Reading Comprehension, 7th form (I term) copy

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

1. Chinese people fry or steam a lot of their food.

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

They eat a lot of rice, noodles, fish and vegetables.

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

1. Sometimes they serve portions of rice in small bowls.

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

People usually use napkins in China.

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

1. In China, when your plate is empty, someone will serve you more food.

EATING IN CHINA

Hi! I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m 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 is 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 bowl 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 like people in Britain, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.

chopstick – палички для їжі (в Китаї)

instead – замість

portion – порція

1. When they are full, they put their hands next to the bowl.

1. Chinese people usually eat with …

1. They usually eat from a … in the middle of the table.

1. In China people sometimes use …

1. In China, it isn’t rude to … across the table.

1. British people use a … at the end of the meal.

1. Chinese people clean their hands with a … at the end of the meal.

1. Chinese people … a lot of their food.

In a restaurant, you look at a … to choose your food

1. It is … to offer someone else the last piece of food on a serving dish.

When they are full, they put their hands …the bowl.