Unit 4
MEALS
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Vocabulary: words naming various kinds of food dealing with bakery, dairy, butchery, grocery, greengrocery, fishmongery, etc. products, hard and soft drinks, idioms and sat-expressions of the topic under consideration.
Grammar: the Article, the Past Indefinite Tense, the Past Continuous tense.
Language practice: developing communicative skills in the use of a new vocabulary, topic presentations.
Exercise 1. Read the dialogue and translate it into Ukrainian. Then dramatize it in parts.
AT THE RESTAURANT
Waiter: Good evening. Two for dinner?
Boris: Yes, that's right.
W: You can leave your coats here. Were would you like to sit? Would you like this table by the window?
B: Yes, that's nice. Could we see the menu?
W: Certainly. Here it is. Shall I give you a few minutes to look at it?
B: Yes. We'll order in a few minutes.
B: Do you want an appetizer?
N: Hm. I think I'll have a shrimp cocktail. I'm crazy about shrimps. What about you?
B: I'm not sure. I can't decide.
N: Oh, if I were you, I'd have the smoked salmon. You always say you like smoked salmon, and you haven't had any for a long time.
W: Are you ready to order now?
B: Yes, one shrimp cocktail and one smoked salmon, please.
W: Fine. And the entree?
B: Well, we can't decide between the veal and the chicken. What do you recommend?
W: Both are good, but if I were you I'd have the veal. It's the speciality of the house.
W: What would you like with the veal? Maybe some vegetables?
N: Yes. Some zucchini, some carrots, and some boiled potatoes.
W: And a salad?
N: Bring me a mixed salad with the entree, please.
W: All right. Will you want a dessert?
N: Can we order that later?
W: Of course.
W: Would you like a bottle of red wine? May I suggest something?
B: Sure.
W: Why don't you have a carafe of our house wine. It's Chilean. You'll like it.
B: That sounds fine. Let's try it.
Exercise 2.
Now read and translate the text.☺Pay attention to the new vocabulary below.
BRITISH MEALS
The usual meals are breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner 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.
We generally have lunch at about one o'clock. A businessman in London usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or restaurant; but if I am making lunch at home I have cold meat (left over probably from yesterday's dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding or fruit to follow. Sometimes, we have 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.
In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. We had rather a special one last night, as we had an important visitor from South America to see Mr. Priestley.
We began with soup, followed by fish, roast chicken, potatoes and vegetables, sweet, fruit and nuts. Then we went into the sitting room for coffee and cigarettes.
But in my house, as in a great many English homes, we make the midday meal the chief one of the day, and in the evening we have the much simpler supper — an omelette, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
But uncle Albert always has "high tea". He says he has no use for these "afternoon teas" where you try to hold a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread and butter about as thin as a sheet of paper in the other. He's a Lancashire man, and nearly everyone in Lancashire likes high tea. They have it between five and six o'clock, and they have ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad, or sausages, with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, then stewed fruit, or a tin of pears, apricots or pineapple with cream or custard and pastries or a good cake. And that’s what they call a good tea.
(from C.E. Eckersley)
Answer the following questions to the text.
What does English breakfast usually consist of?
What can you say about English lunch?
What is the difference between “afternoon tea” and “high tea”?
What do you know about dinner in Britain?
What do they call a good tea in Britain?
Learn the following words by heart. ☺
Baking Bread (white, brown, rye) Loaf of bread Fresh bread Stale bread Roll Bun Rusk Pie Croissant Pudding Biscuits / cookies Sponge cake Cake Plumcake Pastry Meat Ham Pork Beef Veal Mutton Beefsteak Mince Sausage Fat Frankfurter / frank Hot dog Chop Cutlet Doughnut Liver Heart Tongue Tender meat Tough meat Fat meat Lean meat Hamburger Poultry Turkey Chicken Goose Duck Dairy products Milk Cream Sour cream Cottage cheese Cheese Boiled egg Fried eggs Omelette Youghurt Butter Margarine Mayonnaise Grocery Cereal Sugar Salt Pepper Mustard Vinegar Oil (sunflower, olive)
Celery Pumpkin Nuts Almond Cashew nut Nutmeg Berries Strawberry Raspberry Gooseberry Cranberry Blackberry Hard drinks White wine Sparkling wine Red wine Whisky |
Випічка Хліб (білий, чорний, житній) Буханець хліба Свіжий хліб Черствий хліб Булочка, сайка Здобна булочка Сухар Пиріг Круасан Пудинг Печиво Бісквітний пиріг Торт, тістечко Кекс Кондитерські вироби М'ясо Шинка Свинина Яловичина Телятина Баранина Біфштекс М’ясний фарш Ковбаса Жир Сосиска Хот-дог Відбивна Котлета Смажений пончик Печінка Серце Язик Ніжне м'ясо Жорстке м'ясо Жирне м'ясо Пісне м'ясо Гамбургер Птиця Індичка Курятина, курча Гусак Качка Молочні продукти Молоко Вершки Сметана Плавлений сир Твердий сир Варене яйце Яєчня Омлет Йогурт Масло Маргарин Майонез Гастрономія Крупа Цукор Сіль Перець Гірчиця Оцет Олія (соняшникова, оливкова) Селера Гарбуз Горіхи Мигдаль Лісовий горіх Мускатний горіх Ягоди Полуниця Малина Аґрус Журавлина Чорниця Алкогольні напої Біле вино Ігристе вино Червоне вино Віскі |
Spice Coffee Black coffee White coffee Ground coffee Instant coffee Cocoa Tea Porridge Oats Flour Rice Buckwheat Macaroni Noodles Spaghetti Fish Herring Shrimps Lobster Trout Salmon Sprats Caviar Eel Fried fish Smoked fish Stuffed fish Fruits Apple Apricot Pear Plum Peach Cherry Sweet cherry Grapes Banana Orange Pineapple Tangerine Lemon Pomegranate Kiwi fruit Watermelon Melon Grapefruit Vegetables Tomatoes Cucumbers Carrots Potatoes Peas Radish Aubergine Turnip Beans Lettuce Asparagus Cabbage Fennel Parsley Garlic Onion Cauliflower Marrow Vodka Brandy Champagne Rum Beer Gin and tonic Sherry Sweet wine Fortified wine Dry wine Soft drinks Lemonade Juice Stewed fruit Jelly Cocktail Mineral water On the rocks |
Спеції Кава Чорна кава Кава з молоком Молота кава Розчинна кава Какао Чай Вівсяна каша Овес Мука Рис Гречка Макарони Локшина Спагеті Риба Оселедець Креветки Омар Форель Лосось Шпроти Ікра Вугор Смажена риба Копчена риба Фарширована риба Фрукти Яблуко Абрикос Груша Слива Персик Вишня Черешня Виноград Банан Апельсин Ананас Мандарин Лимон Гранат Ківі Кавун Диня Грейпфрут Овочі Помідори Огірки Морква Картопля Горох Редиска Баклажан Ріпа Квасоля Салат Спаржа Капуста Кріп Петрушка Часник Цибуля Цвітна капуста Кабачок Горілка Коньяк Шампанське Ром Пиво Джинтонік Херес Десертне вино Кріплене вино Сухе вино Безалкогольні напої Лимонад Сік Компот Кисіль Коктейль Мінеральна вода Із льодом |