初中英语新目标八年级上11

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Culture unit 2 What did you have for dinner?
[00:05.38]5a Read the article.
[00:11.15]Underline the examples off bad table manners around the world.
[00:16.90]Mind your manners!
[00:20.38]Around the world,people have different ideas about what good'table manners are.
[00:28.24]In India,for example, people only eat with their right hands.
[00:34.80]You take food from one dish on the table,
[00:39.34]usually nan (a kind of bread) or rice,
[00:45.51]mix it with food from another dish and then put it in your mouth.
[00:51.15]Your left hand stays still.
[00:54.91]Eating with you left hand is very rude!
[00:59.59]In the west, people don't usually share the same dishes.
[01:05.23]Everyone has his or her own plate of food.
[01:10.27]You eat with a knife and fork
[01:14.21]and you shouldn't wave them around when you aren't using them.
[01:19.57]And you should try not to make eating noises,even if the food is good.
[01:26.02]People think that's bad table manners!
[01:30.46]When you go to restaurants in different parts of the world,
[01:35.32]it's important to know the right and wrong things to do.
[01:40.28]For example,in China it's OK to make a lot of noise in a restaurant.
[01:47.55]In fact,if a restaurant isn't noisy and lively,
[01:53.61]you may think there's something wrong with it.
[01:57.37]However,in many western countries,restaurants are quiet places.
[02:04.03]If a table is too loud,other customers might even complain to the management.
[02:11.40]Paying the bill is also different from country to country.
[02:16.54]In China, one person usually pays for everyone.
[02:22.11]In western countries,one person pays if he or she is entertaining clients,
[02:29.37]but when friends eat together,they usually share the cost.
[02:34.83]This is called going Dutch.
[02:38.90]Also,when westerners pay the check,they usually leave some money for the waiter.
[02:46.66]This is called 'leaving a tip.
[02:50.71]Not leaving a tip is very rude.
[02:55.07]In the U.S., it's common to leave tips of 10%, 15%,or 20% of the check,
[03:03.22]depending on how good the service was.
[03:07.59]Good waiters can earn a lot of money!
[03:11.74]The way people eat food is different throughout the world,
[03:16.49]but you can find the same kinds of food in many countries.
[03:22.06]Chinese and Italian food,for example,are popular all over the world.
[03:29.14]8a Look at the menu and the list of specials.
[03:35.48]Listen and circle the dishes you hear.
[04:55.34]8b Listen again and underline the things that the people order.
[06:18.10]10 Flora is talking about the things she eats.
[06:24.26]Fill in the table with the thing she can and can't eat.
[06:29.51]I'm Lisa from Vancouver,Canada,and I'm a vegetarian.
[06:35.44]That's someone who doesn't eat meat.
[06:39.10]Why am I a vegetarian?
[06:42.65]Well, I think it's cruel to eat animals.
[06:47.33]We can get all the nutrition we need from non-meat products.
[06:52.79]Quite a lot of people are vegetarians in Vancouver.
[06:57.65]There are a few shops and restaurants that sell food just for us.
[07:03.29]For example,there's a store near my house that specializes in cheese and tofu.
[07:10.55]The tofu is great but I can't eat the cheese.It's too fattening!
[07:17.11]It's easy to be a vegetarian when I'm at home.
[07:21.55]I cook lots of interesting dishes from grains and vegetables.
[07:26.98]I can make many different kinds of pasta,and I often cook meals for my family.
[07:33.75]They aren't vegetarians,but they don't mind vegetarian food.
[07:39.08]In some restaurants it's difficult to get vegetarian food.
[07:44.40]On Sunday, I went to Stan's Steakhouse with my friends.
[07:50.78]They all wanted to eat roast beef.
[07:54.54]I looked for vegetarian food on the menu,but every dish had meat in it.
[08:01.70]I asked the waiter,"Can you give me something with no meat?"
[08:07.05]He said, "Would you like some fish?"
[08:11.10]"No thanks", I said."I only want vegetables - no meat,and no fish".
[08:17.66]"But this is a steakhouse", said the waiter.
[08:21.73]"People come here because they want to eat meat!"