1.What are found on a Chinese dinner table?

2.Make a list of things on a Western dinner table.

Brainstorm

Chinese Dinner

Western Dinner

In what order will the dishes be served at a Western dinner party?

1.Dessert 2.Drinks 3.Main course 4.Starter 5.Soup

1.Starter

2.Soup

3.Main

Course

4.Dessert

2 、 8

5 、 9

3 、 6 、 7

12

China Western Country

How How

Food is Food is

servedserved

Eating Eating

HabitsHabits

Drinking Drinking

HabitsHabits

have their own plate of food

all dishes are placed on table

put food into …

(public chopsticks )

help themselves

finish at once take a sip

Don’t pick up the soup bowl and drink from it.

Don’t ask for a second soup.

Don’t take more food than you need.

Don’t touch beef or other meat on bones.

Don’t put bones on the table.

Don’ts

Don’t talk and laugh with food in your mouth.

Don’t use the napkin to clean your face.

Don’t finish the drink at once.

Glasses should not touch.

Manners make the man.Manners make the man.

礼貌造就人。

1.What can you eat with your fingers?

A.bread

B.bacon

C.cookies

D.chicken

A B C D

2. At a business lunch when can you talk business?

A.  After you place your food order. 

B.  Over dessert or at the completion

of the meal. 

C.  Right away - even while you are

walking to the table. 

D.  After you order your food D

3.Is it permissible( 允许 ) to use your cell phone at a business meal?

A.  Yes, but excuse yourself first for the interruption. 

B.  Yes, but keep it very brief.

C.  No, keep it turned off during the meal.

C

4.What do you do with your napkin?

A. Unfold your napkin and place it across your lap before everyone is seated.

B. If you need to leave the table during the meal, place your napkin on the chair.

C. After the meal is over you should refold your napkin and place it on the table as it was before.

B

5. How do American people use the knife and fork?

1. Knife in the right hand and the fork in the left to cut the meat.

2.Lay down the knife and switch （转换） the fork to right hand to bring food to mouth.

6.What should you do if the salt and pepper （盐和胡椒 ） are out of your reach?

Don’t stand up ！ Ask others to pass them to you.

7.What do these two pictures indicate?

parallel （平行）

cross like an "X"

Finished Not finished

8. How do people have the soup with the spoon at a Western dinner ？1.Spoon the soup away from you .

2.Sip it from the side.

9.Where are the dessert spoon and fork ?

Above the plate.

10.If there are two forks on the table,you should start using the fork closest to the plate.Is it right?

False.You start with the smaller pair which are close to the napkin.

It is all right to rest your wrists on rest your wrists on the edgethe edge.

But keep your elbows offkeep your elbows off the tablethe table especially when you are eating.

11.Is it OK to rest your wrists （腕） on the edge of the table between bites? What about elbows ( 肘 ) ？

Do not try to get off his or her clothes!

Point it out, let them clean it up.

12. What should you do If you spill （使溢出 ） something?

If…on the table

Apologize .

Prevent anything from spilling …

Get a waiter to help you.

If…on people

When in Rome , When in Rome , do as the Romans do as the Romans do.do. 入乡随俗。

1. In the past, women were not allowed

to eat at the table,especially in the

country. But now…

Table manners change over time.

Women sit together with others and eat at the same time.

2. It used to be impolite to eat up all the food from the plates. However, people now …

People accept that it is better not to waste food. It is becoming ok to take left-over food home.

3. In the past, people often gave

the guests as much wine as

possible to drink. But now…

It is still polite to urge the guest to drink, but not as persistent （坚持） as before.