Nice to meet you! :1واحد
Asking questions
انتخاب واحد
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
جلسه 4
Formal and informal writing
Is language becoming more informal because of email and the internet? Read our article to find out if 'Dear…' is dying.
To tip or not to tip, that is the question
Is tipping part of daily life in your country - or do you never leave a tip when you pay for a meal?
Listen to this week's News Report - you'll hear several examples of question forms in action. If you need extra help, there's a transcript to read while you listen - or if you're feeling brave, listen without the transcript.
After you've listened, why not practise your pronunciation by reading the transcript out loud?
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Do you leave a tip when you pay for a meal? And how much do you tip?
Michael Lynn from Cornell University thinks that tipping is worth about $40bn each year. That's more than twice the budget of Nasa.
Indeed, many people say America is the most 'tip-friendly'country on earth. In New York, leaving a tip of around 20% in restaurants is normal. This compares to around 11% in London.
Why is it so much higher? Mainly because the wages of restaurant workers in the US are usually lower, so the tip is a very important part of their income.
But now some restaurants are trying something different. Sushi Yasuda restaurant in New York has banned tips because they say their staff are already well-paid, and because it makes the dining experience simpler for customers.
And which countries don't expect tips at all? In Singapore tipping is very rare, and in Fiji, Iceland and Japan, it can cause embarrassment and offence.
Download
You can download News Report from our Unit 1 downloads page. (size 2MB)
Vocabulary
tip
small amount of money that you give to a person who gives you a service
budget
the amount of money you can spend on something
wages
money you earn from working
income
money people receive, usually from working
banned
officially not allowed
dining
eating a meal
embarrassment
feeling shy
offence
feeling upset, hurt or annoyed
Related story
This report is based on an original BBC News Story.
End of Session 4
Well done. You have finished this session. Join us again in Session 5 where you will find out about two more new features in this course. Bye for now.
واژه های تازه این جلسه
tip
small amount of money that you give to a person who gives you a servicebudget
the amount of money you can spend on somethingwages
money you earn from workingincome
money people receive, usually from workingbanned
officially not alloweddining
eating a mealembarrassment
feeling shyoffence
feeling upset, hurt or annoyed