- •2. Match the words in the columns below to make popular British dishes.
- •3. Match the names of popular British dishes from the previous assignment with the definitions below and reproduce them.
- •4. Read the text "Meals in Britain" (Focus on Britain Today, p. 50-51) and:
- •It's Teatime, Mind Your Manners by Emanuel Elley
- •I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China
- •It's as good as a chocolate teapot
- •10. Read the quotes and proverbs about food and answer these questions:
- •Food Proverbs
- •(George Mikes. How to be an Alien) devices of irony
- •Between words and thoughts
- •Between words and behaviour
- •Between words contrasted to each other
- •Between an aim and a way of its achieving
(George Mikes. How to be an Alien) devices of irony
a device of incongruity (несоответствия):
Between words and thoughts
e.g.: “I think he is a nice friend for Roger to have. A thoroughly normal, clean-minded English boy”.
“Oh, thoroughly”. (“Bloody fool, bloody fool”.)
“To see the way they eat is a fair treat”.
“Yes, they seem to have enjoyed their food”. (“My Hod, I wish it could have choked them”.)
(W. S. Maugham. Theatre)
Between words and behaviour
e.g.: Gwendolen: But we will not be the first to speak.
Cecily: Certainly not.
Gwendolen: Mr. Worthing, I have something very particular to ask you….
(O. Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest)
a device of incompatibility between words belonging to different semantic fields used together (=слова, различающиеся по линии «значительность – ничтожность»)
e.g.: Algernon: And speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches for Lady Bracknell?
(O. Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest)
Between words contrasted to each other
e.g.: I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everyone in the room, the most astounding details…
(O. Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Between an aim and a way of its achieving
e.g.: The Duchess sighed. “I am searching for peace,” she said, “and if I don’t go and dress, I shall have none this evening”.
(O. Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray)
a device of defeated expectancy
a device of heterogeneous enumeration
logical contradiction between parts of utterance
comparisons
paradoxes
exaggeration
understatement
a device of a broken idiom
repetition
parallel constructions
tag-questions (переспросы)
exclamatory sentences
a device of saying the opposite of what one means (“irony” in its narrow sense)