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55. Answer the following questions:

1. What does your dinner usually consist of? 2. Do you always have soup / meat / vegetables for dinner? 3. What blend of tea do you prefer? 4. How many teaspoons of sugar do you take with your tea/coffee? 5. What dishes can you cook? 6. What are your favourite vegetable dishes? 7. How many meals do you have a day? 8. What kind of meat do you prefer? 8. What sweet dishes do you like to eat? Can you cook them yourself? 9. Do you like spicy dishes? Are traditional Ukrainian dishes usually very spicy? 10. What time do you usually have supper? What do you have for supper as a rule? 11. Do you agree with the famous saying: “If one wants to be healthy, he should eat his breakfast himself, share his dinner with his friend and give his supper to his enemy”? Give your reasons. 12. What do you think about British cuisine? Is it really so bad as it is reputed to be? 13. What national British dishes would you like to eat? Why?

14.Have you ever tried any exotic dishes, for example, Chinese, Japanese, Indian or Mexican? What do you think about their taste and flavour? Are they better or worse than the food you usually eat?

15.How does globalization influence your own tastes and preferences in food?

56. Read the Information File and do the tasks below.

Information File

Top 5 Interesting "Break-facts" about Breakfasts

1. Surveys show that about 15 percent of people aged 12-18 and about 30 percent of adults aged 18-35 skip breakfast.

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2.Did you know that breakfast contributes significant nutrients1 and calories to your diet? Studies show that nutrients missed by skipping breakfast are not made up for in subsequent meals.

3.Despite being yummy, fast food is one of the worst breakfast choices. Burgers, although delicious, are not a good idea for breakfast, as most exceed 500 calories and contain an average of 25-35 grams of fat – half of a day's amount of fat in just one meal!

4.Individuals who consume ready-to-eat cereal regularly for breakfast tend to have lower blood cholesterol levels than individuals who skip or have other foods for breakfast.

5.Many nutritionists agree that a balanced breakfast should provide about one-fourth of your daily needs for essential nutrients and calories.

So just remember to lay off the burgers in the morning, and reach for that packet of corn flakes instead, ok? Of course, they may not taste as nice, but judging by these facts, they’ll do you a lot more good in the long run. "And then to breakfast, with what appetite you have." (William Shakespeare)

a)Answer the following questions.

1) Do you usually eat in the morning or skip your breakfast? Why? 2) What does your typical breakfast consist of? (Do you just gulp your tea/coffee hastily or take your time to have a substantial meal?) 3) Do you have cereals for breakfast? Do you eat something sweet in the morning? 4) There is an opinion that breakfast is necessary especially for those who work in the morning, as it gives energy that is needed to work productively during the day. Do you agree? Give your reasons. 5) Do you eat junk food for breakfast? How often? 6) Do you count the amount of calories you get with your daily meals? What part of your daily need for nutrients and calories does your breakfast usually provide? 7) Do you take into account the level of your blood cholesterol? What products are considered to contain extra cholesterol? Do you try to avoid them in your diet?

b)* Break into two teams (breakfast-eaters and breakfastskippers) and hold a debate on the problems discussed above. Give reasons and facts to prove that you are right.

c) Make up the menu of healthy breakfast considering Top 5 facts above.

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57. a) Read the idioms with words denoting food and explanations of their meaning.

b) Try to find the corresponding Ukrainian idioms-equivalents, if any, and fill in the chart. (Otherwise give a word-for-word translation).

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c) Read and translate the following example sentences using the chart.

1. We'll have to butter Angie up before we tell her the news about the broken vase. 2. Rick wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to be single but he doesn't want me to date anyone else. 3. The kids were full of beans after the circus. 4. The exam was a piece of cake. 5. I thought I was just going to interview the secretary, but they let me talk to the big cheese himself. 6. Opera isn't exactly my cup of tea. 7. I thought I was afraid of flying, but I was cool as a cucumber all the way to England. 8. My husband has had to bring home the bacon ever since I broke my leg. 9. In a nutshell, I'm having a bad day. 10. I don't want my little brother hanging around with the bad eggs on the street. 11. Choosing a location for our new store is a hot potato right now. 12. Just explain the bread and butter of your report. You don't have to go into details. 13. Baby Jessica is the apple of her father's eye. 14. I'm nuts about classical music these days. 15. The new Harry Potter books are sold like hot cakes. 16. Take Mandy's advice with a pinch of salt. She doesn't always do her

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research. 17. Even though I'm majoring in Art, I'm taking a math course because my Dad says I shouldn't put all of my eggs in one basket. 18. Angelo is a hard nut to crack when something is bothering him like this. 19. You're going to have to really use your noodle on this crossword puzzle. It's an extra difficult one. 20. Your daughter is one smart cookie. She reads much higher than her grade level.

(from: http://www.englishclub.com)

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59.* Highlight the meanings of the proverbs, making up short situations. Tell them in class.

1.The glutton digs his grave with his teeth.

2.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

3.You can't eat a cake and have it.

4.It's no use crying over split milk.

5.Man does not live by bread alone.

6.Too many cooks spoil the broth.

7.First catch your hare then cook him.

8.You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.

9.Hunger is the best sauce.

Grammar Revision: Numerals and Quantitative words

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60. Choose and underline the correct form to fill in the blanks.

1. (How much / How many) milk is in the refrigerator? 2. (How much / How many) apples should I peel? 3. (How much / How many) sugar do you take with your coffee? 4. (How much / How many) teaspoons of sugar do you take with your coffee? 5. (How much / How many) flour do you need to bake this pie? 6. (How much / How many) tomatoes do you need for one helping of this salad? 7. (How much / How many) glasses should I put on the table? 8. (How much / How many) guests are coming to the party? 9. (How much / How many) bottles of wine shall I buy? 10. (How much / How many) red wine do you need to make this cocktail?

61.* a) Read and translate the text. (Consult the dictionary if necessary).

A List of Food and Drink Made before the Wedding Celebration

There was, quite simply, masses of the stuff – enough to feed an army, or keep a largish family for a year at least –and it wasn’t the staggering quantity. There was an enormously wide range of dishes, ranging from huge stuffed olives to king-sized prawns, from giantsized crabs to quite massive crepes.

The guests – and there were millions of them all over the place

– had a choice of a thousand and one different cheeses, no fewer than fifty different salads, dozens of pates and scores of little savouries.

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The meat – literally tons of it – had been cut into exceedingly large slices, an inch thick, and broad enough to overhang any normalsized dinner plate. There was also plenty of fish, including a monumental pile of smoked salmon and an immense dishful of seafood, plus an abundance of fowl. There was an excessive amount of alcohol: two containers of giant proportions brimful of punch, (their combined volumes must have exceeded a hundred cubic feet), countless magnums of champagne and innumerable three-litre bottles of sparkling wine. There were gallons of the stuff. The fruit salad was served in a colossal dish, several feet in diameter. Into it had gone enormous cherries almost the size of oranges and gigantic oranges as big as footballs, bananas nearly a foot in length and mammoth melons like footballs. A substantial quantity of liqueur brandy had also found its way in. The cake was a mountain, consisting of a large number of sections, each providing ample portions for a couple of rugby teams. Altogether it was over three metres in height and getting on for a metre in width. The layers of cream on each block were some three centimetres thick.

Though people said that too much food had been prepared, very little was left at the end. True, a fair amount of cheese remained – a reasonable proportion of which was fortunately still usable – but apart from that, hardly anything: a few crumbs of cake, one tiny piece of fish, a minute portion of ham, a negligible amount of jelly, a teenyweeny drop of punch, but not a trace of the fruit salad in the bottom of the bowl.

b)Write out the underlined words dividing them into two groups: 1) large amount and 2) small amount.

c)Make up a list of dishes prepared for this wedding celebration, dividing them into the following groups:

1) refreshments; 2) salads; 3) meat; 4) fish and seafood; 5) sweets; 6) drink; 7) fruit.

d)Find in the text and read aloud the sentences in which the following words denoting quantity were used. Translate these sentences.

Negligible amount; a colossal dish; an immense dishful; excessive amount; a monumental pile; countless; innumerable; an abundance; a few crumbs; giant proportions; a fair amount; masses

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of; enormous; brimful; plenty of; teeny-weeny; king-sized; ample portions; a substantial quantity.

62. Name the following figures and dates (see Reference Grammar):

a)2; 44; 13; 195; 1,569; 1/3; 2/5; 0.345; 23.815; 3,065,901.

b)5th; 9th; 26th; 12th; 8th; 125th; 1st; 72nd; 40th; 93rd.

c)06/03/1998; 30/09/2003; 09/05/1945; 24/08/1991; 01/01/2005.

Vocabulary: Eating and cooking habits

63. a) Read, translate and fill in the chart:

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