3. Answer the questions.

1. What can you say about Ukrainian hospitality?

2. What are your meal-times?

3. How would you lay the table for the guests? What about the menu?

4. What do you usually take for the first (second) course?

5. If we drink a toast to someone’s health on a certain occasion, what do we usually say?

4 . Read the information about the cooking Ukrainian borshch. Then put the pictures into the right order.

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BORSHCH

Borshch has had a special and important place on the daily menu of the Ukrainian people for many years. It is usually served as a first course for dinner. It tastes best when served with pampushkas (small round buns) and garlic.

I ngredients

• 2 litres water

• 3 00 g beef

• 300 g shredded cabbage

• 2 shredded carrots

• 1 beetroot cut into thin strips

• 3-4 potatoes cut into thin strips

• 1 chopped onion

• 1/2 cup beans

• 1 stick of celery (sliced)

• sunflower oil

• 1 tablespoon tomato sauce

• dill, parsley, salt, sugar, pepper (to taste)

STEPS

1. Put meat into a large saucepan. Add water and bring to the boil over a medium-high heat. Turn heat to low. Simmer for about 40 minutes.

2. Add potato, cabbage and simmer for 10 more minutes.

3. Add pre-cooked beans.

4. Put onion, carrot, celery and beetroot into a frying pan. Add sunflower oil and brown for 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce. Stir the mix into the saucepan.

5. Add salt sugar and pepper to taste.

Serve the borshch hot and with sour cream. Sprinkle it with dill and/or parsley, and don't forget the pampushkas and garlic.

Bon Appétit!

5. Find the English equivalents in the information about borshch.

Б уряк, підсмажувати, різати (шаткувати), кріп, сковорода, часник, петрушка, каструля, подавати до столу, шинкована, варити (не доводячи до кипіння), нарізаний, на смак.

6. Answer the questions.

• What is your favourite soup?

• When do you eat it?

• What is borshch made from?

• How long does it take to cook?

• What is borshch served with?

7. Match the words to their definitions.

To brown To chop To shred To simmer To slice

To be cut into smaller pieces. To be cut or torn into thin pieces. To cook in water that is gently boiling. To be cut into thin, flat pieces. To heat food so that it becomes a little dark.

8. Give a polite answer to each question.

Example: Would you like French dressing or Italian dressing? I'd like Italian dressing, please.

Do you want French dressing or Italian dressing? I'd like Italian dressing, please.

• Would you like soup or a salad?

• Do you want chicken or onion soup?

• Do you want milk or juice?

• Would you like potatoes or rice?

• Would you like coffee or tea?

• Do you want milk or lemon with your tea?

• Would you like red wine or white wine?

• Would you like a piece of cake or a piece of pie?