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Thank you note 798C0006 蘇惠敏 Amanda: Mm, salad. Kevin: I’m feeling frustrated. So I gave a good friend of mine a gift two weeks ago. Amanda: Uh huh. Kevin: And I’ve yet to get… I sent her a gift two weeks ago and I have yet to get any notification of, of receipt of the gift. Amanda: Um, that’s probably one of my biggest pet peeves right now. When I was a kid, my parents taught me to write a thank you card that moment. Kevin: Immediately. Amanda: Write the card. Put it in the mail. Kevin: That’s right. Amanda: Nobody does it anymore and it drives me crazy. Kevin: It’s, it’s gone out of style, I guess. I think it’s incredibly rude. Amanda: Do you think it’s inconvenient? Or people don’t know to do it? Because maybe they weren’t raised and taught to write a thank you card. Kevin: I think it’s a combination of both. I think because the custom has kind of gone by the wayside. People aren’t doing it as much and… or they just never learned. Kind of like tipping. Some people just aren’t good tippers… Amanda: That’s horrible. Kevin: ‘Cause they didn’t learn from their parents. Amanda: It’s absolutely horrible. Kevin: Yeah. Amanda: With wedding gifts, you know, that excuse, you have a year. Kevin: That is BS. Amanda: That’s, that’s BS. Kevin: Yeah. Amanda: Total BS. Kevin: I agree. Amanda: And people run with that year and they go into the next year and they say, “Well, I missed the deadline. Oops.” Kevin: It’s ridiculous. Amanda: Not OK. Not OK. Kevin: Very rude. END. thank you note • a brief note thanking someone for a gift or for something they did for you 連 連 看 • • • • • • • Pet peeve gone by the wayside tipping BS raised custom Incredibly • • • • • • • 小費 胡扯 養育 習俗 難以置信地 難以忍受的小毛病 被遺忘 Practice Vocabulary It seems like the true meaning of Christmas has gone by the wayside. Nowadays, most people spend a lot of money and seem very stressed out in December. One of my biggest pet peeves is tardiness. There is no excuse for being late. I got a sweet thank you note from Alan today. He loved the book we sent him. I felt incredibly embarrassed. • Imagining your classmates do you a favor or give you a gift, write down a “thank you note” to the person you would like to thanks for. 影音聯結 • http://ch.englishbaby.com/lessons/1 821/real_life/thank_you_notes