- •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.
4.1Learn the following dialogue by heart and dramatize it.
Visit to Dietician
Dr. Jones: Good morning, Mrs. Fat. Sit down, please.
Mrs Fat: Good morning, Dr. Jones. Do you mind if I sit on the sofa?
Dr. Jones: No, not at all. You can take any seat you like. So you would like to lose weight, wouldn’t you?
Mrs Fat: Exactly. I’ve been overweight all my life and now I think it’s time I started dieting.
Dr. Jones: Oh, yes, I see. You know… before I can recommend you a particular diet I must learn all about your eating habits. How many meals a day do you normally have?
Mrs Fat: I usually have three meals a day. I mean breakfast, lunch and dinner, but unfortunately I very often eat between meals.
Dr. Jones: What do you have for breakfast?
Mrs Fat: A traditional English breakfast. I have a glass of orange juice, a bowl of cereal and bacon and eggs. And then I drink tea.
Dr. Jones: Do you take milk in your tea?
Mrs Fat: I normally drink tea with cream, though I reaize that I should have it with skimmed milk.
Dr. Jones: And what about lunch?
Mrs Fat: Well, that depends. On some days I kust have a couple of sandwiches for lunch, but sometimes I also have a bowl of soup and cakes or pies to follow.
Dr. Jones: What do you have for dinner and when do you have it?
Mrs Fat: I normally have dinner at 8 p.m. I know it’s a bit too late, it just happens so. What do I have? You know, I like to have a very substantial dinner – a starter, like a salad or assorted meat, followed by a main course such as beefsteak or fish and chips and then dessert and tea or coffe.
Dr. Jones: What do you have for dessert as a rule?
Mrs Fat: Ice-cream or cakes, or both.
Dr. Jones: And what do you eat between meals?
Mrs Fat: Peanuts, chocolate, popcorn, crisps ans staff. Sometimes I just like to nibble candies.
Dr. Jones: In fact, many people do the same and yet they have no problems with excess weight. Let me see.. Do you fry one or two eggs with your bacon in the morning?
Mrs Fat: I actually take eight eggs, but I share my breakfast with my toy-poodle dog.
Dr. Jones: I see. Here is my prescription: Don’t change your diet. Change your dog. Replace it with a Labrador. Or keep both dogs and share your meals with them. And there is the telephone number of a vet, who is very good dog dietician, just in case your dogs might need a correction of their diet.
4.3What serious reccomendation can be given to this lady if she is really determined to lose some weight?
4.4 Now do the quiz to find out how healthy your diet is. Work out your score: A=4 points, B=3 points, C=2 points, D=1 point.
Healthy Eating Quiz
Section A 1.What type of milk do you usually use? a. Ordinary b. Semi skimmed c. Skimmed
2. How do you spread margarine or butter on bread? a. Thickly b. Medium c. Thinly
3. How often do you eat biscuits, cakes or pastries in a week? a. 6 or more times b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally or never
4. How often do you eat sweets, chocolates and confectionery a week? a. 6 or more times b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally or never 5. How often do you eat chips or crisps a week? a. 6 or more times b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally 6. How often do you eat sausages, meat pies or burgers a week? a. 6 or more times b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally or never Section B 7. How many slices of bread do you eat most days? a. 6 or more b. 4-5 c. 2-3 d. 1 or less 8. How often do you eat boiled or baked potatoes, rice, pasta or noodles in a week? a. 6 or more b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally or never 9. How many potatoes (about the size of an egg) do you usually eat as part of a meal? a. 5 or more b. 4 c. 3 d. 1-2 10. How many times in a week do you eat a breakfast cereal? * a. 6 or more times b. 3-5 times c. Once or twice d. Very occasionally or never *Add 2 points if its whole wheat or whole grain variety
11. How many portions of fruit and vegetables do you eat every day? a. 6 or more b. 3-5 c. 2 d. 1-2
Quiz Answers
The lower your score for section A the better. Below 10 is really good. Above 25 suggests you need to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.
The higher your score for section B the better. A score above 15 is very good. Less than 7 and changes are needed to increase the amount of bread, cereals, potatoes, fruit and vegetables in your diet. You should aim to have a low score for B, which means a diet, which is, overall, low in fat and high in cereals, bread, fruit and vegetables.
If your score for A is greater than your score in B then you really do need to make a change in your diet. To understand where you can make the necessary changes look again at your answers. The questions in section A which gave you a high score, and those in section B which gave you a low score are the areas to concentrate on.
Are you going to make any changes in your diet? Why yes / no?