Really Learn English Dining Manners in Different Cultures
Really Learn English Dining Manners in Different Cultures pairs a short reading text on table customs around the world with twenty-four exercises and a full answer key. Really Learn English, a site of English materials for learners and teachers, traces where European table manners came from and then describes customs in France, Spain, Japan, China, Ethiopia and Italy, testing vocabulary, collocations and understanding of what was read.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The reading text traces table manners to the 1500s and the arrival of individual cutlery, then describes hands on the table in France, the siesta in Spain, slurping in Japan and China, eating with injera in Ethiopia and the rules about cheese in Italy. Twenty-four questions follow, on vocabulary, collocations and comprehension, with an answer key.
Read the text straight through once, then answer the questions before you look at the key. The vocabulary items and the collocation items are the part to repeat, because they teach the word partnerships that make your own writing sound natural: rest your wrists, a communal plate, large quantities, an acceptable habit. If you teach, the text and its exercises work as a ready-made lesson with the key for marking.
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