- •Vocabulary Names of meals
- •Be sure that you know the names of plates, dishes and cutlery which we use when we lay the table or cook a meal
- •Names of primary products
- •Names of dishes
- •Names of dishes the English people like to have for breakfast
- •Names of sweet things and nuts
- •Here are the names of things that make our food more tasty and piquant
- •Learn the names of some drinks (beverages)
- •Here are the names of vegetables you should remember
- •Let’s learn the names of some berries and fruits
- •Remember the adjectives which people usually use when they speak about dishes, drinks, fruit and berries
- •Important phrases that can come in handy when speaking about meals
- •Learn the wordlist which can help you to describe the way of preparing your favourite dish
- •Exercises
- •Visiting the British at Home
- •Entertaining a guest at the table
- •Speaking practice
- •2. Find in the dialogue English equivalents for the following:
- •3. Answer these questions:
- •4. Say if the phrases below are true or false:
- •If the phrases are false If the phrases are true
- •5. Paraphrase using the words and phrases from the text:
- •6. Fill in the blanks with the pronouns some, any, anything, somewhere, anywhere:
- •10. What might you say to the person/people with you in a restaurant if ...
- •12. A. Close the right column of the table and try to translate the left one. Then check up yourselves. Work in pairs.
- •1. Act the following dialogues in English:
- •2. Render the texts. Еда в Британии.
- •Еда в нашей семье.
- •Правила поведения за столом.
- •Compare english, american, russian and mordovian meals
- •The Public Talks
- •In Favour of British Food
- •Baked beans
- •Fat America
- •Virgins & Cheese Products
- •Hamburger Heaven
- •38 Billion Burgers
- •American Drinks
- •Eating out in britain
- •Eating out in the usa
- •Note the lexical difference between British and American English.
- •Russian meals
- •2. Do you know … ?
- •6. Complete these sentences about yourself and your country.
- •7. Think about the typical cooking in your country and make a list of ten or twelve basic ingredients. Mordovian Meals
- •2. Do you know … ?
- •Boiled meat-pies
- •Ingredients
- •Fried meat
- •Ingredients
- •Crucian in sour cream
- •Ingredients
- •1. Match the names of the Mordovian dishes with their descriptions.
- •2. Fill in the blanks.
- •1. Read the texts. Mark the stresses and tunes. Learn them by heart. A) The Custom of Having Meals in England
- •B) The Custom of Having Meals in Russia
- •Meals in the priestleys’ family
- •2. Compare the procedure of laying the table in your family and in the Priesteys’ family. Restaurants in hungary
- •Listen to the tape and mark true and false statements.
- •Listen to the tape again and fill in the missing words and prepositions.
- •Answer the following questions in written form.
- •II Listening and comprehension
- •2. 1. Listen to the manager at Burger Palace discussing with Carol. Check your comprehension choosing the correct answer to the following questions.
- •Eating out
- •1. Look through the vocabulary.
- •3. Listen to the people who are going out to eat. Write numbers in the box on the right to show in which order the events take place on the tape.
- •4. Answer the questions below.
- •5. Listen to the dialogues again and choose the correct continuation of the sentences.
- •6. Here is the second part of the conversation. Listen to the recording and put down the missing words and the pronouns.
- •7. Make up your own conversation using the vocabulary of the recording. What's on the menu
- •I. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •1.1. Listen to the people complaining about the service at a restaurant and answer the questions that follow.
- •At the table
- •1.3. Here some more new words and word combinations that you will hear in the recording.
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.2. Listen to the interview again. It has been divided into three parts and you will hear a beep at the end of each part. Choose the answer which best expresses the main idea of that part.
- •2.3. Listen to each part of the interview again and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Comparing table manners
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Listen to the recording and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
- •2.2. Listen again and from the list below choose the table manners that are being discussed in the сonversation.
- •2.3. When listening this time note down briefly what Stephen answers to the following questions.
- •2.4. Listen to the interview again comparing the table manners indifferent countries so as to complete the chart below.
- •III. Language focus and auditory memory check
- •3.1. The adverbs in the box are all from the recording. Listen to it again and insert the suitable adverb in the gaps.
- •3.2. Translate into English using the vocabulary of the recording.
- •IV. Follow up activity
- •Mr. Jone's visit
- •2. Mark statements as True or False.
- •3. Fill in the missing part of the sentence.
- •Meals in different countries
- •Recipes
- •Karen and pat
- •3. What do you have for a typical breakfast, lunch and dinner? Complete the You column in the chart.
- •5. Find out what sort of things other people in your class eat, drink or use in their cooking.
- •Watching the first date
- •1. Matthew is on a first date with Dawn. Watch Part 1 and decide whether these statements are true or false.
- •3. What went wrong? Watch part 2 and put the sentences in order.
- •4. Watch again and complete these extracts.
- •5. Match the sentences in 3 with the extracts in 4.
- •8. Complete the expressions below. They are all things you may hear in a restaurant. What is the hidden expression?
- •9. Put the expressions in 8 in the order you would expect to hear them.
- •10. Do you know any more expressions you might hear in a restaurant?
- •11. Work in groups of three. Act out a situation between a waiter/ waitress and two customers. Use some of the expressions in 2 and 8 and the menu below. Restaurant Co Co
- •Additional material russian proverbs about meals:
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Recipes warm lobster with herb & almond dressing
- •836 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Lobster & summer vegetable tartlets
- •445 Cals per serving for 4 as a starter;
- •665Cals per serving for 4 as a main course
- •Ingredients:
- •4. To serve, divide the vegetables between the pastry cases. Add the lobster meat and a spoonful of the cream. Garnish with chopped chervil and serve with lime slices. Mussel & saffron pilaff
- •435 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Mussel, leek & herb salad
- •225 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Crab & orange salad
- •740Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Hot devilled crab
- •842Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Chicken and apple salad
- •Ingredients:
- •Apple and cream cheese pudding
- •Ingredients:
- •Veal chops with apple sauce
- •Ingredients:
- •Eating the alphabet
- •Grape fruit
- •Grapefruit fruit
- •Literature
2.3. Listen to each part of the interview again and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
Part 1
1. Craig Claiborne had several weeks of summer vacation.
2. He works for the «New York Times».
3. He sees a decline in our manners. Part 2
Craig Claiborne says he...
would never go out in public with dirty fingernails.
would not go out without brushing his teeth.
leads a very formal lifestyle. According to Craig Claiborne, you should...
never put candles on a table.
put only low flower arrangements on the table. Part 3
According to Craig Claiborne, you should...
9. always hold a wine glass by the rim.
hold a good wine glass by the stem.
wipe your lips each time you drink some wine.
not order champagne at dinner.
let wine drop on the label when you pour it.
show your guests the wine before you serve it.
III. Follow up activity
What's your opinion of the role of good manners in general and at the table, in particular. Who should teach people good manners?
Comparing table manners
I. Pre-listening task
Go over these words and phrases to avoid difficulties of understanding the recording.
Curiosity – любопытство
Point – 1. Craig Claiborne had several weeks of summer vacation.
2. He works for the «New York Times».
3. He sees a decline in our manners. кончик (ножа, вилки)
messy — (зд.) крошащийся
posh, smart—шикарный, первоклассный (о ресторане)
sticky—липкий
toast someone — произнести тост в чью-либо честь
loosely—свободно
roughly—(зд.) приблизительно
sideways — сбоку от
on the lap — на коленях
II. Listening and comprehension tasks
2.1. Listen to the recording and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
The conversation takes place in Britain.
The interviewer comes from Germany.
Stephen isn't very particular about table manners.
Some of the English table manners sound strange to the interviewer.
2.2. Listen again and from the list below choose the table manners that are being discussed in the сonversation.
a. the way the English use a napkin;
b. the clothes they wear at dinner;
с the kind of meat served normally at formal dinners;
d. the way they put the fork and knife after the meal's finished
e. the place they keep their hands both during the meal and before or after it;
f. the kind of jokes that are acceptable at table;
g. the way they eat cakes and chicken in Britain;
h. the way they express gratitude after a meal;
i. the words they toast people with;
j. the kind of drinks preferable at formal dinner.
2.3. When listening this time note down briefly what Stephen answers to the following questions.
a. When do the English have lunch and dinner?
b. How long does a typical lunch or dinner last?
c. At which meal would the English eat the following: melon, meat, fish, pasta?
d. At what season do the English eat soup and salads?
e. When do they take tea or coffee?