Английский

1. Read and translate text 1.

Text 1

FOOD SERVICE

Food services are a feature of hotels. The typical modern “package hotel” includes a restaurant, a cafe shop for quicker and less expensive meals, and a bar or cocktail lounge. Many larger hotels have several restaurants, often featuring different kinds of foods, as well as different prices. Hotels provide room service — food and drink that are brought to the guest’s room. In addition, catering service is usually provided in the hotel’s recreational areas. The poolside bar and snack bar for quick food are normal part of the service at a resort hotel.

Food, in fact, may be one of the reasons why people travel. Many people go out of their way to visit France; for example, because of the gourmet meals those are served there. Similarly, the excellent restaurants of Hong Kong constitute one of its principal tourist attractions.

The range of food service in hotels and restaurants today is extensive. In the first category, there are restaurants offering the highest grade of service with a full a la carte menu. These include dishes served by the waiter from a trolley in the dinning-room, and are known as gueridon service. The gueridon waiter has to cook speciality dishes at the table.

A second type of service is silver where the menu can be either a la carte or table d’hote. In this system, the food is prepared in the kitchen and then put on to silver plates and presented to the guests in the dinning-room.

A third form of table service is plate service. The waiter receives the meal already plated from the service hotplate and only has to plate it in front of the guest. Plate service is offered where speedy service is necessary.

In a fourth type of service, called self-service, a customer collects a tray from the service counter, chooses his dishes and selects the appropriate cutlery for the meal.

Today, with increasing needs for economy, many establishments usually prefer a variety of types of service. Tourist hotels, for exam-

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ple, frequently offer a combination of self-service and plate service for breakfast and another combination of self-service and silver service for luncheon.

2.Explain the meanings of the following expressions taken from the text.

1)extensive range of food service

2)dishes served from a trolley

3)the meal plated from the service hotplate

4)to select the appropriate cutlery

3.Find the right definitions for the following words.

4.Answer the questions.

1)What does the service with a full a la carte menu include?

2)What does silver service mean?

3)What is the difference between silver service and plate service?

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4)What type of service is called self-service?

5)Why is self-service often used by hotels?

6)What combination of services do tourist hotels offer?

5.Complete the dialogue translating from Russian into English.

6. Read and translate text 2.

Text 2

WELCOME TO PIZZA HUT!

Pizza Hut was recently opened in Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow. We invite you to visit our Pizza Hut. There are excellent products in our assortment for making pizza of several kinds. We recommend you to taste our delicious Pan Pizza, rich and tender baked from our fresh rich pastry. Each pizza is covered with our special tomato sauce and two layers of cheese “Motzarella”. We can offer you nine kinds of special pizza (three-sized each). Small pizza is for one customer, medium — for two, large — for three or four. After choosing the size you should choose the kind of pizza. We’ve got our special fillings-toppings. There is a great variety of toppings on our

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menu. Our famous pizza Super Supreme is covered with six toppings. We also recommend you our refreshing beverages: Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, beer and wines to your taste! And don’t forget about our delicious garlic toast, soups and salads. While you are waiting for your pizza you can have a drink and a snack. After the waitress brings you a snack-plate you can go to the salad-bar and choose whatever you like: sliced fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, onions, carrots, spring onions and so on (you have the right to visit the sal- ad-bar once only). After the salad, please, taste our garlic toast made from freshly-baked bread slices covered with tasty garlic butter... and here is your pizza. We hope you’ll have a good time. We work hard to improve the quality of our dishes and service. Pizza Hut was first opened in 1958 in the USA. Now there are over 7,000 restaurants of the kind in more than 54 countries of the world.

7.Complete the sentences.

1)The restaurant can offer the guests ... kinds of special pizza (... -sized each).

2)... pizza is for one customer, ... — for two, ... — for three or four.

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3) The most famous pizza Super Supreme is covered with ...

toppings.

4) While you are waiting for your pizza you can have a ... and a

... .

5) After the waitress brings you a snack-plate you can go to the

... and choose whatever you like: ..., ..., ..., ..., ..., etc. 6) Pizza Hut was first opened in ... in... .

7) Now there are over ... restaurants of the kind in more than

...countries of the world.

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Work at the words

1. Arrange the words into the following groups.

cabbage, milk, salmon, coffee, beans, herring, mineral water, lobster, juice, cookies, apple, pike, peas, grapes, ice-cream, tea, plum, garlic, peach, mutton, cucumber, beef, wine, chop, cherries, pepper, chicken, milkshake, turkey, goose, duck, potatoes, pie, beer, onion, orange

2. Match the words in column A with those in column B.

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3. Make up word-combinations and translate them.

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