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  • Hi, friends welcome back to a new lesson I am Niharika. Well in today's lesson we are

  • gonna look at some vocabulary related to offering food and drinks to your guests. So if often

  • you have guests at home how do you offer or how do you show off your hospitality skills

  • is what we are gonna learn today. So we have 4 questions that you can use to offer food

  • and drinks and then we have expressions to accept or to refuse.

  • So let's get started, the first question that you can use or you can ask your guests is

  • would you like some more wine? Okay so you have to be really nice and polite and if you

  • think that your guest needs another glass of wine then you can put up this question.

  • Would you like some more wine? Okay now not necessary that it has to be wine, this is

  • just an example. It can be anything like would you like some more beer? Would you like some

  • more sandwiches? Okay, let's have a look at another question

  • that you can ask your guests can I get you some more bread? Okay, now probably you are

  • at your dinner table and you and your guests are sitting and having a good time eating

  • and talking and then you think that okay probably the guests need some more bread, so how would

  • you offer some more bread? Well, this is the right question that you can ask in English;

  • can I get you some more bread? Can I get you some more rice? Can I get you some more chicken?

  • Okay so if you think that the guest's plate doesn't look too full and probably it's time

  • to offer some more food then use this.

  • Let's move on to another question that you can ask which is do you have room for some

  • more dessert? Now it's time for some dessert, if you have a sweet tooth then, of course,

  • you can ask for some more dessert. If you think your guests definitely need some more

  • dessert then how would you offer? Well, you can say do you have room for some more dessert?

  • Now here the word room actually means do you have some space in your tummy?

  • Okay alright and then the last question that usually people end up asking is have you got

  • enough meat? Have you got enough meat there or have you got enough rice there? So you're

  • just making sure that your guest is enjoying the food and if he needs or she needs anything

  • else then you can get it for her or for him okay. So these are the four questions that

  • you would use to offer food and drinks and now let's learn how to accept it.

  • Now if someone is offering you something how would you reply? Oh yes please, so, for example,

  • would you like some more wine and I'm the guest here and yes I would like to have some

  • more wine. Then I'm gonna say oh yes please and the moment the I am being served some

  • more wine then I would also say thank you. So oh yes please and then I'll say thank you.

  • Just a little more thank you. So can I get you some more bread and I would say that just

  • a little more and then thank you okay.

  • And then another way for accepting the offer is that would be great thank you. So, for

  • example, do you have some, do you have room for some more dessert? And yes I do have a

  • sweet tooth and I love desserts, I love caramel pudding, I love ice creams. So yes I do have

  • some more room, so I would say that would be great, thank you.

  • Okay, so this is the way you will accept the offer and if you are too full, you have no

  • room in your stomach then how would you refuse? Well no not for me. Now again when you're

  • refusing you should always end it with thank you. Okay, so that makes you sound really

  • polite. So, for example, would you like some more wine? No not for me thank you.

  • Next one I have got enough. So let's have a look, can I get you some more bread? Oh,

  • I've got enough so which means that you don't need any more bread on your plate. So you'll

  • say I've got enough and then again end it with thank you. No, I'm good, so, for example,

  • do you have room for some more dessert and then you're just too full, so you would say

  • no I'm good thank you and then the last way to refuse an offer is I'm too full. So here

  • the word full it means that you have no room, no space in your tummy because you have eaten

  • too much. So now you can't eat any more. So this is another way to refuse the offer alright.

  • So these are the four questions that you can use to offer food. This is the way you will

  • accept it, this is the way you will refuse it and now let's have a look at some expressions

  • that would help you to give choices and also thank the host.

  • Now here are some expressions that you can use to give options to your guests. Now at

  • times, there are too many things at home that you can offer to your guests. Now how do you

  • do that? Well, this is a perfect question that you can ask, would you like some ice

  • cream or cake? Now you have ice cream for dessert and you also have some cake for dessert.

  • So now it's time to ask your guests that what would they prefer? What would they like to

  • eat? So you can ask would you like some ice cream or cake? Now if you are the guest how

  • would you answer this question? Well the first option, either, please. Now either it means

  • that it doesn't matter. You're okay having some ice cream you're also okay having some

  • cake. So it doesn't matter okay. So you like ice cream, you also like cake so it's alright

  • whatever suits the host. So you can say either please okay.

  • The other one both please. Oh yes I love ice creams, I love cake and I'm a big foodie.

  • So I would like to eat both. So if you are starving, you are absolutely hungry and you

  • love eating ice cream as well as cake then go ahead say both please. Okay and if you

  • prefer something like probably you like ice cream a little more than cake then you can

  • say, I would prefer ice cream. Okay so here you show your preference, here you would like

  • to have both ice cream and the cake and if you say either please then it really doesn't

  • matter okay. And then it's time to thank your host how would you do that? Well the first

  • way to do that is the food was scrumptious. So which means that you have to even if you

  • don't like the food but it's important for you to appreciate. So how would you appreciate

  • by using a great adjective by saying scrumptious. The food was scrumptious; the food was excellent

  • the food was wonderful. You can also say that was lovely. So probably you loved the cake

  • and you loved the taste of it. So particularly you would like to appreciate the cake, then

  • you would say oh the cake was lovely or that was just lovely okay and then the last way

  • is I need the recipe. So if you really liked what you ate and probably you are not that

  • great in it, so you can ask for the recipe. So this is also another way of appreciating.

  • So you can say oh the food was just excellent, the meat was so well cooked I need the recipe

  • please. Okay so here it means that you are appreciating the meat that you ate okay.

  • So hope this lesson is helpful to you the next time you're visiting someone or you are

  • having guests at home use these expressions because that would help you to sound really

  • confident and I'll be back with a new lesson soon till then you take care.

Hi, friends welcome back to a new lesson I am Niharika. Well in today's lesson we are

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