UNIT 15

Eating and Drinking (II)

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES

Once you’ve mastered this unit, you’ll be able to use Chinese to:

1.  Host or participate as a guest in a formal banquet.

2.  Make and reply to formal welcoming comments at a banquet.

3.  Toast the guests or hosts at a dinner, employing appropriate toasting etiquette.

4.  Explain to others when they put food on your plate that you’d prefer to help yourself.

5.  Converse about the food served at a dinner.

6.  Tell the hosts or other guests, when they urge you to eat more, that you’ve had enough.

7.  Describe how to eat Peking duck: take a pancake, put scallions and sweet fermented flour sauce on it, add duck skin and meat, and roll it up.

8.  Offer words of thanks at the conclusion of a banquet.

9.  Invite someone to your home for dinner, or accept or decline an invitation if you are invited to dinner.

10. Talk about making and eating various kinds of dumplings.