Unit 23 - British Table Manners (I).doc

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Unit 23British Table Manners (I)

British table mannersinclude the following:- The fork is held in your left hand and the knife is held in your

right.- You should hold your knife with the handle in your palm and

your fork in the other hand with the prongs pointing downwards.- If youre eating a dessert, your fork (if you have one should

!e held in the left hand and the spoon in the right.- "hen eating soup, you should hold your spoon in your right

hand and tip the !owl away from you, scooping the soup inmovements away from yourself.

- It is not accepta!le to use your fingers at the ta!le to eat orpush food onto your fork. You may, however, eat some foods such asfruit, sandwiches, !urgers, crisps, chips or pi##a with your fingers.

- If there are a num!er of knives or forks, then you should startfrom the outside set working your way in as each course is served.

- $rinks should always !e to the right of your plate with the!read roll to the left.

- "hen eating !read rolls, !reak off a piece !efore !uttering.%se your knife only to !utter the !read, not to cut it.- You should not start eating !efore your host does or instructs

you to do so. &t larger meals, it is considered okay to start eatingonce others have !een served.

- "hen youre finished, place your knife and fork together atsi' oclock with your fork on the left (tines facing up and knife on theright, with the knife !lade facing in. This signals that you are finished.

- Your serviette should never !e screwed up. or should it !efolded neatly as that would suggest that your host might plan to use itagain without washing it - )ust leave it neatly !ut loosely.

- ever !low your nose on your serviette. *lace it on your lap

and use it to da! your mouth if you make a mess.- It is considered rude to answer the telephone at the ta!le. If

you need to take an urgent call, e'cuse yourself and go outside.- &lways ask for permission from the host and e'cuse yourself

if you need to leave the ta!le. You should place your napkin on yourseat until you return. (&fter Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Vocabulary

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Exercises

+. &nswer the 7uestions.

- 8ow should we hold the fork and the knife9- 8ow should we hold the fork and the spoon when eating the

dessert9- 8ow should we eat soup9- an we use our fingers at the ta!le to eat9

- "here should drinks always !e9- "here should !read rolls always !e9- "hat should knives !e used to9- ;hould we start eating !efore our host does9- "hat should we do when we are finished9

6. 2atch the following.

+.manner

a. a distinctive !ehavioural trait, anidiosyncrasy< e'aggerated or affectedstyle or ha!it, as in dress or speech< anartistic style of the late +0thcenturycharacteri#ed !y distortion of elementssuch as scale and perspective

6.mannered

!. a way of doing something or the way inwhich a thing is done or happens< a wayof acting, !earing or !ehaviour< thesocially correct way of acting, eti7uette

=.mannerismc. accustomed to a position,custom, or

lifestyle from or as if from !irth

.mannerist

d. having manners of a specific kind< having or showing a certain manner, artificial or

affected< of, relating to, or e'hi!iting

mannerisms>.manneristic

e. having or showing good manners< withgood manners< politely

0.mannerliness f. lack of manners?.mannerly g. [email protected] the manner h. some!odye'hi!iting mannerism

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born

=. Aroup the following words related to being full of food, as in themodel.

be full bloated couldnt eat another thing filling have hadenough heavy no more room on a full stomach satiated satisfied stodgy stuffed

Words referring to

being full of food food that a!es you feel fullbe full

. Bill in with the proper conjunctions from !elow.

or(= times C that(= times C though

Etiquette, one aspect of decorum, is a code D governs thee'pectations of social !ehaviour, according to the contemporaryconventional norm within a society, social class, or group. %suallyunwritten, it may !e codified in written form. Eti7uette usually reflectsformulas of conduct in which society D traditionhas invested. &n

eti7uette may reflect an underlying ethical code, D it may grow moreas afashion, as in +@thcentury 3ritain where apparently pointless actslike the manner in which a tea cup was held !ecame associated withthe upper class. Fike GcultureG, it is a word D has gradually grownplural, especially in a multi-ethnic society with many clashinge'pectations. Thus, it is now possi!le to refer to Gan eti7uetteH D GacultureH, reali#ing that these may not !e universal. In 3ritain, D , theword eti7uette has its roots in the +@ thcentury, !ecoming a universalforce in the +thcentury to the e'tent D it has !een descri!ed as theone word that aptly descri!es life duringthe reign of Jueen Kictoria.

>. "hich of the following is prohi!ited at ta!le9

ask the host to be excused before leaving chew with your mouthclose coughing, sneeing, or blowing your nose not make loudor unusual noises while eating not talk at an excessively loudvolume not tilt back your chair play with your food or table utensils not rest your fore!arms on the table talk with food in your mouth

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tell someone who has shown poor table manners

0. Insert punctuation marks and capital letterswhere necessary inorder to o!tain a correct te't.

according to french ta!le manners !oth hands must !e a!ove theta!le at the same time they cannot !e !elow the ta!le even if they aretogether this rule comes from medieval times where the king fearedassassination to make sure he was a!le to dine safely all personsdining with him kept their hands a!ove the ta!le where they could !e

seen at all times the action of putting your hands !elow the ta!le wasinterpreted as an attempt to gra! your dagger and assassinate theking

?. *ut the ver!s !etween !rackets in the appropriate tenses. You willhave to decide whether the te't re7uires passive or active forms ofthe ver!s.

The 2ontreal-*hilippines cutlery controversy (to be an internationalincidentthat (to arise in 6LL0, when a ?-year-old !oy of Bilipino!irth(to discipline repeatedly !y authorities in his elementary schoolin the2ontrealsu!ur! of Mo'!oro, for using his cutleryin a Bilipino way. In

&pril of 6LL0, the !oy (to punish on ten separate occasions !y theschool lunchroom monitor for GdisgustingH and GpiggishG eating ha!its:using a forkto push his food onto a spoon!efore eating it. The !oysparents (to protest. The !oys mother (to pursue a formal apology,reporting that, in a telephone conversation with school principalormand 3ergeron, he (to tell her G2adame, you (to be in anadanow. 8ere in anada you should eat the way anadians (to eat.HThe story (pick up !y the media< in response, the anadianem!assyin 2anila (to surround !y protestors, and Nose 3rillantes, the*hilippines &m!assador to anada, (to issue an officialcondemnation, saying that it (to be Gan affront to Bilipino cultureH.

@. Aive your opinions on the incident presented in the te't a!ove,using e'pressions from the ta!le.

"s far as #m concerned $ # feel very strongly that $ # tend tothink that $ # would suggest that $ #t seems to me that $ #tstrikes me that $ #t is believed that $ but $ %eople often claim

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that $ but what they dont realie is $ &here is no point in $

. Bill in the !lanks with the suita!le form of the adjectives andadverbs!etween !rackets.

- I am not D interested in knowing how to cook snails. (little- Noey called to say he would arrive D than he had promised,

as he was caught up at work. (late- The D he worked the D results he o!tained. (much good- The D the rain stops, the D for the crops in the field. (soon

good- The cook said he couldnt feel D a!out the incident. (bad- "e wont go anywhere tonight. The wind gets D and D

(strong- "ell make D of our dinner. (more

"et#s "augh$

& hristian and philosopher and educator, Erasmus of Motterdam, thegreatest classical scholar of the northern 8umanist of Menaissance,determined that manners was the !est instilled at an early age. 8ereare some samples from the three century !est seller, 'n (ivility in(hildren(c.+>=L:- Turn away when spitting lest your saliva fall on someone. If

anything purulent falls on the ground, it should !e trodden upon,lest it nauseate someone.

- To lick greasy fingers or to wipe them on your coat is impolite. Itis !etter to use the ta!le cloth or the serviette.

- ;ome people put their hands in the dishes the moment they havesat down. "olves do that.

- You should not offer your handkerchief to anyone unless it has!een freshly washed. or is it seemly, after wiping your nose, tospread out your handkerchief and peer into it as if pearl and

ru!ies might have fallen out of your head.- If you cannot swallow a piece of food, turn around discreetly andthrow it somewhere.

- Metain the wind !y compressing the !elly.- $o not !e afraid of vomiting if you must< for it is not vomiting !ut

holding the vomit in your throat that is foul.

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- $o not move !ack and forth on your chair. "hoever does thatgives the impression of constantly !reaking or trying to !reakwind.

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