Speakout Video Podcast Behaviour

Watch the video and answer the questions below:

1. What kind of behaviour in public places gets on  the speakers' nerves?
2. Examples the speakers mentioned when they have experienced bad manners recently.
3. Do they think our attitude towards behavior changes as we get older?

Script

P = Pasha     H = Hannah     C = Chris     A = Alexandra

Co = Colin     G = Gemma     S = Scott     Ch = Chloe

P:            Hello. City life can be quite impersonal, so I try to smile at people and thank them whenever they behave kindly, but some forms of anti-social behaviour really do get on my nerves. Today, I’m talking to people about good and bad behaviour. What kind of behaviour in public places gets on your nerves?

H:            I think what mostly gets on my nerves is when people listen to their music really loudly on a stereo when you’re on the train, or in a lift. I think that’s a bit anti-social.

C:            Um, probably noise more than anything actually. I suppose it’s one of those sorts of things you see in effect in towns, areas now get louder and louder – probably later into the night as well.

A:            Well, screaming babies, in, like, shops and just generally around and the parents, kind of, standing there and not really, and just, kind of, ignoring the child and you just want to, just, tell the baby to just ‘shut up’, but, obviously, you can’t.

Co:          Loud noise: people with loud voices. People, er, bad manners.

G:            When you’re on public transport, like on a train, and couples start kissing in front of you.

S:            Smoking within the vicinity. As someone who, personally doesn’t smoke, I find that it can, it can get on my nerves at times.

P:            Give a recent example of when you experienced good or bad manners.

S:            The other day, just as an example, recent lack of manners, I think, was in a local park and there was a rubbish bin nearby, but that person instead of taking the extra effort to just simply walk over and drop it in, decided carelessly to just drop their rubbish on the ground where they were.

C:            I travel a lot on the trains and things like that so I find, increasingly, the actual noise on trains from people using mobile phones, things like that, really.