1. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using expressions from a.

1. No, please. Put your credit card away. I'm inviting you for dinner. (Use an informal expression)

2. Let me pay for this one. You can pay next time. (Use an informal expression.)

3. Visitors to the company's head office in London are always taken out to the best restaurants. (Use a phrase with two words which rhyme with each other.)

4. Fancy coming with us for lunch tomorrow?

5. When we eat out as a group, each person usually pays for their own food and drink. (Use a shorter expression meaning the same.)

6. I'd like to pay for you at the theatre tomorrow night. (Use a formal expression.)

2. Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences using the expressions you have come across above to describe food and drink preferences.

1. I never drink alcohol. (Use an adjective.)

2. I don't really like sweet things. (Use an idiom.)

3. Are there things you can't or mustn't eat? (Use a formal/polite expression.)

4. Just a small portion for me, please. I don't want to eat too much. (Use an expression that means the same.)

5. She's become very careful about how many calories she's eating. (Give two different ways of saying the same thing.)

6. Sasha is such a choosy person when it conies to food. It's difficult to find things she likes. (Use an expression that means the same.)

3. Give the synonyms to the following words:

1 a sweet dish 4 rude staff

2. a friendly waiter 5 quick service

3. a formal gathering 6 dreadful service

VII.

1) Match the English and Russian equivalents:

Eat dirt Eat like a hog Eat short Eat smb out of the house and home I’ll eat my boots Dine with Duke Humphrey Of the same meal

a. объедаться b. одного поля ягоды c. объедать кого-либо d. даю голову на отсечение e. остаться без обеда f. идти на унижение g. таять во рту

2) Match the equivalents of American and British English:

Bar	Maize
Bartender	Sweet shop
Bill	Queue
Can	Biscuit
Candy	Porridge
Store	Spirits
Cookie	Banknote
Corn	Tin
Line	Sweet
Liquor	Barman
Oatmeal	Pub

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.

Have you put 0) off changing the way you eat because healthy eating advice in the past has concentrated 1) … telling you what you shouldn’t eat? Well here’s the good news – there are many delicious foods 2) … you can eat more of – especially fruit and vegetables.

Fruit and vegetables are full 3) … vitamins, minerals and fibre 4) … are needed to maintain good health.

Experts all agree that a healthy diet is low in fat, rich in fruit and vegetables and also in starchy foods 5) … as potatoes, bread, pasta and rice.

Most people need to double the amount of fruit and vegetables they eat, 6) … it be fresh, frozen or canned, to about 400g in 7) … to get the right balance. The easiest way 8) … doing this is to adopt a five-a-day rule. Potatoes should not be included 9) … your five-a-day total as they are classified 10) … starchy foods.

Many dieters find snacks to be their downfall 11) … trying to eat healthily. They find chocolate bars, crisps and biscuits all too convenient. But have you 12) … realised that fruit and vegetables are the ultimate “fast” food because they need 13) … preparation and can 14) … eaten raw? Try biting into a banana, a carrot 15) … even some dried fruit as an alternative.

IX. Give the Russian equivalents of the following proverbs and comment on them:

1. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

2. Hunger is the best sauce.

3. Every cook praises his own broth.

4. Eat to live, live not to eat.

5. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

6. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

7. You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

8. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

9. Eating and scratching wants but a beginning.

10. After dinner comes the reckoning.