WhytheUKissorry.pptVIP

* Why the UK is sorry Issue.1145 March 9, 2016 Pitfalls of applying online Group Discussion Detailed Study Why the UK is sorry General Questions Group Discussion Read the passsage and discuss the following questions with your group members. 1. Have you ever had difficulties understanding the British people? Can you give us an example? 2. Check the figure on your newspaper Things that make British people and Amercans say sorry. Would you apologize in those situations? Skimming and scanning: Find the answers to the following quesitons as quickly as possible. Instruction 1.What do we know according to the BBC article? 2. How did Kate Fox carry out her experients? According to a BBC article, “a recent survey of more than 1,000 Brits found that the average person says ‘sorry’ around eight times every day, and that one in eight people apologize up to 20 times a day”. General Questions She deliberately bumped into hundreds of people in towns and cities across the UK. For comparison, Fox asked her colleagues to do the same in other countries. 3. What did she find out?  4. Do Brits feel remorseful when they say sorry? Most Brits say “sorry” casually and out of habit. They may say “sorry” more often, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are truly feeling remorseful. General Questions Although the collisions were clearly Fox’s fault, around 80 percent of those she bumped into said “sorry”. Compared with foreign tourists traveling in the UK, the English people were much more likely to apologize. “Only the Japanese seemed to have anything even approaching the English sorry-reflex,” Fox writes in her book. 5. What did Edwin say about Brits usage of sorry? 6. what is the character of politeness for people in the US? “We use the word ‘sorry’ in different ways, for example to express empathy. It might be that Brits use that kind of ‘sorry’ more often, but they wouldn’t be apologizing, per se.” General Questions For people in the US, however, politene