I think I would knock on their door and explained

6. Work in groups. Discuss what you would do or say in each situation.
(Làm theo nhóm. Thảo luận những gì bạn sẽ làm hoặc nói trong mỗi tình huống sau đây.)
1. Your neighbours littered near your house.
(Hàng xóm của bạn xả rác gần nhà bạn.)
2. Your friend wore headphones every day to listen to music.
(Bạn của bạn đeo tai nghe mỗi ngày để nghe nhạc.)
3. Your brother dumped his clothes and school things on the floor.
(Em trai bạn vứt quần áo và đồ dùng học tập trên sàn nhà.)
4. Your sister had a bath every day.
(Chị gái bạn tắm bồn mỗi ngày.)
Gợi ý:
A: If my neighbours littered near my house, I would write them a letter explaining that it was making the neighbourhood dirty.
B: Oh, I would put a large sign up saying ‘No littering’.
C: I think I would knock on their door and explain that it was polluting the area.

"And, mind ye, there's nae knocking at the door possible, when I've got the tray in baith my hands, and mairs the pity, the gout in baith my feet." With that friendly warning, Mr.

"I am certain there is somebody knocking at the Door." (said my Mother.) "I think there must," (replied my Father) "I fancy the servants are returned; (said I) I think I hear Mary going to the Door." "I'm glad of it (cried my Father) for I long to know who it is."

All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince's father, went out himself to open it.

Masterson made his debut for Connacht last weekend against Scarlets just a few weeks after knocking at the door in the Sportsground looking for a trial.

in the meantime the watchman came knocking at the door after my husband phoned him," she said.

McClaren doesn't feel Johnson is knocking at the door for inclusion, he feels the pint-sized assassin is threatening to kick it down.

"Although the vast majority of children simply want to enjoy Halloween, some see it as an opportunity to obtain money or gifts and take exception to being turned away He said complaints about anti-social behaviour traditionally rise at this time of year and warned youngsters that repeatedly disturbing residents by knocking at the door or ringing the bell is committing an offence.

1. To present (itself) as a possibility or (usually desirable) opportunity in the near future, especially temporarily. It was hard leaving my parents and all my friends from high school, but when an opportunity to attend school in Europe knocked on the door, I knew I had to seize the chance. What would you do if the chance to make half a million dollars was suddenly knocking on the door?

2. To try to become involved in some group or venture. If that kid is knocking on the door, you better let him join the team—he's really talented.

3. To be close to overtaking a competitor. Philly still sits atop the division, but Boston is knocking on the door with this win streak.

It would seem at is the version of on which is reflected in the idiomatic "on and on." At suggests a repeated knocking in that it is the less formally appropriate of the choices.

On the door, formality being that which is carried out and satisfies convention and common etiquette, is the more formal.

At the door, connoting almost a barrage, an attack in this sense if the specificity of location of the blow/s on the door is taken into account, suggests more than one and more also in sentiment, more than one tap.

The colloquial evidence stands in support of this distinction--he's at it again, a British idiomatic use of at, would well continue this described and eventful appearance of the stranger, although admittedly comically.

Nevertheless the comical spirit of this use of at in the English language is in fact seriously comical and appreciated in its fullest caricatural presentation of an act when comically serious.

This is, as a lot of linguistic and terminological analysis in language is, boiled down to a little bit of personal and intuitive experience taking the lead, yet a lot of common sense. Language is afterall in-built, and its rules are too!

Both 'knock at the door' and 'knock on the door' are correct. Your choice of preposition depends on what you would like to communicate.

A knock **at the door **means a knock around the door area or in the direction of the door. This seems to refer to the general direction from which the knock is coming.

There is **a knock on the door ** = there is someone or something that is banging or hitting on the door, producing the knocking sound. Here the focus is on the door as an object. The act of knocking is being done to the door and not the window or roof.

The phrase "knock on the door" usually uses "knock" as a verb. Knocking on a door is using the knuckles of the hand to hit a door to get the attention of someone on the other side of the door. The phrase "knock at the door" uses "knock" as a noun. A knock at the door is the sound that someone hears when another person hits a door with their knuckles.

• He knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer.
• You have to knock on the door because the doorbell is broken.
• He walked up to the door and knocked (on it).
• She heard someone knocking (on the door), so she opened it to see who was there.

• He was startled by a knock at the door. [=he was startled by the sound of someone knocking]
• They were just settling in for the night when they heard a knock at the door.
• They heard a loud knock at the door from the living room.
• She heard a knock at the door, so she opened it to see who was there.

Sometimes "knock on the door" is used like "knock at the door" where "knock" is a noun, but this is less common.

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