days when
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when Pete there wasn't a PC that there is to it now II miss well
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look at this some sensitive things in terms of the bullying aspect I
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understand that having five kids
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and having to worry about the bowling aspect of certain buzzwords that maybe
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kids might be affected by but what is imperative I think in our society and we
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have to fight against that
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its would happen in soviet in in Russia in 1914
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they were on the verge have the biggest economic boom onto the sock
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communism came control the speech control the society
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and a collapse economically and then you had what you had for years until now
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they have a whole different economic boom that's happening so you have all
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the family was a hit show The Jeffersons a hit show
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down people really want to run it replay mission Andy I mean
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you able to have fun with each other and not now oversaw his political
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correctness
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even with women the feminist movement in a meeting of those buzzwords a
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mocks this into a corner where there is a a a
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antagonism but that's like us we see with Steve cause a hot tamale we hear
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say there's a sweet broad
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and now I'm actually talking about a tamale I got an entree
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ok at the president that I know the Fox News was kind of like you guys kind of
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the
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defended him on the attorney general saying she was the hot attorney general
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what it was
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yeah home in security left a guy who was it that you should check out of out of
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California come on and we can say that Gretchen's a pretty woman that has nice
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legs
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you know it's gonna be offended me but that they can continually has this
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offense
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italian-american sure the political gretna
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I I never got offended if someone thought I was part of the Mafia
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sure all your Italian but you are part of Hollywood and you get a new movie out
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it's called the ICIS min
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and where you play mobster here's he is in action
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they are just wanna call that I just want my money
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this
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enough
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you can simply a mom
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I job and now you want your money no
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now that 10 say hi and you you get nothing
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give me the money they owe we'd love to hear what you said
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new directed a brilliant director great cast Michael Shannon's brilliant as the
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iceman is the true story of Richard cook went skiing your
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you got Danny a who's the head to the club scene and in LA that's it in New
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York that's in it
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Grace Park ray liotta winona ryder a
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James Franco Chris Evans you ever scare yourself with some you for it because I
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get I
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if you scary too great for you know I don't know if I was a guy just a
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reminder
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know you no no that's a different tack or even though I did still have good
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opens May 3rd
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it does %uh yes met for dominoes pleasure great British you guys think
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thank you for having a discount we get on the movie free mention your name you
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could start a painful price you know what you want to get you gotta
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but now let us know when you wanna go your ATV politically correct you rather
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tell me of how to the premiere tonight but
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I would like to do anything if you want to come urine today trying is all right
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I'm sure to go to
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and there's a great after party at the Soho House sounds good ok yeah
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work a month well as a coming up before

Reported Speech


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