- •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
Exercise 1 Answer the following questions:
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What can you say about Ukrainian hospitality?
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What are your meal-times? What order of meals do you follow?
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What is the difference between meals and meal-times in England and Ukraine?
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What is English “afternoon tea”?
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What is your favourite dish?
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How would you lay the table for the guests? What about the menu?
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What do you generally take for the first (second) course?
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Do national Ukrainian dishes differ from those of English?
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If we drink a toast to someone’s health on a certain occasion, what do we usually say?
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What is sold at the baker’s (grocer’s, butcher’s, fishmonger’s confectionery)?
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Are you a great eater?
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If you hostess asks you whether you would like another cup of tea, what would you reply (a) if you wanted one; (b) if you didn’t want one?
Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words:
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The ____________________ of the Ukrainian people is well known throughout the world.
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When a foreigner sets foot in Ukraine first he _________________ with our cookery- _________________ and meal-times.
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Dinner is the _______________ and the most substantial meal.
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In great many Ukrainian homes dinner is followed by a cup of tea with a ______________, jam and home-made ___________________.
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First you spread the _________________ and then put out table-mats to protect the table from the hot dishes: a _______________ of soup, a bowl of hot vegetables, a ______________ of meat, a _______________ of sauce.
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You should put the knives and soup spoon on the _______________ side and the fork on the _______________, except the spoon for the sweet which you should put across the ____________.
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_____________ of each guest you put a small plate for bread and on _____________ a wineglass.
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Don’t forget to put table _________________ for each guest and place several salt-cellars.
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I began with ______________ followed by a clear soup with meat pasties and the second course included ____________ chicken with rice and vegetables.
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Then ice-cream for the ____________ and fruit for _______________.
Exercise 3 For each sentences place the letter of the best answer in the space provided.
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The national Ukrainian dishes are:
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beefsteak
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porridge 1. ___________
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borsch
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clear soup
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The English afternoon “high tea” is:
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the first meal of the day
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the chief and the most substantial 2. _____________
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the meal we have during the break
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the meal between five and six o’clock
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A “continental” breakfast consists of
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porridge or “Corn Flakes” with milk, bacon and eggs, marmalade with buttered toast, and tea or coffee 3. _____________
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rolls and butter and coffee
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a boiled egg, cold ham, or perhaps fish, and a glass of orange juice
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a ham sandwich, fried eggs and mashed potatoes
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English people generally have lunch at:
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ten o’clock
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eleven o’clock 4. _____________
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one o’clock
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two o’clock
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When we lay the table we put the knives and the soup-spoon:
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on the left-hand side
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in the middle of the table 5. _____________
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on the right hand side
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across the top
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When I want to have a bite I go:
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to the restaurant
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to the shack-bar 6. _____________
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to the cinema
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to the shop
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We buy cereals at the:
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fishmonger’s
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butcher’s 7. _____________
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grocer’s
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baker’s
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If you want some more tea you’ll say:
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give me another cup of tea, please
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no more, thanks 8. _____________
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could you pass me some sugar, please?
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enjoy your tea!