- •Meals Part I
- •Text 1 meals in ukraine.
- •Text 2 british meals
- •Tin, can (Am.) – банка консервированных продуктов Text 3 meals in britain
- •Text 7 american food: from asparagus to zucchini
- •Text 8 chinese food – what a way to cook!
- •Text 12 the food people eat
- •Writing an advertisement
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Text 19 mary makes onion soup
- •Text 20 john gets his own dinner
- •Word List.
- •Be short – не хватать
- •Text 32 Dine in different kinds of restaurants
- •Dessert and coffee after the movie: a simple conversation
- •Exercise 1 Answer the following questions:
- •Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words:
- •Exercise 3 For each sentences place the letter of the best answer in the space provided.
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5 Use the taste and flavour words opposite to describe the following.
- •Exercise 12 In the following sentences there are some mistakes with the apostrophe. Find and correct them.
- •Exercise 13 Shorten these sentences
- •Exercise 14 Write one sentence or question for each situation
- •Exercise 15 Here are some useful practical tips for everyday live. Unfortunately, the beginnings and ends have got mixed up. Restore them .
- •I Read the text and write a food article of your own
- •II Write an article about another kind of food in the same way.
- •II Write some other problem letters concerning food/ weigh/overeating etc. Appendix
- •Viva la Cookery Maid
- •#2 Stories of Words About English Dining-Table
- •#3 The Bakers at Breakfast
- •#4 Lunch at a Restaurant
- •#5 Mrs. Baker’s Tea-Party
- •Is There Anything Celtic on the English Menu?
- •It Was Not Bread in Old English
- •Vocabulary work :
- •Comprehension
- •Looking for main ideas
- •Looking for details
- •#15 Coca – Cola
- •Comprehension Skimming for Main Ideas
- •Scanning for Details
- •Order of Events
- •Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
- •Discussion
- •#17 Country by country, food by food
- •Wonder Food
- •Food Of The Future
- •Read the limericks, learn you liked best, then translate or try to write them yourself.
- •In a terrible fright
- •In onions and honey,
- •In a stove she did bake
- •In sight of the city of Troy
Dessert and coffee after the movie: a simple conversation
Ricardo Rodriguez and Fermina Dias have just left a movie. They are engaged to be married, but Fermina is still living in another town. She is visiting Ricardo. They have decided to go to a restaurant for dessert and coffee, but they have not decided where to go.
Ricardo: We can go to either a French restaurant or a little cafe near my house. At the French restaurant we could have both a chocolate torte or a chocolate coffee. I know how much you like the taste of chocolate. At the cafe near my house they don’t have chocolate coffee, but they serve a great chocolate pie. What sounds good?
Fermina: Oh…. It all sounds so good. I want both the chocolate torte and the chocolate pie. (They both laugh.)
Ricardo: Well, if it’s too much, we’ll go to neither the French restaurant nor the cafe. Why don’t we go get ice cream? We could visit our favorite shop, the one of the square.
Fermina: Oh yes. Ice cream would taste so good. But I want it by my chocolate torte and chocolate pie! (More laughing)
Ricardo: Well, I think we should go to the French restaurant. You haven’t been there before, you’d like the romantic decor. It smells good and it’s beautiful, like you.
Fermina: Okay. Okay. I’m convinced. Let’s go!
FRIENDS FOR DINNER: A SAMPLE CANVERSATION
The next night, Ricardo arranged dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant so his friends Steven James and Susan Henderson could meet Fermina. Ricardo made reservations for 7 p. m. And the four friends met in the lobby of the restaurant. He introduced everyone and they were immediately seated at a table. The waiter brought water to everyone and took their drink orders.
Ricardo: The newspaper rates this the best Chinese restaurant in town. They gave four stars last week. The restaurant reviewer says the food there is more authentic than at the other Chinese restaurants in town.
Susan: Yes. I read that review. The roasted duck is supposed to be especially good.
Steven: Well, duck isn’t my favourite food. I’m definitely sticking with chicken.
Susan: But look at the list of shrimp dishes! You like shrimp.
Fermina: I like shrimp, too. I can’t decide between the duck and the shrimp.
Ricardo: In Chinese restaurants, they have a wonderful custom. Each order comes on a big serving dish. We can each order something we want and then share it with everyone. Susan can get the duck, and Steven can get two different shrimp dishes. I’ll chose a beef dish. Then we can all share.
Steven: Well, if we’re going to do that, why don’t I get a chicken dish and then we’ll have beef, chicken, shrimp, and duck to sample.
Fermina: Oh, I’d like that. Then I can taste everything.
Ricardo: I am so happy to have you all together. I want all the people I care about to know each other. After the wedding, we’ll do this often.
Susan: Have you set the wedding date yet?
Fermina: Yes. It’ll be two month from yesterday. I have to finish the contract my company has before I can move here. We’re going to be married at my mother’s house in the…oh, look!
Steven: That is beautiful! Look at those flowers. Are they real? That looks like a real rose on the side.
Susan: No. Those are vegetables. They cut them to look like that. Aren’t they wonderful? We can take them home.
Fermina: Our family loves to cook and my mother likes food to be pretty. She’d love the rose.
Ricardo: Maybe we can put t in a plastic bag and you can take it to her.
Fermina: That would be great. Steven, you shared you chicken with us, but you haven’t tried the duck. Don’t you like the taste?
Steven: No. Don’t laugh, but I don’t like the smell. (Everyone laughs, anyway.)
Ricardo: How can you not like the smell?
Steven: I think has to do with my mother cooking a duck in the kitchen when I was a kid. I always remember it when I see duck. I always remember the smell. I hated it.
Fermina: How long since you’ve actually tasted duck?
Steven: I never did. I didn’t when I was a kid and I never have since then.
Susan: Don’t you think it’s time we ordered some more plum wine? They have the best in town here.
Steven: Maybe if I drank another glass of wine I’d be ready to taste the duck.
Ricardo: That’s a deal. (He raises his hand to get the waiter’s attention.) we’d like another bottle of plum wine.
Waiter: Of course.
Susan: Fermina, are you and Ricardo going to live in Ricardo’s apartment after you are married?
Fermina: No. It’s too small. Ricardo is looking for a two-bedroom so we’ll have room for guests. Do have any suggestions?
Susan: Well, the apartment complex I live in is really nice. I think they have some apartments available now. I’ll ask tomorrow.
Steven: Hey! This duck is really good. I like it. (Everyone laughs.)
Fermina: Just look what you’ve been missing out on all these years.
Steven: Well, no more. Duck is great.
The group finishes the meal, pays, and leaves the restaurant. They say good-bye outside.
Part III Exercises.