英语口语的自我介绍20篇

Yangzhou (simplified Chinese:扬州) is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, Peoples Republic of China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the southwest, Huaian to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Historically it is one of the wealthiest of Chinas cities, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, painters, and scholars.

Geography and climate

Rivers: the Yangtze River, Jinghang Canal, Baoshe River, Datong River, Beichengzi River, Tongyang Canal, Xintongyang Canal, Baima Lake, Baoying Lake, Gaoyou Lake, Shaobo Lake.

Local landscape: Slender west lake, Ge garden, He garden, Da ming temple, Phoenix island, etc. Subtropical monsoon climate with humid changeable wind; longer winters for about 4 months, summers 3 months and shorter springs and autumns, 2 months respectively; frost-free period of 222 days and annual average sunshine of 2177 hours. Average temperature: 15 °C annually; the hottest in July of 27.6 °C and the coldest in January of 1.7 °C; maximum temperature of 39.8 °C and minimum 19 °C

The annual average precipitation is 1,030 mm, and about 45 percent of rainfall is concentrated in the summer. The rainy season known as "plum rain season" usually lasts from mid-June to late July. During this season, the plums are ripening, hence the name plum rain.

Cuisine

Yangzhou dishes may be one of the reasons why the people of Yangzhou are so infatuated with their city. They have an appealing color, aroma, taste and appearance. The original color of each ingredient is preserved after cooking, and no oily sauce is added, so as to retain the fresh savor of the food.

In Yangzhou all dishes, whether cheap or expensive, are elaborate. Cooks will not scrimp on their work, even with Zhugansi (stewed sliced dry bean curd), a popular dish that costs only a few yuan. Dry bean curd is made by each restaurant that serves it, so the flavor is guaranteed. The cook slices the 1-cm-thick curd into 30 shreds, each one paper-thin but none broken, and then stews them for hours with chopped bamboo shoots and shelled shrimps in chicken soup. In this way the dry bean curd shreds can soak up the flavor of the other ingredients, and the soup is clear but savory. It is not only Yangzhou cooks but also the ordinary people who are conscientious about cooking.

[介绍扬州的英语作文

Hello everyone！ Im - Wang Jie.

I grow high, fat, a pair of small eyes always from time to time, I have a pair of big ears, usually seldom laugh, even if the smile is just a smile. My clothes generally wear white or red, my character is a little introverted, few friends, usually taciturn, my learning is general. My advantage is that I can take notes in class and record the truth and meaning of it. The shortcoming is recalcitrant character and refusing to listen to advice. Of course, I have tried several times to correct it, but I cant do it. My greatest determination is to correct the problems and strive to be the front spear!

Well, Im finished. Please make a lot of changes! Show me your introduction!

The experience of painting

Im a girl who loves painting. Actually. Listen to my mother, when I was young cursive are reluctant to get it! Later, why did I like to take a stroke? This is the first thing to say: listen to mom, when she was a kid, she held my hand and taught me to write. I was sleepy, writing and dozing. My mother had no choice but to force me. Later my mother taught me to read the chant, in order to improve my interest in every song beside the mother with a nice painting (mother love painting) did not think, I am very interested in these pictures, often with a pen in drawing, my mother found my interest, teach me how to learn to draw.

Mom started to buy a first in the body of the red, I treasure every day, according to draw pictures. Then I do not trace will be able to draw simple pictures. My mother once drew a circle, and I followed a circle. With the pattern, into a small cat. Mother was surprised, and she didnt think I could draw such a beautiful cat when I had just learned to paint. She felt that I should be trained more systematically and sent me to the art training class. Under the guidance of the teacher, my painting techniques continue to improve, I have to draw more and more interest in the!

My name is——. There are 4 people in my family. My father is a Chemistryteacher. He teaches chemistry in senior high school. My mother is an English teacher. She teaches English in the university. I have a younger brother, he is a junior high school student and is preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read English story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books is fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both English and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

导语：广场舞是舞蹈艺术中最庞大的系统，因多在广场聚集而得名，融自娱性与表演性为一体，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

假定你是李华。近日有网友在推特贴出了中国大妈带领美国大妈在新泽西大跳广场舞的照片，你的美国朋友David看过后，很想了解中国流行的广场舞(square dance)的相关情况。请你用英语给他写封回信，要点包括：

1)广场舞跳的时间、地点、参与人员等;

2)广场舞流行的原因;

3)广场舞的缺点。

注意：

1)词数100左右;

2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3)开头语和结束语已为你写好。

范文：

Dear David,

I am writing to tell you something about the square dance in China. In the morning or after dinner, people, especially elderly women, will gather in squares to dance to popular music. More and more young people are also joining in now.

There are many reasons behind its popularity. First of all,China has made great progress in its social and economical development in the past decades, and people have more time and energy to enjoy themselves. Besides,doing the square dance is a good way for people to keep fit.

However, just as each coin has two sides,this kind of dance has also leads to some problems. For example, dancers play loud music and occupy lots of public places, which annoy many other people.Maybe square dancers need to make some changes.

Yours,

LiHua

【参考译文】

亲爱的戴维，

我写信是要告诉你关于在中国广场舞的东西。在早上或晚饭后，人们，特别是老年妇女，将聚集在广场跳舞流行音乐。现在越来越多的年轻人也加入进来。

它的流行背后有许多原因。首先，中国在过去几十年的社会和经济发展取得了巨大进步，人们有更多的时间和精力去享受自己。此外，做广场舞是人们保持健康的好方法。

然而，正如每个硬币都有两面一样，这种舞蹈也导致了一些问题。例如，舞者大声地演奏音乐，占据了许多公共场所，这让许多人感到不安。

你的好朋友，

李华

1.高考英语作文：介绍广场舞

2.介绍学校的高考英语满分作文

3.介绍光盘行动的英语作文

4.介绍红楼梦的英语作文

5.介绍英国文化的英语作文2篇

6.介绍丝绸之路的英语作文

7.介绍英国的高考英语作文

8.介绍英国文化的英语作文

I’m a primary student. I live happily. I have long hair and a lovely face. But I ‘m very short. Being the shortest girl in my class, I feel shamed of it, though my teacher and classmates always say I will grow taller in the future to comfort me. Besides, I feel very happy in school. There are so many students play with me, and I always do well in study. So, when I go home, my parents also happy, too. My father often take me out to different interesting places. And my mother usually cook delicious food for me. How happy I am!

Teachers，good afternoon. Allow me to briefly talk about myself.

My name is - Xianning graduated from the south gate of the private secondary schools. Tourism now studying at the school in Hubei Province. Studying hotel management professional.

I was a character，cheerful girl，so my hobbies is extensive. Sporty. In my spare time likes playing basketball， table tennis，volleyball，skating. When a person like the Internet at home，or a personal stereo. Not like too long immersed in the world of books，and family members have told me，Laoyijiege is the best. Talking about my family，then I will talk about my family has. Only three people my family，my grandmother，grandfather and my own. My grandfather is a engineer，I am very severely on peacetime，the Church me a lot. Grandma is a very kindly for the elderly，care for my life in every possible way. Therefore，I have no parents in their care，childhood and growth were full of joy.

I like this hotel management professional，because I like to live in a strict order of the management environment. I have my professional self-confidence and hope，as long as the efforts will be fruitful，this is my motto. Since I chose this profession，I will follow this path，effort，perseverance path.

Thank you teachers. I finished presentation.

Dear Sir：

Good morning/afternoon everyone! It is my honor to be here and I really appreciate you offer me the chance of interview .Now I will introduce myself first .My name is……from Xiangfan in Hubei province.

Im an honest, responsible, and warm-hearted person. I can adapt different environments quickly .Second I like this kind of field very much and I take it as my career .

Till now I have one year experience in this field. As a 21 years man, Id like to experience more to enrich myself and then it can help me to laid good foundation for my future career .There is no use doing what we love ,we must love we do just like the field. At the same time, I am really proud of myself applying for this job. I hope you can give me a chance and I will try my best to do it better. Finally , I hope your hotel can become the best one among hotel industry。 Thanks for your time.

My hometown Nanchang is the Peoples Republic of China Jiangxi Provinces provincial capital, Chinese one of 35 super cities, has the essence or quintessence of things tianbao, the human outstanding earth deities since the ancient times fine reputation.It has more than 2200 years history and the deep cultural inside story, is the Peoples Republic of China State Council names the historical city.Not only Nanchang is the ecological environment exquisite the Chiangnan region of rivers and lakes, Communist Party of China it the colors raise place.Has the honor to receive many times the Peoples Republic of China"the nation cultured and civilized city", "the national health cityadvanced city", "the Chinese outstanding traveling city", "thenational two supports model city" the title.

Nanchang is situated at middle and lower reaches Yangtze River, westPoyang Lake the Nanan, is only 11 the provincial capital city whichwith southeast the Yangtze River delta, the Zhujiang Delta and Fujianthe economic zone adjoin west, receives opens, north-south north andsouth. Beijing nine, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, the Anhui Jianxithree bar iron routes connect to this, is Beijing nine on-line theonly provincial capital city; 105th, 320, 316 federal highways gothrough vertically Nanchang; The Changbei international airport mayreach national each big city; The water transportation enters YangtzeRiver after Ganjiang River to leave East China Sea. Looked from theeconomic significance that, Nanchang has become international andeastern part the coastal developed area industry gradient shift idealarea.

Good morning, glad to be here for this interview.

Let me introduce myself first. My name is LiShuai, and my English name is MONO Chen. Ive finished my undergraduate education in ZhongShan University, Majoring in Electronic Science and Technology.

I am an open-minded and smart boy/girl with broad interests, like playing basketball, reading, especially in engineering such as software programming, website designing as well as hardware designing. I designed two websites in the past four years: one is the website of our school, and the other one is the website of the Doctor Forum China 2007. Furthermore, I am interested in C plus plus programming language and have written some application programs. My supervisor says I did an excellent job in the graduate project last July about Image Process. In addition, I have also finished some projects about embedded system by using MCU when I was a junior.

Broad interest does not make me perfect in each specific area due to the insufficient knowledge and practice, so I think further study is definitely important for me to realize self-value.

The major I expected is IC design. I found that integrated circuits plays a more and more important role in modern society. For example, with the recognition by the government, the domestic integrated circuits industry is growing rapidly and that may provide a great amount of chances for us.

I plan to focus my research in this field in the graduate time. And I hope I can have a systematic view of micro electronics and IC design technology and making a solid foundation for future profession after three years study here.

Ok, thank you very much

After completing my military service，I have been looking for a challenging goal for me to achieve. And I found that the Intermediate of General English Proficiency Test fits my new achievement properly.

I graduated from Taipei Commercial Junior College，majored in business administration. Instead of spending much time in playing，I devoted myself to my studies and paid attention to all meaningful things happened in daily life.By the way，I learned a lot from Mr. Wang，the professor of my business class.He is my good friend till now an often gives some appropriate suggestions toward my problem confusion.

My father is，in the same way，a good consultant to me. As he said: I am in poor education，little for you; to clarify，what he have given is far beyond his words，I do think so. I was born in a country of Ping Tung Country，farming is our career of generations.There are four people in my family，Mother is housewife and my brother is a student of an Agriculture College.

I am optimistic and active，and I am confident that I can pass the test. Thank you for your precious to read my autobiography.

My name  . There are 4 people in my family. My father  a Chemtry teacher. He teaches chemtry in senior high school. My mother  an Englh teacher. She teaches Englh in the university. I have a younger brother, he  a junior high school student and  preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read Englh story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books  fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both Englh and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

I had accept your elders and teachers of good ideological and moral education, strict with oneself, honest, hard working, be self-motivated, constantly in the university three years, after college half militarization management, make oneself become more strong. As a computer professional students, I love this professional and for its input great enthusiasm and energy.

I thought positive progress, the personality is bright, the life style of rigorous, a strong sense of responsibility, handle affairs composed, persistence, can bear hardships and stand hard work, strong adaptability, have good psychological quality. I motivated actively seek, love the motherland, support the communist party of China, to the party organization actively, aligning with our great communist party of China. I still adhere to the four cardinal principles and reform and opening up policy, concerned, the state and society has a strong spirit of patriotism. Earnestly implement the school is rigorous, realistic, united, into the school motto, study the spirit of lei feng to help others, actively join some compulsory activity and insist on doing good to the society.

In study, I study purpose, basic knowledge, and strive to achieve the balanced development of various aspects, in the process of learning, I pay attention to integrating theory with practice, although the practice is not enough, but I will strive to increase in the later work and study. In life, I am strict with myself, life is simple, life style is rigorous, take an active part in all kinds of beneficial social activities and carefully into the school organization activities, eager to participate in class activities.

Love of learning, work sedate careful, can bear hardships and stand hard work, can work independently, reality get to work the ability and also has the group are synergetic spirit, have good professional ethics and sense of responsibility, can quickly adapt to various environment, and fuses. Accept ability is good, strong self-learning ability, good interpersonal relationship, this is my biggest advantage, it makes me can quickly learn what they need, and the application. Loves a challenge, confident, have the stronger team consciousness.

The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals value,the pursue of democracy and freedom,the promotion of deploitation and competition and the need of realistic and practicality.Its core is individualism:self first,personal need first,pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment,emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design.This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons,it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.

Introducing yourself is very important when you meet new people. You always want to make a good impression when telling others about yourself. Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Pat and Im from Taiwan. Right now, Im a student. I study very hard every day. I like going to school because Im eager to learn. I enjoy learning English. Its my favorite class. I like to make friends and I get along with everyone. This is the introduction I give whenever I meet new people. It tells people a little bit about me and about what I like to do.

当你认识新的人时，介绍自己是非常重要的。你一定会想要在告诉别人有关自己的事，给别人留下好印象。让我来介绍我自己。

我的名字是派特，我来自台湾。我现在是学生。我每天都很用功念书。我喜欢上学，因为我渴望学习。我喜欢学英文。那是我最喜欢的课程。我喜欢交朋友，而且我和每个人都处得很好。这就是我每次认识新的人时，所作的自我介绍。它可以告诉别人一点关于我的事，还有我喜欢做什么。

A ray of sunshine in the morning, on my cheeks a flock of birds wake me from sleep. Today is my own at home, going to cook. The laundry. Do the homework. Eat good lonely!

I got up at 8:30 in the morning in do breakfast, eat breakfast began to do my homework. Doing doing will forget time, suddenly arrived

1:00. Went to cooking, fun ah I bring out a variety of foods. Ready to cut the pot wash the dishes. The dish in the pot. Dish Fried good immediately, however, before the rice cooking has good waiting for the straight. I have not hungry, can only eat first order now. Waiting for the next meal is cooked I a person sitting on the table a good lonely, but a person eat four food is good too.

To be honest, I dont have a few times the cooking is successful. Remember when grandmother home, as long as grandma be not at home I went downstairs to open fire. But at that time cant even Fried egg Fried rice, but I wont give up. I practiced for a long time for so many years, I have straight to find time to practice. One day I caught a very good chance, immediately went downstairs to buy a lot of ingredients, get started! Later, my mother came back to see the good big fog, will know that I in cooking again. Mom, Ill explain. What you burn again. "What didnt fry, fry, mom". "Havent fry", the mothers tone seems more and more heavy. I also didnt speak, and mom said they smoke? Fast to tell you the truth not I hit you, and mom went to stick to my mothers stick has a little up, Im afraid I have to be honest. "Yes I am cooking!" My mood is very small. Bear is so I also didnt give up, my cooking is much better than many years ago, now my mother dont tube so I can go to cooking a big bear.

Now mother kua I cook delicious, so this is my weekend play fun boring, I have a good weekend my good lonely happy weekend? This is my weekend.

清晨一缕阳光，照在我的脸颊上一群小鸟吧我从睡梦中叫醒。今天是我自己在家，要自己做饭。洗衣。做作业。吃饭好孤独哦!

我早上8：30起床在做早饭，吃了早饭就开始做作业了。做着做着就忘了时间，一下子就到了

下午1：00了。就去做饭了，好玩呀我把各种各样的食物拿出来了。准备好，把锅洗掉把菜切好。在把菜下锅炒了。菜马上炒好了，可是饭还没煮所已直好等待了。我已经饿的不行，只能先吃点菜了。等了一下饭就熟我一个人坐在饭桌好孤独，不过一个人吃4个菜也不错的。

实话说，我也没有几次做饭是做成功的。记的在外婆家时，只要外婆不在家我就下楼去开炒了。可是那时候连蛋炒饭都不会炒，可是我不会放弃的。我这么多年练了好久了，我已直都在找时间练习。有一天我抓到了一个非常好的机会，就马上下楼去买了好多的食材，马上开工了。后来，妈妈回来看到了好大的浓雾，就知道我又在炒菜了。妈妈，我马上解释了。你又烧什么呀。“没炒，炒什么，呀妈妈”。“还没炒什么”，妈妈的语气好像越来越重了。我也没有说话，妈妈又说要不怎么会浓烟呢?快说实话不的话我就打你了，说完妈妈就拿来棍子要打我了妈妈的棍子已经挥了起来了，我怕了就实话说了。“是的我是在炒菜呀!”我的语气很小。担是这样我也没放弃，我的厨艺已经比很多年以前好多了，现在妈妈不太管了所以我可以大担去炒菜了。

现在妈妈都夸我做饭好吃，所以这就是我的周末玩有趣无聊，我的周末好是我的美好孤独的开心的周末吗?这就是我的周末。

I, a girl with short hair, under the care of parents, in full 11 years old

this year.

With 11 years of faults: a careless, harm to me the most bitter, he let me

with a full pass by, let me wrong a 39 + 26 addition topic; Let me see the plus

sign as a minus sign, the division sign as a multiplication sign; Let me

actually took the math book on Chinese classes; He even want me to write in

Chinese this math homework! Im fed up with him over the years, determined to put

him out of the "home".

In recent years, careless a whim, let me put the eye became nearly three

baidu nearsightedness, pestering glasses, became I was like peas and carrots

"good friends", this "thank you" even a careless.

But I have an advantage, can overcome careless one, that is a must, please

carefully miss determination, I must get rid of this term with the bad habit of

my 11!

In to talk about my study, I is not very good students in the class,

because my language result, combined with my memory is not very good, sometimes

language examination have words cant write, I be untouched, verse forgot, I when

the poet, read the topic not, Ill be imagine writer. English? Sometimes the

exam, my Chinese is good, why? Because I always can get pinyin instead of

English words, let the teacher in distress situation.

But I am naturally happy, often can give students bring happiness, if there

are students angry, I can in a minute let his mood by Yin clearing up!

Look, this is me, a advantages disadvantages coexist me.

我，一个短头发的女孩，在父母的精心呵护下，今年以满11岁了。

伴随了11年的缺点：粗心大意一家，害我害的最苦，他让我与一百分擦肩而过，让我错了一道39+26的加法计算题;让我把加号看成了减号，除号看成乘号;让我在语文课上竟然拿出数学书;他甚至还想让我把数学作业写在语文本上!我这些年受够了他的折磨，决心要把他赶出“家门”。

就在近几年，粗心大意一家心血来潮，让我把眼睛大意成了快三百度的近视眼，从此纠缠眼镜，便成了我形影不离的“好朋友”，这还要“谢谢”粗心大意一家。

但我有一个优点，可以治服粗心大意一家，那就是一颗一定要请来细心小姐的决心，我一定要在这学期改掉陪伴我11的坏毛病!

在来谈谈我的学习吧，我在班里不算很优秀的学生，因为我的语文成绩一般，加上我的记忆力不太好，有时语文考试遇到字不会写，我就当造字人，诗句忘了，我当诗人，阅读题不会了，我就当想象作家。英语呢?有时考试的时候，我的语文就好了，为什么呢?因为我的英语单词总能拿拼音代替，让老师哭笑不得。

但我天生快乐，常常能给同学们带来快乐，若有同学生气了，我能在一分钟之内让他的心情由阴转晴哟!

瞧，这就是我，一个缺点优点共存的我。

Dear friend,

My name is Wang Lin . Now I live in Hangzhou , China. I want to find a pen pal in England. I’m now 14 years old . I speak Chinese .And I can speak a little English. I like sports ,swimming is my favorite . I also like playing the computer games . My favorite subject in school is math. I like to

go to movies with my friends. My favorite movie is Beauty and Beast . Now I live with my parents .

Can you write to me soon ?

Wang Lin

[初中初一英语介绍自己的作文

Panda—the National Treasure

Panda is one of the scarcest animals.People in the world like it very much.There used to be many pandas in China long ago.As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer,pandas became less.But at present,the number of pandas is increasing year by year.There are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them.

Nowadays,the biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan.There is a research centre for nature and wild life there.Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.

Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is bounded on three sides by mountains. It has a 2500-year history and in ancient times was an important military town. Now Taiyuan is one of Chinas heavy industrial cities and accounts for more than half the national coal mining output.

Taiyuan also has a wealth of tourist attractions and notably among these is the Jinci Temple. This is the citys most attractive temple although the Shuangta Si (Twin-Pagoda Temple) has become a symbol of Taiyuan on account of its unique architecture. Another major attraction is the Tianlong Shan Stone Caves where magnificent sculptures dating from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) may be seen.

Taiyuan benefits from convenient public transport systems as the city is the provincial transportation hub. Accommodation facilities have become more and more advanced over recent years and range from 5-star hotels to a selection of comfortable guest houses.

The gourmand should be aware that Shanxi noodles are highly reputed all over China, as well as the local vinegar. Other local delicacies are the Tou Nao, the Steamed Dumpling, Sausages and Mutton Soup. To accompany these wholesome foods there are Fen Jiu (Fen Wine) and Zhuye Qing (Zhuye Qing Wine). As well as its cuisine the city is noted for products such as finely crafted lacquer ware.

[介绍家乡山西的英语作文

Hello, my name is Kong Shiqi. I’m 12 years old. I like spring best. Because It’s always windy and warm. I wear my new T-shirt. I like to go hiking and fly kites. The sky is very blue. The M要My Saturdayleaves are very small and green.

Today is Saturday, the weather is very cool and windy. I wear my T-shirt. I get up at 8:00 in the morning. I eat breakfast at 8:30. At 10 o’clock, I nill go to Xinhua bookstore. It’s near the hospital. How can I get to Xinhua bookstore?

1、 Start from my home, it’s near the Chengshi plaza(广场).

2、 Take the No.11 bus.

3、 Get off at the cinema.

4、 Turn right at the traffic light. There are three lights: red, yellow and green. Red means“Stop”. Yellow means“Wait”.Green means“Go”. In China, drivers drive on the right side of the road. We must remember the traffic rules.

5、 Walk east for five minutes.

6、 Find the white building on the left.

The Xinhua bookstore is opposit to the white building.

The road is too long.

American eating is funny. They eat almost everything with a fork, and it appears that holding a knife in ones right hand longer than a few seconds is considered to be against good table manners.

The system is that if it is absolutely necessary to use a knife, people take the fork in their left hand, and cut off a piece of meat or whatever it is in the normal manner. Then they put the knife down, transfer the fork to their right hand, and only then do they transport the food to their mouth. This is clearly ludicrous(滑稽可笑), but it is considered good manners.

There are several results of this system. First, if it is not absolutely necessary to use a knife, Americans dont use one, because obviously this greatly complicates(使复杂化) things, and you will therefore see them trying to cut things like potatoes, fish and even bacon(熏猪肉) with a fork. Second, towards the end of a course, since only one implement(器具) is being used, food has to bo chased around the plate with the fork - and for the last mouthful the thumb has to be used to keep the food in place, although one is not supposed to do this.

Third, tables are generally laid with one knife and two forks, the outside fork being for the salad. There is no need for foreign visitors to follow the American system and try to eat the salad with only a fork, but if you do use your knife, remerber to save it for the meat course. Even desserts(甜食) (except ice cream) are eaten with a fork if at all possible, and the spoon you see by your dessert is meant to be for coffee (but if you use it for your dessert no one will say anything).