Popcorn - tasty, but noisy
When you go to the cinema, does the sound of people eating popcorn and drinking noisily really annoy you?
Movie-goers have plenty of bad habits, but what is the proper way to behave - or the etiquette -when you visit the cinema?
Rob and Neil hear about two film critics who got so annoyed with bad cinema behaviour that they drew up a list of rules of what people should and shouldn't do at the cinema, and they talk about one very badly-behaved member of the audience.
This week's question:
According to the Guinness World Records, which country was the biggest box of popcorn ever served in? Was it:
a) Finland
b) Croatia
c) The USA
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
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Cinema etiquette
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Vocabulary
- etiquette
acceptable and expected behaviour in a particular situation
- multiplex
a large building that contains many separate cinema screens
- distractions
things that stop you concentrating on something else
- auditorium
the place in a cinema or theatre where the audience sits
- surround-sound
a system of three of more loudspeakers that allows the listeners to hear realistic sound all around them
- film critic
a person who writes about or broadcasts their thoughts about films
- dual screening
watching two different screens at the same time
- bad manners
unacceptable behaviour which doesn't show respect for other people
- code of conduct
set of rules about how to behave in a certain situation
- bugbears
things that annoy or irritate you
- slurping
making a loud sucking noise when you drink something
- a big no-no
something most people don't like
