Being polite is very important. If you are polite to others, they will be polite to you. In English there are many words to show you are polite. Many visitors don’t know when to use “please”. When they go into a café and say “A coffee.” or “I want a coffee.” These might be OK for the English people. But they can be very impolite to an English ear if you are a visitor. So adding a simple “please” would make it better. “A coffee, please.” or “I would like a coffee, please.” will make you a polite visitor.

In fact, you can be even more polite: “Sorry, could you tell me the way to Oxford Street, please?” “Sorry, could you tell me your name again, please?” It’s very common to start a request (请求) with the word “sorry”.

If you ask for help, try “I’m sorry to bother you.” or “But could you possibly help me, please?” And you might say to a friend “Hey, John. Lend me $100, will you?” But you couldn’t say this to somebody you do not know well.

Table Manners

Good table manners are different from country to country.

In India, for example, people eat with their right hands. Eating with left hands is very rude (粗鲁的)!

In the West, people don’t usually share food. Everyone has his or her own plate of food. And you should not make noise when you are eating, even if the food is really good. Eating with noise is rude in the West. But in Japan it is good manners to make noise when you are eating, because that shows you are enjoying the food.

In China, it is OK to make a lot of noise in a restaurant. But in the West, the restaurant is a quiet place. Making much noise in a restaurant shows one’s bad manners.

43. 如何做一个有礼貌的孩子？你能给你的朋友提一些建议吗？至少40个单词。

Rules are everywhere. When we read ______ the library, play football or drive a car, we have to ______ some rules. Rules are ______ to us. We must also follow the rules on the ______. Lucy and her mother went to the UK by plane last week. She took the emergency exit (紧急出口) seat. She ______ a card on her seat. The card said, “If you are in an emergency exit seat, you must:

• Be at least 15 years old and healthy.

• Be able to (能够) speak and read ______ very well.

You must not:

• Sit with a ______ (two years old or under).

• Sit with a ______ like a cat, a dog, etc.

This is because you need to be free to give help to others.”