II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. Why do customers decide to eat at this or that restaurant?

2. Do the customers like the quality of the food?

3. Whom do the customers tell about the good restaurant?

4. Why do the customers tell their friends about the good restaurant?

5. Are good waiters important in the restaurant business?

6. Are good cooks important in the restaurant business? Why?

7. Is the appearance of the waiters important?

8. Who makes a friendly atmosphere?

9. Why must the waiters be neat and clean at all times?

10. Must their hair be short?

III. Выполните следующие упражнения.

1. Составьте словосочетания, используя данные слова и выражения:

the pleasant contact

the quality shirt

have a good customers

in direct atmosphere

to serve time

a spare of the food

2. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений:

по многим причинам, репутация места, приятная атмосфера, очень важны, в котором они работают, приходить туда снова, хорошо провести время, быть в непосредственном контакте, испачкаться.

3. Задайте 5 альтернативных вопросов к тексту.

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I. Прочитайте и переведите текст. При необходимости пользуйтесь словарём. Waiter’s working day

Victor works as a waiter at the restaurant “Russian Style”. It is a big restaurant in the centre of the city. The dining room of the restaurant is decorated in Russian style. The restaurant is famous for its dishes of Russian cuisine.

Victor is twenty-five. He usually comes to work at ten o’clock in the morning. He has a lot of work to do. He dusts his tables and chairs, changes table-cloths on the tables and the flowers in the vases. Then he sets his tables for dinner. He brings cruet-sets, napkins, menu-cards and puts clean covers – plates, glasses, spoons, forks and knives on his tables. All the staff in the dining room – headwaiter, waiters and waitresses – gets ready to receive guests.

Lunch begins at one o’clock. The guests come to the restaurant. The headwaiter meets them in the hall, greets them and shows them to their tables. Victor and other waiters serve lunch till five o’clock. They recommend dishes and wines to the customers. The customers choose table d’hôte or a la carte dishes.

Dinner begins at six and Victor serves the guests till eleven. He recommends them special dishes or specialties of the restaurant. The guests eat, drink and have a good time. They usually leave the restaurant at midnight. Victor counts the money and gives the cash to the cashier, cleans the tables and then he is free to go home. He likes his work because it is interesting.

Слова и выражения:

dining room (n,С) – зал ресторана

famous (adj) – знаменитый, известный

dish (n,С) - блюдо

Russian cuisine – русская кухня

dust (v) – вытирать пыль

table-cloth (n,С) - скатерть

cruet-set (n,С) – прибор для специй

napkin (n,С) – салфетка из ткани

cover (n,С) – столовый прибор

staff (n,U) - персонал

get ready (v) - готовиться

serve (v) - обслуживать

headwaiter (n,C) - метрдотель

customer (n,C) – клиент, посетитель

table d’hôte dish (n,C) – дежурное блюдо

a la carte dish (n,C) – порционное блюдо

special dishes= specialties (n,C) – фирменные блюда