2. Read and translate the text: Etiquette: Table Manners

As a customer you also should observe some rules.

Basic Table Manners

1. Do not smoke while dining out.

2. Sit up straight at the table. It makes a good impression.

3. When you are not eating, keep your hands on your lap or resting on the table (with wrists on the edge of the table). Elbows on the table are acceptable only between courses, not while you are eating.

4. Never chew with your mouth open or make loud noises when you eat. Although it is possible to talk with a small piece of food in your mouth, do not talk with your mouth full.

5. If food gets caught between your teeth and you can’t remove it with your tongue, leave the table and go to a mirror where you can remove the food from your teeth in private.

6. Engage in table conversation that is pleasant but entirely free of controversial subjects.

7. You should not leave the table during the meal except in an emergency.

8. If a piece of your silverware falls onto the floor, pick it up if you can reach it and let the server know you need a clean one. If you cannot reach it, tell the server you dropped a piece of your silverware and ask for a clean one.

9. Food is managed with both hands. The fork should be in the left hand and the knife in the right hand. (or vice versa for left-handed people).

10. Pieces are cut one at a time.

Use of silverware

Choosing the correct silverware from the variety in front of you is not as difficult as it may first appear. Starting with the knife, fork, or spoon that is farthest from your plate, work your way in, using one utensil for each course. The salad fork is on your outermost left, followed by your dinner fork. Your soupspoon is on your outermost right, followed by your beverage spoon, salad knife and dinner knife. Your dessert spoon and fork are above your plate or brought out with dessert. The common way to show that you have finished your meal is to lay your fork and knife diagonally across your plate.

End of Meal

When the host or hostess stands up it means the end of the meal. You should also stand up and follow other guests either to another room or to the exit.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. Are you allowed to smoke during a meal?

2. Where should you place your elbows?

3. When can you stand up before a meal is over?

4. Do you know how to use silverware?

5. How can you signalize that you have finished your meal?

6. When is the meal over?

7. What should you do if your fork fell?

8. Must you be silent while eating?

9. How can a host entertain his guests?

10. Why are etiquette rules important?

4. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following:

to observe some rules, wrists, acceptable, on the edge of the table, to remove, to be engaged in, except, entirely, in an emergency, one at a time, variety, in front of, outermost left

5. Give English equivalents of the following:

справляти гарне враження, лікті, прийнятний, на одинці, спірні питання, лівша/правша, навпаки, рухатись вперед, продовжувати, перед собою, різноманіття

6. a) Match the synonyms:

acceptable, chew, controversial, subject, entirely, vice versa, outermost, issue, farthest, completely, acknowledged, munch, questionable, conversely,

6. b) Find the antonyms in the text:

to violate/break a rule, crooked, to be removed, uncommon

7. There are words denoting silverware, glassware and serving plates. Divide them in columns and say a) what they are used for; b) what can be eaten or drunk from them:

salt-cellar, footed tumbler, sugar-tongs, goblet, crackers, dinner fork, liqueur-glass, teacup, mug, salad fork, tall wine glass, knife, butter spreader, bottle coaster, cocktail fork, cream soup spoon, saucer, salt & pepper set, bouillon soup spoon, pitcher, salver, cake stand, sugar-basin, pie server, decanter, bread and butter plate, grapefruit spoon, gravy boat, lobster pick, napkin ring, bowl, olive spoon, creamer, poultry shears, tumbler, soup ladle, tea strainer, martini goblet

silverware	glassware	plates	serving piece

Tips: to drink tea, coffee, juice, alcohol, champagne, wine; to eat salad, soup, steak, seafood, poultry, nuts, cake; to serve, to crack