EXPANDING YOUR VOCABULARY

LESSON 08

The dining-room is the room where we take our meals. the furniture consists of a table, which may be round, oval, oblong, or square; several chairs, a sideboard, and a glass-cupboard.

The servant is laying the table for dinner: first, she lays a white cloth on the table and puts napkins for everybody; she puts plates, knives, forks, and spoons for each person. Beside each plate she puts glasses for water and wine.

The bread is cut in pieces and placed in the bread-basket. The water-jug is on the table, the salt-cellar, and the cruet-stand also.

On the sideboard, we see the dessert-plates, the fruit-dish with several kinds of fruit, the coffe-cups, the cheese-dish, some biscuits, and the liqueurs.

To-day, the dinner consist of Soup, Boiled Fish, Veal Cutlets, Baked Potatoes, Spinach, and Roast Chicken. For dessert, there are Caramel Pudding, Vanilla Ices, and Fruits.

After dinner, the gentlemen remain smoking in the dining-room, while the ladies retire to the drawing-room, where the gentlemen join them later.

EXPANDING YOUR VOCABULARY

01) Where do we take our meals?

02) What does the furniture consist of?

03) What the servant doing?

04) What does she lay on the table?

05) What does she put for each person?

06) What glasses does she put beside each plate?

07) Where is the bread placed?

08) What else is there on the table?

09) What do you see on the sideboard?

10) What does the dinner consist of to-day?

11) What is there for dessert?

12) Where do the gentlemen remain after dinner?

13) And the ladies?

EXPANDING YOUR VOCABULARY

01) Have you company this evening?

02) At what time do you dine?

03) Is it dinner time now?

04) May I help you to some chicken?

05) Do you like potatoes?

06) Will you try this roast beef?

07) Wheich do you prefer, Caramel Pudding. or lee Cream?

08) Do you take coffee?

09) Do you smoke?

10) Is it agreeable to eat alone?

11) Do you like to dine with music?