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# knife, fork, and spoon

## knife, fork, spoon

hold your knife or fork or spoon

pick up your …

put down your …

## spoon

a soup spoon

a teaspoon

a serving spoon

a wooden spoon

stir (the soup) with a spoon

## knife

a sharp knife

a blunt knife

cut or slice (meat) with a knife

## fork

pick (food) up with your fork

beat (eggs) with a fork

## **Exercises:**

### Verb collocations

1. Peter! ***Put*** your knife and fork down, and wait until everybody has been served.
2. I ***picked*** up my spoon and tried the soup, but I wasn’t hungry.
3. My brother is right-handed, but he ***holds*** his fork in his right hand, and his knife in his left!

### Adjective and noun collocations

1. I can’t peel the potato with this knife. It’s too ***blunt***.
2. Jane! Use the ***serving*** spoon to lift the vegetables onto your plate, not your fingers!
3. You’ll need a ***sharp*** knife to cut your steak. It’s very tough.
4. Have you got a ***teaspoon***? I take sugar in my coffee.

### Common expressions

1. Stir the soup occasionally with the wooden spoon. (d)
2. Can you <mark style="color:green;">cut the melon in half</mark> with the kitchen knife, please? (c)
3. I tried to pick the peas up with my fork but <mark style="color:blue;">they kept falling off</mark>. (a)
4. Beat the eggs and flour with a fork until <mark style="color:green;">the mixture is smooth</mark>. (b)

## Note

**Note these expressions:**

*<mark style="color:orange;">Be careful you don’t</mark> cut yourself with that knife!*

*I can’t believe that some ten-year-old kids don’t know how to use a knife and fork!*


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