Exercise # 6. Translate into English:

1. Ця людина дуже добре говорить англійською, але я його не розумію, оскільки він говорить дуже швидко. 2. Як називається напій, що ви зараз готуєте? - О, це молочний коктейль. 3. А з чим зазвичай їдять борщ? З чорним хлібом і часником? Можна і так, але українці полюбляють борщ з пампушками. 4. Зараз спостерігається швидкий розвиток харчової промисловості. Українська кухня швидко поповнюється новими стравами. 5. Чи не вип’єте з нами філіжанку кави? Ми саме п’ємо каву.

Unit 7 English Food

1. Read and learn the following words and word combinations:

impression – вра́ження;

e.g. She was in fact a woman of forty, and she gave me an impression of having more teeth, white and large, that were necessary for any practical purpose. S. Maugham “The Luncheon”

the former – попередній;

the latter – останній (з двох, що були названі; ant. – the former);

to improve – покращувати;

to can – консервувати (м'ясо, овочі, фрукти);

can – могти (модальне дієслово);

e.g. We eat what we can and what we can’t we can.

to appreciate – цінувати;

to condemn – засуджувати, визнавати непридатним;

fish and chips – риба та картопля у фритюрі;

e.g. Fish and chips is still Britain’s most famous fast food. “Today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper”, English people used to say.

overdone – пережарений;

to grouse (about, at) – бурчати; syn: mutter, mumble, grumble;

e.g. A friend of mine discovered an important secret, namely that the English mutter and mumble. (G. Mikes How to Be an Alien)

to throw (threw, thrown) – кидати;

to make matters worse – ускладнювати справу;

sufficiently – достатньо;

soggy – мокрий, сирий;

kidney – нирка;

saddle of mutton – «сідло барашка»;

e.g. “Saddle of mutton” is a traditional English dish cooked of a cut of mutton including part of the backbone.

kippers – копчена риба (особливо оселедець);

tasteless – несмачний; позбавлений смаку́; ant: tasteful, delicious;

to justify – виправдовувати; syn: defend, support, maintain; ant: accuse, charge, blame;

instance – приклад; syn: example;

to strain – проціджувати; фільтрувати;

to spend holidays abroad – проводити свята/канікули за кордоном;

to appreciate – оцінювати; syn: to esteem, to estimate, to value;

to appreciate unfamiliar dishes – оцінювати незнайомі страви;

to be unadventurous – не ризикувати;

unfair – несправедливо; syn: unjust, dishonest; ant. fair, just, honest;

red-currant jelly – желе з червоної смородини;

restaurants are run and staffed by foreigners – і керують ресторанами, і працюють в них іноземці;

e.g. People have to come to Britain from different parts of the world, bringing their favourite food with them and often opening restaurants run and staffed by foreigners.

2. Read and translate the tex: English Food

The two features of life in England that possibly give visitors their worst impressions are the English weather and English cooking. The former is something that nobody can do anything about, but cooking is something that can be learned. English food has often been described as tasteless. Although this criticism has been more then justified in the past, and in many instances still is, the situation is changing somewhat. One of the reasons that English cooking is improving is that so many people have been spending their holidays abroad and have learned to appreciate unfamiliar dishes. However, there are still many British people who are so unadventurous when they visit other countries that will condemn everywhere that does not provide them tea and either fish and chips or sausages, baked beans and chips or overdone steak and chips.

One of the traditional grouses about English food is the way that vegetables are cooked. Firstly the only way that many British housewives know to cook green vegetables is to boil them for far too long in too much salt water and then to throw the water away so that all the vitamins are lost. To make matter worse, they do not stain the vegetables sufficiently so that they appear as a soggy wet mass on the plate.

It would be unfair to say that all English food is bad. Many traditional British dishes are as good as anything you can get anywhere. Nearly everybody knows about roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but they are by no means the only dishes that are cooked well. A visitor if invited to an English home might well enjoy steak and kidney pudding or pie, saddle of mutton with red-currant jelly, all sorts of smoked fish, especially kippers, boiled salt beef and carrots, to mention but a few.

A strange thing about English that the visitors may notice is that most of the good restaurants in England are run and staffed by foreigners – for example there is a large number of Chinese, Indian restaurants and, to a less extent, French and Spanish ones.