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  • Are you invited for a party, then what English terms that you can use to be a great guest?

  • Well that’s what we are gonna learn in today’s lesson.

  • Hello friends, it’s me Niharika

  • again with a new lesson for you, well in today’s lesson we are gonna look at some polite English

  • terms that you can use in order to be a great guest. Well lucky you of you are invited for

  • a party. It doesn’t matter if the host is a great host or just all right? But it’s

  • important for you to be a great guest because if you are invited somewhere, it’s nice

  • to be really polite to the people that you are meeting. So what are the English phrases

  • that you can use when you go to someone’s house or to a social occasion? Well let’s

  • have a look. The very first thing, the moment you get there, at the party, you would say,

  • Thank you for inviting me.” So the hosts are there to welcome you and they say, “Hello!

  • Welcome.” So you would say that, “Hey, thank you for inviting me.” Okay? So that’s

  • the first polite expression that you should use. So basically you are thanking them for

  • inviting you over for the party, all right? Now also make sure that you be on time. Now

  • if the party time is 7:00 pm, so be there at least by 7:30, okay? So not too early and

  • not too late, just about the same time that has been given to you and thank them for inviting

  • you over, okay? So this is the first expression that you would use. Now what’s the next

  • thing that you can do? Well if you look at some phrases here, ‘here are some flowers

  • for youorhere is a small token of love for you’. Now when you are invited

  • for a party and when you get there, it’s nice to take a small thing a small gift for

  • the person who’s hosting the party. Now it’s not to be a very elaborated gift or

  • it doesn’t have to be very, very expensive gift but it can be just a bottle of wine or

  • may be some beautiful flowers or probably just a small thoughtful gift but yes make

  • sure that you just don’t go to the party empty hand you take a small token of love

  • for the person who is hosting the party. And when you are gifting this to the person these

  • are the expressions that you would use. You can either say if you are carrying these beautiful

  • flowers, then you would say, “Here are some flowers for you.” Or if you are carrying

  • a gift or a bottle of wine, then you would say, “Here is a small token of love for

  • you.” So make sure to carry a thoughtful gift, all right? Now what’s the next thing

  • that you do? Well you would compliment. It’s always nice to pass on certain compliments

  • for the person who’s hosting the party. Now you can compliment on anything, if you

  • really like the house, then you would say, “Wow! What a beautiful house you have.”

  • Or you can just compliment, on the dress or on the suit that the host is wearing, “Wow!

  • You look great.” “You look gorgeous.” “Wow! Look at you, you are looking so handsome.”

  • Okay? So these are the certain compliments that you can give, that would make that person

  • feel really nice. So after thanking that person and giving a thoughtful gift to that person,

  • it’s time to compliment. And how do you do that? What are the exact words that you

  • can use in English? Well here few examples for you, ‘your home is beautifulokay,

  • so you really liked the house, it’s just amazingly decorated and you loved the feel

  • of the house, so you would sayyour house is beautiful’. And if you like the way the

  • party has been well arranged, then again appreciate, ‘how amazingly you have arranged the party

  • okay? So again it’s a big compliment for the person because that person has worked

  • hard and has tried to make all the arrangements for the party so it’s time for you to appreciate

  • that or you can compliment the dress that the host is wearing, all right? So certain

  • compliments and that should just do fine. Moving on to the next thing that you need

  • to do is, appreciate the food that you are eating. When you go to a party, people really

  • put in efforts to either cook or order food from outside and they try to serve the best

  • of drinks and the best of food to their guests, right? So even, just in case you haven’t

  • liked the food, well don’t say it, “Ooh, this food is absolutely unpalatable.” Well

  • that’s rude. You would not do that. Whether or not you liked the food, whether or not

  • you liked the drinks that have been served to you, well it’s important for you to be

  • nice and appreciate the food that’s been served. So the exact words that you could

  • use in English in order to do so is, “Ah! The food is heavenly.” Okay, so these are

  • certain adjectives for you that you can use. ‘The food is heavenlyorThe food

  • is absolutely divineokay? So you are indulging yourself into great food that’s laid on

  • the table and you are loving it and you are gonna appreciate by saying thatthe food

  • is absolutely divineor you can saythe food is absolutely scrumptious’. Okay so

  • you are enjoying the food that you are eating so you are gonna say, ‘that the food is

  • scrumptious’. So these are just the common adjectives that you can use to describe the

  • taste of the food that’s been served to you. And if you have to talk about drinks

  • or alcohol that’s been served, then you can use adjectives like, “Well this drink

  • is so amazing.” OrThis drink is absolutely refreshing.” Okay so these are the certain

  • adjectives that you can use to describe a nice drink that’s been served, all right?

  • So after appreciating the food and after you have really enjoyed the party, you had a great,

  • great time, you met people, you socialized, now it’s time to leave so, when it’s time

  • to leave, what are the expressions that you could use? Well you can say, “Thanks for

  • your hospitality.” So you really enjoyed the way the host treated you, the way they

  • were taking care of you, so this great hospitality, so a perfect English Expression that you could

  • use, to do so is, ‘Thanks for your hospitalityor you can say, ‘thanks for the lovely evening’.

  • Of course you had a great time, well if it was not this party, you would have been sitting

  • in your house or lying on the couch and watching TV, so that’s boring, right? So appreciate

  • that, ‘thanks for the lovely eveningso these are certain polite expressions that

  • you can use when get to a party. Let’s just quickly revise them, when you get there for

  • the party, the first thing that you do is thank the person for having you there, ‘so

  • thank you for inviting me’. The next thing that you do is to carry a thoughtful gift.

  • So you are giving a gift to that person, ‘here are some flowers for youorhere is

  • a small token of love for you’. What’s the next thing that you do is compliment.

  • Your home is beautiful’, ‘how amazingly you have arranged the party’, so you try

  • and use different expressions to compliment and then appreciate the food that you are

  • eating, ‘the food is heavenly’, ‘the food is absolutely divineorthe food

  • is scrumptious’, Okay? So this describes that yes, you are enjoying the meal way too

  • much and the last thing that you do that is when you are leaving the party is, ‘thanks

  • for your hospitalityoaky, youre being nice andthanks for the lovely evening’,

  • okay? So either of these two you can use. So go enjoy a party and be a great guest and

  • the next time you are attending a party, let me know how did it go? And I’ll be back

  • with a new lesson soon, till then you take care.

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