Writing an advertisement

__________________ is a ________________________place to eat because…

Text 18 A MEAL AT CHEZ CLAUDE

Last week, Pierre asked Connie to go to dinner. “Where do you want to go?” he said. “I don’t care,” Connie answered. “Some place that’s nice and inexpensive. You choose the restaurant, Pierre.” Well, Pierre likes to eat expensive food in gourmet restaurants. So he took Connie to Chez Claude, the most expensive restaurant in Midvale. The food there is excellent, the waiters are fast and friendly, and it’s very, very quiet. “Isn’t this place a little too expensive, Pierre?” “Oh, not at all. You’ll enjoy it!” and they certainly did. Pierre and Connie ate a delicious meal.

Complete the sentences:

Each day, Chef Claude Larose (go) to work in his gourmet restaurant. It (be) very popular with celebrities. A great restaurant (require) outstanding meals, so Chef Claude (make) delicious food every day. He (hire) other good cooks, too, but Chef Claude (watch) them very carefully. He (try) to be friendly, but other cooks (think) he’s arrogant. They (have) nothing in common with him except food.

Text 19 mary makes onion soup

Read the text and describe how you cook bortsch (or some other soup). Then write down the story “ I Make Bortsch.”

John’s wife is called Mary. Both John and Mary are fond of soup. So Mary is going to make some for their supper. Mary is a good cook, so before she starts work she always gets together everything she will want. She has everything ready on her kitchen table now. She has four onions, half an ounce of fat, salt, and pepper. The soup will be onion soup.

What is Mary doing now? She is cutting up the onions. She is cutting them into thin slices. When she sliced the onions, she will put the fat into a pan, put the pan on the gas-stove, and light the gas. When the fat has melted, she will put onions into the pan. She will cook the onions gently for about fifteen minutes. She does not want the onions to stick to the pan, so from time to time she will shake the pan.

Mary has cooked the onions. Now she is pouring into the pan some water in which meat and bones have been boiled for long time. Mary is adding two pints of this water. She will also add some salt and pepper. She will let the soup boil for about half an hour.

The soup is made now. Mary has cut four slices of bread and is toasting them. Two of the slices are in the electric toaster. When the four slices are toasted, Mary will put them in the bottom of the soup-plates. Then she will pour the soup over the toast.

The four slices of bread are all toasted now. Mary has put them in the soup- plates. Now she is poring the soup over the hot toast. What will she do next? She will call her husband and two children. She will tell them to come and have supper.

(from A.S.Hornby)

Text 20 john gets his own dinner

Read the story and recollect funny events connected with cooking happened in your family.

Mary has taken the children to see their grandparents. Mary’s parents live in the country, about fifteen mikes away. John likes to work in the garden on Saturdays, so he has not gone with Mary. He is at home, and he is alone.

John has to get his own dinner. He is not a good cook. He knows very little about cooking. What will John have for dinner?

What is there in the kitchen cupboard? There are lots of things. There are tins of soup, tins of fish, tins of vegetables, and tins of fruit. There are so many tins that John finds it difficult to choose. At last he takes down from the shelves a tin of tomato soup and a tin of sardines.

For a long time John could not find the tin-opener. He did not know where Mary kept it. At last he found it in a drawer. He has opened the tin of soup. He thinks he is very clever because he has done this without cutting his fingers. He is going to pour the soup into a pan.

John has poured the soup into a pan and has put it on the gas-stove. Now he is opening the other tin. This is more difficult. It has a different kind of opener. This opener is like a key and John has to turn it round and round. The sardines are from Portugal and are in olive oil. Once again John is clever enough to open the tin without cutting himself. He will empty the sardines out on to a dish.

While John is turning the sardines out on to the dish, he hears a noise. He looks round quickly. The tomato soup has boiled over. The top and sides of the stove are a beautiful pink colour. The pan is almost empty. John will not have tomato soup today.

“Well, I still have the sardines,” John says to himself. He turns away from the stove. But John will not have sardines, either. The cat has jumped on to the table. She has eaten all the sardines and is now licking the dish clean.

John did not open any more tins. He threw a pan at the cat but missed her. Then he put his coat on and went out. There was a good restaurant only a hundred yards away. The waitress was very pretty and John soon forgot his troubles.

Last summer John had to look after himself for a week while his wife and the children were away at the seaside during the school holidays. John lived well. He opened lots of tins. But John does not like washing up. When Mary arrived home after her holiday, she found every plate, every cup and saucer, every pan and dish, every bowl and jug, every knife, fork and spoon, waiting to be washed up. There were mountains of dishes!

(from A.S.Hornby)

Word List:

tin opener – ключ (или машинка) для открывания консервных банок

to be clever enough – быть достаточно умным

to empty – опустошить

to lick – лизать, слизывать

waitress – официантка

Text 25 The Killers

Read the passage and predict the end of the story.

The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.

“What’s yours?” George asked them.

“I don’t know,” one of the men said. “What do you want to eat, Al?”

“I don’t know,’ said Al. “I don’t know I want to eat.”

Outside it was getting dark. The street-light came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu.

From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in.

“I’ll have a roast pork with apple sauce and mashed potatoes,” the first man said.

“It isn’t ready yet.”

“What the hell do you put it on the card for ?”

“That’s the dinner,” George explained. “You can get that at six o’clock.”

George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.

“It’s five o’clock.”

“The clock says twenty minutes past five,” the second man said.

“It’s twenty minutes fast.”

“Oh, to hell with the clock,” the first man said. “What have you got to eat?”

“I can give you any kind of sandwiches,” George said.

“ You can have ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver and bacon, or a steak.”

“Give me chicken croquettes with green past and cream sauce and mashed potatoes.”

“That’s the dinner.”

“Every thing we want’s the dinner, eh?”

“I can give you ham and eggs, bacon and eggs.”

“I’ll take ham and eggs,” the man called Al said. He wore a derby hat and the black overcoat buttoned across the chest. His face was small and white and he had tight lips. He wore a silk muffler and gloves.

“Give me bacon and eggs,” said the other man. He was about the same size as Al. Their faces were different, but they were dressed like twins. Both wore overcoats too high for them. They sat learning forward, their elbows on the counter.

George put the two platters, one of ham and eggs, the other of bacon and eggs, on the counter. He sat down two side-dishes of fried potatoes and closed the wicket into the kitchen.

“Which is yours?” he asked Al.

“Don’t you remember?”

” Ham and eggs.”

He leaned forward and took the ham and eggs. Both ate with their gloves on. George watched them eat.

Text 26 A Week’s Voyage Round the Coast.

Read the text and answer the questions:

• Have you ever traveled by sea? Share your impressions.

• Do you suffer seasick?

• What would you feel if you were this young man?

A young man went for a week’s voyage round the coast, and before they stated, the steward came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or for all the meals be – forehand.

The steward recommended the latter course, as it would be so much cheaper. He said he would have to pay two-pounds-five for the whole week. He said for breakfast there would be fish. Lunch was at one, and consisted of four courses. Dinner at six: soup, fish, poultry, salad, sweets, cheese, and dessert. And a light meat supper at ten.

The young men decided to pay two-pounds-five (he was a hearty eater), and did so.

Lunch came. He didn’t feel so hungry as he thought he should, and so he ate a bit of boiled beef, and some strawberries and cream. He thought a good deal during the afternoon, and at one time it seemed to him that he had better been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks, and at other times it seemed to him that he had lived on strawberries and cream for years.

At six, they came and told him that dinner was ready. The announcement aroused no enthusiasm within him, but he felt that there was some of that to-pounds-five to be worked off, and he help on to ropes and things and went down. A pleasant smell of onion and hot ham, mixed up with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder. Them the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:

“What can I get for you, sir?”

“Get me out of this”, was the reply.

And they ran him up quick, and propped him up, over to leeward, and left him.

For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain’s biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water: but, towards Saturday he went in for tea and dry toast, and on Monday he ate chicken broth. He left the ship on Tuesday, and as it steamed away from the landing-stage he gazed after it regretfully.

“There she goes”, he said, “there she goes, with two pounds worth of food on board that belongs to me and I haven’t had”.