Exercise 2

Which of these foods do you eat at home, at the restaurant, at the barbecue? Divide them into three categories.

appetizer, -iser (infml – starter); hors d’oeuvre (usu pl); main course (entrée); side dish; dessert; Ukrainian borsch with pampushkas; braised beef; broth (soup); stock (soup); cabbage salad; cabbage soup; zander in aspic; fish rolls, meat ~; egg ~; goulash; headcheese; scalloped fish with vegetables; hot dog; jellied meat, ~ fish; liver sausage; blood ~; mixed salad; Russian ~; onion, tomato, potato soup; porridge / gruel; radish and egg salad; roast turkey; potted beef with mushrooms; shish kebab; Siberian dumplings; stuffed duck; ~ tomatoes; mushroom yushka with galushky; roasted duck with apples; home-made sausage with onion; grilled chicken; Ukrainian Honey Cake; biscuits; jelly; pudding; baba au rhum; baked cheese; chocolate; cookies; éclair; ice-cream; Khreshchatic Cake; pancakes; pastry; prunes stuffed with nuts; varenyky.

Exercise 3

Fill in the correct prepositions where necessary:

What is the choice of dishes at public eating places?

It depends …… the place: some have a wide choice …. delicious and nutritious dishes …. their menu. They have various salads and hors d’oeuvres: cabbage, carrot, apple and green pepper salad, carrot and green pea salad, radish and egg salad, stuffed tomatoes or cucumbers, herring, zander … aspic, stuffed zander, chicken pasta, cold stuffed chicken, etc.

The first course is less varied: Ukrainian borsch …. pampushky, yushka, mushroom yushka with galushky, etc.

The main course can include … scalloped fish …. vegetables, fish rolls, crucian carp baked … sour cream, braised beef …. prunes, scalloped beef, potted beef … mushrooms, meat rolls, stewed lamb, roast duck …. apples, home-made sausage …. onion, varenyky …. cottage cheese, cabbage rolls stuffed …. minced meat, tomatoes stuffed …. mushrooms, cauliflower fried … butter, etc.

Dessert and flour dishes are delicious: apples with cottage cheese stuffing, whipped cream jelly, Khreschatyk Cake, Ukrainian Korovai, etc. … some places you can eat … your heart's content.

Nevertheless, there are many public eating places which are criticised … monotonous menus, poor cooking and service and exorbitant prices.

Exercise 4 What are your preferences in food? As an appetiser (hors d'oeuvre) we like cold meat, jellied meat and fish, herring, salmon, caviar, seafood, cheese, mixed salad, Russian salad and all salads according to the season. We are particular about having soups for lunch. ‘Dining without soup is like a building without a foundation’ is a good saying. We like all soups: clear soup, cabbage soup, potato soup, tomato soup, onion soup, leek soup, borsch, broth, etc. Chops, rissoles, beefsteaks, rump steaks, cabbage rolls, stuffed duck, grilled chicken, roast turkey, braised beef are most popular for the main course in my family. We eat meat with vegetables. My mother and I have a sweet tooth and we can't live without desserts: pancakes with jam or sour cream, coffee (black, white), hot chocolate, tea, chocolates, cakes, fancy cakes, biscuits, prunes with nut stuffing, ice-cream, pastries, jellies and puddings of all kinds etc. As coffee doesn't agree with older people in my family, they are tea-drinkers. They prefer their tea very hot, not lukewarm, and with a slice of lemon. My mother is good at making tea, she is a connoisseur of various kinds of tea. Her special recipe for tea reads, ‘Don’t let your tea brew for more than one minute, to preserve its flavour.’ Everybody enjoys her tea. Think about your answers to the questions above. Are they the same or different? Why ‘yes’? Why ‘no’? Listening Potluck Dinner Listen to the recording and fill in the missing words.

JIA I’m going to make .................... for our class ............................. . Which do you like better .............. or ...........…?

DIEGO Both sound ……………! But some people are allergic to ............ . I know that if Maria eats ..............., she’ll get sick. So why not make .............?

JIA Yeah, you’re right. What are you bringing?

DIEGO I’m thinking of making feijoada. It’s a dish with ............. and ............ . At home, in Brazil, we make it with ………… ………….., ............... and ............ ……….., but here I’ll use ...........… .............. .

JIA Delicious! But a lot of people in our class don’t eat ............ . Maybe you should make something else.

DIEGO You’re right. I’ll have to think of something. What about you, Sun-Su?

SUN-SU I’m going to bring some special Korean food – Kimchee. It’s very ..............! I brought the ingredients from Korea!

JIA Great! I love .............. ............... . Look, there’s Marta! Hi, Marta. What are you bringing to the class dinner?

MARTA I don’t know what to make. I’d fix a special kind of ............... ................... with ................. and ............ if I could find some ...........… ............. petals. But I don’t know where to buy them here.

DIEGO I don’t know either. So many things are hard to find here. The teacher said he was going to bring some ……………. food. At least he won’t have trouble buying the .........................!

Post-listening

Answer the questions:

1. Why isn’t Jia making shrimp egg rolls?

2. Why isn’t Diego making his dish with pork?

3. What is Sun-su bringing?

4. What ingredient does Marta need to get?

5. Who isn’t going to have any trouble finding ingredients? Why?

Role-play

1. Work in groups of three. Make up a dialogue inviting your groupmates to participate in the barbecue.

2. Work with three other students. Describe the dishes your families eat on special occasions and say how they are prepared. Encourage everyone to join the conversation.