3 Practise the following dialogue. Try to make up your own one on the topic. At the restaurant

Waiter: Good morning, sir. For one?

Paul: Yes, please.

W.: Would you like this table by the window?

P.: Thank you.

W.: Here’s the menu, sir.

P.: Well, now, what do you recommend?

W.\ Well, the roast lamb’s very good. Or if you prefer fish, there’s nice fresh cod today.

P.: I think, I’ll have the roast lamb, please.

W.: What vegetables would you like with it?

P.: Some backed potatoes. And what green vegetables have you got?

W.\ Peas, spinach, French beans.

P.: I think I’ll have peas. They’re nice with lamb.

W.\ Very well, sir. And what will you have first? Soup, hors d’oeuvres or grapefruit?

P.: I’ll have grapefruit to start with.

W.: Grapefruit.

P.: Could I order my sweet now? I’m rather in a hurry.

W.: Yes, certainly. What would you like?

P.: I think I’d like an apple tart and coffee.

W.: Very well, sir.

4 Complete the following sentences.

1. Help yourself to...

2. The meat is...

3. The soup lacks...

4. Can I offer you...?

5. Will you have...?

6. May I trouble...?

7. Will you pass...?

8. Shall I treat you?

9. For dessert I’ll have...

10. Will you...?

11. Let’s have...

12. They serve...

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4. Name 4 or 5 kinds of

meat dishes, soup, fruit, dishes taken for breakfast, dessert, beverages, appetizers, sweet dishes.

6 Put the following names of food and drinks under the right headings on the menu.

MENU:

1. APPETIZERS

2. SOUPS

3. MAIN DISHES a) meats b) poultry c) fish

4. SIDE DISHES

5. BEVERAGES

6. SWEETS

7. CHEESE

apple pie apple sauce avocado vinaigrette beef Wellington butter camembert cheese dip (fondue) coffee

cream of mushroom creole haddock

dumplings Emmentale farmhouse cheddar fried fillet of plaice game pie grilled tomatoes grilled real fillet hot chocolate hot fudge sundae peach melba

pork chops prawn cocktail roast duck

sole in white wine sauce

spareribs

tossed green salad

turkey

Yorkshire pudding

7 Group the words below under the following headings

1. Cereals

2. Dairy products

3. Fish

4. Fruit

5. Herbs

6. Meat

7. Vegetables

aubergine

barley

dill

herring

bacon

basil

flour

lamb

blackberry

chicken

gooseberry

maise

beans

cream

grape

mint

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION. CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS

mustard

mutton onion parsley

peas plaice rabbit

rye sage salmon

sole thyme trout

wheat youghurt

pear

rice

sausage

veal

8 What does it mean?

The crab salad’s always a big hit.

9 Make a menu for

a light breakfast, a festive dinner, your favourite lunch, a dinner for a sick child.

10 Arrange short debates on the following questions.

1. Should we stick to our custom of giving our guests a substantial meal?

2. How do you like the idea of celebrating family holidays in a cafe or restaurant?

3. Are old traditions in cooking worth keeping?

11 Reply the waiter.

• You are being served, aren’t you?

• Do you like your tea strong?

• The steak is just to your taste, isn’t it?

• You have ordered salad for two, haven’t you?

• Do you still need the wine list?

• You don’t seem to like the cutlet. Shall I change it?

• Shall I lay another place, madam?

• Shall I add the bill to your hotel bill, sir?

• Will you have the strawberries with sugar, madam?

• Will you eat table d’hote or a la carte?

12 Make up statements using the situations.

• You want some salt for the steak and the waiter is just going by. You call him and say...

• You ordered a steak. The waiter has brought you something which you can neither cut nor eat. You say...

• You are at a restaurant. You notice that your glass is not clean. You stop a waiter who is passing by and say...