Visiting someone's home: guest & host code
What guests and hosts say, from hello to the long goodbye.
Hiya! Come in, make yourself at home.
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Arriving3
Tea and gifts5
- Can I get you a drink? Tea, coffee?The host's first line, almost before your coat is off.
- Only if you're making oneA polite yes.
- How do you take it?Asks about milk and sugar.
- I've brought you a little somethingSaid when handing over wine, flowers or chocolates for a dinner or visit.
- Are you staying for tea?In much of the North, Scotland and in working-class speech, 'tea' means the evening meal.
Being a good guest4
Leaving3
Check yourself15 questions
Question 1 of 15
'Make yourself at home' means:
More packs
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- Tea, biscuits and meal namesTea orders, biscuits, and what tea, dinner and supper mean.
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- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 15 phrases.
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