Vegetarian crockery side dish diet

main course napkin sink starter

washing up dessert cutlery entertaining

Maureen often gives dinner parties at home. She loves (a) ________. She lays the table: puts the (b) _______ in the right places, sets out the plates and puts a clean white (c) _________ at each place. For the meal itself, she usually gives her guests some kind of (d) ______ first, for example soup or melon. Next comes the (e) _______, which is usually meat (unless some of her guests are (f) _______ or if they're on a special (g) _______ with a (h) ____ of salad. For (i) ________ it's usually fruit or ice-cream, and then coffee. When everyone has gone home, she must think about doing the (j) _______, as in the kitchen the (k) ________ is full of dirty (l) _________.

Ex.12. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.

to at down of for out in up

I asked ________ the menu.

I like to eat __________ .

He took ___________ my order.

I prefer a simple café ____________ a big restaurant.

I like to go _________ self-service places.

Let’s invite the Smiths __________ dinner.

I looked ___________ the menu.

I'm very fond _____________ Chinese food

Could you help me set __________ the plates?

Put the used cutlery ____________ the sink.

I'll wash them ____________ later.

Ways of Eating.

Ex.13. Put each the following verbs into its correct place in the sentence

chew lick polish off swallow gnaw

consume peck gorge digest bolt

The children have no appetite. They just ___________ their food. They hardly eat anything.

My mother always used to say to me. ‘Now make sure you ________ meat carefully before you _______ it’.

Statistics show that we ________ more fruit and meat than 10 years ago.

He has an enormous appetite. I’ve seen him ___________ four hamburgers and a pile of chips at a sitting.

As children we used to ________ ourselves on ice-cream, chips and chocolate, and then feel very sick.

The starving prisoners were so desperate they would ______ any meat bones they could find.

It is not good for your body to ________ your food so quickly. Eat slowly so that you can _______ it properly.

He was so hungry that when he’d finished his food, he began to _____ the plate.

Ex.14. Answer the following questions using words from the list of the previous exercise.

How do people eat ice-cream cones?

How do hungry people eat?

How do very greedy people eat?

How do people eat if they are not very hungry?

How do dogs eat?

What is good, healthy way to eat meat?

What is an unhealthy way to eat, and why?

Food preparation

Ex.15. Match each verb on the left below with the food item on the right it is most often associated with

(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

(i) to mince cream

(j) to shell meat

(k) to toss a hard-boiled egg

(l) to whip eggs

(m) to stuff a cake

(n) to mash a chicken

(o) to beat a pancake

(p) to ice potatoes

Ex.16. Translate into English consulting your dictionary

хлеб: круассан, ржаной хлеб, парижский багет, пшеничный хлеб, хлеб с отрубями, деревенский хлеб; маргарин, подсолнечное (кукурузное, оливковое, арахисовое, кунжутное) масло, свиное сало;

твердые сыры, мягкие сыры, сыры с плесенью:

сметана, козье молоко, творог, моцарелла, пармезан, рокфор, стилтон, бри;

лук-порей, лук-шалот, резанец, зеленый лук, репчатый лук, чеснок;

батат, спаржа, ревень, сельдерей, кольраби, салат-латук, китайская капуста (пецай), бело-, красно-, зелено-кочанная капуста, шпинат, щавель, перец (желтый, зеленый, красный), стручковый перец, корнишон, черри, тыква обыкновенная, хрен, редька, редис, репа, турнепс;

пряности: гвоздика, горчица, перец (черный, белый, розовый, зеленый), мускатный орех, тмин обыкновенный, кардамон, корица, шафран, карри, мак, имбирь;

специи: укроп, анис, лавровый лист, ориган, эстрагон, базилик, шалфей, чабрец, мята, петрушка, кориандр, розмарин, мелисса;

фисташки, сосновое семя, кешью, миндаль, лесной орех, грецкий орех, кокосовый орех, каштан;

финик, айва, бергамот, хурма, фейхоа, гуайява, маракуйа;

злаковые: рис, пшеница, овес, рожь, просо, кукуруза, ячмень, гречка;

мясо: бифштекс, гуляш, отбивная, фарш, рулька, филейная часть, жаркое, ребрышки, копченый (вареный) окорок, потроха, дичь;

колбасные изделия: салями, кровяная колбаса, франкфуртские сосиски;

моллюски: осьминог, кальмар, морской гребешок, улитка, устрица, мидия;

рыба: камбала, карп, щука, окунь, судак, анчоус, сардина, сельдь, корюшка, скумбрия, угорь, тунец, мерлан, форель, морской окунь, треска, лосось, осётр, семга