Manners and kindness Lesson 51 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening without interrupting. 1 They matter because every person has feelings: a kind word makes someone feel noticed, while being ignored, pushed or interrupted makes them feel unimportant. 2 Taking turns is fair: when everyone waits for their go, everyone gets a go, and nobody needs to push or shout. 3 Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said. 4 In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy behind her; he says thank you and smiles, and two tiny acts of kindness leave both of them a little happier. 5 A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started to dread school and cried at home, and it took her months to feel happy there again. 6 A girl in Leeds pushed past people to get on a crowded bus first; she knocked an older lady, who fell and hurt her wrist. 7 Saying please turns an order into a polite request. 8 Saying thank you shows that you noticed what someone did for you. 9 When someone thanks you, the polite reply is you are welcome. 10 Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how they feel. 11 Taking turns means everyone gets a fair chance. 12 Good listeners look at the speaker and let them finish before they talk. 13 Interrupting tells the speaker that what they say does not matter to you. 14 If you need to speak while others are talking and it is not an emergency, you wait for a pause and say excuse me. 15 Manners matter with everyone: family, friends, strangers, shop workers and drivers. 16 Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others. 17 Good manners at the table include chewing with your mouth closed and not grabbing food across other people. 18 A good winner says good game, and a good loser congratulates the winner. 19 Unkind words can hurt someone for a long time, much longer than a scratch. 20 Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them. 21 Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal. 22 Questions about someone's private life, such as when they will get married, can upset them, so it is kind to change the subject. 23 When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip. ← previous Thinking like a lifeguardnext → Friends, teams and fair play↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/