Brain-ring theme: Etiquette
The rules of the game
- The game lasts until a team gets 6 points.
- Every correct answer is one point.
- Taking part in the game is decided by casting of lots.
- Only one minute is given fop the discussion.
- The right to answer is given to the team, which has pressed the sound button first.
- The team-winner has a right to play the game with the next team.
Preparatory process for the game
- Every class presents a team of 6 members.
- They choose the team captain. One week is given for the theme preparation.
- The equipment: a watch timer, two tables, six chairs for every team.
- Two sound buttons to identify which team is the first to answer, a gong, a jury of three members to score, referee, reward.
- The questions are written on the small pieces of paper. The formulation of the questions and answers must be simple and exact.
- Prizes for the teams.
- When you sit at the table, what do you do with a napkin?
Take a napkin, put it on my lap. Keep it during the meal and use it to wipe my hands or mouth whenever necessary.
- If you have several pieces of cutlery beside the plate, what have you to start first from?
I’ll start on the outside for the first course.
- If anyone asks you when you are eating and have your mouth full of food. What would you do?
Don’t answer and speak with your mouth full of full of food, finish chewing then swallow before you answer the question.
- What would you do with your napkin when you want to leave the table during a meal, and when the meal is over?
When you leave the table during a meal, place your napkin on the chair, not on the table, but when the meal is over, pick up your napkin, wipe your mouth, and place it on the table to the left of your plate.
- If you need to take something out of your mouth (a bone, a seed), what would you do?
Carefully place it on your spoon. After you have put the bone or seed onto you spoon? Empty it onto your plate.
- How would you show without any word that you have finished your meal and you make a pause in your eating?
While you are eating, put the knife and fork you are using on the edge of your plate, it will show that you haven't finished eating, and when you lay the knife and the fork side by side in the middle of the plate, handles to the right, it will show that have finished eating.
- What should you do with the spoon after stirring coffee?
Place the spoon across the edge of the saucer or on a napkin.
- What are the main rules for placing knifes, forks, spoons, napkin by each plate?
Fork – to the left of the place, knife – to the right of the plate (sharp edge towards the plate), spoon – to the right of the knife, napkin – to the left of the fork.
- When should you begin to eat your meal?
After all the plates are served, unless the host or hostess ask you to start eating.
- You have one minute to lay the table correctly. You have a plate, a fork, a spoon, a goblet? A wine-glass, a napkin.
You put everything in such order: 4-5 cm from the edge of the table, the fork – to the left of the plate, the knife – to the right of plate, sharp edge towards the plate, spoon – to the right of the knife, the napkin – to the left of the fork, the wine-glass – in front of the plate, to the left, the goblet – in front, to the right.
- How do we eat bread and sandwiches?
A piece of bread us taken by hand, put on the napkin or a special plate, it’s broken off into small pieces with fingers.
12. What is “Swedish table”?
It’s a kind of party, where all dishes are put on the table, everybody, according to his/her wish, takes any dish. When the plate is full, the guests sit whenever they want, have a talk with friends.
- How would you eat an apple, an orange?
The apple is pilled with a knife, cut into small pieces. The centre in cut out. The orange is cut into pieces too.
- You have finished eating, how would you leave the table?
You have the table together with other guests, you thank the hostess and host, put the chair under the table.
- If your conversation over the phone has just been disconnected, who must be the first to recall?
A person who has called.
16. When you make a call, who greets and introduces first?
A person who has just made a call.
17. How would men, women, husbands, wives sit at the table?
They sit in such a way: a man with a man, a woman with a woman, a husband and a wife don’t sit together.
18. Who is the first to greet when somebody comes into the room?
A person who has just come in, it doesn’t matter how old she/he is or who she/he is.
19. A couple of young people are in the theatre. Who will go to the seats first?
The seats are looked for and let to by a man.
20. If you have a talk with a person, what is your behaviour?
Don’t talk too loud, or get too close, stay about one arm’s length away, don’t interrupt, smile and look in the eye.
21. If you have something to say to your boss, but s/he is speaking at this moment. What would you do?
Don’t interrupt and wait for a pause in the conversation.
22. Who is the first to offer one’s hand to shake (a man, a boy, a woman, a girl)?
Men and boys do not offer their hand to shake unless the girl or lady offer theirs.
23. If you are late for the performance, where would you sit?
Do you need to look for your seats? It’s necessary to sit on the nearest empty chairs.
24. When you meet with a person, who has to give a hand first?
(A woman, a man, an older one, a younger one, a chief, a subordinate)
The main rule is: the older one greets a younger one, a woman greets a man, a chief shakes a subordinate’s hand.
