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Hosting drinks and nibbles

of our family together and let's say i am hosting this meal so it's my house and my family have come round the first thing i'd want to do while i'm cooking and getting things re...

Course: Food, drinks and cafésSection: British food and drink expressionsSubtitles: en

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meal we have all

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of our family together

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and let's say i am hosting this meal so

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it's my house and

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my family have come round the first

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thing i'd want to do while i'm cooking

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and getting things ready would be to

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lay the table to lay the table

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would be to put everything on the table

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so of course we have things like plates

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bowls we also have what we call cutlery

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cutlery this is knife fork spoon okay

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the things we

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use to eat we also have

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placemats placemats are the

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square mats or the rectangular mats that

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we put the plates on to protect the

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table

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and also we have the same thing for cups

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right

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we put a cup on uh something and this is

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called

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a coaster coaster

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so we have coaster placemat cutlery

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usually it's kind of a tradition i don't

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know if it's the same in your country

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some countries it is some countries it

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isn't from my experience

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where we wait until everybody has their

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food and then we begin

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so maybe before we all start eating the

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