1. Table Manners at a Dinner Party

2. clothes drinking eating At a dinner party position sitting sound
Pre-reading
clothes
drinking
eating
At a dinner party
position
sitting
sound

3. Good manners at a dinner party
1. Don’t eat too much or too fast;
2. Try to talk to people sitting beside you and smile;
3. Stand up when others make a toast(敬酒）;
4. Drink only when there is no food in your mouth;
5. Finish the drink at once if possible;
6. Do not put too much food in your mouth at a time;

6. Fast Reading
1. What table manners does the text tell about?
2. How does the text develop, in the order of content or in the order of time?

7. Table manners the text tells about
How to lay the table;
How to use forks and knives, etc.
How to behave at the table;
How to eat;
How to toast and drink.

8. The text develops in the order of time:
1.Before the dinner
2.Starting the dinner
3. Having the main course
4. Drinking

9. The main idea of each part
(Para.1):
Part 1
Explain all the things that you would find laid on a dinner party;
(Para.2─Para.5):
Part 2
Behave at the table.
Part 3
(Para.6):
Table manners change over time.

10. Detailed reading
Read paragraph 1 carefully and make a list of things on a western dinner table.
a napkin
a small bread roll
three glasses
two pairs of knives and forks
two spoons
a plate

12. Can you draw out how to lay a western dinner table?

13. Bread & Butter Plate
Butter Knife
Dessert Spoon
and Cake Fork
Water
Red Wine
Napkin
Soup Bowl & Plate
White Wine
Soup Spoon
Fish Fork
Dinner Plate
Salad Fork
Fish Knife
Dinner or Main Course Fork
Dinner Knife

15. Does he use the fork and knife in the right way?NO

16. What do westerners usually eat for dinner?

17. soup
starter
pizza
dessert

18. Main course
main course

20. starter
soup
main course
dessert

21. A Chinese dinner party
Get a damp hot cloth
Tea or drinks
Cold dishes
Meat and vegetables,soup
Tea or fruit
Rice or noodles

22. How should we behave at a dinner party?

23. True or False… T F T T T F F F T
( ) 1. Eat with little noise and movement?
( ) 2. Use the napkin to wipe the silver china?
( ) 3. Eat before all dishes are served?
( ) 4. Try every kind of new dish and appear
to enjoy it?
( ) 5. Eat the bread with a fork?
( ) 6. When some people pray before they start eating,
keep silent for a while?
( ) 7. Put much food in my mouth at a time?
( ) 8. Drink when there is much food in my mouth?
( ) 9. Drop some food on the table cloth? T F T T T T F F F

24. F T F F T T F F ( ) 10. Talk when there is food in my mouth?
( ) 11. Put my napkin on my lap?
( ) 12. Start eating as soon as my food
is served in front of me when I am hungry?
( ) 13. Ask for a second bowl of soup if I consider
the soup is delicious?
( ) 14. Use my fingers when eating chicken?
( ) 15. Finish eating everything on my plate?
( ) 16. Talk loudly while eating?
( ) 17. Make other people drink more spirits
than they can take? F T F F T T F F

25. The differences Chinese table manners Western table manners chopsticks
knife and fork
tools
over-order
dish number
finish everything
the order of dishes
fruit comes the last
fruit comes the first
napkin
a hot, damp cloth
unfold, on your lap
toasting
finish the drink
only a sip
voice
loudly
quiet and smile
host
put the food into the guest’s plate
enjoy themselves

26. Homework:
Write a passage introducing the differences between Chinese table manners and Western table manners.

27. Good bye and have a good time!