- •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
Recipes warm lobster with herb & almond dressing
Preparation time: 25min
Cooking time: 2-3 min
836 Cals per serving
Ingredients:
I5g ( ½ oz) blanched almonds
15g ( ½ oz) flat-leafed parsley
15g ( ½ oz) mixed fresh herbs, such as mint, dill, chives and chervil
I small garlic dove
45ml (3 level tbsp) freshly grated Parmesan cheese
100ml(4fl oz) light olive oil
salt and ground black pepper
5ml (Itsp) lemon juice
700g ( ½ lb) cooked lobster
lemon and lime slices to serve
fresh herbs to garnish
Method:
1. Place the almonds in a small bowl and pour over enough boiling water to cover; leave for 20min, then drain.
2. Place all the herbs, garlic and drained almonds in a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add the freshly grated Parmesan cheese and pulse together. With the machine still running, add the olive oil in a thin, steady stream. Season with salt and black pepper and add the lemon juice.
3. Remove the lobster meat from the claws and slice the tail meat. Return to the shells. Cover and place in a steamer or metal colander. Steam over a pan of boiling water for 2min. Serve warm lobster immediately with the Herb and Almond Dressing and lemon and lime slices. Garnish with fresh herbs.
To prepare ahead Complete the dressing to the end of step 2, then cover and chill for up to two weeks.
Lobster & summer vegetable tartlets
Preparation time:45 min
Cooking time: about 10 min
445 Cals per serving for 4 as a starter;
665Cals per serving for 4 as a main course
Ingredients:
about 200g (7oz) filo pastry
25g (loz) butter, melted
15ml(l level tbsp) poppy seeds
large pinch saffron
200ml tub creme
salt and ground black pepper
125g (4oz) French beans
225g (8oz) slim asparagus tips
125g (4oz) broad beans
60ml (4tbsp) Orange Vinaigrette
two 700g (I ½ lb) cooked lobsters
fresh chervil to garnish
lime slices to serve
Method:
1. Cut 16 squares of filo pastry, each 18cm (7in). Brush the squares with melted butter and layer four on top of each other to form a star shape. Place four ovenproof saucers upside down on a baking sheet. Brush with melted butter. Sprinkle filo shapes with poppy seeds and press each star shape on to a saucer. Cook at 190°С (375°F) mark 5 for 7 min or until golden. Cool, then ease off the saucers and set aside.
2. Place saffron in a small bowl, then pour on 15ml (l tbsp) boiling water and leave to stand for 15min. Mix the soaking liquid and the saffron strands into the creme and season with salt and ground black pepper. Cover and chill.
3. Trim the French beans, then cook in boiling, salted water for about 5min until they're just tender. Drain, then plunge immediately into ice-cold water. Cook the asparagus and broad beans in the same way for 3min. Drain all the vegetables and dry on absorbent kitchen paper. Place in a large bowl and toss in sufficient Orange Vinaigrette to moisten. Season to taste. Remove the lobster meat from the claws and from the tail.