6. Read, translate and retell the text: meals in britain

The names of meals in Great Britain are: breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. Breakfast in the morning may be corn­flakes, taken with milk and sugar, bacon or ham with or without eggs, or some kind of fish. Toast of bread and butter with marmalade and a cup of tea or cofee is also a popular breakfast.

Some people just have toast, butter and cheese with tea or cofee for breakfast. English people usually drink tea with milk and this tea is called “English tea”.

In the middle of the day people have different meals. It depends on their jobs and wages. It also depends on what part of the country they live in. People in the north have different tastes from those in the South. Their main cooked meal, whether it’s at midday or in the evening, is called dinner. Those who have their dinner in the middle of the day have supper in the_ evening. Those who have dinner in the evening, have lunch in the middle of the day.For dinner there’s always a main dish, consisting usual­ly of meat or fish with potatoes and cooked vegetables.

Lunch or supper is a lighter meal. Many families living in the north eat something like bread and butter with per­haps fried eggs or fried fish and tea in the evening.

The present perfect continuous tense grammar exercises

1. Find the sentences in the Present Perfect Continu­ous Tense:

t. Let’s have our dinner in this restaurant. 2. I have been cutting a beetroot into tiny bits since she came here.

3. Cabbage is the last things to go into the beetroot soup.

4. Such condiments as garlic, pepper and mustard are usually added later on, while eating, to suit one’s taste.

5. My mother has been cooking dinner for two hours.

6. We usually have some sausage, meat, eggs, butter, bottled milk and tinned fish in the refrigerator. 7. She has been cooking supper for one hour, hasn’t she? 8. I have been choosing apples, pears, plums, grapes and oranges for more than 20 minutes. 9. She has been having breakfast for 10 minutes.

2. Make the sentences interrogative and negative:

1. We have been cooking dinner since 11 o’clock. 2. My sister has been working at this café for seven years.

3. They have been talking about English meals for half an hour already. 4. Helen has been cooking Ukrainian beet­root soup since 12 o’clock. 5. I have been boiling some mutton for an hour already. 6. We have been studying about traditional English dishes and meals for several months.

3. Translate into Ukrainian:

1. I haven’t been eating for three hours. 2. My mother has been cooking breakfast for some minutes. 3. She has been cooking beetroot soup since I came home. 4. What has been boiling in that big saucepan since morning?

2. How long has she been cooking breakfast? 6. Alice has not been cooking dinner since her mother went to the mar­ket. 7. My mother has been working at that restaurant since 1990. 8. My friend and I have been discussing the menu for 15 minutes. 9. We have been choosing dishes and drinks at restaurant for several minutes.