3 Think of what you do during the week-end and make up a plan for talking about it.

Unit 2 Eating

1 Listen to the following dialogues and read them in pairs.

Dialogue 1

Peter Hi, honey, how are you doing today?

Kerry Hi, I am OK. How are you?

Peter I am very well, thank you. What will you have?

Kerry I’d like to try the pork chop and shrimp cocktail.

Peter That’s a good choice! I’ll take roast beef. Shall we drink red wine?

Kerry I prefer white wine: Chardonnay will be good.

Peter OK. Waiter!

Dialogue 2

Alice Mike, what is a usual American breakfast?

Mike Mmm, we usually have cereals with milk or toasts with peanut butter.

Alice What do you usually drink? Tea or coffee?

Mike We prefer coffee to tea.

Alice What’s your lunch time?

Mike Between noon and 2 p.m. It is soup or chicken salad or some wrap or sandwich.

Alice Do you have any other meals during the day?

Mike Yes, at about 6 p.m. we take dinner: some meat dish and tea followed by dessert.

Vocabulary

beef	говядина
biscuit (AmE cookie) ['biskit]	печенье
bread	хлеб
breakfast	завтрак
butter	масло сливочное
cake	кекс, пирожное
cereal ['siəriəl]	крупа, злаки, хлопья
chicken	курица
chop	отбивная
cocktail	коктейль
coffee	кофе
dessert [di'zə:t]	десерт
dinner	обед, ужин
dish	блюдо
food	еда
fruit	фрукт
lamb [læm]	баранина
lunch	второй завтрак; обед
meal	трапеза
meat	мясо
milk	молоко
oatmeal	овсянка
peanut ['pi:nt]	арахис
pork	свинина
salad	салат
sandwich	сэндвич
shrimp	креветка
soft drink	безалкогольный газированный напиток
soup [su:p]	суп
supper	ужин
sweets (AmE candy)	конфета
tea	чай
to drink – drank – drunk	пить
to eat – ate – eaten	есть, кушать
turkey ['tə:ki]	индейка
veal	телятина
vegetable ['vedʒtəbl]	Овощ
water	Вода
wine [wain]	Вино
AmE wrap [ræp]	лепешка с начинкой

Pronunciation

2 Listen and repeat the words, add other “food” words to the appropriate sounds.

[o:] pork, prawn, water,

[æ] salad, candy, sandwich, wrap,

lamb

[i:] eat, beef, sweets, cereal, veal, tea,

meal, meat

[ai] wine,

[u:] soup, cookie

[ə:] turkey, dessert

[e] bread, breakfast, vegetable

Oral exercises

3 Find some “cooking” verbs in the dictionary. Make up ten phrases for potatoes, vegetables, cookies, bread.

Example: to boil potatoes, to bake bread.

4 Find some adjectives describing food in the dictionary. Make up five phrases with them.

Example: delicious cake

5 Make short poems (4 lines) using the given rhymes.

food – good milk – silk fish – dish

sweet – meat cake – take cook – look

6 Practice the following sentences with the words given below.

a) boiled: I prefer boiled potatoes with sausage.

fried, stewed, baked, mashed

b) milk: Children usually take milk before they go to bed.

juice, tea, coffee, cocoa, wine

c) tasty: Food at parties is usually tasty.

delicious, horrible, spicy, underdone, cold

d) pancakes with caviar: Pancakes with caviar is a traditional Russian

dish.

pelmeni, pie, porridge

e) coffee – tea: We prefer coffee to tea.

beef – pork, chicken – fish, fruit - cakes