How to Be Entertaining

To entertain means to give hospitality as well as to interest and amuse. If people come to your country will you know how to look after them? Will you know what kind of invitation to give them? Will you invite the visitors to your home or to a restaurant? Will you invite them to stay in your home or arrange for them to stay in a nearby hotel? Will you expect them to bring a present for you?

Ways of showing hospitality are different in every country and I have decided to concentrate on "how to be entertained" in Britain...

People might invite you to their home or to go out with them for the evening. They might invite you when they see you or by telephone. However, it is still quite common to be invited by letter or by invitation card. The invitation will tell you what the occasion is, when it is and, occasionally, what you should wear!

Reply quickly. If the occasion is small then you can reply by telephone, but if it is a big occasion it is better to reply by letter. It is kinder to do this because it helps your host to remember and to organize things. If the invitation was by formal invitation then you might like to reply in a formal way.

In Britain, it is common to be invited to someone's home rather than to a restaurant. If you are invited to a restaurant, it is because your host is very busy, cannot cook very well, or wants to give you the enjoyment of some special type of good, or perhaps often invited you home and now wants to give you a special treat!

Business visitors from other countries are often invited to their British colleagues' home, however, sometimes it may be more convenient to invite a business colleague to a restaurant.


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