3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the United States famous for in « food style»?

2. What food alternatives do the people have to choose nowadays?

3. Why does the United States have such immense variety of ethnic restaurants serving international cooking?

4. Can the people find their native specialties there?

5. When did health food gain popularity?

6. Does health food contain preservatives or chemicals?

7. Who are vegetarians?

8. Why are fast-food restaurants so popular in the United States?

9. Do Americans have their traditional big breakfast and dinner at 6:00 p.m.?

10. Why are they rediscovering the social importance of food?

11. What are the major cuisines in the USA?

4. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and word-combinations and find them in the text:

food style, solid and unchanging diet, alternatives, health food, fast food, in addition to, home-cooked meal, commonplace, ethnic, to enjoy food, to gain popularity, physical well-being, unprocessed food, to contain preservatives, health food enthusiasts, lunch break, attitude, to lose popularity, rush through lunch, special way

5. Give English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:

традиційно відомий, незмінна дієта, здорова їжа, домашня їжа, швидка їжа, велика кількість, люди, що живуть тут, фізичне благополуччя, вегетаріанці, ресторани швидкого харчування, знову відкривати, знаходити час щоб відпочити і розслабитись

6. Find synonyms and antonyms among the words given below and put them down according to the model; find them in the text if any and read the sentences in which they are used:

Model: to gain syn. to earn, to achieve, to win; ant. to loose, to damage, to ruin

suggest, express, mean, hint, state, imply, describe, basic, essential, subsidiary, fundamental, secondary, auxiliary, vital, number, a large quantity, much, little, gain, ruin, win, loose, earn, damage, achieve

7. Learn the following definitions:

1. “Food style” is the habit of cooking and having meal.

2. Health food is fresh, natural and unprocessed food.

3. Ethnic food is the food which has native specialties.

4. Fast food is a meal which people have in a short time.

5. Unprocessed food is food which is not cooked.

6. Home-cooked meal is the food cooked to home recipes.

7. International cooking is the meal which has a great variety of dishes.

8. Read the following text and answer the questions given below.

It is interesting to know.

Some people, called vegetarians, choose not to eat meat for a number of different reasons. Some do not like it, some think it is wrong to kill and eat animals, some think it is too expensive or just not safe. There are several different kinds of vegetarians: those who eat fish but no meat, those who eat eggs and dairy products (things which come from milk, like butter and cheese) but no meat, and those who do not eat any animal or anything which comes from an animal – so no meat, no fish, no milk and no eggs. They eat fruit, vegetables, nuts, bread, rice, etc.

Many people became vegetarians because they do not like the way animals are farmed. Examples of this are battery chickens, or young cows kept in the dark so their meat stays light in colour, about 5% of people in Britain today do not eat any meat, about 10% do not eat red meat, and most people say they eat less meat now than in the past. If a food suitable for vegetarians, the packet often has the letter “V” on it, and vegetarian meals on a menu often have the “V” next to them to help people choose what to eat.

1. Who does not eat meat?

2. Why do many people become vegetarians?

3. What kinds of vegetarians are there?

4. What does each kind of vegetarians eat?

5. What does the packet often have if a food is suitable for vegetarians?