1. Say whether a statement is true or false.

1. T ypical British dishes centre on boiled meat.

2. Lunch is a quick meal in both countries.

3. You'll be offered kasha in a British cafe.

4. Ukrainians are not used to the takeaway food.

5. The Earl of Sandwich liked to play draughts.

6. The usual English breakfast is cereal, tea or coffee with toast butter and marmalade.

7. Ukrainians usually have dinner at 7 o'clock.

8. Kvass is made from potatoes and lemon.

9. The most common kind of takeaway meal is fish and chips.

10. 10)When you don't like the dish, the possible answer is: "It doesn't really agree with me".

    2. Here are the adjectives characterizing food. Think of food to match each adjective.

Tastes and textures

sour

soft

sweet

hard

salty

chewy

bitter

cranchy

bland

crispy

strong

smooth

hot

creamy

3. Correct sentences

5. The usual English breakfast is tur­key.

6. They drink juice for breakfast.

7. Some Englishmen have their din­ner in the morning.

8. They eat cornflakes with pepper and salt.

Arrange sentences into a logical order according to the text. 1. It is useful to have a walk after supper.

2. Englishmen have their dinner late in the evening.

3. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day

4. They drink tea or coffee for breakfast.

5. The usual English breakfast is porridge.

UNIT 3

Text American Meals

Americans do not like to prepare meals at home. They prefer to eat at cafes or restaurants. Usu­ally they have three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. American breakfast as a rule consists of butter, jam, bread or a roll. Usually people also eat cereal with milk, some cheese, soft-boiled eggs and drink orange juice, tea or coffee. Most of Americans do not come back home to lunch, they have it at Fast Food Restaurants. The most common menu consists of apple-pie, hamburger, cheeseburger, sandwiches. There are a lot of "fast food" shops to buy something to eat quickly. They are situated on many street corners. These sell hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks like Coca-Cola. For dinner they have meat, fried or baked potatoes with ketchup, corn, peas and macaroni. In general many drinks are drunk with ice, even tea.

Finish the sentences

1. Americans--- .

2. Usually they have--- .

3. The menu consists of--- .

4. The "fast food" shops--- .

5. These sell--- .

6. The main meal of--- .

7. For dinner they have--- .

8. In general many drinks are---

Read & translate the text AMERICAN FOOD

What is American food? The answer is that it is partly Italian, partly British, partly German, partly Mexican, partly Chinese... When people from other countries came to live in the USA, they brought different cooking traditions. Some of them opened restaurants. Today Americans enjoy food e from all over the world. Over the years some foreign dishes changed a little. For example, their favourite doughnuts were originally from Holland. In 1847, a young American boy told his mother that her doughnuts were never cooked in the middle. He cut out the centres and his mother cooked the rings — and they were very tasty! Americans eat a lot, and when they go to a restaurant, they do not expect to be hungry afterwards. Most restaurants will put a lot of food on your plate — sometimes it can be too much. But if you can't finish it all, don't worry: they will give you a "doggy bag" and you can take it home.

You can also come across the expression "brunch" which is a combination of breakfast and lunch usually eaten late on a Sunday morning when people can sleep late and yet it is too early to lunch. doughnut - пончик

BREAKFAST

Americans usually have three meals a day, that is to say, breakfast, lunch and supper. Breakfast usually consists of the following: they begin with juice — either fresh orange juice, or tomato juice, apple juice, pine-apple juice or grape-fruit juice. Those who do not like juice might have the same type of fruit in its fresh form.

Next they usually have cereal, cold cereal, such as corn flakes, wheat or oats mixed

with milk and sugar and (when in season) some fresh fruits, such as strawberries,

blueberries or the like.

The most important part of the meal is the eggs. They have eggs in one of many forms. One can have "sunny-side-up" eggs, soft-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, an omelette with cheese or with ham. Some people prefer to have pancakes with butter or syrup. After this they usually have coffee. Americans prefer not to drink tea for breakfast, but coffee with milk or cream and sugar. Along with the meal they have toasted bread with milk and jam or rolls. For those who have a sweet tooth they have some nice buns covered with sugar and some fruit inside of them. There are some individuals in America who do not believe in a good "hearty" breakfast and take just a cup of black coffee and a piece of toast. For those who do not have the time or who refuse to eat properly they invented "instant breakfast", that is to say — it's a powdered formula that they add to a cold glass of milk. In schools children can have a "snack" - a little carton of milk and a cookie. In factories and offices they have a cup of coffee or a bun.

c ereal — блюдо із злаків

wheat — пшениця

corn flakes — кукурудзяні пластівці

strawberries — полуниця

blueberries - голубика

soft-boiled egg — некруто зварене яйце

pancake — млинець

cream — вершки

roll — булочка

bun — булочка із родзинками

powdered — порошкоподібний, посиланий

to have a "snack" — швидко перекусити

LUNCH

Americans have lunch between 11.30 am and 12.30 pm. It is always light and quick. They usually have soup, sandwich, dessert beverage for lunch. Some of the traditional soups that Americans might have would be vegetable soup, or chicken noodle, or tomato or clam soup.

For sandwiches there are two traditional things: the hot-dog (which is similar to a sausage) served in a roll and covered with mustard and relish. Relish is a type of green chopped-off substances made from pickles, but to it are added different spices. They might also have a hamburger for lunch. It is nothing more than a round piece of chopped meat and with that they usually eat onions and ketchup (a tomato sauce). Hamburgers are served on a roll. Other sandwiches might be a ham sandwich or a cheese sandwich or a ham and cheese sandwich. They also have chicken sandwiches. These are served on square pieces of white bread. They also have wheat bread and rye bread.

For dessert they have their favourite ice cream. To drink they have either coffee, tea or milk. The tea is served either hot or cold. Most younger people and especially in the summertime drink iced tea. Some people do have a glass of soda-water but it's frowned upon by health experts.

beverage - напій,

noodle — локшина,

clam — молюск,

r oll — булочка

mustard — гірчиця,

relish - приправа,

chopped-off — порізаний,

pickles -пикулі, соління,

spices — пряності,

onion — цибуля,

ham — шинка,

rye — жито

toasted bread - грінка, тост,

iced — льодяний

SUPPER

Supper is called the principal meal of the day. It is served at about 6 pm. Americans use the term "dinner" if they mean a more formal occasion and it might be later in the evening, at about 7 or 7.30 pm when they have guests. Or on holidays or on Sundays they call it "dinner" when they have their principal meal at about 2 pm in the afternoon.

Supper is a family meal. It is the one time of the day when the family would really be together, because people usually have their breakfast at different time, upon the time they leave for school or work, everyone has lunch in their place of work or study, but supper is for the whole family. Now supper consists of three parts: an appetizer, a main course and a dessert.

For an appetizer they might have some sort of fruit. It might be a half of grapefruit, or a fruit cup (which is a collection of various fruit). Or in the cold weather they serve soup.

The main course usually consists of meat or fish along with vegetables and a salad. The vegetables are usually one form of potatoes: fried, mashed or baked. Salad may be one of many kinds. It usually consists of lettuce and they chop tomatoes to it or cucumbers or both, and cover it with a special sauce or dressing. For dressing they mix mayonnaise and ketchup.

Ice cream plays an important role in dessert, or they eat some fruit. Jelly is a typically American dessert which is easy to make. It is a type of jelly in the form of strawberry or grape and is a favourite with children. It is very light and as they say "There is always room for jelly". Pies and cakes are their favourite, especially apple-pie. The expression is "to be as American as apple-pie".

a guest — гість

appetiser — закуска

c ourse – блюдо

fried — смажений

mashed – пюре

baked — печений

lettuce — салат

chop — різати

dressing — приправа

jelly - желе

room — місце

mayonnaise - майонез

Answer the questions.

1. How many meals a day have Americans got?

2. What do they have for the first course?

3. What is the most important part of the meal?

4. What do they prefer to drink?

5. What is 'instant breakfast'?

6. What is a snack for children?

Finish the sentences

1. Americans have lunch between...

2. A hamburger is nothing more than...

3. Other sandwiches might be...

4. For dessert they have...

Discuss with your partner how Ukrainian meals differ from American ones.

"Make phrases"

• fry taste potato meat

• c lean buy table food

• wash sell dish pizza

• boil count soup money

• check go bill market

"Odd one out"

• water dinner to lay

• juice breakfast to put

• tea watch to fry

• whisky lunch to sleep

• coffee supper to cool

• fresh cherry spoon

• tasty melon fork

• funny orange apple

• salty cabbage napkin

• sweet fish plate

Restaurants and cafes in the USA and Great Britain

There are many kinds of restaurants in the USA — fast food places like McDonald's and Burger King, cafes, restaurants of many nation­alities .In almost any town or city in the USA there is usually a restaurant that will suit your taste and your budget. When dining in most res­taurants, a waitress will normally greet you and show you to a table. Often, you are asked wheth­er you prefer the smoking or non-smoking sec­tion. Once seated, a waiter or waitress will bring you a menu and tell you about the special dishes which are served in this restaurant. Your waiter or waitress may seem you very friendly. He / she may say you "Hi" and introduce him / her.

Usually you have a starter (soup, some snack, fruit juice), main courses (meat or fish with veg­etables) and desserts (cake or pie).

When you get the check, you will need to leave a tip, normally 15 % of the amount for your meal, depending on the quality of the service. In most restaurants you will be able to pay with a credit card.

And at last some interesting facts about the restaurants. The owner of one of the New York res­taurants approves that his institution has world's superiority on length of the menu. He has all bases for such statement: length of the menu of his restaurant is equal 115 centimeters, and 177 dishes are listed in it.

One more applicant for world's glory is the res­taurant "The Cheerful farmer" in England. It differs by a magnificent choice of sandwiches. In the menu there are 501 kinds of this tradi­tional light snack of the Englishmen.

Look through this scrambled text, put the extracts of the text in order and practice reading. Try to remember the information.

When you get the check, you will need to leave a tip, normally 15 % of the amount for your meal, depending on the quality of the service. In most restaurants you will be able to pay with a credit card.

There are many kinds of restaurants in the USA— fast food places like McDonald's and Burger King, cafes, restaurants of many nation­alities. In almost any town or city in the USA there is usually a restaurant that will suit your taste and your budget. When dining in most res­taurants, a waitress will normally greet you and show you to a table. Often, you are asked whether you prefer the smoking or non-smoking section.

One more applicant for world's glory is the res­taurant "The Cheerful farmer" in England. It differs by a magnificent choice of sandwiches. In the menu there are 501 kinds of this tradi­tional light snack of the Englishmen.

Once seated, a waiter or waitress will bring you a menu and tell you about the special dishes which are served in this restaurant. Your waiter or waitress may seem you very friendly. He / she may say you "Hi" and introduce him / her.

And at last some interesting facts about the restaurants. The owner of one of the New York restaurants approves, that his institution has world's superiority on length of the menu. He has all bases for such statement: length of the menu of his restaurant is equal 115 centimeters, and 177 dishes are listed in it.

Usually you have a starter (soup, some snack, and fruit juice), main courses (meat or fish with veg­etables) and desserts (cake or pie).

Read the statements and delete false ones. Read aloud true statements.

1. There are many kinds of restaurants in the USA — fast food places like McDonald's and Burger King, cafes, restaurants of many nationalities.

2. In most restaurants there are seats only for smokers. A waiter will bring you a menu.

3. Usually you have main courses (meat or fish with vegetables) and desserts (cake or pie).

4. Your tip is half of the amount for your meal. In most restaurants you will be able to pay with a credit card.

5. In one of the New York restaurants there are 577 dishes in the menu.

6. I n one English restaurant there are 501 kinds of sandwiches in the menu.

What dish can you make from these foodstuffs?

Carrot Cabbage

Beets

Onion

Potatoes

Tomatoes

Meat

Eggs

Kefir

Flour

Sugar

Salt

Soda

Apples

Eggs

Milk Salt Soda

Margarine Onion

Salted cucum­bers

Potatoes Sausage

Boiled eggs

Sweet peas Mayonnaise

Minced meat

White dry bread

Eggs Onion

Pepper Salt

Flour