Vocabulary
1. loudmouths -(n)-a person who brags or talks too loudly
ex. I try not to be a loudmouth, but I sometimes get carried away.
2. rebellious- (adj) defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
ex. Adolescents who start smoking do so partly because of the rebellious aura attached to it.
3. yapping -( verb-slang)-to talk shrilly, noisily, or foolishly.
ex. The woman kept on yapping even when her husband told her to shut up.
4. aggressive (adj)-vigorously energetic, especially in the use of initiative and forcefulness; making an all-out effort to win or succeed; competitive
ex. Michael Jordan is an aggressive basketball player.
5. belligerent-(adj)-of warlike character; aggressively hostile; marked by readiness to fight or argue
ex. The drunk man became belligerent when policemen arrested him
Amtrak created quiet cars in 2001 when a group of passengers who rode the Philadelphia to D.C. route every morning asked if they could reserve a car where cell-phone loudmouths weren't welcome.
Ever since, the rare havens of quiet have become a battlefield between silence-loving rule-followers and rebellious cell-phone addicts.
KOMO News reports that Lakeysha Beard says she felt "disrespected" by the incident, though passengers said it was Beard who was being rude by refusing to stop yapping while sitting in one of the train's designated quiet cars. She had not stopped talking since the train pulled out of Oakland, California, 16 hours before it reached Salem, Oregon, when a passenger confronted her about the talking. That's when Beard got "aggressive," KATU reports, and conductors stopped the train so that police could remove her and charge her with disorderly conduct.
Civilians and quiet-car champions are supporting her ejection for violating policy at high volume during the 16-hour journey. It doesn't help her cause she became belligerent when confronted about it by one of her fellow passengers.
Exercise I. Comprehension Questions
1. How did Amtrak come up with a quiet car?
2. What did Lakeysha violate?
3. “A passenger confronted her about the talking” – What does this phrase mean?
4. How did Lakeysha react on her removal from the car?
5. Explain this line: “the rare havens of quiet have become a battlefield between silence-loving rule-followers and rebellious cell-phone addicts.”
Exercise II. Your thoughts count!
1. Do you agree on Lakeysha’s ejection for violating policy? Why?
2. What is cell-phone etiquette? How do you observe cell-phone etiquette?
3. Have you ever been annoyed by someone not practicing proper cell-phone etiquete?
Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police
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