- •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.
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.
(1) some of the water into a teapot to heat it
(2) and one for the pot. Take the teapot to
(3) put the lid on the teapot and let it brew
(4) Fill a kettle full of cold water. Let the
(5) the kettle and pour the water on to the
(6) a perfect cup of tea.
(7) go on boiling for very long. Pour
(8) put in the tea, one teaspoon per person
(9) tea while it is still boiling. Stir briskly,
(10) thoroughly. Pour the water away and
(11) water come to the boil, but do not let it
(12) for several minutes. You will now have
Section 2 Reading
2.1 Not so long ago the two features of life in England gave visitors their worst impressions: the English weather and English cooking. English food has often been described as plain and tasteless. But now the situation is changing…
Read the text and say what has stirred up the interest to cooking in Britain.
Are British Becoming More Adventurous in the Kitchen?
What comes into your mind when you think of British food? Probably fish and chips, or a Sunday dinner of meat and two vegetables. But is British food really so bland and uninteresting?
Despite a reputation for less-then-spectacular cuisine, Britain is producing more and more top class chefs who dominate our television screens and whose recipe books frequently top the best seller lists. It’s thanks to these TV chefs rather than any advertising campaign that Britons are turning away from meat-and-two-veg and ready-made meals and becoming more adventurous in their cooking habits. It seems that TV programmes have the power to bring a higher profile to cooking and are having real influence on what people cook at home.
According to a new study from market analysts, 1 in 5 Britons claim that watching cookery programmes on TV has encouraged them to try different food. Almost one third say they now use a wider variety of ingredients than they used to, and just under 1 in 4 (24%) say they now buy better quality ingredients than before. One in four adults say that TV chefs have made them much more confident about expanding their culinary knowledge and skills, and young people are also getting more interested in cooking.
With an increasing number of male chefs on TV, it’s no longer ‘uncool’ for boys to like cooking. The UK’s new obsession with food is reflected through television scheduling. Cookery shows and documentaries about food are broadcast during prime time evening slots. Many of the new celebrity chefs promote modern ‘fusion cuisine’, which blends classic ‘British’ cooking with international and exotic influences.
Even the chefs themselves are younger, more beautiful and much more experimental, such as Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver was only 23 when he first appeared on British television screens. More than 4 million people tuned in to his popular show ‘Jamie’s Kitchen’. The show began as an experiment and turned into a phenomenon. Jamie gave himself nine months to take a team of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds, with virtually no previous experience of cooking, and transform them into top class chefs to work in his new restaurant in East London, ‘Fifteen’. Jamie left school himself without formal qualifications and believes that with a passion for food, anyone can become a good cook. ‘Fifteen’ has become a hit in London and is booked up months in advance. Jamie Oliver has proved to be a huge inspiration for British people.
The recent survey finds that the number of those sticking to a traditional diet is slowly declining and around half of Britain’s consumers would like to change or improve their cooking in some way. There has been a rise in the number of students applying for food courses at UK universities and colleges, such as those offered by the School of Culinary Art at South Trafford College. Having been ridiculed for centuries for its mediocre cuisine, is Britain now competing with countries such as France and Italy in the field of culinary excellence?
Language Work
Find English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations.
Приходить на ум, пресная (о пище), доминировать, кулинарная книга, рекламная кампания, становиться более изобретательными (склонными к экспериментам) в пищевых привычках, привлечь внимание к кулинарии, воодушевлять (мотивировать) на что-либо, использовать широкое разнообразие ингредиентов, телевизионные повара, расширять знания и навыки в области кулинарии, отражаться на чем-либо, смешивать что-либо с чем-либо, кулинарное шоу, превратиться во что-либо, фактически, кулинарный опыт, превратить в первоклассных шеф-поваров, страсть к чему-либо, заказывать (резервировать) заранее, быть источником вдохновения, потребитель, записываться на кулинарные курсы, заурядный (посредственный), соревноваться (конкурировать), кулинарное искусство.
Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions.
Less-then-spectacular cuisine, best seller lists, to turn away from meat-and-two-veg, ingredient, ‘uncool’, cookery show, documentary, prime time, slot, ‘fusion cuisine’, to turn into a phenomenon, unemployed, with no previous experience of cooking, to leave school without formal qualifications, to become a hit, mediocre cuisine.
Restore the missing parts of the sentences using suitable words and word-combinations from the text.
Despite a reputation for less-then-spectacular cuisine, Britain is producing more and more… .
Britons are turning away from meat-and-two-veg and ready-made meals and becoming more … .
Britons claim that watching cookery programmes on TV … .
They now use a wider … than they used to, and buy … than before.
They are more willing to expand … and young people are also … .
Cookery shows and documentaries about food are broadcast during … .
The show began as an experiment and turned … .
Jamie took a team of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds, with … , and transform them … .
‘Fifteen’ has become a hit in London and is … .
The recent survey finds that the number of those … is slowly declining and around half of Britain’s consumers would like … .
There are more and more people who … at UK universities and colleges.
Now Britain … with countries such as France and Italy … .
Translate from Russian into English.
В прошлом британцы не использовали широкое разнообразие ингредиентов в своих блюдах, их кухня считалась пресной и неинтересной. Традиционно для воскресного обеда домохозяйки готовили мясо с гарниром из двух видов овощей.
Телевизионные кулинарные шоу дают прекрасную возможность расширить знания и навыки в области кулинарии и мотивируют людей становиться более изобретательными в их пищевых привычках.
В России доминируют японские и итальянские кафе и рестораны. Их популярность отражается на блюдах, которые россияне готовят дома. Сегодняшняя российская кухня комбинирует традиционные русские блюда с пиццей, лазаньей, суши и другими заграничными блюдами.
Не имея кулинарного опыта невозможно накрыть праздничный стол, лучше заказать заранее столик в ресторане.
Я собираюсь записаться на кулинарные курсы. Многочисленные телевизионные шоу привлекают внимание людей к экзотическим блюдам. Я не могу их готовить. Надеюсь, что курсы помогут мне овладеть кулинарным искусством.