Vocabulary

Leisure –досуг

Spring - здесь - родник, источник

Contemplate –созерцать

Knitting - вязание

Lack of - нехватка, недостаток

Creative- творческий, активный

Modelengineering-моделирование

Carpenter-плотник

Refreshment– восстановление сил,

To stroll around - бродить

To curl up –свернуться колечком

Make–believeworld–воображаемый /вымышленный/ мир

EXERCISES

LEVEL II

Answer the questions.

1. How can our character be told?

2. What is the true use of leisure?

3. What is reflected in the ways we spend our spare time?

4. What is the first priority of each student on Sundays?

5. What does the way you spend your spare time depend on?

LEVEL III

Copy the sentences with the following words and memorize them.

Eagerness, contemplating, refreshment, entertainment, character.

LEVEL IV

Say what you think about

- passive pastime - creative way of spending spare time

- strolling around the city - leisure by contemplating nature

MEALS

To live we should eat. The process of chewing and swallowing food is called eating. We eat various food-stuffs: meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit, eggs, bread etc. We partake of food several times a day. Partaking of food at a certain time is called meal. We have 3 meals a day: breakfast, dinner and supper.

In England meal times are: breakfast at about 8 o'clock in the morning, lunch at 1 p.m., tea at about 4 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. In many English working-class families dinner is eaten in the middle of the day instead of lunch. They have tea a little later - between 5 and 6 p.m., and then, in the evening, before going to bed, they have supper.

The English breakfast is a bigger meal than ours. It consists of porridge with milk or cream, bacon and eggs, marmalade or jam with toast, tea or coffee. For a change they can have a boiled egg, cold ham or perhaps fish.

Lunch in England starts with soup or fruit juice. Then follows some meat with potatoes, carrots and beans. Then a pudding comes. Instead of it they may have cheese and biscuits. Last of all comes coffee. Some people prefer lemonade.

Tea is the third meal of the day. It's rather light: a cup of tea with milk or cream and cakes or toast with jam.

Dinner, the last meal of the day, consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice cream and coffee.

Before having meals we must cook our food. The ways of cooking are boiling, roasting, stewing, baking, stuffing. We say that food is underdone or overdone if it's too little or too much boiled or roasted. If the cake is good we say "The cake is a success", and if not, we say "The cake is a failure".

Before having a meal we lay (or set) the table. We put plates, cups, spoons, forks and knives. When dinner is served, we sit at table.

When people are at table they may ask their neighbor "Pass me salt, please", or "I'll trouble you for mustard". When you accept something that is offered you say "Yes, please", when you refuse you say "No, thank you". If you don't like the dish you may say "No, thank you, I don't care for it’.

If the hostess says «Help yourself to salad» or «Would you care for another helping» and you don't want, you say I’ve had enough, thank you» or «No more for me, thank you» or «No more, thanks, I've made an excellent meal». When we want a drink of water we say «I am thirsty» or «I'd like a drop of w a t e r». When we are hungry we say «I'd like to have a bite (snack) ».When we want to praise the food we say «It's delicious» or «You've dined me handsomely».

«To dine in» means to dine at home. When you are invited to dinner at your friends' or relatives' you say «I'm dinning out».

If a person has a good (bad) appetite they say ^«He is a good (poor) eater». Happy meal!