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The words Check, Bill and Tab
When you go to a restaurant in the US and you are finished eating the waiter or waitress will bring you a check which, of course, is what you have to pay; a list of all the things you ate and this is called a check and can also be called a bill, however, it’s one of the custom that people are often surprised when they come to the US because in most restaurants when you are done eating the waiter will bring you your bill or check and put it on your table. This is considered rude in many countries but in US it doesn’t mean you have to leave right away or that you have to pay right now; that’s just a custom, that’s just the way the things are done in restaurants. They bring you the bill when they see you’re finished eating and you’re not going to order any more food but you don’t have to pay right away. The waiter should say something like: "whenever you are ready".
There are some other words we use for check and bill in a restaurant. One of them is specially used in a bar is called tab. Your tab is your bill, usually for alcohol and if you want to pay a drink for someone you may say to the bartender: a drink for her or him and put it on my tab. A tab is sometimes called a running tab. So these are some of the uses of the words check, bill, and tab.
The words Just and Only
Sometimes these two words can mean the same thing.
There’s only/just one person here.
I’m just/only kidding.(I’m not doing anything else)
We also use the word "just" in other way however. For example, you can say: "I’m just leaving", meaning I’m leaving right now or I can say: "I just arrived", meaning I arrived a minute ago or ten minutes ago.
You can’t say: "I’m only leaving or I’m only arrived".
To Make Up One’s Mind
To make up one’s mind means to decide. If I need to decide something I can say: I need to make my mind or I need to make a decision.
We usually use "to make up my mind" when we’re thinking a long time about something and we need to make a decision but we’ve been waiting, waiting and finally we decide what to do.
In the Eye of the Beholder
There’s a famous expression or saying in English: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". It means that beauty depends on who is looking at something; it depends upon the person who has that particular view, for example, I may see a woman and say she’s very beautiful, but someone else may look at the same woman and say I don’t think she’s very beautiful so, it depends upon the person, it depends on the eye of the beholder.
When you go to a restaurant in the US and you are finished eating the waiter or waitress will bring you a check which, of course, is what you have to pay; a list of all the things you ate and this is called a check and can also be called a bill, however, it’s one of the custom that people are often surprised when they come to the US because in most restaurants when you are done eating the waiter will bring you your bill or check and put it on your table. This is considered rude in many countries but in US it doesn’t mean you have to leave right away or that you have to pay right now; that’s just a custom, that’s just the way the things are done in restaurants. They bring you the bill when they see you’re finished eating and you’re not going to order any more food but you don’t have to pay right away. The waiter should say something like: "whenever you are ready".
There are some other words we use for check and bill in a restaurant. One of them is specially used in a bar is called tab. Your tab is your bill, usually for alcohol and if you want to pay a drink for someone you may say to the bartender: a drink for her or him and put it on my tab. A tab is sometimes called a running tab. So these are some of the uses of the words check, bill, and tab.
The words Just and Only
Sometimes these two words can mean the same thing.
There’s only/just one person here.
I’m just/only kidding.(I’m not doing anything else)
We also use the word "just" in other way however. For example, you can say: "I’m just leaving", meaning I’m leaving right now or I can say: "I just arrived", meaning I arrived a minute ago or ten minutes ago.
You can’t say: "I’m only leaving or I’m only arrived".
To Make Up One’s Mind
To make up one’s mind means to decide. If I need to decide something I can say: I need to make my mind or I need to make a decision.
We usually use "to make up my mind" when we’re thinking a long time about something and we need to make a decision but we’ve been waiting, waiting and finally we decide what to do.
In the Eye of the Beholder
There’s a famous expression or saying in English: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". It means that beauty depends on who is looking at something; it depends upon the person who has that particular view, for example, I may see a woman and say she’s very beautiful, but someone else may look at the same woman and say I don’t think she’s very beautiful so, it depends upon the person, it depends on the eye of the beholder.
Let’s talk about … Minnesota!
Minnesota is located in a very north part of the US right in the middle that is called upper mid west and it’s on the border of Canada, the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Minnesota is known for a couple of things in the US, probably one of the most famous things is that people have a very distinctive accent. There’s a movie called Fargo and it’s actually about people in Minnesota. Fargo is a city in North Dakota next to Minnesota.
The people of Minnesota have a very distinctive accent it’s usually with a lot of long "oooos". People say: Minnesooota yah, you betcha! You betcha! is an expression that you hear and people associate or relate to Minnesota. You betcha! Means you bet you, that sometimes means yes. For example if someone says: It’s raining out! You say: You betcha!
So that’s one thing that Minnesota is famous for but it’s famous for other things. The singer Bob Dylan was born and raised in Minnesota.
Minnesota is in the North so it’s very cold and it has a lot of snow and people associate Minnesota with cold weather sports such as hockey. Many of the members of Olympic hockey team come from Minnesota.
Let’s talk about … Spring Break!
Spring break is the same as spring vacation and in public and private schools, elementary schools, high schools and universities usually take at least one and sometimes two weeks of vacation. Usually one week for most schools and this a very popular time for families and for students to travel somewhere.
There has developed in the US the tradition of spring break especially for high school and college students and they usually go to somewhere warm like a beach and quite honestly they do a lot of party; they do a lot of drinking, dancing and things that go with that and it’s been something of a problem in some places because the high school students and college students will get sometimes very rowdy making a lot of noise yelling , screaming and many of the places where these students go for spring break sometimes have problems with the police.
Typically the spring break is related to Easter and passes over seasons and some of the popular places where students like to go are Florida, Orlando, Miami, and Daytona Beach or Palm Beach where they like to rest sitting on the sun getting a tan. There are other places they like to go, as for example, California going to San Diego and sometimes even to Los Angeles. They also like to go to some resorts in Mexico like Cancun, Acapulco. Mexico is very popular for students because in Mexico you only have to be 18 years old to drink alcohol legally instead of being 21like in the US so if the student likes to drink and they usually do, Mexico is the best to have fun.
Let’s talk about … The Movie Rating System!
In US there is an association called MPAA that is supposed to tell people who want to go see the movie, what kind of movie and what age this movie is appropriated for.
The rating system uses letters to classify movies and it begins with G for general and a G rated movie is a movie that anyone can go see; it’s ok for children, for adults, no problems any age can go see these movies so cartoons, for example, are usually G rated.
The next rating is PG and PG stands for Parental Guidance. Here the parents should be careful about taking especially young children to this movie.
The next is PG 13 and it’s a movie that anyone under thirteen should see because it may cause a problem so parents should think very carefully about weather taking their children to see it. There are maybe sexual content in the movie, there are maybe very violent or some vulgar or dirty language, those are sort of things that would give a movie a PG 13.
The next rating is an R and R is for restricted. This means that anyone under the age 18 needs to have a parent or an adult to go with them because R rated movie is the most violent, the most mature scenes and ideas and language.
The next rating which is Unseen 17, no one under eighteen can go see these movies even if their parents are with them and says it’s ok and these are movies that there are strong sexual or violent scenes; they are not pornographic movies that are rated as X rated movies, but people are nude and you have to be 18 to go and see those movies. In US if you are 18 you are considered an adult and you can drive, you can vote but you can’t drink alcohol.
Let’s talk about … The State of Illinois!
Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, is famous for several things. The most important thing that Illinois is known for is the city of Chicago which is one of the largest cities in the USA. It is located in the very north part of the state and it’s actually located by a big lake called Lake Michigan. There are five lakes that are called the Great lakes between Canada and USA.
Chicago is called the windy city because of the breeze coming from Lake Michigan and is also famous for its food particularly for the barbecued ribs, the beef ribs and the pork ribs are really delicious.
Let’s talk about … April fool’s Day!
The first of April is known in the US as April fool’s Day and this is the day when people play tricks on each other; you tell them something that isn’t true or you may also do something to them that is not very nice but other people might find funny. We call this practical joke when you, for example, may put glue on somebody’s pen so that it won’t open. It’s very funny see the person trying to open the pen and being puzzled.
April fool’s Day is kind of a popular tradition in US and in several countries and it’s very famous.
Minnesota is located in a very north part of the US right in the middle that is called upper mid west and it’s on the border of Canada, the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Minnesota is known for a couple of things in the US, probably one of the most famous things is that people have a very distinctive accent. There’s a movie called Fargo and it’s actually about people in Minnesota. Fargo is a city in North Dakota next to Minnesota.
The people of Minnesota have a very distinctive accent it’s usually with a lot of long "oooos". People say: Minnesooota yah, you betcha! You betcha! is an expression that you hear and people associate or relate to Minnesota. You betcha! Means you bet you, that sometimes means yes. For example if someone says: It’s raining out! You say: You betcha!
So that’s one thing that Minnesota is famous for but it’s famous for other things. The singer Bob Dylan was born and raised in Minnesota.
Minnesota is in the North so it’s very cold and it has a lot of snow and people associate Minnesota with cold weather sports such as hockey. Many of the members of Olympic hockey team come from Minnesota.
Let’s talk about … Spring Break!
Spring break is the same as spring vacation and in public and private schools, elementary schools, high schools and universities usually take at least one and sometimes two weeks of vacation. Usually one week for most schools and this a very popular time for families and for students to travel somewhere.
There has developed in the US the tradition of spring break especially for high school and college students and they usually go to somewhere warm like a beach and quite honestly they do a lot of party; they do a lot of drinking, dancing and things that go with that and it’s been something of a problem in some places because the high school students and college students will get sometimes very rowdy making a lot of noise yelling , screaming and many of the places where these students go for spring break sometimes have problems with the police.
Typically the spring break is related to Easter and passes over seasons and some of the popular places where students like to go are Florida, Orlando, Miami, and Daytona Beach or Palm Beach where they like to rest sitting on the sun getting a tan. There are other places they like to go, as for example, California going to San Diego and sometimes even to Los Angeles. They also like to go to some resorts in Mexico like Cancun, Acapulco. Mexico is very popular for students because in Mexico you only have to be 18 years old to drink alcohol legally instead of being 21like in the US so if the student likes to drink and they usually do, Mexico is the best to have fun.
Let’s talk about … The Movie Rating System!
In US there is an association called MPAA that is supposed to tell people who want to go see the movie, what kind of movie and what age this movie is appropriated for.
The rating system uses letters to classify movies and it begins with G for general and a G rated movie is a movie that anyone can go see; it’s ok for children, for adults, no problems any age can go see these movies so cartoons, for example, are usually G rated.
The next rating is PG and PG stands for Parental Guidance. Here the parents should be careful about taking especially young children to this movie.
The next is PG 13 and it’s a movie that anyone under thirteen should see because it may cause a problem so parents should think very carefully about weather taking their children to see it. There are maybe sexual content in the movie, there are maybe very violent or some vulgar or dirty language, those are sort of things that would give a movie a PG 13.
The next rating is an R and R is for restricted. This means that anyone under the age 18 needs to have a parent or an adult to go with them because R rated movie is the most violent, the most mature scenes and ideas and language.
The next rating which is Unseen 17, no one under eighteen can go see these movies even if their parents are with them and says it’s ok and these are movies that there are strong sexual or violent scenes; they are not pornographic movies that are rated as X rated movies, but people are nude and you have to be 18 to go and see those movies. In US if you are 18 you are considered an adult and you can drive, you can vote but you can’t drink alcohol.
Let’s talk about … The State of Illinois!
Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, is famous for several things. The most important thing that Illinois is known for is the city of Chicago which is one of the largest cities in the USA. It is located in the very north part of the state and it’s actually located by a big lake called Lake Michigan. There are five lakes that are called the Great lakes between Canada and USA.
Chicago is called the windy city because of the breeze coming from Lake Michigan and is also famous for its food particularly for the barbecued ribs, the beef ribs and the pork ribs are really delicious.
Let’s talk about … April fool’s Day!
The first of April is known in the US as April fool’s Day and this is the day when people play tricks on each other; you tell them something that isn’t true or you may also do something to them that is not very nice but other people might find funny. We call this practical joke when you, for example, may put glue on somebody’s pen so that it won’t open. It’s very funny see the person trying to open the pen and being puzzled.
April fool’s Day is kind of a popular tradition in US and in several countries and it’s very famous.
Let's Talk About...
Let’s talk about … Interjections!
Interjections are words like "geez", "aha" and they express some sort of strong emotion.
We can say Geez!, Man!, Whoa!, if I am really surprised with something.
If we make a mistake or if we do something wrong but not serious we say: Oops!
When we are reacting to something we don’t like, something that’s bad, ugly or negative we say: Ugh!
When we want to scare someone we say: Boo! We say that word boo and we are supposed to scare someone.
Aha! is what you say when you find a solution to solve a problem that you were working on it. Aha! I have the solution. We can also use that word when we are talking to someone and we think they are not telling the truth and so when we ask them questions and they finally tell us the truth we may say: Aha! Now I understand.
The word duh! is used when we want to say that something is obvious.
Oh-oh! You say oh-oh!; When something goes wrong, when someone makes a mistake. It’s a sign that something bad has happened.
Ouch! You say ouch when you hurt yourself; you may cut yourself or hit your hand against the table accidentally and you hurt.
Whew! You make that sound when you are relieved; when something bad was going to happen but it doesn’t happen so you say whew as a relief.
Brr! You say it when you are cold.
D’oh! It’s said when you feel stupid, for example, you can say: I forgot to turn it on. D’oh!
It’s something you say when you do something stupid or something wrong and what you did was not very smart or intelligent.
Interjections are words like "geez", "aha" and they express some sort of strong emotion.
We can say Geez!, Man!, Whoa!, if I am really surprised with something.
If we make a mistake or if we do something wrong but not serious we say: Oops!
When we are reacting to something we don’t like, something that’s bad, ugly or negative we say: Ugh!
When we want to scare someone we say: Boo! We say that word boo and we are supposed to scare someone.
Aha! is what you say when you find a solution to solve a problem that you were working on it. Aha! I have the solution. We can also use that word when we are talking to someone and we think they are not telling the truth and so when we ask them questions and they finally tell us the truth we may say: Aha! Now I understand.
The word duh! is used when we want to say that something is obvious.
Oh-oh! You say oh-oh!; When something goes wrong, when someone makes a mistake. It’s a sign that something bad has happened.
Ouch! You say ouch when you hurt yourself; you may cut yourself or hit your hand against the table accidentally and you hurt.
Whew! You make that sound when you are relieved; when something bad was going to happen but it doesn’t happen so you say whew as a relief.
Brr! You say it when you are cold.
D’oh! It’s said when you feel stupid, for example, you can say: I forgot to turn it on. D’oh!
It’s something you say when you do something stupid or something wrong and what you did was not very smart or intelligent.
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