II. Guess what it is:

1. A small open container, usually having one handle, used for drinking.

2. A square piece of cloth or paper used while eating to protect the clothes, to wipe the mouth, etc.

3. A circular dish made of porcelain, glass, etc., from which food is eaten

4. An instrument that you use to cut bread, sausage, cheese etc.

5. A piece of material that you use to cover the table.

6. A metal, wooden, or plastic utensil used in eating or serving food.

III. Answer the questions:

1. What is the main attribute of any holiday?

2. Why should there be a great variety of tasty food on the table?

3. Is it an easy task to organize a dinner table for a special occasion? Why?

4. How to lay the table for a special occasion?

5. What should be included in the menu?

6. What will you serve for the first course/second course/dessert?

IV. Find the proper ending of each sentence:

1. Lay the table-cloth on the table ……………………

2. Table-mats must be used ……………………

3. Fruit or flowers always look well …………………… Nothing else should ever be placed there.

4. At each place lay a knife ……………………

5. At the right of the knife lay, if needed, ……………………

6. At the left of the plate lay ……………………

7. At the left of the fork put ……………………

1. …………………… in the centre of the table.

2. …………………… a napkin.

3. …………………… and make sure that the ends hang evenly.

4. …………………… a soup spoon or a cereal spoon and teaspoons.

5. …………………… with its sharp edge toward the right.

6. …………………… under hot dishes.

7. …………………… a fork (or two, or three, according to the number of courses to be eaten with forks).

Topic 54. Youth Culture. Gender Differences

Youth Culture

Today we often hear that habits and preferences of modern youth have changed completely. We also always hear that today’s teens don’t behave in the same way like their parents did. Of course with the advent of the market economy our life has changed in many ways. That’s why our culture especially youth culture has altered too, because young people are more sensitive to all changes than older people. Youth culture consists of several different parts.

First, maybe the most noticeable of them is youth fashion. The clothes modern teens wear have changed completely. For example, modern girls vibrate from one extreme to another. Now they wear either extremely long dresses or extremely short dresses. They also use a lot of makeup. Either boys or girls today dye their hair in bright colors, wear boots with high soles, they also wear bouffant clothes and wear sunglasses with glasses of different colors, for example, violet, yellow, green, etc. Many modern young people don’t shave their faces and wear side-whiskers.

Second part of youth culture is music. Modern music consists of several styles and types: rap, pop, techno, folk, hip-hop, rock, house, progressive house and so on. But the most popular music today is electronic music. This music is the main thing in nightclubs. Usually this kind of music doesn’t have any words. Electronic music became essential part of youth day-to-day life. Modern teens can’t imagine their lives without it.

Sport, the third part of youth culture, is still very popular among teenagers. But the reasons why people go in for sport today have changed completely. Most people today go in for sport because it has become prestigious. Tennis, for example, is considered to be very prestigious kind of sport for rich people and their sons and daughters. Next popular kind of sport is pool. Now there are many pool-bars in most Ukrainian cities. And today more and more young people visit pool-bars and play pool.

Fourth part of youth culture today is modern movie theatres. With the advent of modern technologies cinema becomes popular again. Now modern movie theatres are equipped with all kinds of technical developments like wide-screen and cinemascope, 3-D, Cinerama, Dolby surround sound, etc. Cinemagoers especially young people very quickly get accustomed to these technological advances and now they are used to going to the movie theatres. It’s a part of their day-to-day life.

Youth culture consists of many parts of our life. Youth culture is changing so rapidly that in several years most of our modern things will be considered outdated.