6. What do you think of painting? Have you got the favourite paintings? What are they? Look at the painting and complete the text.
In this painting I 1) ……. see a young man sitting 2)….. a rock by the sea. He is wearing blue-green trousers and a shirt, and he has a green 3) ……. on his head. He is staring out to sea. I think he is 4) …. because there is nobody with him. In the background I can see the beach, some houses, a few trees, and mountains. It’s hard to see clearly, but it looks as if 5) ……. are some people walking 6) …. the shore. The artist has used bright, sunny colours, but the painting makes me 7) ……. a little sad.
7. Describe the painting by Norman Rockwell “Girl at the Mirror”.
8 . Read and translate the following message. What do you think this woman is? What does she mean?
W
Monica Vanzant
T
“Lilly”
Take Care and Keep on creating!
Заняття 1.36 Традиційна британська їжа
1. Read and learn the following words and word-combinations.
f
or
a change - для
різноманітності
pickle - маринований огірок
c
hat
- бесіда
chief - головний
tea-cosy - чохол для чайника
to infuse - заварювати чай
rum - ром
batter - кляр, рідке тісто
crisp - хрусткий
grease-proof paper - жиро-непроникний папір
2. Read and translate the text.
BRITISH MEAL
T
he
usual meals in Great Britain are breakfast, lunch and supper.
Breakfast is generally a bigger meal than you have on the Continent,
though some English people like a 'continental' breakfast of rolls
and butter and coffee. But the usual English breakfast is porridge or
'Corn Flakes' with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs; marmalade
(made from oranges) with buttered toast, and tea or coffee. For a
change you can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or perhaps fish.
A
ll
Englishmen generally have lunch about one o'clock. The businessman in
London usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch; but
if the Englishman is making lunch at home he has cold meat (left over
probably from yesterday's dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles,
with a pudding or fruit to follow. Sometimes he has a mutton chop, or
steak and chips, followed by biscuits and cheese, and some people
like a glass of light beer with lunch.
Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal, but it is a sociable sort of thing, as friends often come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuit.
I
n
some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. They begin with
soup, followed by fish, roast chicken, potatoes and vegetables, a
sweet, fruit and nuts. Then they go into the sitting-room for
coffee and the cigarettes. In a great many English homes, they make
the midday meal the chief one of the day, and in the evening
they have the much simpler supper – an omelettes, or sausages,
sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup
of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
Tea making in England is an art. The hostess first of all rinses the teapot with boiling water (this is called 'warming the pot') before adding four or five teaspoonfuls of tea. The amount of tea varies, of course, according to the number of people present. The pot is then filled with boiling water and covered by a tea-cosy to allow the tea to infuse for five minutes. English people seldom put lemon juice or rum in their tea, usually they have it with milk.
The English have a special taste for fish and chips. Everybody seems to have fish and chips at home at least once a week and every English town has in its side streets the shop. The pieces of fish are dipped in batter and then dropped into deep boiling oil for a few minutes. They come out crisp and hot and are then wrapped in grease-proof paper and handed to the customer to take away. Attached to some shops is a small cafe where you can eat your fish and chips without taking them home.