- •Кулинария и здоровое питание
- •Contents:
- •Traditional British dishes
- •Exercises
- •I. What are the English equivalents to:
- •III. Exercises
- •IV. Do these exercises
- •V. Read the rhyme below and make up your own dialogue on its basis:
- •VI. Study the following and memorize useful words and phrases.
- •1. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using expressions from a.
- •2. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using the expressions you have come across above to describe food and drink preferences.
- •3. Give the synonyms to the following words:
- •1) Match the English and Russian equivalents:
- •2) Match the equivalents of American and British English:
- •VIII. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. Eat your Greens.
- •Part II texts for careful studying
- •British meals and mealtimes
- •1. Find the equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text and write them down:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Read the following statements. Are they true or false?
- •4. Retell the text.
- •British food
- •Answer the questions on the text.
- •The vocabulary to be used:
- •Dinner and take-aways
- •Eating out
- •Vegetarianism
- •1. Find the equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text and write them down:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Read the following statements. Are they true or false?
- •4. Retell the text.
- •Is fast food bad?
- •Is some fast food healthier than others?
- •An Englishman's View of Russian Food
- •Answer the questions:
- •Russian Cuisine
- •National cuisine National Cuisine in Moscow Restaurants
- •Part III
- •I. Translate these sentences into English:
- •II. Correct the mistakes:
- •Translate the dialogue into English:
- •IV. Render into English:
- •V. Preparatory test
- •Part IV
- •1. Souffle Omelette
- •Ingredients
- •2. Chocolate Steamed Pudding
- •Ingredients
- •3. Rice Noodles In soup with Beef
- •Ingredients
- •4. Bombay Potatoes
- •Ingredients
- •5. Lemon Chicken
- •Ingredients
- •6. Tuna mayonnaise
- •Ingredients
- •Ingredients
- •Ingredients
- •Part V additional texts
- •English Pub
- •Food can be dangerous for your health!
- •Is it true that a lot of British dishes are named after places?
- •Italian
- •Text (from «Аэрофлот»)
- •The tables are turning
- •Let me tell you about Russia
- •II. Sit Down to Tea
- •In pairs, tell your partner about your favourite type of sweet. Say where you can buy it, the ingredients and how you eat it (with jam, tea etc.)
- •Come For Pancakes! Russian pancakes
- •V. We are what we eat
Dinner and take-aways
Before you read:
What is a take-away? (If you don’t know, try to guess) Is it popular in Russia? Why?
Dinner is usually the main meal of the day and consists of two courses - meat or fish and vegetables followed by a dessert or pudding. Prepacked or pre-cooked convenience foods are especially popular. £3,000 million of frozen foods are sold in an average year. Sixty per cent of British homes use a microwave oven for cooking.
In recent years, foreign foods have become a regular part of the British diet. Indian, Italian and Chinese dishes are particularly popular for evening meals. Most supermarkets sell a range of pre-packed meals to be heated in the microwave.
Take-aways became extremely popular in the 1980s. The traditional British take-away is fish and chips eaten with salt and vinegar and served in an old newspaper. Most towns and cities now offer a wide range of take-away meals, from American-style hamburgers to Turkish kebabs. Many families prefer to eat takeaway food for dinner instead of cooking, and it is not unknown for people to buy a take-away after a visit to the pub or after a night out - in addition to dinner!
The British are famous for their love of sweet things, and afternoon tea with sandwiches, scones, jam and several different kinds of cake was once a traditional custom. Like the English cooked breakfast, it is now more often found in teashops and hotels than in private homes, and you can buy special guidebooks to tell you where the best afternoon teas are served. Most working people do not have tea as an afternoon 'meal', but they do have a short break in the middle of the afternoon for a cup of tea. Tea is often also drunk with lunch and dinner.
1. Find the equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text and write them down:
полуфабрикаты, в последние годы, уксус, большое ряд (разнообразие), пшеничная лепешка
2. Answer the questions:
1. Does dinner usually consist of 2 courses? What are they?
2. How many British people use a microwave oven for cooking?
3. When did take-aways become extremely popular?
4. What is the traditional take-away?
5. What are the British famous for according to the text?
3. Read the following statements. Are they true or false?
1. Most people have a large breakfast.
Lunch is a light meal.
Dinner is smaller than lunch.
Frozen food is not popular.
Everything stops at tea time.
Tea is a drink and a meal.
Discuss the problem which is raised in the text with your classmates. What is your attitude to take-away meals?
TEXT 5
Eating out
This week we decided to look at a small family-run restaurant in the village of Wardleton, Sussex.. "The Old Mill" is newly opened and overlooks the River Wardle, and we had heard several favourable comments about it. Because we had been advised to book in advance, we managed to book a nice table with a view of the quay. We were made very welcome and the service was excellent because it is a small family business. The proprietor, Jeff Deans, runs the kitchen himself and his wife, Nelly, showed us to our table.
Although the choice of items on the menu was very extensive, it .was rather traditional. We started with Wardle Trout. For my main course I chose the pepper steak, which was the speciality of the day. I thought it was almost perfect because the chef had chosen excellent meat and it was cooked just long enough.
My wife ordered the roast lamb, and although the quality of the meat was good, she thought it was a little underdone. Though the vegetables were fresh, they came in very small portions and were rather over-cooked (tasting burnt) for our taste. However the bread was fresh because it had been baked on the premises.
As usual 1 chose house wine, as this is often the best way to judge a restaurant's wine list. It was a French-bottled table wine which was quite, satisfactory and reasonably priced. The bill, including Turkish coffee and brandy, came to £ 37, which was acceptable for the class of restaurant, although that did not include service.
(After: "Streamline English. Destinations" by Bernard Hartley & Peter Viney.- Oxford, l988, Unit 58)
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