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Giving and receiving compliments. Giving and receiving compliments. How do you give compliments in your home country? Tell your partner. Have you ever given someone a compliment in Canada? Tell your partner about it. What did you say? How did it go?
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Giving and receiving compliments • How do you give compliments in your home country?Tell your partner. • Have you ever given someone a compliment in Canada?Tell your partner about it. What did you say? How did it go? • Did you ever give someone a compliment and it didn’t work?
Giving and receiving compliments • Someone drops by at dinnertime. You open a can of cream of mushroom soup, add some leftover chicken and serve it on Minute Rice.Your guest says: “You’re a great cook!” • What do you think? • “I don’t think so.” • “That person is lying, or they don’t know good food.”
Giving and receiving compliments • You’re in old jeans and a T-shirt. You change into a suit for a meeting.Your co-worker says: “You are always so well dressed!” • You think: • “You should have seen me an hour ago!”
Giving and receiving compliments • You are learning how to play tennis. You can’t serve the ball. It always goes into the net, not over the net. Today you are playing with a new partner, you serve the ball and it is a great serve!Your partner says: “You have a perfect serve!” • You think: • “That won’t happen again.” • “He thinks I’m a good player. Now I’m nervous.”
Giving and receiving compliments • Sometimes saying “You are good, beautiful, or perfect” can make someone nervous. • It works better if you can describe what you see, hear, or feel: • “The colors in that necklace match your dress.” • “The meeting started and ended on time.” • “The exam covered everything we learned in class.” • “When you tell jokes I laugh and I want to come back the next day.”
Giving and receiving compliments • You try! With a partner, think of compliments you can say about the people in the picture.What can you say about the office?
Giving and receiving compliments • Now think about your teacher John.What could you say about the way that he teaches? • Have you ever gotten good service in a store or restaurant? What was good about it? Tell your partner. • How about your partner. Is there a compliment you can give to him or her?“I notice that you are on time every day and do your homework.”“You try to answer all the questions.”
Giving and receiving compliments: kids • If a child draws you a picture, NEVER try to guess what it is. Just say what you see. • Praise children and teenagers by describing what you see: • Instead of “The scarf you made me is very nice.” • Say: “Look at this deep red color and all the rows of even stitches! It’s wide and long and will keep me warm this winter.” • Instead of “Your room is clean”, what could you say?
Oh-oh • When compliments don’t work: • Male – female: what’s right, what’s wrong • Too much • Remind you of bad things in the past: “You finally wrote a good report.”“Dinner was actually good today.”“You look good today.”
Giving and receiving compliments What do you say when you receive a compliment? Thank you. Thank you very much. In Canada, men insult each other instead of compliment: “Nice haircut. Did you run into a lawn mower?” “Nah. Angry girlfriend.”
