Everyday Conversation --On the Breakfast Table

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Tutorial No.2
On the Breakfast Table
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Tutorial TWO

AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE



The mother, Neera Verma has the breakfast ready to serve to her family.
Mother: Come along everybody. Breakfast is on the table.
Reena: Mamma, I’ll lay the table.
Ranjan: I’ll bring in and serve the breakfast dishes afterwards?
Mother: Yes, that will be a big help. Thank you.
Father: Well, well. What do we have for breakfast this morning?
Reena: To begin with, there is porridge with milk.
Mother: I’ve made scrambled eggs for all of us. Papa is having his eggs fried.
Ranjan :Vikram, would you like some butter for your toast?
Vikram: Yes please. And lots of jam
Mother: That is a pretty flower arrangement you’ve made, Reena.
Father: Please pass me the salt and the pepper , Ranjan. Thank you.
Vikram: Yummy, scrummy! The toast is delicious.
Reena: Be careful. Do not spill your food on the table cloth, Viki.
Vikram: Why does papa always sit at the head of the table?
Ranjan: Because papa is the head of the family so that is his place.
Reena And mamma sits at the other end of the table.
Vikram: Mamma, What’s for lunch today?
Mother: I am planning to make a meat curry, dal fried rice and some salad
Vikram: What about a pudding?
Mother: I’ have already set the ice cream in the fridge.
Father: When you finish your meal be sure to fold your napkins.
Ranjan: Vikram, lay your fork and knife straight on your plate.
Vikram :I hate to drink milk.
Reena: But you have to drink it. Let me add some Bournvita to your milk, then it will taste better.
Mother: Who will give me a hand with clearing the table?
Everyone We all will.
Mother: Mind, no one drops the china dishes. Please place all the plates near the sink.
Reena :I’ll rinse out and wipe the cutlery.
Ranjan: I’ll dry out the plates and the glass tumblers.
Father: And I’ll put them away in the crockery in the cupboard.


(B) Vocabulary

Meal tough chew
Salad raw hungry
Spoon vegetable thirsty
Glass pie sweet

Phrases

A hearty meal good appetite
Welcome guests pleasant meal
Vase of flowers clear the table
Shining cutlery delicious food

Meanings

Scrambled eggs eggs prepared with onions tomatoes, chillies all mixed together. “Bhurji”
Clearing the tables removing all the knives, forks and other items from the dining table.
Flower arrangement a bowl of flowers artistically arranged.
Delicious tasty.
Salad a dish made up of uncooked vegetables.


(C) Study the following responses:

1 Describe your dining room suite.
Response: We have a dining table with eight dining chairs.

2 Which is your favourite meal?
Response: My favourite meal is dinner. I can relax and eat my dinner in peace without hurrying to catch a bus or to attend a meeting.

3 Do you think that the whole of the Verma family eat their breakfast together everyday?
Response: No. It seems that the break fast scene described in the lesson was a Sunday or on a holiday. It is unlikely that on working days the entire family would be eating breakfast at the same time.

4 Why do you think the Verma family eat breakfast at different times and not together?
Response: I think that considering the age difference between the family members, they would be going to school or to work at different hours of the morning. The little boy Vikram would be leaving for school very early in the morning and his father would be going to office later.

(D) Make suitable responses

1 Why should Vikram lay his fork and knife straight on his plate after finishing his meal?
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2 When you have finished eating your meal is it polite for you to leave the table immediately?
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3 What do you understand by the expression “to lay the table”?
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4 What did Vikram eat for his breakfast?
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