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4. Complete the table.

Attractions Entertainment

1. Pattaya Elephant Village

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5. Give an annotation of text 4.

6. Speak on attractions outside Pattaya using your table.

7. Translate text 5 in writing with the help of a dictionary and entitle it.

Text 5

Pubs are known to be one of England's most enduring social in­stitutions. and have outlived the church and marketplace as the fo­cal points of communities; London's theatre, alternative comedy and live-music scenes being still largely pub-based. At their best, pubs can be as welcoming as their full name "public house" suggests, offering a fine range of drinks and filling food. At their worst, they're dismal rooms with surly bar staff and rotten snacks. One thing you can be sure of. however, is that most pubs and bars remain smoke-filled plac­es where drinking alcohol is the prime activity. London's great peri­od of pub building having taken place in the Victorian era, many pubs still pa}' homage to genuine Victorian interiors.

Chain pubs can now be found all over the capital: branches of All Bar One. Pitcher & Piano and the Slug & Lettuce arc the most obvi­ous, as they all share the chain name.

Pub food, on the whole, is a lunchtime affair, although "gastro- pubs", which put more effort into their cooking, are increasingly of­fering meals in the evening too. The traditional image of London pub food is dire — a pseudo ""ploughman's lunch" of bread and cheese, or a murky-looking pie and chips — but the last couple of decades have seen plenty of improvements. You can get a palatable lunchtime meal at many of the pubs, and at a few of them you're looking at cooking worthy of high restaurant-standard praise.

Notes:

at best — в лучшем случае

to pay homage to smth. — преклоняться перед чём-л.; отдавать должное чему-л.

ploughman — пахарь

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