Pre-viewing qustion:

When you have visitors (classmates, colleagues, customers, etc.), do you invite them out in the evening? 

If so, where do you invite them—to your home, to a restaurant, or somewhere else? How formal are these occasions?

Post-viewing question:

How will you entertain a foreign customer coming to your city ?

Activity One:

Activity Two:

Listen to the passage and fill in the following blanks:

Having dinner in a fancy Western restaurantcan make people nervous. They want to use good table manners.Which things on the table do you use first? When you first sit down at a table, takethe ______ and put it on your ____.Keep it on your lap during the meal.Then look at the plate in front of you.______ are to the leftof your plate.______ and _______are on the right.A soup spoon isthe large one, _______ from the plate.Or it may be atthe top of the plate.At a Western meal,soup is served first and then the salad.The salad fork is the fork farthest fromthe plate.Eat your salad with that fork.The small plate above your forks is yourbread plate.Put a roll on your small plate.Cut it open and put ______on it withyour knife.Then eat it with your fingers.When you ________eating, put yourknife and fork next to each other on your dinner plate.Then the waiter knows you are finished.He will take away your plate.Your last course will be dessert.There may be a very small dessert fork nextto your plate.Or the waiter may bring it with dessert.When you have finished your meal, get upfrom the table.Place your napkin next to your plate.Then you can leave the restaurant.Hope you enjoyed your dinner!