วันศุกร์ที่ 12 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Reading Skill


Reading Skill

         This topic of news is about extorting money out of tourists, go to jail. Vendor sells tourist flowers, sticks something else in tourist's hand, later vendor demands more money, threatens, surrounds tourist, until they pay.

         Keng Santhanabool and three companions sold three garlands to a woman at 90 baht each, or 270 baht in total. The four men followed the woman when she went to light the candles and handed her 18 cigars. She took them and offered them to the statue. As she was about the leave, the four men demanded she pay another 360 baht for the cigars. She at first refused, as she thought that the cigars were included in the price paid at the beginning. The four men surrounded and heckled her, so she finally decided to pay the money -- and then called the police to arrest them. At the police station, the men offered to pay 10,000 baht compensation, but the woman declined to accept the money and took the case to court.

       I think, in Thailand has many tourists which they come to Thailand because for work or for travelling so Thai people should receive visitors by kindness.

 

 
Vocabulary
 
 
Pronounce
 
Meaning
 
extort
ex • tort
   / ɪkstɔrt /
  verb
to make sb give you sth by threatening them
 
tourist
 
tour • ist
/ tɔrɪst /
noun
 
 
a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure
 
refuse
 
re • fuse  
/ rɪfjuz /
  verb
to say that you will not do sth that sb has asked you to do
 
heckle
 
heckle
/ hekl /
  verb
 
(sb) to interrupt a speaker at a public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks

 


 

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