Table Manners
Is it difficult to follow good manners at the table?
What manners are the most difficult for you to follow?
Wordlist
Table Manners – манеры поведения за столом
napkin-салфетка
to wipe- вытирать
elbows- локти
mouth -рот
on your lap -на колени
outside- снаружи
inside- внутри
straight -прямо
avoid –отрицать
bone- кость
seed- семя
edge- край
polite- вежливый
stuff your mouth full- набивать рот
to lay –накрывать
require- требовать
finger- палец
follow- следовать
Table Manners
Good table manners avoid ugliness. All rules of table manners are made to avoid it. To let anyone see what you have in your mouth is offensive. So is to make a noise. To make a mess in the plate is disgusting. So there are some rules how to behave yourself at the table:
Do not attract undue attention to yourself in public.
When eating take as much as you want, but eat as much as you take. Never stretch over the table for something you want, ask your neighbour to pass it.
Take a slice of bread from the bread-plate by hand, don't harpoon your bread with a fork.
Never read while eating (at least in company).
When a dish is placed before you do not eye it suspiciously as though it were the first time you had seen it, and do not give the impression that you are about to sniff it.
Chicken requires special handling. First cut as much as you can, and when you can't use knife or fork any longer, use your fingers. The customary way to refuse a dish is by saying, "No, thank you" (or to accept, "Yes, please").
Don't say "I don't eat that stuff, don't make faces or noises to show that you don't like it.
In between courses don't make bread-balls to while the time away and do not play with the silver.
Do not empty your glass too quickly — it will be promptly refilled. Don't put liquid into your mouth if it is already full.
Don't eat off the knife.
Vegetables, potatoes, macaroni are placed on your fork with' the help of your knife.
If your food is too hot don't blow on it as though you were trying to start a campfire on a damp night.
Try to make as little noise as possible when eating.
And, finally, don't forget to say "thank you" for every favour or kindness.
Task 1. Answer the questions (Yes/No).
Do you agree or disagree:
1. Wash your hands before coming to table.
2. Take your napkin and put it on your lap. Keep it there during the meal and use
it to wipe your hands or mouth whenever necessary.
3. Sit down straight and do not put elbows on the table.
4. Do not eat from your knife.
5. When you eat meat do not cut the whole piece of meat at once. Cut small-sized pieces, and then eat them with a fork. After you have cut off one piece of food, lay your knife down on the edge to the inside.
6. Try not to stuff your mouth full of food. Also, do not talking when you have something in your mouth.
7. While you are eating, put the knife and a fork you are using on the edge of your plate. Not to lay them down on the table.
8. After each course, the knife and fork should be laid side by side in the middle of the plate handles to the right. This shows that you have finished and the plate can be removed. If you leave the knife and fork apart, it will show that you have not finished eating.
9. Roast chicken and game are taken with hands.
10. Hot and cold fish dishes are eaten with a fork. The entrees of fish are eaten with fish knife and fork.
11. Meat dishes (beefsteak) are eaten with a knife and fork. Take your knife in your right hand and the fork in the left hand.
12. Bread, biscuits, cakes, sandwiches and fruit are taken with hands.
13. It is not polite to leave a spoon in a tea cup. Put your spoon on the saucer.
14. Apples and pears are cut with a fruit knife on a plate into four or eight parts.
15. Eat pudding and ice-cream with a dessert spoon.
16. After meal put your fork and knife on the plate, not on the table.
17.Before you leave the table, remember to thank the person who was kind
Task 2. Read some advice about table manners and say is it true or false? (T/F)
1) Try to stuff your mouth full of food and speak as loudly as you can, because
everybody should hear you.
2) Do not put your spoon on the saucer, put it on the table.
3) Never thanks anybody, they should be saying: “Thanks” for your coming.
4) Put your elbows on the table.
5) Never use a knife, you have a fork!
6) Vegetables, potatoes, macaronis are placed on your fork with the help of your knife.
7) Roast chicken and game are not taken with hands, take your fork.
8) It is very polite to leave a spoon in a tea cup.
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