1.15. Some meat is given a different name from the animal it comes from. What animals do the following meats come from?

(a) pork (c) veal (e) beef

(b) mutton (d) bacon (f) ham (g) venison

1.16. Match each verb on the left below with the food item it is most often associated with on the right.

1) (a) to pluck cheese

(b) to crack an orange

(c) to grate a chicken

(d) to knead a nut

(e) to peel a rabbit

(f) to skin a joint of meat

(g) to slice dough

(h) to carve a loaf

2) (a) to mince cream

(b) to shell meat

(c) to toss a hard-boiled egg

(d) to whip eggs

(e) to stuff a cake

(f) to mash a chicken

(g) to beat a pancake

(h) to ice potatoes

1.17. Explain the difference between the words or phrases in each of the following pairs.

(a) starving and parched (g) uneatable and inedible

(b) a snack and a square meal (h) a beer-bottle and a bottle of beer

(c) stale and mouldy (i) a starter and a dessert

(d) peckish and ravenous (j) a restaurant and a café

(e) a buffet and a banquet (k) a chef and a caterer

(f) overcooked, undercooked and raw (l) a café and a canteen

ACQUIRING COMMUNICATION SKILLS

1.18. Read the text about the meals in Great Britain and compare them

with the meals in the US (Ex. 1.1.). How different are they? Compare

the meals in the US and Great Britain with those of Russia. Discuss

your ideas with a partner in a dialogue.

Meals in England

The English are very particular about their meals and strictly keep to their meal times. Breakfast is from any time until 8 o’clock in the morning, lunch is between 12 and 2 p.m., afternoon tea is between 4 and 5 p.m., and dinner is between 7 and 9 p.m.

The first meal of the day is breakfast. It’s often a quick meal, because the parents have to get away to their work, and the children have to go to school.

The breakfast dishes are cornflakes or porridge with milk or cream and sugar, or with milk and salt. For a change, you can have fried eggs, bacon, fried sausages, boiled eggs or fish. For breakfast, English people also have marmalade with buttered toasts, rolls, tea or coffee, which they drink hot, usually with sugar and with some milk. English tea is so strong that pouring it out into a cup together with a little milk you get a brownish liquid looking like weak coffee with milk. Most English put milk in their coffee, too – this is known as “white coffee”. When dining out, waiters will ask you if you want your coffee “black or white” rather than “with or without milk”.

At lunch time, the Englishmen usually have cold meat and salad or fish often with potatoes or other vegetables, fish and chips, sausages and a sweet dish (an apple pie, a hot milk pudding, cold fruit salad, or ice-cream).

Those who work have their lunch in a café or a restaurant, a cafeteria or a factory canteen. It never happens that they miss a meal or put it off until a more convenient time.

From four to five, they have a very light meal called afternoon tea. You can hardly call it a meal. It’s rather an occasion in the late afternoon at which they have a cup of tea and a cake or a biscuit. Or it may be a light meal of bread, butter and jam, cakes and tea; or it may be a heavier meal of those things with a dish of meat or eggs. In this case it is said that they have the so-called “high tea”. It’s a meal taken between 5 and 6 p.m. if a dinner is not taken in the evening. Usually it’s a more substantial meal than afternoon tea.

The most important meal of the day is dinner. Dinner is eaten in the middle of the day or in the evening. If it’s eaten in the evening, the second meal of the day is lunch. If dinner is taken in the middle of the day, supper is the evening meal. Usually dinner is much like lunch. But sometimes when the English have guests, dinner is the biggest meal and they may have some roast beef, roast chicken, boiled or roast potatoes, vegetables and fruit. Soup is a side dish. At the end of the dinner a sweet pudding may come.

At dinner, as well as at lunch and supper, Englishmen drink plenty of water. After dinner many people drink a cup of coffee. They pour the coffee out of a coffee-pot into small coffee-cups. (To say the truth, almost every meal in England finishes with coffee, cheese and butter.)