Dasha_O_Manners


 * Manners**

**I' ve learned Kalmyk Social Taboos in school. But now I can't remember all of them. As Marina mentioned, kalmyk girls and women mustn't cross arms on the chest, behind them. Also when you sit at the table you musn't put your hands on chin.And after marriage kalmyk woman must wear shawl on her head.**
 * Kalmyk Social Taboos **

**My communication skills**
=== I think that communication skills are very important. In any social situation sometimes I don’t know how to behave. For example when I give a ten- minute presentation to a group of fifteen or twenty people. I try to concentrate and to make my speech interesting .But it’s useless. I began to stumble over my words, I blush and my hands shake. I feel stiff and uncomfortable. And if I forget any word I dry up and not able to think of anything to say. I try to improve my communication skills. === **The Dictionary entries I used:** [] []

Social situation where I didn't know what to do.
**I had an awkward situation not so long ago. On holiday I went with my boyfriend to visit his grandmother. He wanted to introduce me to her. I felt myself very nervous and didn’t want to seem from bad side. I really wanted her to like me. When we came at first everything was great. She seemed to me very nice old lady and all would be okay if she hadn’t begun to speak with me in kalmyk. She said something very quickly and looked at me. I was confused because I didn’t understand what she wanted from me. I looked at my boyfriend but he just shrugged. In very that moment both of us didn’t know what to say. It was terrible!**


 * I //think manners between men and women have dropped so sharply. As I am a woman I want to notice how men’s attitudes become worth to women. Today it is very unusual and sometimes unexpectedly when man holds the door to a woman. And for example in restaurant they don’t help you to put off the coat and remove your chair to sit. I see how man speaks roughly with the women. And the most sorrowful is that they don’t want to carry on, to give flowers and to make good impression.// **

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 * While writing I was practise my dictionary skills. **

[] [] http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/To-have-a-romantic-or-sexual-relationship

//My parents taught me to give up my seat to an old people.// //My parents told me to say thank you.// //My parents taught me to be polite not only with adults but also with contemporaries.// //I havn't a habit to speak loudly in public places.// //My parents never allowed me iberty and forwardness in gesticulation and behavior.// //I never use humiliating nicknames.//