II. Remake the names of 19 old English towns, using the following fragments:

HAM FORD POOL

CHESTER NOR BIRMING LIVER

CLEVE BURY COL PLY

CAM BRIDGE

MOUTH PORT CASTLE LAND

NEW BRAD BLACK WICH CANTER OX ‘S NOTTING IPS MAN

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5. English cooking

There is no single European cuisine. French, yes; Spanish, yes: German, yes; etc. And within each country there are regional specialities. Similarly, there is no "UK cuisine’’. But is there a distinctive English cuisine? A visitor to England might think not. In London and other big cities - and even in small towns, or in the countryside you may find Chinese restaurants, Indian restaurants, Italian, French, Russian, Greek. Indonesian... Well, you name it and England has got it! With one notable exception. There are very few restaurants that call them­selves "English". Simpsons on the Strand in London is one of the very few restaurants which specialise in and advertise traditional English food.

The very expression "English cuisine" sounds a little strange to the English. This may be for historical rea­sons, because of the now extinct "Protestant Ethic" of hard work and a very simple life at home. British peo­ple used to say, with scorn (or perhaps envy?), that "the French live to eat, and we eat to live". The word "cui­sine" itself sounded foreign (as it is!) and self-indulgent, as opposed the idea of "good, plain (= simple), sen­sible, English food".

But of course there is an English cuisine. Lots of dishes are not-so-good, very plain, not so sensible (overcooked vegetables especially), and decidedly boring. Rice pudding, for example. But there is another, better, side to the coin. There is Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, Lancashire Hot-Pot, and lots of other delicious dishes. That's the good news. The bad news is that, to have a real English meal, yon have to eat it at home with an English family. Not any family, however. In all countries there are good cooks — and the other sort... But even if yon are not lucky enough to have an English meal at home with a good English cook, all is not lost. Yon can try fish and chips at a "Fish & Chip Shop" - probably the first "takeaway" in the world — or you can have delicious, and very cheap, meals in a pub: Ham, Eggs and chips. Shepherd's pie, and so on. The English do not have any expression like "ПРИЯТНОГО аппетита!" so they borrow words from the French and say - as we say to you — "Bon Appetit".

Task:

1. If you would like to cook a traditional English meal, look for some recipes and read them in the class.

2. English breakfast on the menu. What is it? What does it contain?

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III. Museums

1. The Tretyakov Gallery.

The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is one of the world's largest museums. For many of its visitors, it is the first serious encounter with Russian art and culture, with their powerful moral and aesthetic impact on the viewer. There is hardly a person in Russia who had been in Moscow and failed to make at least one visit to the Tretyakov Gallery, which has long become a truly national museum.

The gallery's collection includes only Russian and Soviet art, from the Middle Ages to Modernity, precisely as it was conceived by its founder, Russian merchant Pavel Tretyakov (1832 - 1898), a great patriot and connoisseur of art, In the late 1850s, he decided to set up a public art museum, the first of its kind in Russia. "Sincerely and passionately loving painting, I have no better desire than to start a public, universally accessible depository of fine arts, which will be of use to many, and delight to everybody," he wrote. For more than thirty years he pursued his objective unswervingly. When in 1892, he presented his collection to the Moscow community, it included about 2,000 first-class works by almost all outstanding Russian artists of the 19^th century and, partly, of the 18^th century. It was a real museum of national art, reflecting its history and the modern state in its best samples. This feature of the Tretyakov Gallery became a tradition, carefully preserved today as well.

The Russian public gratefully and enthusiastically responded to Pavel Tretyakov's gift of his collection to the Moscow community and the Russian nation. On this occasion, Moscow saw the first Congress of Russian artists; the Moscow Municipal Council appointed Tretyakov the Gallery's curator for his life, and the Gallery itself was named after its founders - the Tretyakov brothers.

Heading the gallery for another 6 years, until his death, Pavel Tretyakov constantly and indefatigably replenished it, buying new exhibits with subsides from the Moscow Municipal Council and his own money, each time presenting a new picture to the Moscow Gallery.

Initially, Tretyakov's entire collection was exhibited in his mansion in Lavrushinsky Lane, but, by the 1870s it became so large, that Tretyakov undertook the construction of the first halls of the gallery's special separate building. By the early 1890s, the gallery's suite of rooms surrounded the house on all sides, thus forming together with it a large rectangle of spacious inner premises. In 1901 - 04, the previously existing halls were complemented with Tretyakov's reconstructed mansion, and the entire set of buildings was enveloped with its present, highly original facade, designed in pseudo-Russian style by Victor Vasnetsov, Tretyakov's close friend and admirer. ' '

The Russian revolution of 1917 brought about cardinal changes in the character of the Tretyakov collection and arrangement of Gallery activities. On June 3, 1918, Lenin signed a decree by the Council of People's Commissars on the nationalization of the gallery, under which it became state instead of municipal property, thus eliminating the discrepancy between the gallery's formal position as a "municipal depository of art" and "truly national significance that it actually had." "Now this museum was assigned the functions of the nation's enlightenment" and had broad opportunities for mass aesthetic education. Lenin's decree also enshrined the gallery's name for good.

After the revolution, the Tretyakov Gallery's collections grew. Nationalized private collections and separate valuable works of art poured it from abandoned private mansions and the country estates, which often saved them from destruction in the turmoil of the civil war in Russia (1918 - 20).The centralization of museums in the 1920s brought to the Tretyakov Gallery a large number of works from Moscow's smallest museums, for instance, the Rumyantsev Art Gallery, the Tsvetkov Gallery, and the Ostroukhov Museum of Icons and Painting.

Task:

1. Render the text

2. Make the synopsis of the text

3. Answer the questions:

1. Have you ever been to the Tretyakov Gallery?

2. What are your favourite pictures in the collection?

3. Will you tell about the picture you like the best?