English for Everyday Activities 25-27

25. Eating Dinner

Pual and kate Set the Table

• Everyone sat down at the table.
• They put their napkins on their laps膝部.
• Pual helped himself to some salad… 普尔自己吃了一些沙拉……
• …and passed the serving dish to Kate.
• Then they helped themselves to the food. 然后他们自己去拿食物。
• As they ate,they talked.
• Pual had a second helping of spaghetti.
• After the main course,they had some dessert甜点.

• coffee cup
• salad bowl
• napkin 餐巾(这里取餐巾之意),尿布
• fork
• plate
• knife
• spoon
• glass
• saucer 碟子

26. Clearing the Table

After everyone was done,Pual and Kate offered to clear the table.

• They stacked up the dirty dishes,…
• …and carried them to the kitchen.
• They took the serving dishes off the table…
• …and put the leftovers into containers,…
• …which they put into the refrigerator.
• They scraped the scraps from the plates into the garbage.
• Then they wiped the table off…
• …and threw the scraps and crumbs from the table into the garbage.

• clean up
• leftovers 剩菜
• scraps 废料

27. Doing Dishes

• Pual put the plug into the drain in the sink. 将塞子插入水槽的排水管中。
• Then he filled the sink with water.
• He put some dish soap into the water.
• He washed the dirty dishes.
• He scrubbed擦洗 some very dirty dishes.
• Then he rinsed the dishes.
• He put the wet dishes in the dish rack…
• …where the water dripped off them.
• Then he pulled the plug from the sink…
• …and the dirty water went down the drain渠.
• He dried the dishes with a towel毛巾…
• …and then put the dishes away.

• plug 塞子