4. Make up the menu to your own choice using the words from exercise 2:

1. He picked up the menu and handed it to me. I looked over the card and decided on _____ . 2. I’ve got a stomach trouble today. I can’t eat meat, can you change this for _____ . 3. I have something special for you today: _____ . 4. “Would you like to have ____ for breakfast?” – “I would love to. Please, I like _____ “. 5. “What would you like for sweet?” – “Let’s have some ___”. 6. I wanted to order ____ while he was waiting for his soup to cool.

5*. Fill in the blanks with the word (phrase) below. You may use each word only once:

Plates, chopsticks, habits, Fish and Chip Shops, roast beef, reasonable, taken away, cuisine, pubs, eating-out, Yorkshire pudding, fast-food outlets, service, to spoon

1. Although some traditional meals in Britain like ___ and __ or fish and chips remain popular, there has been a significant shift in eating __ among the population over the last decade or so. 2. In expensive restaurants known as “ ___” are something of national institution in the UK. 3. Britain has a wide range of restaurants, offering __ from virtually every country, for example Chinese, Indian, Italian and Greek restaurants. 4. It is difficult to find a good English restaurant with __ prices. 5. ___, selling alcoholic and other drinks, are traditional social centres. 6. ______ is very popular in America. 7. There are many different eating places – cafeterias, ___, and formal restaurants. 8. The cause of success of fast-food restaurant chains is an incredibly fast ____. 9. Most Americans and Europeans eat from individual ___, using knives, spoons, forks. 10. Arabs use only their left hands ___ foods from a central bowl. 11. Chinese and Japanese use ____ to pick up food from a small bowl held close to the mouth.

6. A) Remember the following table manners:

1. Don't stretch over the table for something, ask your neighbour to pass it. 2. Take bread by hand, don't take a piece of bread with a fork. 3. Don't criticize the food. 4. Don't read while eating. 5. Don't play with the silver. 6. Don't lick your spoon. If you are hungry ask for another helping. 7. Sit facing the table. 8. Keep your feet under you. 9.Don't stretch them under the table. 10. Don't eat off the knife. 11. Don't blow on hot food. 12. Don't sip your soup or tea. 13. If your soup or tea is too hot wait till they get cold. 14. Don't talk with your mouth full. 15. Don't pick your teeth in company. 16. Don't forget to thank for the meals.

b) Fill the right preposition:

1) We cut meat … a knife. 2) We take bread … hand. 3) If we are hungry we ask … another helping. 4) We don’t eat … the knife. 5) We shouldn’t blow … hot food. 6) It is not polite to eat … your mouth full. 7) I take my tea … sugar. 8) We take our soup … salt. 9) It is polite to thank … the meals.

7. Memorize the following words and word combinations. Compose sentences of your own using them:

It’s delicious. I shan’t have room for any pudding, a set three-course meal, to lay the table for two, to fork a piece of pie, to mop a plate clean, highly seasoned food, to peel an orange, to scrape a carrot, to crack a nut, to taste wine, to dress a salad.