2. Read and translate the text: meals

In every town there are many bars, buffets, snack bars, cafes and restaurants. And everyone proposes a certain choice of dishes, appetizers and drinks.

As a rule, every cafe or restaurant is clean and comfortable. In a menu you can see titles of different kinds of dishes. For appetizers here is vegetable (beetroot, cabbage, tomato, cucumber, potato, radish) salad, cheese salad, herring, ham, bacon and eggs, sandwiches, hamburgers, mushrooms in marinade, red (black) caviar and others.

For the first course you may order different soups, for example: mushroom (cabbage and beetroot, fish, milk, meat, pea, noodle) soup, chicken broth. All of them are very tasty.

Then the second course comes. There is a chop with chips, rissoles (cutlets) with stewed cabbage, beefsteak with fried potatoes, roasted duck with mashed potatoes, Ukrainian dumplings with curds and sour cream, stuffed turkey with noodles (vermicelli, spaghetti) and ketchup, hot-pot, fried fish with rice and others.

For the dessert you may order whipped cream, orange (apple, strawberry, apricot, lemon, banana, tangerine, cherry, pineapple, plum, raspberry, grape, grapefruit) jelly, hot chocolate, ice-cream with chocolate, fruits and nuts, biscuits, pie, cake, apple pudding, fruit cocktail, sweets, honey, jam, marmalade. All of them are so delicious.

There you may choose any drink you like: brandy, whiskey, vodka, gin, cognac, liqueur, port wine, rum, vermouth, champagne, sweet wine, dry wine, beer, mineral water, pineapple (orange) juice, tonic, lemonade, Coca-Cola, cocoa, coffee with ice-cream, cappuccino, tea with lemon (Russian tea), tea with milk (English tea).

As for me, I can cook and I like homemade dishes. My favourite dishes are ...

3. Answer the following questions:

l) Can you cook well? What dishes can you cook?

2) What appetizers do you usually take?

3) What kinds of soups do you know?

4) What dishes can be served for the second course?

5) Are you fond of sweet dishes? What do you have for dessert?

6) Do you prefer fresh fruit to sweets or sweets to fruit?

7) What are your favourite dishes?

8) What things do you usually put out when you lay the table for breakfast (lunch, holiday dinner)?

9) How many meals do you have daily?

10) Is your breakfast light or substantial? What does it consist of?

11) What is the healthy food?

12) Have you ever been on a diet?

13) How is borshch (cabbage and beetroot soup) cooked?

14) What will you treat your guests at the New Year party (your birthday, Easter)?

4. Find in the text English equivalents for the following:

Закуски, перша страва, друга страва, солодке вино, чорна ікра, гриби в маринаді, смажена картопля, котлети, курячий бульйон, салат з томатів та огірків, борщ, апельсиновий сік, малиновий торт, чай з молоком, печеня, українські вареники з сиром та сметаною, оселедець, смажена качка з картопляним пюре, шоколадне морозиво з горіхами та фруктами, збиті вершки, бутерброд з шинкою, смачний, сухе печиво, цукерки.

5. Fill in the blanks with the necessary words in brackets:

1) Help yourself to ... . (plate, cup, cherries)

2) Thank you, just ... . (some, a little, small)

3) Usually I have ... for breakfast. (a cup of tea, gin, soup)

4) Pass me ..., please. (salt, table cloth, dinner)

5) Would you like a glass of ... ? (wine, whisky, beer)

6. Complete the following sentences:

1) May I treat you to some… .

2) Could you pass me … .

3) Help yourself to … .

4) I’ll have my dinner at … .

5) I’d like to have … .

7. Translate into English:

1) Де Ви обідатимете?

2) Я обідатиму в ресторані.

3) Мені хотілося б узяти бульйон, біфштекс з овочами, салат і каву.

4) Передайте мені, будь ласка, сіль.

5) Чи можна Вам запропонувати пива?

8. Read and dramatize the following dialogues:

Mike: What shall we have for dinner?

Kate: Choose yourself, please.

Mike: O.K. We'll have some salad, clear soup, pork chops and coffee.

Kate: I'd like to add a piece of cake if you don't mind.

* * *

Ann: What do you usually have for breakfast?

Pete: I never want any breakfast. Just a cup of tea and a piece of toast. And you?

Ann: I don't eat much either. Just some corn-flakes, an egg and coffee, and a toast with jam and butter.

Pete: Oh, I'd call it a huge breakfast! Looking at you one wouldn't say you eat so much.

* * *

John: May I offer you a cup of tea, Mary?

Mary: Oh, yes, thank you.

John: What would you like for dessert?

Mary: Pass me some ice-cream with jam and a piece of cake, please.

* * *

Neil: Would you like a glass of wine?

Suzy: I'll better have something else.

Neil: What will you drink then?

Suzy: Orange juice or a bottle of mineral water.

Neil: And I'll have some beer, it's too hot today.

* * *

- I'm thirsty. I'd love a cold drink.

- And I'm not. I had a drink at a cafe.

- Did you have anything to eat?

- No, І didn't have any food. I wasn't very hungry then. Besides I enjoy square meals. I didn't want to spoil my appetite by having a snack in a cafe.

- Are you hungry now?

- Hungry as a hunter.

- Would you care to have lunch at a restaurant?

- With pleasure.

* * *

- Here is a restaurant. I hope they serve good meals here.

- Won't it be too expensive?

- No, the prices here are quite reasonable. It won't be much more expensive than a cafeteria. There'll be fewer people and we'll have a better service. Besides, I see it has a li­cense.

- A license? What does it mean?

- It means they serve wine, cognac and so on but only at certain hours. And they won't serve you unless you're over 18.

- Well, we are much older than that.

* * *

Waiter: A table for two?

- Yes, please. By the window. And the menu, please.

- Is there anything to your liking on the menu?

- Oh, yes, many things. Let's have some clear soup, per­haps?

- I don't think I'll have any soup. I'd rather have some vegetable salad to start with.

- Let's have some sliced cucumbers and tomatoes with sour-cream, as a starter.

- I don't mind. Then I'll have roast-beef with new potatoes and peas, jam tart and iced coffee.

- Same for me. There's nothing like a juicy piece of roast-beef, just slightly underdone.

Waiter: Shall I get you anything to drink?

- What do you say to a bottle of beer?

- No beer, thanks. I prefer a glass of mineral water or just a cup of tea.

- All right. A glass of mineral water and apple juice for me then. And iced coffee for two.

* * *

- It's 8 p. m. High time for supper.

- Well, I could do with a bite. I don't eat much in the eve­ning. Some light meal, perhaps.

- What do you usually have for supper?

- A cup of tea and a sandwich, or a glass of milk and a bis­cuit.

- I prefer something more substantial, say, a chop or steak and chips or cold meat with potatoes, or sausages, or an omelette with tea or coffee to follow.

- Then you should take a good stroll after supper. As an English saying goes, «After dinner sleep a while, after supper walk a mile».

* * *

- What would you like for dinner? Shall we dine table d'hote or a la carte?

- What have they got for table d'hote?

- Clear soup with chicken, steamed fish with mashed pota­toes and coffee.

- I don't care for fish. Let's see what they've got for a la carte.

- There's a great variety of dishes: boiled meat, beefsteak, rumpsteak, cutlets. There's poultry, too: chicken and goose. Which would you like?

- And what do they have for afters?

- Ice-cream, pastry, fresh fruit, jelly and tea.

- Then I'll have beefsteak with fried potatoes and an ice.

- As I'm hungry as a hunter, I could do with a square meal. I'll have a clear soup with a meat pie, a rumpsteak with stewed cabbage, a couple of cakes and tea with a slice of lemon.

- I'm thirsty, but I don't feel like drinking tea.

- Care for some lemonade?

- Yes, please.