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Are you good at complaining? Listen to 6 Minute English

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When a company's service is not to your satisfaction, how do you complain? What's the best way to get what you want? And when has complaining been completely futile? Sam and Rob discuss people's readiness to complain and teach you vocabulary. This week's question: The oldest recorded complaint is on a stone tablet in the British Museum. Its nearly 4000 years old. What was the complaint about? a) An incorrect number of goats that were delivered after being bought at market. b) The quality of copper bars that were supplied. c) The non-payment of a bill for a banquet. Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary: a sector an area of business within the economy, for example: the telecommunications sector inherent a natural part of something, usually a difficulty or risk, that cant be avoided to perform if a company is performing well, it is being successful dominant strongest, most used to escalate (adj, noun: escalation) to take something to a higher level, for example to escalate a complaint if you are not satisfied with the first response to deal with (a problem or complaint) to try to fix a problem or resolve a complaint You'll find audio and text for download on our website
Date: 2020-09-18

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Comments and reviews: 8

Nawar
We are humans, so we are used to complaining about anything that looks wrong.
I think that public services, in all countries, occupy number one of not getting people satisfied.
I think the main reason that makes people complain is not having enough money isn't it?.
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Claudio
This programme is the best, amazing! I am using it every day to better my english skills. Could you provide the way to possibility print the text ? it will helps to highlight new words and to carry it everywhere to study.
Thanks so much!
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quang
hello i've studied English for 4 months . you spoke so fast that i can't heard about that .
using grammar i don't understood that is some one bought a load of goats and fewer are delivered than were bought ????
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rania
I can't find any new video about pronunciation in the news, I love those videos very much because they are very useful ....
Please add more and more video of them
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Sdb
what does this mean ? pls
what does that /(sth) say about (sth/someone) ?
ihear this a lot and i don't get what it means when i hear it ...
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Amber
I really like 6 minute english videos but if you could manage to provide English subtitle in these videos it would be great...
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Anjulijo
I had a terrible experience last week when we went to a restaurant for dinner. We waited there for 1 hour to get our food.
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Ira
Nice your voice, you speak clearly even there are many vocabularies I didn't understand what of meaning, thank you so much!
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