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Tourists Behaving Badly — 那些让人讨厌的游客行为
那些让人讨厌的游客行为
Fourteen words for manners and taboos, 引起 for what behaviour sets off, 被视为 and 分得清 — and who kicked whom in Phuket.
Related video — watch this stretch before class
Ears first, or eyes first?
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Natural speed. Two nationalities, one reading — listen for who's speaking.
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普吉岛那条新闻讲的是什么？
pǔ jí dǎo nà tiáo xīn wén jiǎng de shì shén me
What was the Phuket news about?
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中国媒体多说了一句什么？Peach 怎么看？
zhōng guó méi tǐ duō shuō le yí jù shén me Peach zěn me kàn
What did Chinese media add, and what does Peach think?
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Peach 怎么解释中国游客的素质问题？
Peach zěn me jiě shì zhōng guó yóu kè de sù zhì wèn tí
How does Peach explain it?
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看到只穿比基尼走来走去的游客，为什么一般不去阻止？
kàn dào zhī chuān bǐ jī ní zǒu lái zǒu qù de yóu kè wèi shén me yì bān bú qù zǔ zhǐ
Why doesn't anyone say something?
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Peach 分得清哪些国家的人？
Peach fēn de qīng nǎ xiē guó jiā de rén
Who can Peach tell apart?
Word check — the new words, back at you生词复习
No pressure — just making it stick.
学历高不代表____高，有些博士也插队。
xué lì gāo bú dài biǎo ____ gāo，yǒu xiē bó shì yě chā duì。
A degree doesn't mean manners — some PhDs jump queues too.
踢了一个坐着休息的医生，太____了！
tī le yí gè zuò zhe xiū xi de yī shēng，tài ____ liǎo！
He kicked a doctor who was sitting resting — that's way too far!
一起旅游的时候，我们在日程安排上有很大____。
yì qǐ lǚ yóu de shí hou，wǒ men zài rì chéng ān pái shàng yǒu hěn dà ____。
Travelling together, we disagreed a lot about the itinerary.
他有话直说，经常____人而不自知。
tā yǒu huà zhí shuō，jīng cháng ____ rén ér bú zì zhī。
He says what he thinks and offends people without noticing.
去别的国家旅游前，最好先了解当地的____。
qù bié de guó jiā lǚ yóu qián，zuì hǎo xiān liǎo jiě dāng dì de ____。
Before travelling abroad, learn the local taboos.
Memory hook
引起 + a reaction — what your behaviour sets off
Memory hook
被视为 and 分得清 — seen as, and told apart
引起, 被视为 and 分得清 — fill, build, say语言点练习
No pressure — just making it stick.
游客脱光衣服拍照，____了大家的反感。
yóu kè tuō guāng yī fu pāi zhào，____ liǎo dà jiā de fǎn gǎn。
Tourists stripping for photos disgusted everyone.
His odd behaviour drew everyone's attention.
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Your sentence
Your turn — say it
这引起了他的好奇。
That aroused his curiosity.
在穆斯林国家大庭广众下喝酒，____不尊重当地文化。
zài mù sī lín guó jiā dà tíng guǎng zhòng xià hē jiǔ，____ bù zūn zhòng dāng dì wén huà。
Drinking in public in a Muslim country is seen as disrespecting the culture.
Peach 和 Jane 的争论——用词语库填空
Tap a word to fill the next gap; tap a filled sentence to clear it. Every word is used once.
Word bank
0/5他们长得太像了，我____谁是谁。
tā men zhǎng de tài xiàng le，wǒ ____ shéi shì shéi。
They look so alike I can't tell who's who.
Many Europeans can't tell Chinese, Koreans and Japanese apart.
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不能以偏概全。
You can't generalise from a few.
See it, say it看图配词
No pressure — just making it stick.
看图配词：粗鲁、大庭广众、搭讪、酗酒
Tap a picture, then choose its word. Match all the cards to finish.
Some tourists walk around in public in nothing but a bikini.
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Your sentence
Ears only听力反应
No pressure — just making it stick.
What does Peach think of that detail?
Your turn — say it
我们中国人比较传统，可能接受不了这样的事情，觉得有伤风化，那你们不去阻止一下吗？
We Chinese are more traditional and can't accept that — it seems indecent. Don't you stop them?
What does Jane concede?
Your turn — say it
我分不清欧洲人和美国人，他们如果不说话就很难分清他们是哪个国家的。
I can't tell Europeans from Americans — until they speak, it's hard to know which country.
Before you go课后回顾
- Role-play ①: discuss the things foreign tourists do in your country that locals can't stand.
- Role-play ②: things that are perfectly normal at home but cause offence abroad.
- Three sentences with 引起 + three different reactions.
- Tell the Phuket story in your own words, using at least six of today's words.