- •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
Learn the wordlist which can help you to describe the way of preparing your favourite dish
grate – тереть cool, chill – охлаждать flavour – придавать вкус, запах infuse, brew – заваривать, настаивать pour – наливать pour off – выливать serve – подавать к столу stir – размешивать break – разбивать (о яйце) beat – отбивать (котлету), взбивать(тесто, яйца), толочь (в порошок) chop – нарезать, крошить, рубить carve – резать (делить, разделывать)
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combine – смешивать core – вырезать сердцевину dice – нарезать в форме кубиков slice – резать тонкими кусочками peel – чистить warm – нагревать boil – варить fry – жарить stew – тушить steam – варить на пару grill – жарить на гриле bake – печь top – класть сверху
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Exercises
Ex. 1. Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?
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pork |
veal |
salmon |
beef |
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salmon |
shrimp |
oyster |
lobster |
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lettuce |
aubergine |
tomato |
cucumber |
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peach |
onion |
mushroom |
potato |
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chicken |
lamb |
beef |
mussels |
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butter |
cheese |
egg |
juice |
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bread |
milk |
tea |
wine |
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apple |
carrot |
onion |
vegetable marrow |
Ex. 2. Do you eat the skin (the outside) of these fruits – always, usually, or never? Make three lists:
Apples |
Pineapples |
Cherries |
Grapes |
Pears |
Bananas |
peaches |
Mangoes |
oranges |
Lemons |
melons |
Strawberries
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Ex. 3. a) What sort of things do you eat, drink or use in your cooking? Look at the words in the box and put them in lists under these headings; everyday, twice a week, every week, on special occasions, never.
apples bananas beef beer biscuits bread butter cabbage carrots cheese chicken coffee eggs fish fruit grapes ham juice iamb lettuce meat milk oil onions oranges pasta peaches peas pork potatoes rice salad strawberries tea tomatoes vegetables water wine aubergines bacon beans cauliflower celery cod cucumbers garlic grapefruit hake leeks lettuces lobster mushrooms mussels peppers prawns salmon sardines sausages spinach tomatoes trout tuna turkey veal
b) Divide all the words into groups. Can you think of two or three more things to add to each list?
c) Ask questions to find out which type of food your partner prefers.
Ex. 4. Look at these words. Which other items in the vocabulary box can you use with these words?
bottle cup glass kilo loaf packet piece slice tin
a bottle of beer a cup of tea a glass of water
a kilo of potatoes a loaf of bread
a packet of biscuits a piece of cheese
a slice of bread a tin of peaches
Ex. 5. Translate into English:
Я хочу это сделать до завтрака.
Когда вы обычно ужинаете? – Я не ужинаю совсем, я стараюсь похудеть.
Обед готов, садитесь к столу.
Останьтесь к ужину, пожалуйста. – С удовольствием.
Спасибо, мне очень понравился обед.
После ужина мы обычно смотрим телевизор.
Кто в вашей семье готовит еду? – Мама.
Завтрак был хорошо приготовлен, и дети наслаждались едой.
9. Давай поговорим об этом за чаем. 10. Ужин будет скоро подан.
Ex. 6. Answer these questions:
How many meals a day do you usually have?
When do you usually have breakfast (lunch, dinner, tea, supper)?
Who does the cooking in your family?
Who usually lays the table for breakfast?
Which do you prefer, to lay the table or to cook a meal?
What things should be put on the table for dinner (tea)?
What is your favourite dish? Can you cook it?
What products can't we do without?
What do you like for the first course (the second course)?
What do you usually have for dessert?
What is your favourite drink?
What vegetables can you have in winter? In summer?
What berries are your favourite?
Who takes away the dirty dishes after a meal in your family?
What should be done with dishes after a meal?
Ex. 7. Complete the following sentences:
1. Help yourself to ... . 2. The meat is ... . 3. The soup lacks .... 4. Can I offer you ... ? 5. Will you have ... ? 6. May I trouble you ... . 7. Will you pass ... ? 8. Shall I treat you ... ? 9. For dessert I'll have ... . 10. Will you...? 11. Let's have .... 12. They serve ....
Ex. 8. Name four or five kinds of:
meat dishes; soup; fruit; dishes taken for breakfast; dessert; beverages; appetizers; sweet dishes.
Ex. 9. Insert prepositions or post verbal adverbs:
1. My dinner usually consists ... three courses. 2. ... the first course I usually take either cabbage or mushroom soup. 3. Will you put.., plates, knives, spoons and forks? 4. He prefers coffee ... tea. 5. The English are very particular ... what they eat. 6. Help yourself ... the cake. I think it is very tasty. 7. May I trouble you ... a slice. brown bread. 8. Dick treated us ... sweets. 9. Weak tea is not .... my taste. 10. May I offer ... you another cup ... tea? 11. Have you washed ... yet? 12. They often dine ... 13. He took us ... the cafe "Aurora" to have lunch. 14. What will you take ... the second course? I'm fond ... roast chicken. – As... me I prefer fish ... chicken.
Ex. 10. Match the beginnings and the ends of the definitions:
1) Breakfast is 2) Veal is 3) Lunch is 4) Water is 5) Mutton is 6) Supper is 7) Beef is |
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Ex. 11. Correct the false statements. Don't forget to begin your sentences with one of these phrases:
No, you are not right. I don’t agree at all. I’m afraid you’re mistaken. It can’t possibly be true. I don’t think it is right. No, it’s wrong. I think it’s just nonsense. On the contrary. Not at all. Oh, no, it isn’t so. That’s not right.
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That’s wrong surely. I’m afraid that’s not so. It’s wrong. I’d like to object. I believe, it isn’t so. May I make an objection? It’s all wrong. It’s quite wrong. It’s not right. I entirely disagree.
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1. A sugar-bowl is used for keeping salt in.
2. When you clear the table you bring dishes from the kitchen.
3. Soup is served for dessert.
4. Honey is usually bitter.
5. Sugar is usually salty.
6. Coca-cola is a hard drink.
7. Cauliflower is a very beautiful flower.
8. Cucumbers are red or rosy.
9. Vinegar is used to make food salty.
10. Onion is never put in soup.
11. Pineapples should be eaten when they are unripe.
12. Porridge shouldn't be given to children.
13. English people never have toast and marmalade.
14. Pudding is a traditional Russian dish.
15. When people are hungry they drink water.
16. When people are thirsty they eat bread.
17. Eggs are never fried.
18. A pumpkin is a very small vegetable.
19. Children never have soft drinks.
20. You can grow bananas in Russia.
Ex. 12. Read the sentences and translate them into Russian:
1. There are two vegetables on the table, an onion and a garlic.
2. We grow many vegetables: potatoes, onions, beans.
3. I don't like green pepper in my salad.
4. There is too much garlic in the salad.
5. Please cut two tomatoes into slices.
6. I prefer beetroot to carrots.
7. Are there many marrows in your vegetable garden this year?
8. I like cauliflower very much. Do you?
9. Let's make tomato and cucumber salad with onion.
10. Go to the greengrocer's and buy a head of cabbage. I'm going to cook cabbage soup.
Ex. 13. Read the following definitions and guess what vegetables are described:
1. A very large dark yellow roundish vegetable that grows on the ground.
2. A soft fleshy juicy red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
3. A vegetable with a green skin, flesh and seeds used for giving a particular hot taste to food.
4. A plant rather like an onion which is used in cooking to give a strong taste to food.
5. The large green leaves of any of several plants, forming a round, oval or long head, eaten mainly as a raw vegetable in salads.
6. A vegetable with a fairly long orange-red pointed root.
7. A type of garden vegetable with green leaves around a large white head of undeveloped flowers.
8. A type of plant with a large purple fruit that is eaten as a vegetable, usually cooked.
9. A type of roundish root vegetable with a thin brown оr yellowish skin that is cooked and served in many different ways.
Ex. 14. Translate into English:
Съешь еще морковку.
Хотите еще свеклы?
Вы любите цветную капусту?
Дайте мне еще один помидор. Я их очень люблю,
Баклажаны в этом году очень крупные, правда?
Хотите еще картошки?
Принеси луковицу, я варю капустный суп.
Огурец горький?
Тыква очень сладкая.
10. Лук, чеснок, сельдерей надо класть в пищу, чтобы она была вкуснее.
Вы выращиваете огурцы? - Нет, мы выращиваем кабачки, баклажаны, тыкву.
Возьми две головки лука и одну чеснока.
Что вкуснее: огурцы или кабачки? - Я предпочитаю oгурцы.
Не трогай тыкву, она еще не созрела.
Возьмите несколько листьев салата и положите на хлеб.
Ex. 15. a) Say what berries and fruit are your favourite:
Model: My favourite berries are cranberries.
My favourite fruit is a pear.
b) Say which fruits or berries you prefer:
Model: Personally I prefer peaches to apricots.
or: I like pears more than apples.
c) Read and translate these word combinations:
dates overripe bananas orange squash
dry figs black currant jam raspberry jelly
sweet pears green gooseberries pineapple juice
quince juice a small apricot a bunch of grapes
ripe peaches a bowl of fruit a big pomegranate
overripe figs sour cranberries a piece of watermelon
an apple pie sweet tangerines strawberries with cream
tasty cherries a plate of dates a basket of blackberries
unripe plums a slice of lemon a handful of red currants
d) Say it in English:
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кусок дыни
пять бананов
спелый арбуз
горсть вишен
сливовый сок
ананасы в шампанском чай с лимоном
коробка фиников
спелая ежевика
вкусный инжир
сладкая малина гранатовый сок
корзина с абрикосами яблочный пирог
айвовый джем
гроздь винограда
груши в белом вине клубника со сливками перезрелый крыжовник клюквенное желе
джем из красной смородины
e) Translate into English:
Бананы очень спелые, правда?
Мне бы хотелось клубники со сливками на десерт.
Я предпочитаю апельсиновый напиток яблочному соку.
Дайте ей немного клюквенного желе.
Какие вкусные персики! Дайте мне еще один.
Возьмите два апельсина и один большой лимон.
Гранаты очень дорогие. Я предпочитаю покупать виноград.
Моя сестра любит чай с лимоном, но без сахара.
Где вы обычно покупаете смородину и крыжовник? - Я их не покупаю. У меня есть сад, я выращиваю там разные ягоды.
В доме нет никаких фруктов, кроме яблок. Сделаем яблочный пирог.
Какая спелая малина! Дай мне еще немного.
12. Возьми вон ту корзину и положи в нее 10 абрикосов, 3 граната, одну айву, 5 персиков и гроздь винограда.
Ex. 16. Put the verbs in the correct form:
You (to be) hungry, (to sit down) to table. Mum (to bring) the soup.
Who usually (to clear) the table after supper?
Please (to take away) the dirty dishes. I (to be) pressed for time.
I'd like (to treat) you to this apple pie. I (to hope) it (to be)very tasty.
Let's (to have) some more mashed potatoes. I (to be) still hungry.
What she (to do) now? - She (to lay) the table.
Let's (to treat) them to some juice. I (to think) they (to be) thirsty.
Supper (to be) ready, but she (to say) she (not to be) hungry.
He (to be) thirsty? - Yes, he (to be).
Let me (to take away) the dirty dishes. I (to see) you (to be) tired.
Where (to be) tea? Why {not to be) tea ready? Why (not to bring) you tea in? - It (to be) just ready, Mr. Smith. I (to bring) it now. I (to set) just the table ready.
Who (to do) the cooking in your big family? - Our grandmother usually (to do). She (to like) it very much because she (to be) a cook when she (to be) young.
Ex. 17. Read the joke and retell it:
"When I serve dinner should I say, 'Dinner is ready' or 'Dinner is served?'" the new cook asked her mistress.
"If you cook it the way you cooked it yesterday, just say, 'Dinner is ruined,'" said the lady of the house.
Ex. 18. Translate into English:
a)
1. Вы не позавтракаете с нами? — Нет, спасибо, я только что завтракал.
2. Сварить грибной суп?
3. Помоги мне накрыть на стол.
4. Чем еще помочь? — Больше ничего не надо, спасибо.
5. Что это так вкусно пахнет?
6. Поставь чайник и завари чай.
7. Я хочу угостить вас тортом, который я сделала сама.
8. Могу предложить вам курицу с пюре.
9. Передай мне, пожалуйста, хлеб.
10. Кто сварил суп?
11. Я предпочитаю крепкий чай с лимоном.
12. Ваш пирог изумительно вкусный.
13. Что приготовить на обед?
14. Как насчет того, чтобы пообедать?
15. Что у вас вчера было на обед?
16. Угощайтесь вареньем, пожалуйста.
17. Хотите ли еще чашечку кофе? – Спасибо, с удовольствием.
18. Вам чай с лимоном? – Да, пожалуйста.
19. Убери со стола и вымой посуду.
20. Сколько вам положить сахару в чай? – Две ложки, пожалуйста.
21. Не разлей чай, а то ошпаришься.
22. Можно мне еще кусок пирога?
23. Хочешь добавки салата? – Нет, спасибо, я наелся.
24. Как правило, я ем мало за завтраком.
25. Я завтракаю рано утром, перед тем как идти школу.
26. У нас остался кофе?
27. Мой папа встает утром первым. Я встаю последним.
28. Почему она не ест кашу на завтрак?
29. Вчера у нас был очень вкусный обед. На первое у нас был грибной суп, а на второе рыба и жареная картошка.
30. Выпей стакан сока.
31. Что у нас сегодня на завтрак?
32. Я голоден. Как насчет того, чтобы перекусить?
33. У нас уже давно не было на обед грибов.
34. Мы как раз собираемся ужинать.
35. Я не люблю какао. Я просто терпеть его не могу.
36. Ты любишь блины со сметаной? Или ты предпочитаешь с медом?
37. Мой папа любит сосиски с тушеной капустой на обед.
38. Некоторые люди любят есть кашу на завтрак.
b)
1. Папа только что пришел с работы и сейчас ужинает. Он ест жареную картошку с рыбой и салат из помидоров.
2. Что вы обычно едите на десерт? – Пару яблок или груш, иногда стакан компота.
3. Я не хочу есть этот суп, он невкусный.
4. Не смущайтесь, скажите, что вы хотели бы на второе. – Немного баранины с цветной капустой или картофельным пюре.
5. Пожалуйста, купи мне плитку шоколада и порцию малинового или бананового мороженого. – Хорошо.
6. Огурцы перезрелые, а помидоры недозрелые. Будем делать салат? – Непременно, я давно не ел никакого салата.
7. Давай выпьем кофе с молоком. – Ладно, но вообще я хочу просто стакан апельсинового сока.
8. Ты уже позавтракал? Тогда убери и вымой посуду. Не будь лентяем.
9. Ты знаешь, что приезжает тетя Энн? – Да, я уже накрыла стол на пятерых.
10. Садись к столу, бабушка уже несет суп. – Какой? – Гороховый. – Я не очень люблю его. – Я тоже не люблю, но давай не обижать бабушку.
11. Он может есть в любое время, он всегда голоден.
12. Ты уже вымыла посуду? Молодец!
13. Нам бы хотелось купить корзину вишен и сварить варенье.
14. Если у вас есть сад, то вы, конечно, выращиваете черную смородину, клубнику и крыжовник.
15. Хотите бутерброд с сыром? – С удовольствием. А я могу вам предложить бутерброд с ветчиной. – Нет, спасибо.
16. Когда ты обычно завтракаешь? – В двенадцать дня. – Почему так поздно? – Потому что я встаю в половине двенадцатого. – Тогда переименуй завтрак в обед.
17. Добавь майонеза в салат, он будет вкуснее.
18. Стакан обыкновенного безалкогольного напитка содержит около пяти столовых ложек сахара.
19. Ешьте больше несоленых орехов и сухих фруктов, если хотите похудеть.
20. Старайтесь пить чай и кофе без сахара.
Ex. 19. Discuss which of the following habits you consider rude and why.
Which of them, if any, do you consider acceptable only at home, and which do you consider completely unacceptable?
helping yourself to food without asking
starting to eat before everyone is served
picking at food with your hands
reading at the meal table
resting your elbows on the table
reaching across the table in front of people
leaving the table before other people have finished
not thanking the cook
wiping your plate clean with bread
Ex. 21. a) Read the text: