Breakfast at a Hotel
Waiter: Good morning! What would you like to order?
Tom: Could I see the menu, please? Thank you. I'd like some grape juice and cereal to start with. Then bacon and eggs, make them soft-boiled, please.
Jean: Oh, I could not eat all that. It's too much. I'll just have toast and marmalade.
Waiter: Thank you. Would you prefer coffee or tea?
Tom: Coffee, I think, what about you, dear?
Jean: I prefer tea.
2) Say which breakfast you would choose: a real English breakfast like Tom — or a light Continental breakfast like Jean?
3) Is it wise to take the English breakfast and eat less for lunch and dinner?
4) Do you agree with what an expert says about good eating habits: "If our food has few vitamines we get ill. Green vegetables are especially important for our health"?
XXIII. Read the text:
How to Be Fit
Нello. Our programme today is called "How to Вe Fit." The whole world admires the beautiful models and film stars you so often see on TV. They are tall, slim, long-legged.. You see them and you want to look like them. But do you know how to do it? The problem is that people eat too much today. Besides, who can refuse a piece of nice sweet cake or a cup of sweet chocolate? Some people can. Our guest today is the famous Linda Martin, a film star. She will tell you how she keeps fit.
"Hello. My name is Linda Martin. Let me tell you a few important things about my life. I don't get up very early but I begin my day with exercises. I go out and run about my house twenty times. Then I get hungry and have breakfast. I have a big glass of orange juice and then a cup of coffee. At about one 1 have my lunch. At lunch I eat a lot of vegetates: cabbage, carrots, peas, fresh cucumbers, a piece of rye bread and a cup of tea without sugar, of course. Sometimes I don't have any lunch at all if I'm at work. I don't like to have meals in public places. I sometimes have dinner in the evening when I'm hungry or when I have guests at home. I don't like to receive guests because we usually eat a lot of meat and fish and other heavy things which don't help you to be fit. Mу motto is `Eat to live, but not live to eat.' And, dear ladies, always remember you are as old as you look. That's why I have always played only young girls."
Read the text again and say
1) what Linda Martin eats to keep fit;
2) why she doesn't like to receive guests;
3) if you can keep the same diet;
4) if she tells the truth;
5) how old she is.
XXIV. Things to do:
1. You are a doctor. Make a list of Dos and Don'ts. What you recommend to eat and what you don't to
a) a thin person;
b) a fat person.
2. Make a recipe of your favourite dish (fish, meat, cake, fruit salad, etc.).
3. Say if you have ever been on a slimming diet and if you know any effective diet. Describe it.
4. Make up a menu for:
a) your mother's (child's, wife's, husband's, etc.) birthday party;
b) your aunt who is on a slimming diet;
c) your uncle who likes to eat much;
d) your cousin who is a sweet tooth (сладкоежка).
5. Interview people.You may begin your interview with:
a) Are you married? How long have you been married?
b) Where do you work? How long have you worked?
c) Do you speak English? How long have you spoken it?
d) Where do you live? How long have you lived there?
e) Have you been abroad? When did you go there?