Whatever Happened to Manners?

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Whatever Happened to Manners?
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• Background information
• Text analysis
• Part one ( para 1)
• Part two ( para 2-4)
• Part three ( para 5-10)
• Part four ( para 11)
• After-class reading

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Manner Manners

• Manner formal, the way in which something is
  done or happens
• manner of (doing) something
• It seemed rather an odd manner of deciding
  things.
• He felt some guilt over the manner of her death.

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• Manners plural polite ways of behaving in
  social situations
• have good/bad manners it's good/bad manners to do
  something
• perfect/impeccable manners table manners (the
  polite way of eating at a table)
• mind your manners (used to tell someone to
  behave politely)
• somebody has no manners (someone often behaves
  in a way that is not polite)
• remember forget / your manners
• where are your manners?

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Good manners

• speak gently in public, say thank you when
  others do you a favor, say excuse me when you
  bother others,
• table manners eat softly, quietly
• Help the weak, the poor, the old, the disabled,
  do not laugh at others, being punctual

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Class manners
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Class manners
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Table manners
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Q A

• 1. Q. Is it considered rude to take a sip of your
  drink while still chewing?
• Answer
• It is considered good manners to wait until you
  have finished chewing and have swallowed your
  food before taking a sip of your beverage.

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• 2. QIs it proper for a woman to apply lipstick
  at the table after a meal?
• Answer
• It is appropriate for a woman to excuse herself
  and apply lipstick in a private area such as a
  restroom.

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• 3. Q. Should you dismiss yourself from the table
  if you need to sneeze or blow your nose?
• Answer
• Yes, excuse yourself from the table, and at no
  time should you use your napkin as a
  handkerchief.

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• 4. Q. Who pays the bill when dining out?
• Answer
• When entertaining a guest, such as when out for
  dinner or cocktails, the person who extended the
  invitation (regardless of gender) is responsible
  for paying the bill.

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• 5. Q When you have some food in your mouth that
  you dont want to swallow, what should you do?
• Answer
• Move the food forward with your tongue onto the
  fork and place it back on the side of your plate.

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Bad manners

• stare at others, never use polite words, bad
  table manners, do not respect others and their
  behavior, talk loudly in public, spit, litter
  everywhere, spy on others privacy

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Bad manners?
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In Shanghai
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In Disney
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On Campus
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Picking nose in public
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Writing style

• Narration ( )
• Description ( )
• Exposition ( )
• Argumentation ( )
• This essay is a piece of argumentation on the
  necessity and significance of good manners.

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• 1. Whats the typical feature of an
  argumentation?
• 2. How to organize an argumentation?
• In the beginning part the writer puts forward his
  viewpoint.
• Then he illustrates his viewpoint with specific
  examples he witnesses in New York.

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• In the last paragraph, the writer concludes that
  good manners are infectious and indicates his
  sincere wish.
• The text is featured by the ingenuous use of a
  variety of sentences as well as of proper words
  and phrases.
• Writing technique metaphorical expressions
  (metaphor, simile, rhetorical question)

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Structural Analysis

• Part 1(Para 1) Beginning
• Part 2(Para 2-4) One cannot be truly stylish
  without good manners.
• Part 3(Para 5-10) The writer states and expounds
  the great power of some typical good manners.
• Part 4(Para 11) Conclusion

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Part 1

• 1. Which sentences in Part 1 imply that in a
  general sense, people in the present age are less
  friendly than people in the past?
• The first two sentences of the first para.
• 2. What impolite examples of New York people are
  showed?

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Get away

• 1) succeed in leaving
• The meeting dragged on, and I didn't get away
  until seven.
• 2) escape, esp. from the scene of a crime
• We knew it wouldn't be easy to get away from
  the police.
• get away with murder informal to not be punished
  for doing something wrong
• Some of those children get away with murder!

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• ???,????,???????????
• Im sorry Im late I was at a meeting and
  couldnt get away.

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Elevator ( AmE)
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Lift ( Br E)
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escalator
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wave
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appreciation

• pleasure you feel when you realize something is
  good, useful, or well done
• a feeling of being grateful for something someone
  has done
• an understanding of the importance or meaning of
  something
• a realistic appreciation of the situation

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• ?????,??????????????????,????????????
• At the concert whenever a singer finished singing
  a beautiful song, the audience would burst into
  loud cheers to show their appreciation.

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pull out

• to drive onto a road from another road or from
  where you have stopped
• Don't pull out! There's something coming.
• to drive over to a different part of the road in
  order to get past a vehicle in front of you
• I pulled out to overtake a bus.
• if a train pulls out, it leaves a station ? pull
  in

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Part 2( paragraph2-4)

• In these three para. The writer puts forward and
  bears out the following viewpoint you cannot be
  truly stylish without good manners good manners
  are a sort of hidden beauty secret and adds
  pricelessly to your image.
• According to the author, how do good manners
  build your image?

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• No matter how nicely you dress, how beautiful you
  decorate your homes, or how lovely your dinner
  parties are, you cant be truly stylish without
  good manners.
• How do you understand that we cant be truly
  without good manners?

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• If we do not show good manners, we cannot be said
  to be really stylish even though we wear the most
  stylish clothes, or decorate our homes most
  stylishly.

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Nice dress
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Beautiful decoration
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Lovely dinner party
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stylish

• ?????????,?????????,?????????
• As a stylish dresser, she is always wearing
  stylish clothes, but she seldom cares about what
  she eats or drinks.
• stylish in manner/ an elegantly stylish suit
• A fashion stylist/a first-rate hair stylist/a
  polished stylist (designer)

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Matter/hidden beauty

• But something like a simple Thank you can count
  a great deal.
• I regard good manners as a kind of concealed
  magic method or formula which makes you beautiful.

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Cary Grant ( 1904-1986)
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• British-born US film star, renowned for his
  performance as the handsome, suave ( gracious,
  smooth), and slightly bemused (confused)
  man-about-town in a host of film.
• A big star for decades, he seemed to get better
  with age. Notorious/ To Catch a Thief

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Notorious ( Ingrid Bergman)
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To catch a thief
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Lauren Becall ( 1924-)

• US film actress noted for her husky( hoarse)
  voice and smoldering ( burning) screen presence.
  Taking dancing for 13 yrs, then model, marriage
  with Bogart for 12 yrs in Hollywood, Broadway for
  Tony award, Murder on the Orient Express, on
  stage and in TV with great success.

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With Bogart
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To have or not to have
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Best selling autobiography
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right

• Immediately, at once
• They are going to close the Music Hall after
  Easter.
• In a straight line, directly
• After breakfast the children went right to
  school.
• Exactly, just
• The accident happened right to school.

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gracious

• behaving in a polite, kind, and generous way,
  especially to people of a lower rank
• She was gracious enough to accept his
  encouragement.
• It was gracious of you to bear us in mind.
• Be gracious to/towards everyone you meet.
• ????,???,???,???

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• gracious (me)!/good gracious!/goodness gracious!
  old-fashioned used to express surprise or to
  emphasize 'yes' or 'no
• having the kind of expensive style, comfort, and
  beauty that only rich people can afford
• a gracious manor house(??)
• a magazine about gracious living

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graceful

• moving in a smooth and attractive way, or having
  an attractive shape or form
• Her movements were graceful and elegant.
• The branches formed a graceful curve.
• behaving in a polite and pleasant way
• Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners.

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graceful

• ???,?????
• She is graceful in manner/ speech.
• The bride was as graceful as a swam when she
  walked down the aisle with the bridgroom.

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panache

• A stylish manner to do things that causes
  admiration and seems to be without any difficulty
• With great panache he pulled the tablecloth off
  the table without disturbing any of the plates
  and glasses.
• They played and sang with great panache.

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Part 3( para 5-10)

• The writer states and expounds the great power of
  some typical good manners he proposes upon those
  on the receiving end. Also, he reasonably
  explains and vividly illustrates the good effects
  polite manners have on our family members.

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• Para 5 to exemplify Thank you
• Para 6 advice a delayed note is better than
  nothing
• Para 7 to illustrate the power of excuse me
• Para 8 be helpful, be punctual
• Para 9-10 good manners with family members

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• What good manners does the writer suggest that we
  should display?
• Do you agree with the writer that good manners
  with our families count the most? Justify your
  reply.

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• Good manners count the most among the family
  members because those are the people we love the
  most and cherish the most. We all want our family
  members to feel nice and comfortable. We all tend
  to show our affectionate concern for our dear
  ones. That is natural. And naturally, good
  manners matter the most among family members.

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do wonders for

• Work wonders for
• Create wonders for
• Be quite successful in
• The medicine will do wonders for your depression.
• ????????????????????
• the doctors have done wonders for your hear
  disease.

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host

• Mr Brown was our host at the party.
• ?????????????
• "The host team and the guest team won each of the
  games, so they were even with each other."
• "?????????,??????????
• a host country/city ???

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recipe

• a set of instructions for cooking a particular
  type of food
• recipe for a recipe for tomato soup
• a recipe book
• be a recipe for something to be likely to cause
  a particular result, often a bad one
• She said that five small boys on skis was a
  recipe for disaster, not a holiday.

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compliment

• a remark that shows you admire someone or
  something, express your praise.
• Please accept these tickets with our compliments.
• to say something nice to someone in order to
  praise them
• compliment somebody on something
• Bob complimented me on my new hairstyle.
• The groom was so nervous he forgot to compliment
  the bridesmaids.

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• When awarding the prize, the chairman
  complimented the winner on his great contribution
  to mankind.

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terrific

• very good, especially in a way that makes you
  feel happy and excited great
• That's a terrific idea!
• very good excellent, fantastic, wonderful,
  great, terrific, neat(AmE) superb, amazing,
  outstanding, brilliant, impressive, fine,
  first-class, out of this world
• of good quality high quality, top quality,
  superior, deluxe, classy
• morally good decent, virtuous, respectable,
  honourable/honorable, upright, beyond reproach

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• It was a delightful or pleasant gesture that
  makes me feel very good and put me in an ecstatic
  state of mind./ It was something very nice that
  delight me immensely and made me feel wonderful.
• Mood the state of feelings or mind at a
  particular time

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• He's in one of his moods. ??????
• a man of moods ??????
• be in a mood ?????, ???
• be in no mood for sth.to do sth.
• ?????, ?????
• be in the a mood for sth. to do sth.
• ???? ???????
• be in a melting mood ????, ????
• be in the melting mood ?????, ????

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I bet./You bet.

• used to say that you are fairly sure that
  something is true, something is happening etc,
  although you cannot prove this
• I bet you she won't come.
• used to show that you do not believe what someone
  has just told you
• 'I'm definitely going to give up smoking this
  time.' 'Yeah, I bet!
• you bet! Spoken used to emphasize that you agree
  with someone or are keen to do what they suggest
• 'Going to the party on Saturday?' ' You bet!'

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A carry-on bag( for passenger)
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barrel

• a large curved container with a flat top and
  bottom, made of wood or metal, and used for
  storing beer, wine etc

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Barrel (verb)

• American English informal
• to move very fast, especially in an uncontrolled
  way
• A vehicle barreled out of a shopping center and
  crashed into the side of my car.

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aisle
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aisle
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genuine

• someone who is genuine is honest and friendly and
  you feel you can trust them
• the genuine article something that is real and
  is not a copy intended to deceive people
• a genuine feeling, desire etc is one that you
  really feel, not one you pretend to feel
  sincere

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Melt away

• Cause something to disappear by melting or
  dissolving
• The sun has melt the snow away.
• All his support melted away when we really needed
  it.
• His anger has melted away in a second.
• ?????,??????????
• The crowd of demonstrators melted away when the
  police arrived.

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irritation

• the feeling of being annoyed about something,
  especially something that happens repeatedly or
  for a long time
• The heavy traffic is a constant source of
  irritation. irritation at/with
• something that makes you annoyed
• The children are just an irritation for him when
  he's trying to work.
• a throat irritation

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Rhetorical question

• It need not to be answered and in a falling tone.
  A negative rhetorical question is close in
  meaning to but more powerful in tone than a
  positive statement. This means it does indeed
  melt away most---if not all, of the irritation
  you felt. After you hear the genuine apologize,
  your irritation will naturally disappear.

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bellman
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• a wee bit (infml.) a little bit rather
• He is not feeling a wee bit drunk, though he has
  been drinking quite a lot of alcohol.
• Wee very small - used especially in Scottish
  English My wee boy is three.
• the wee (small) hours American English the early
  hours of the morning, just after 12 o'clock at
  night

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punctuality

• punctual adj. ??????
• She is always punctual, but her friend is always
  late.
• punctual for the class ?????
• punctual in answering letter ????
• Punctuality n. ????, ??

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• ?????????,????shi?????,??????????
• Since punctuality is a good habit, we should pay
  much attention to it and make great efforts to
  cultivate this good habit.

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count

• vt., vi.1) ????
• to count from 1 to 100
• 2)???????
• Count these apples.
• 3) ??????
• count it an honor (to do sth.) (????)????
• 4)???????
• Every second counts. ?????????

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cherish

• ???? ????(?? )
• He cherished the memory of his departed youth.(?)
• ????????????????
• cherish fond dreams of
• ?...???
• cherish a deep love for ??

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routine

• the usual order in which you do things, or the
  things you regularly do
• John's departure had upset their daily routine.
• my daily exercise routine
• Dressing is a task which we do every day as a
  matter of routine (done regularly and not
  unusual).
• a set of movements, jokes etc that form part of a
  performance
• A dance routine

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• Take the person for granted be so familiar with
  the other person ( your spouse) that you no
  longer appreciate his or her full value treat
  the other person with little attention or
  concern not recognize his or her value.
• We must not take our family members for granted.

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Part 4

• This is the concluding paragraph in which the
  writer advances his opinion that good manners are
  infectious and expresses his sincere wish that
  everyone would be polite and show good manners.

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• 1. Do you believe that good manners are
  infectious? Exemplify your answer.
• If parents have good manners, their children will
  follow suit and behave politely.
• 2. Is it possible for anyone and everyone to show
  good manners?
• It takes time and calls for much education.

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infectious

• an infectious illness can be passed from one
  person to another, especially through the air you
  breathe
• infectious diseases/Flu is highly infectious.
• infectious feelings or laughter spread quickly
  from one person to another
• an infectious smile/ infectious enthusiasm

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• Good manners are easy to catch./ Good manners can
  easily be passed from one person to another./
  Good manners have favorable, impressive and very
  good influence on people.
• Now, how wonderful it would be if we were able to
  have everyone behave politely towards another.

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Shudder shake( unit one)

• Shudderto shake for a short time because you are
  afraid or cold, or because you think something is
  very unpleasant
• Shudder at/with sth./ to do sth.
• But if a vehicle or machine shudders, it shakes
  violently.

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• Shake to move suddenly from side to side or up
  and down, usually with a lot of force, or to make
  something or someone do this
• She shook him to wake him up.
• shake rattle wobble vibrate shudder
  judder jolt

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• Rattle to shake and repeatedly hit against sth.
  making continuous noise.
• Wobble it moves from side to side because it is
  not steady and or not well balanced.
• Vibrate to shake continuously with very small,
  very fast movements, eg. the effect of big noise
• Jolt move up and down with sudden large
  movements, eg. machine is not working well.

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Compliment praise

• Compliment a remark that shows you admire
  someone or something v, n, say good things about
• Praise to say that you admire and approve of
  someone or something, especially publicly ?
  criticize
• to praise someone a lot rave about, gush, sing
  somebody's praises, speak highly of
• to praise someone in an insincere way flatter,
  butter up

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• Commendation (formal) an official statement
  praising someone, especially someone who has been
  brave or very successful
• Flatterypraise that you do not really mean
• flattery will get you nowhere/everywhere used
  humorously when someone has praised you and you
  want to say that you will help them or not help
  them

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• Precioussomething that is precious is valuable
  and important and should not be wasted or used
  without care precious stone
• Pricelessworth so much money, it is impossible
  to calculate the price, esp old and rare things,
  house/painting

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• Notice if you notice something or someone, you
  realize that they exist, especially because you
  can see, hear, or feel them
• See means to notice something with your eyes,
  either deliberately or accidentally
• Watch means to deliberately pay attention to
  something for quite a long time( moving)
• When you look at something, you deliberately turn
  your eyes towards it in order to see it.

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• Other the second of two used to refer to the
  second of two people or things, which is not the
  one you already have or the one you have already
  mentioned
• some ... others
• When other is used before a noun, it never has an
  's' We visited other places (NOT others places).
• Another one more person or thing of the same type

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Thank you!