Listening and Comprehension /dialogs/

Part I D. Listen and answer.

Answer the questions and express the main idea:

1. Who answers the phone in the 1^st conversation? What does Mr. Novak want? What information does the headwaiter want to reserve a table? What time does he reserve for?

2. What kind of restaurant do you think the speakers in the 2^nd conversation are walking into? Why don’t they sit right away?

3. In the 3d conversation, why does the woman want the man not to smoke ? Does he put out his cigarette?

Act out the 1^st dialogue /Change the time and the number of people./ Render the 2^nd and the 3d in indirect speech. Put down some helpful phrases on the topic “ In the restaurant “ .

Part I E, F. LISTEN, READ, ANSWER AND ACT.

Listen to the conversation and answer the questions:

1. What does Becky want to drink ?

2. Who is going to pay for a meal ?

3. What comes with the beef-kebab?

4. What comes with the French dip ?

5. What is a club sandwich ?

Read the conversation with two partners. Then order whatever you want.

Part II C. Listen to the way people ask the waiter about the things on the menu. / look on the menu and do some tasks in pairs/. Word the gist of the conversations.

Test yourself: Work with idioms. Match idioms with their definitions. Which idioms would you use in a restaurant to invite someone to be your guest for a drink or meal? How would you ask about various dishes?

Problem solving.

Split into small groups and act out the following situations:

• speech situations # 2,3,4,5-8.

4.Table manners. Etiquette.

Discuss the following in class

• speech situation # 21-23.

• speech situation # 28.

5. National cuisine.

• speech situations # 29-32

6. Test-paper on the topic.

SPEECH SITUATIONS ON THE TOPIC "American meals"

1. "Lunch time": you are in the US. You are not feeling too well. It’s nearly lunch time, but you don’t want very much to eat. You think a sandwich and a drink is enough. Your partner is going to eat a sandwich and offers to bring something for you. Find out what you can get and choose something you like. Where can your friend get it?

2. "A good dinner". You are visiting Washington on business. You have plenty of money. You partner is another visitor to the same conference. For the last two days you had dinner on your own. You like American food. Tonight you don’t want to eat alone. Find out if your friend can come. Try to make a plan that suits both of you.

3. "Where would you like to eat?" You are in the US. Your partner is visiting your office on business. She/he doesn’t know the town. It’s nearly lunch time. You’ll have to come back to finish your business after lunch. Suggest lunch to your partner. Find out where she/ he would like to go. Use any dining guide.

4. Find a suitable place to eat for each situation in the US:

You

• You expect to talk business over lunch, so you want somewhere small and quiet. You’re rather hungry.

• You‘re quite hungry. An acquaintance of yours often has lunch in the… you think your partner might like to meet this acquaintance.

• Your partner is a very important guest and might become a big client of your company. You would like to please and impress your partner. The company will pay for the lunch anyway, and you’ve been told it doesn’t matter how much it costs, providing your partner is pleased.

Your partner:

• You want to talk business over lunch, so you would prefer something small and quiet. You don’t like eating big meals at lunch time.

• You don’t like noisy smoky places. You are quite hungry. You also realize you probably will not get dinner until late this evening, as it’s quite a long journey home after this meeting.

• You really don’t want anything more than a sandwich and a drink- (a small pub lunch would be ideal).

5. "An American meal". You and your partner, who is a friend of yours, are visiting the States. You have gone out for a meal. See if, together with your partner’s help, you can decide what you are both going to have, so that you get something you’ll enjoy in these two different situations.

You

• It’s a very hot summer evening and you and your partner have had a busy day on the tourist trail. Your partner is certain to be hungry and indeed you are yourself. Unfortunately, your stomach has been a bit upset today so you don’t want to eat or drink anything that upset it further aqnd wouldn’t mind getting to bed quite early. Your partner will start.

• It’s a summer’s day about 12 p.m. You had a light breakfast but you have to catch a train now at 1 p.m. and you know you’ll have quite a big meal in the evening. You start.

Your partner

• It’s a very hot summer evening. You’ve had a busy day and you are extremely hungry. You have nothing else to do that evening and as far as you’re concerned as soon as you’ve finished eating you are going back to your hotel to go to bed. You start.

• The same.

6. Ask your American friend about their favorite breakfast and dinner dishes (use breakfast or dinner menu cards) and find dishes that are similar or have some of the same ingredients. In turn describe your favorite dishes.

7. You are in the US out to dinner with an important guest, who you want to wine and dine properly. What would you say to the head waiter and what would you suggest your guest to order.

8. Being in the US you want to arrange a business breakfast. Call the restaurant to reserve a table for the number of people and the time you want. Ask what they have on their breakfast menu.

9. Talk with your friends about the following things: "Coffee in America", "Breakfast in the US", "Americans’ favorite dishes».

10. Exchange opinions with your friends about each other’s eating habits. Express your opinions about it and if necessary give some helpful advice how to make it healthier. Do you think your friends’ eating styles differ from Americans’ ones?

11. Arrange a discussion on typical American and Russian diets. State advantages and disadvantages of each. Find out which diet your friends would prefer to follow, if they have any stereotypes about American diet.

12. Imagine you are going to the US on a language course. Act out a talk with your American friend about the possibilities of getting something to eat in the US. If possible talk with a native speaker about it.

13. Living to eat or eating to live? Which one do you support? Discuss it with your friends and find arguments for and against each part of the statement. If possible, find out what Americans think about it, compare the attitudes to the statement in both cultures, and make your conclusions.

14. A group discussion: lunch. Choose a note-taker for your group to make notes on your discussion and to present them to the whole class afterwards.

Lunch #1 lunch #2

Hamburger vegetable salad

Chips, spice cherry pie

Creamy cheesecake orange juice

Coffee, sugar, cream mushroom cream soup

What lunch would you prefer? Which lunch is more nutritious? Why? Do you ever eat any food that isn’t good for you? What kind? Do people in your country eat nutritious food for lunch? What kind? Which lunch might an American choose? Why? Support your opinion with the facts.

15. Class activity: class-eating habits.

• Do you and your classmates have eating habits greatly different from Americans’? Express the supposition how Americans might answer this.

• If possible try to ask several Americans to fill in the chart. Analyze the answers to the following questions, then find out your friends’ preferences./Charting/ See how many answered yes and how many no to each question. Sum up the results and tell them in class.

• Compare answers given by representatives of both cultures, make your conclusions.

Questions you Y/N

your class Y /N

Eat a big breakfast/ lunch/

Dinner /junk food

Use prepared mixes/frozen food

Take vitamins

Are on a diet