4 Activity

Four people, Jeff, Pierre, Susan and Helen, have ordered breakfast, but their orders are jumbled. Work out who ordered what. Each person ordered three food items and at least one drink.

Jeff has ordered orange juice and coffee.

1. Helen wants croissants.

2. Everyone wants orange juice except one person, who wants grapefruit juice and tea.

3. Everybody wants either eggs or croissants, but nobody wants both.

4. One man and one woman have ordered eggs.

5. The woman who wants fried eggs wants orange juice and no hot drink.

6. The man who is having coffee does not want croissants.

h) The man who wants croissants also wants orange juice and hot chocolate.

i) Both croissant-eaters want butter, but only the woman wants jam.

j) The person with no hot drink has ordered sausages and mushrooms.

k) The person who wants fruit youghurt does not drink coffee.

Drinks

Food items

1) The person who wants scrambled eggs has also ordered toast and butter.

Act out dialogues using your ideas of who ordered what.

	Juice	Hot drink	1	2	3
Jeff	orange	coffee	scrambledeggs	toast	butter
Pierre	orange	hotchocolate	croissants	butter	fruit youghurt
Susan	Orange	none	fried eggs	sausage	mushrooms
Helen	grapefruit	tea	fried eggs	sausage	mushrooms

5 Activity

1) Imagine that you are a waiter / a waitress in a restaurant.

Your customers want explanations of different items on the menu. Answer their questions using a phrase from each of the three columns.

Example: What is Chicken Kiev?

You: It's a chicken breast filled with garlic butter and coated with breadcrumbs.

A	B	C
A chicken breast	Made with white stem	With garlic and cream
A variety of shellfish	Made with egg whites	And a green top
A kind of sweet	Made with chocolate	Eggs and liqueur
A kind of meat	Made with milk	And has pink flesh
Thinly sliced potatoes	That is quite large	But are much smaller
A kind of sauce	Filled with garlic	Young calves
A very light dish	Butter	Vanilla, eggs and sugar
A kind of fish	That look like lobsters	And coated with breadcrumbs
A kind of vegetable	That comes from	And baked in the oven
	That are baked

1. What are prawns?

2. What are chocolate truffles?

3. What is veal?

4. What is custard?

5. What is a souffle?

6. What is salmon?

7. What is a leek? (лук-порей)

2) Now think of three dishes that are popular in Russia but that foreign customers might not know.

Write short explanations of what they are.

3) Read the dialogue and answer the questions below. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are staying in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow and are ordering lunch in the restaurant at the hotel.

Waiter Good morning, madam. Good morning, sir.

Mrs.S. Good morning. Have you got a table for two, please?

Waiter Certainly. Where would you like to sit? By the win­dow of further back?

Mrs.S. I think we'd prefer by the window so that we can watch the people in the street.

Waiter Right. Won't you sit down?

Mr.S. Thank you very much. This is pleasant.

Waiter Yes, it's a beautiful day today. What would you like to order?

Mrs.S. Do you think you could explain the menu to us? You see, our French isn't good enough and we don't speak any Russian at all.

Waiter Of course. I'll give you an English-language menu and explain everything that might seem confusing. Here you are.

Mr.S. & Mrs.S. Thank you. What's for starters?

Waiter There are three types of salads or vegetable soup.

Which would you prefer?

Mrs.S. I'd rather have a fish salad with grilled tomatoes, it sounds very good.

Mr.S. Vegetable soup for me, please?

Waiter Certainly. And for the main course there's grilled bacon, chicken or steak.

Mr.S. Well, bacon is a bit spicy for me. I think I’ll have the steak.

Mrs.S. Steak for me, too, please.

Waiter How would you like them cooked?

Mrs.S. I don't like my steaks too underdone. Make mine well done.

Mr.S. Rare for me, please.

Waiter Fine. What would you like to go with your steaks?

Mrs.S. Chips and a green salad, please.

Mr.S. I'll have chips. And peas, if you have them.

Waiter Yes, that's fine. And what would you like to drink? Bottled beer? Wine?

Mrs.S. We like wine better.

Waiter We have a very pleasant house wine served by the carafe.

Mr.S. Yes, I think a carafe of red would do nicely.

Mrs.S. It isn't too dry, is it?

Waiter No, no. It's a medium wine.

Mrs.S. Good. We'll have that then. And also a bottle of mineral water.

Answer the questions:

1. Why does Mrs. Stanley prefer to sit by the window?

2. Why does she ask the waiter to explain the menu?

3. What does Mr. Stanley order for his first two courses?

4. How do the Stanleys want their steaks cooked?

5. What kind of red wine doesn't Mrs. Stanley like?

Act out similar dialogues.