Thanking and Responding Thanking.
There are many ways to say thank you and to say gratitude. There are many ways to respond thank you. You're welcome has been very common to respond it. Somehow there are many ways to respond thank you as like:
- You got it
- Don’t mention it
- No worries
- Not a problem
- My pleasure
- It was nothing
- I’m happy to help
- Not at all
- Sure
- Anytime
In this dialogue is an example of how people saying thankfulness and how to respond it.
YOU ARE MY BESTIE
Rina : Hi Anna,
you look awful. What is the matter?
Anna : No….nothing
Rina : Are you
sure? Is there anything you want to share me? I am listening.
Anna : This is a
bit tough for me.
Rina : Tough for
you? About what? What is burdening you now?
Anna : I think
you know that next two days is tuition dead
line. I had the money yesterday, but when I was about to pay it, my mother got sick. She got
typhus, and she must be hospitalized.
Rina : I am
sorry to hear that, Anna. Is your mother at the hospital now?
Anna : Yeah, she
will go home as soon as she gets better, and I have no idea when it is. I have
no idea how I pay the tuition either.
Rina : I wanted
to help you, if you don’t mind. Just use mine. I have paid mine and I have a
small amount of it. I think it is a half from the tuition. You just need to
think the rest.
Anna : Ooo Rina,
I mind it. I don’t want to bother you.
Rina : Anna,
you are not bothering me. Contrarily, I am happy to help you.
Anna : Alhamdulillah.
Rina : I am
sorry too if I just can lend you a half of the thorough number.
Anna : No, It has
been so much for me. It is very nice of you, Rina.
Rina : No need
to mention that, Anna. You are my bestie, aren’t you?
Anna : No, you
are my bestie. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate what you have done to me.
Rina : My
pleasure, Anna.
I.
Underline new words and discuss them either with
your peer or lecturer.
II.
Underline some expressions of ‘thanking’ and ‘gratitude’.
III.
Underline expression(s) of ‘giving sympathy’
IV.
Answer these questions well.
a.
What is the connection between the two speakers?
b.
Find the synonym of:
Share : …..
Tuition : …..
Tough : …..
Bother : …..
Bestie : …..
c.Would you like to do the same
(lend a big amount of money to one of friends) if you were Rina?
V.
Practice the dialogue with your peer in turn.
