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    This document provides etiquette guidelines for behaviors in Britain such as table manners, greetings, and social norms. It notes that in Britain you can get married at 16 but can't drink until 18, and must wear seatbelts in cars. Table manners discussed include not talking with your mouth full, not putting too much food on your plate at once, and using cutlery properly by spearing food rather than scooping. It also outlines polite ways to handle cutlery and compliment your hostess.

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    Headway Intermediate (Third Edition), P. 32. in Britain : Júlia Bácskai-Atkári

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    Jlia Bcskai-Atkri

    Headway Intermediate (Third Edition), p. 32.


    In Britain
    you can get married when youre 16.
    you cant drink alcohol until youre 18.
    you have to wear a seat-belt in a car.
    you can vote when youre 18.
    young people dont have to do military service.
    there are lots of public places where you arent allowed to smoke.
    Attachments to the handout:
    Exercise 2.
    Queue jumping is frowned upon.
    It is impolite for men to wear hats in churches.
    When yawning or coughing, it is all right not to cover your mouth with your hand.
    When you are first introduced to someone, you shake hands.
    A smiling face is not welcome.
    People drive on the right side of the road.
    People open doors for others.
    You are not expected to greet people with a kiss.
    It is normal to talk loud in public.
    It is all right to stare at anyone in public.
    It is impolite to ask a lady her age.
    You are required to avoid gestures such as backslapping and hugging.
    Feel free to spit.
    It is normal to burp in public.
    It is impolite to speak with your mouth full.

    Jlia Bcskai-Atkri
    Exercise 4.
    TABLE MANNERS
    Next time you ______ next to an Englishman in a restaurant, ______ him carefully to see how
    he eats. Table manners are perhaps ______ less seriously than they were twenty years ago, but
    there is still a tendency, especially among older people, to judge ones fellow-country-men by
    the way they ______ a fork or pass the salt.
    Dont ______ with your mouth full a very sensible stipulation. Dont put your elbows on
    the table this resulted in whole generations of British children who sat upright with their
    hands folded uncomfortably in their laps between courses.
    Dont ______ too much on your plate at a time it ______ better in the eyes of the British
    to gorge yourself on six small helpings than to ______ one large one to start with.
    You should never ______ the last piece of meat or the last potato from the serving dish it
    is fascinating to ______ a group of still hungry diners ______ a dish around with one slice of
    meat on it, each of them too polite to take it.
    Particularly interesting is the way the British handle their cutlery. A fork, for example, in the
    best British society, is only ______ to ______: it is ______ either vulgar or foreign to turn
    the fork over and scoop up vegetables. The sight of an Englishman ______ a last pea around
    his plate, ______ to catch it on the prong of his fork, ______ British sporting instincts at their
    best.
    Soup spoons are also handled in a very unusual way . The best mannered people always scoop
    up their soup by moving the spoon away from them, not towards them. The last tasty
    mouthful of soup must not be ______ out by tipping the plate towards one.
    Less sensible ______ what the British ______ with their cutlery to ______ that they have
    finished. In most countries, people ______ wise enough to put their knife and fork on the
    plate in the three oclock position: parallel to the edge of the table, so that they cannot
    knock them into their laps. The British ______ to the six oclock position.
    Finally, every Englishman ______ with him a store of polite and complimentary phrases for
    his hostess; How nice, This really is good, I dont ______ how you do it, etc.
    are
    is
    shows
    treated

    carries
    is
    sit
    used

    chasing
    know
    spear
    watch

    (taken from: This Is Britain Today)

    considered
    passing
    stick
    watch

    determined
    put
    take

    do
    scooped
    take

    hold
    show
    talk

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