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EAPING AROUND PHE WORLD
Reading Eating in China
Hi. I'm Lin, I'm eleven and I'm
1 1 Read and listen. from China. Chinese food is
really delicious, We eat a lot of
rice, noodles, vegetables and meat. We fry or steam a lot of
our food. It is very healthy.
In China, people don’t usually eat with knives and forks.
Instead we use chopsticks and we sometimes use spoons,
We usually eat from big serving dishes. We put them in the
middle of the table, but we sometimes serve portions of rice
in small bowls. In China, we don’t think
it’s rude to reach across the table to take
food from serving dishes.
We do think it is rude to take the last
piece of food from a serving dish for
yourself, We offer it to another person
instead, That is very polite.
When your bowl is empty, someone gives
you more food, When you are full, you
put your hand over your bow! or leave some food in your bowl. We don't put our
chopsticks on top of our bowls. We put them on the table next to us when we finish
eating. We don't use napkins, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the
end of the meal.
Do you like Chinese food? Is it very different from food in your country?Read and tick () or cross (X).
Her name is Lin and she's from China.
Lin thinks Chinese food is delicious.
People in China always use knives and forks to eat.
Chinese people fry or steam a lot of their food.
It’s rude to take the last piece of food from a serving dish.
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People usually use napkins in China.
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Match. Write the number.
It isn’t rude to reach across the table in China,
In China, people eat with chopsticks,
Chinese people use hot towels at the end of a meal.
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3 People sometimes serve rice in small bowls in China.
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5 In China, people eat from serving dishes.
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Chinese people eat rice, vegetables and meat.4 Read and write Yes, they do, or No, they don't.
1 Do people in China usually use knives and forks? No, they don’t.
2 Do people in China eat a lot of rice and vegetables? Cd
3 Do people in China eat from serving dishes? J
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Do people in China use napkins at the end of a meal? [
Vocabulary
5 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
1 Chinese people usually eat with chopsticks.
2 We usually eat from a in the middle of the table.
3 Iiketo( vegetables because it’s healthy.
4 In China, it isn’t rude to Co across the table.
5 British people use a fC at the end of a meal.
6 Chinese people [alot of their food.
7 The [__] is the person who brings food in a restaurant.
8 Ina restaurant, you look at a to choose your food.
9 In China, when your plate is (),. someone will serve you more food.
10 Iris Co) to offer someone else the last piece of food on a
serving dish.