- •Meals and cooking unit 1 Russian and English Meals
- •Russian and English Meals
- •2.2 Answer the questions.
- •2.3 Describe your meals. What do you eat and drink for breakfast, dinner, supper? Do you prefer to have dinner at home or at your university refectory? Be ready to explain your choice.
- •2.4 Read another text telling about famous English drink – tea. After reading it be ready to clarify the difference between “afternoon tea” and “high tea”.
- •An Invitation to Tea
- •Insert suitable prepositions.
- •2.5 Compare Russian and English traditions of drinking tea. Discuss the following issues:
- •2.1Watch the video-fragment and be ready to answer the questions listed below.
- •2.2 Compare Russian and British eating habits and say which of them is more beneficial for health.
- •Unit 2 Food and Health
- •The Food Pyramid
- •Vocabulary list
- •4.1Learn the following dialogue by heart and dramatize it.
- •Visit to Dietician
- •4.3What serious reccomendation can be given to this lady if she is really determined to lose some weight?
- •Unit 3 Cooking and Recipes
- •1.1Are you good at cooking? What dishes can you cook? Do you like experimenting in the kitchen? Where do you find recipies for new dishes?
- •1.2 Match each verb on the left with the food item on the right it is most often associated with.
- •1.4 Now read the instructions telling you how to cook Full English Breakfast. Translate it into Russian. Can you suppose how much time and money it will take to cook it?
- •1.5 Now put the lines in the text in the correct order and you’ll learn how to make a good cup of tea.
- •Are British Becoming More Adventurous in the Kitchen?
- •2.2 Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
- •2.3 Answer the questions.
- •2.4 Write a one-page summary of the article, containing its key ideas.
- •2.5 Express your opinion while answering the questions.
- •Unit 3 Table Manners
- •Table manners
- •2.1 Are table-manners really necessary? Or probably they just restrict our freedom and don’t allow us to feel comfortable and relaxed at the table?
- •3.1Make up a list of table manners acceped in Russia.
- •The End of British Pub Culture?
- •2.2Choose the correct answer for each question.
- •2.3 Prove the following statements.
2.2 Answer the questions.
How will an Englishman feel if he keeps a Russian diet?
What two types of breakfast do British people eat?
Which of them is more substantial?
What do Russian people have for breakfast?
When do English people have their lunch?
Does English dinner differ from Russian dinner?
Why can Russian people be misled by the word “soup”?
What types of restaurants are popular in Great Britain?
Is English supper similar to Russian supper?
What do Russian people think about the food they eat?
Are Russian housewives willing or reluctant to cook for their families?
2.3 Describe your meals. What do you eat and drink for breakfast, dinner, supper? Do you prefer to have dinner at home or at your university refectory? Be ready to explain your choice.
2.4 Read another text telling about famous English drink – tea. After reading it be ready to clarify the difference between “afternoon tea” and “high tea”.
TEXT B
An Invitation to Tea
Strictly speaking, tea is not a meal at all, but a suitable occasion for communication when people come for a chat over their cup of tea. There are two kinds of tea, “afternoon tea”, and “high tea”. “Afternoon tea takes place between three-thirty and consists of tea, bread, butter and jam, followed by cakes and biscuits. “High tea”, however, is a substantial meal and is eaten between five-thirty and six thirty by families which do not usually have late dinner. In a well-to-do families it consist of ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad, or a kipper, or tinned salmon, with strong tea, bread and butter, followed by stewed fruit, or tinned pears, apricots or pineapple with cream and cake.
Tea making is an art. The hostess first of all rinses the teapot with boiling water (this is called “warming the pot”) before adding four or five teaspoonfuls of tea. The amount of tea varies according to the number of people present. The pot is then filled with boiling water and covered by a tea-cosy to allow the tea to infuse for five minutes. English people seldom put lemon in their tea.
Language Work
Find English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations.
Подходящий случай, поболтать за чашкой чая, происходить (иметь место), поздний обед, состоятельные семьи, консервированный лосось, крепко заваренный чай, компот, добавить, варьироваться, настаиваться.
Give opposites of the following words..
Suitable, substantial (meal), well-to-do, strong (tea), to add, to allow.
Insert suitable prepositions.
A suitable occasion … communication, to come … a chat …a cup of tea, to consists …smth, to be followed … smth, the amount … tea, according … smth, to be filled … boiling water, to infuse … five minutes.
2.5 Compare Russian and English traditions of drinking tea. Discuss the following issues:
1) time when people drink tea;
2) what is added into tea;
3) what dishes and food products people have with tea;
4) how tea is made.
Section 3 Listening and Watching
2.1Watch the video-fragment and be ready to answer the questions listed below.
What traditional well-known English are mentioned at the beginning of the fragment?
What do the Robinsons eat usually for breakfast?
What does Mr. Robinson prefer to have for breakfast?
What do people have for lunch when they are short of time?
What food is called convenience food?
Is lunch or dinner the main meal of the day in Britain?
What do British people usually have for dinner?
How many people represent their national cuisine in London restaurants?
What national restaurants are especially popular in Great Britain?
Is fish and chips an expensive dish?