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Culture NI 1 Social Situations

1. The document provides etiquette tips for dining in someone's home in different countries, including China, Britain, India, and Egypt. 2. Tips include bringing gifts, how to eat with your hands, when to arrive, leaving food on your plate, and what cutlery to use. 3. It also has exercises for students to practice comprehending, matching vocabulary words to pictures, acting out social cues, and generating their own etiquette rules.

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Culture NI 1 Social Situations

1. The document provides etiquette tips for dining in someone's home in different countries, including China, Britain, India, and Egypt. 2. Tips include bringing gifts, how to eat with your hands, when to arrive, leaving food on your plate, and what cutlery to use. 3. It also has exercises for students to practice comprehending, matching vocabulary words to pictures, acting out social cues, and generating their own etiquette rules.

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NEW INSPIRATION 1

Culture
Social situations
1 Reading
What do you do when you are in another country and go to someone’s home for dinner?
Read the article and match the paragraphs with these countries.

China Britain India Egypt

Visiting friends for dinner? Remember these important ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’
Always … Always … Always … Always …
Bring flowers or Bring a gift of cakes or Wrap gifts in red or gold Arrive 15–30 minutes
chocolates as a gift. Use chocolates. Take off your paper. Eat a bit of all the late for dinner. Bring a
a knife and fork to eat shoes at the front door. food on the table. Drink gift of roses or chocolates
your food. Eat soup with Eat with your right hand. your soup from the bowl, for the host. Eat with
a spoon. Say ‘please’ and Have a second helping. don’t use a spoon. Make your right hand. Leave
‘thank you’. Put your When you finish eating, noises when you eat your some food on your plate
knife and fork together leave a bit of food on food – it’s OK to burp, when you finish eating.
when you finish eating. your plate. slurp and talk with your Bring your own friends to
mouth full! Leave some someone else’s party.
Never … Never …
food on your plate when
Never …
Talk with your mouth Bring alcohol or flowers you finish eating.
full. Blow your nose on as a gift. Put salt on your Wrap your gifts in black
Never …
your napkin. food. or white paper. Give meat
Give flowers, clocks or as a gift because a lot of
1 2
four of anything as a people are vegetarians.
gift. Wrap your gift in
4
white paper. Leave your
chopsticks in your rice.
Point the teapot spout at
anybody.
3

This page has been downloaded from www.macmillanenglish.com/inspiration


© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012. This sheet may be photocopied and used within the class. 1
Culture Social situations

2 Comprehension
Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.

1 In three of the countries you eat with your right hand.



2 In all of the countries you bring a gift for your host. 

3 In three of the countries you leave a bit of food on your plate.

4 In Britain it is OK to talk with your mouth full.

5 In China it is OK to make a lot of noise when you eat.

6 Flowers are a good gift for your host in Egypt.

7 In India you can invite your friends to someone else’s party.

8 People in Britain don’t say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. 


3 Vocabulary
c
Match these words with the pictures.
b
bowl chopsticks gift knife and fork
napkin plate spoon teapot a

a 
b  d
c 
d  e f
e 
f  g
 h
g
h 

4 Game
You are going to mime an action that your teacher gives you. All actions have
to do with social situations. You are going to play in teams.
Your teacher will ask one person of a team to come to the front of the class.
This person will get an action to mime. Mime the action. All teams can guess
what he/she is doing. The first team to guess the right action wins a point.

5 Writing
Work in pairs. Write your own list of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ for visiting someone’s
home in your country.

This page has been downloaded from www.macmillanenglish.com/inspiration


© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012. This sheet may be photocopied and used within the class. 1

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