The document provides information on table manners and etiquette, including defining the terms, listing basic etiquette like chewing with your mouth closed and using utensils properly, and advising that teaching children good manners is something that should be practiced over time to build confidence in social situations. Learning objectives are also outlined around defining and explaining table manners and recognizing their importance.

1. QUARTER 4: MODULE 6
HOUSEHOLD SERVICES 10

2. CLEAN
ORganize
understand
participate
learn
enjoy

3. This rule of manners I will teach my guests:
To come with their own bellies unto feasts;
Not to eat equal portions, but to rise
Farced with the food that may themselves suffice.
-Robert Herrick

5. This rule of manners I will teach my guests:
To come with their own bellies unto feasts;
Not to eat equal portions, but to rise
Farced with the food that may themselves
suffice.
-Robert Herrick

6. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Knowledge: define table manners and
etiquette
Skills: explain the basic table manners and
etiquette
Attitude: recognize the importance of table manners and
etiquette

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18%
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How frequent do you eat with the majority of your
family?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
6 days a week
7 days a week
1 day a week
2 days a week
4 days a week
6 days a week
5 days a week

9. Picture Perfect
Your task is to examine
the infographic
provided and list down
the 1 table manners
from each country.
Then, answer the guide
questions that follow.

10. Watch and Learn
As visual learners who love to
look around and examine
situations, your task is to
watch a video and list down
the table manners you have
observed. Then, answer the
guide questions that follow.

11. Lights, Camera,
Action
As learners who learn best by
actively participating in the
learning process, your task is to
list down 3 table etiquette that
you practice at home within your
families. Thereafter, you are
going to “act-it-out” in front of
the class and the rest of the
group will guess what your action
means.

12. “I Can Sing It!”
This group shall listen
to a nursery song
about table manners.
They will choose one
line from the song and
sing it in the class.
Then, answer the guide
questions that follow.

14. The use of cutlery was Western
influence to the region. For the
Philippines, Spain introduced the
whole set of forks, knives, and
spoons. The use of spoon instead of
knife is for practical utility of eating
the indigenous food which are
often eaten with rice.

15. Dining table
Hapag-kainan

16. Eating with the hands
kamayan

17. Head of the table
kabesa

18. What is table manners and etiquette?
Table etiquette refers to
rules of acceptable conduct
while eating.
Table manners refer to the
way you behave when you
are eating a meal at a table. It
may also include the
appropriate use of utensils.

19. BASIC TABLE ETIQUETTE
Chew with your mouth closed.
Keep your smartphone off the table
and set to silent or vibrate.
Hold utensils correctly. Don’t
use your fork or spoon like a
shovel or stab your food.

20. First Aid for Choking on Food

21. BASIC TABLE ETIQUETTE
Wash up and come to the table clean. Don’t
groom or attend to hygiene at the table.
Remember to use your napkin.
Avoid slouching and don’t place your
elbows on the table while eating

22. BASIC TABLE ETIQUETTE
Pace yourself with fellow diners. Cut only one
piece of food at a time.
Instead of reaching across the table
for something, ask for it to be
passed to you.
Bring your best self to the meal. Take
part in the dinner conversation.

23. Learning good
manners is
something he/she will
practice over the
course of time, and
so make sure to
teach the basic skills
and let him/her
improve on them.
Good manners at the
table and elsewhere
will certainly make
your child become
confident in handling
social situations
when he/she gets
older.

25. Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no
matter what fork you use.”
~Emily Post