Ordering fast food

Dialog1.

A: Can I help you?

B: Yes. I’d like a hamburger and French fries.

A: Anything to drink?

B: A large Coke.

A: Anything else?

B: No, thanks.

Dialog2.

A: Can I take you order?

B: Yes, I’d like a hot dog and chips.

A: Anything to drink?

B: A medium Coke.

A: Anything else?

B: No, thanks.

On Board the Plane

Dialog3.

Lavrov: I’ve already had a delicious breakfast at the airport restaurant this

morning but I don’t mind taking coffee and some cognac and pastry if it is

fresh.

Flight attendant: Would you like to have black coffee with cream?

L: I’d like to take black coffee.

F. a. Please, help yourself to pastries, waffles or biscuits for your coffee?

Dialog4.

F.a.: Would you like another cup of coffee?

L.: No, thank you. Could I bother you for cigarettes?

F.a.: It’s no bother at all. Here you are.

L.: And will you bring me a magazine in English? I want to kill the time. I want

to kill time.

F.a.: Here it is.

L.: Thanks a lot.

F.a.: You are welcome.

Dialog5.

F.a.: What would you like to drink?

L.: Dry wine, please.

F.a.: May I pour some wine into your wine glass?

L.: Do, please. May I trouble you for a match?

F.a.: It’s no trouble at all. Here you are.

English breakfast

John: Do you stay at a hotel or do you rent rooms?

Boris: Some of us stay at hotels, some rent rooms and some live in the

dormitory.

John: So some of you have an English breakfast, don’t you?

Boris: You are quite right. I rent a room in an apartment house. I usually

have an English breakfast, but I prefer a Continental one. I hate

porridge.

John: Who doesn’t. None of us likes it.

Boris: I prefer ham and eggs, buttered toast with marmalade, cheese and

sausage.

John: Marmalade and buttered toast are so fattening.

Excercise 6. Make up the dialogues using the following statements:

A:

B: Thank you, I’ll have a cup of coffee.

A:

B: Thanks a lot. No more cakes for me. I’ve had enough.

A:

B: Breakfast is usually the most substantial meal, not just rolls and coffee.

A:

B: Lunch is served between twelve and two o’clock.

A:

B: Yes, I prefer a cold snack.

A:

B: Thank you, please.

A:

B: Well, just a little cognac, please.

A:

B: You can have a cup of tea with cream or milk.

A:

B: Yes, please, and I could do with another half cup of c I’d like a cup of strong

and hot coffee.

Exercise 7. Render the following dialogs in English:

1.

• Интересно, как питаются у Вас в стране?

• Это довольно индивидуально, многое зависит от образа жизни. Обычно мы едим три раза в день, как и везде.

• Завтрак у Вас обычно плотный?

• Я люблю как следует поесть, прежде чем начну работать. А Вы?

• Я ем только бутерброды и выпиваю чашку кофе со сливками. Плотно я ем днем.

2.

• Я знаю, Вы плотно едите днем.

• Да, мы обычно едим мясной суп, он очень питательный (nourishing), и в нем много овощей.

• За обедом у Вас пьют вино?

• Нет, если это не официальный обед. На второе мы удим мясные или рыбные блюда с овощами. Затем пьем чай, кофе или какао.

• Вы не едите на десерт фрукты?

• Очень редко. Обычно мы едим фрукты между приемами пищи.

3.

• Я бы порекомендовал Вам заказать это мясо с грибами. Оно очень вкусное, хотя и очень острое.

• Хорошо. У нас в стране очень любят острую пищу.

• Берите, пожалуйста, овощи. Зеленый горошек, бобы, картофель. Салат очень свежий. А что бы Вы хотели на десерт? Фрукты, мороженное, чай, кофе?

• Черный кофе, пожалуйста, без сахара.

• С ликером?

• Немножко коньяку, если можно, пожалуйста.

• Конечно можно. Вот Ваш кофе с коньяком.

4.

• Что бы Вы хотели выпить?

• Сок или воду, пожалуйста. Я не пью крепких напитков.

• Яблочный сок или апельсиновый? А может быть легкое пиво?

• Мне сок, пожалуйста.

5.

• Заказывайте, пожалуйста.

• Выбирайте сами. Вы лучше знаете русскую кухню.

• Вы хотите рыбное или мясное?

• Ни то, ни другое. Я вегетарианец.

• Тогда Вам лучше взять салаты. Пожалуйста, берите. Хлеб? Масло?

• Спасибо.

Exercise 8. Answer the following questions:

1. Do you often dine out?

2. Do you prefer to have lunch at a restaurant or a café?

3. What restaurants in Moscow do you know?

4. What is your favorite restaurant in Moscow?

5. Is there a wide choice of dishes on the menu there?

6. Which restaurants do they serve Russian dishes at?

7. What Russian dishes do they usually serve?

8. Is the service at all Moscow restaurants up to the level?

9. What time do you usually have dinner?

10. Have you ever been to a restaurant abroad?

11. How many courses does your evening meal usually consisnt of?

12. What breakfast do you prefer: English or Continental?

13. What does your breakfast include?

14. What does English breakfast consist of?

15. Do you like porridge?

16. What food is especially fattening?

17. What are you supposed to have for your meals if you diet?

18. Do you like your tea strong or weak?

19. Do you take your tea with lemon, milk or cream?

20. How many lumps of sugar do you put into your tea?

21. How is tea served in Great Britain?

22. How is tea served in Russia?

23. What is your most substantial meal of the day?

24. Have you ever been on slimming diet?

25. Why is a substantial meal late at night harmful?

Exercise 9. Make up dialogs using these questions:

1.) 1. Where do you usually have your meals?

2. What is the me substantial meal of the day in your family?

3. Who cooks dinner in yo family?

4. What kind of soup is preferable in your family?

5. Do you prer meat or fish dishes for the second course?

6. What do you prefer for dessert fruit, canned fruit, ice-cream or jelly?

7. Where is dinner served in your family?

8. Do you eat much bread?

9. Is anyone in your family sometimes a slimming diet?

10. Is there a vegetarian in your family?

2.) 1. What is fast food?

2. What kinds of fast-food restaurants do you know in Moscow?

3. Do you go to fast-food restaurants?

4. What kinds of fast-food restaurants are there?

5. What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?

6. What is usually on the menu there?

7. What dishes do you usually order there?

8. What drinks do you usually have there?

9. Are only soft drinks served there?

10. What about the prices at your favorite fast-food restaurant? Are they reasonable?

3.) 1.When did you last go to a restaurant?

2. What was the occasion?

3. Was it the restaurant you usually go to?

4. Who did you go there with?

5. What dishes did you order for the first course?

6. What dishes did you order for the second course?

7. What did you have as an appetizer?

8. What did you take for dessert?

9. Did you enjoy your meal at the restaurant?

10. What can you say about the service at the restaurant?

Exercise 10. Make up dialogs of your own. Use the following words:

1. an appetizer; a tomato; a cucumber; Pass the salt, please.; some more fish; No, thanks really. I’m on a diet.

2. a first course; a little more bacon; steak with chips; a cup of strong tea.

3. Would you like some chicken with peas?; You’ve hardly eaten anything.; It’s delicious, but I don’t think I ought to.; to temp.

4. another piece of apple pie; some more pineapple; Help yourself to the fruit salad.

5. soft-boiled eggs; hard-boiled eggs; well-boiled eggs; scrambled fried eggs; toast; a glass of orange juice; Do you take tea or coffee?

Exercise 11. Make up dialogs based on the following situations:

1. Tell you classmate where you prefer to have your meals when you are on a business trip. Give your reasons.

2. Tell us about your last visit to a restaurant.

3. You are the Aeroflot representative in London. Mr. Brown invites you to have lunch at a restaurant. Ask him about English meals.

4. You are on board a plane taking you on a business trip to London. A flight attendant is serving breakfast. Describe the way she treats the passengers the meals she offers them. Ask her to bring you English magazines.

5. You are having a business lunch with Mr. Smith at a restaurant. Ask him to help you make your choice.

6. You are receiving English colleagues in Moscow. You invite them to the Metropol restaurant. 'There is a wide choice of dishes on the menu. Help your guests to make their choice.

7. You are very hungry but you are in a hurry because the talks are to begin soon. Drop in at a snack bar and have a bite. Order your meal.

Exercise 12. Explain the difference:

to be on a slimming diet

to be on a fattening diet

to be a vegetarian

to be a heavy eater

to take English tea

to take Russian tea

to have Continental breakfast

to have English breakfast

to prefer strong drinks

to prefer soft drinks

Exercise 13. Interpret the following statements:

1. Do not live to eat but eat to live.

2. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

3. After dinner sleep awhile, after supper walk a mile.

4. Hunger is the best sauce.

5. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner.

Exercise 14. Give Russian equivalents to the following sayings and proverbs. Learn them by heart and use in situations or dialogs of your own:

1. Tastes differ.

2. As like as two peas.

3. As hungry as a wolf (hunter).

4. His eyes are bigger than his stomach.

5. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Exercise 15. Speak on the following topics:

1. Moscow restaurants.

2. The meals you have during the day.

3. Your last visit to a restaurant.

4. The famous English pubs.

5. English meals.

6. Make up a dialog “At the Restaurant”.

7. Discuss the most popular Russian dishes for the first course, the second course and dessert.

8. Speak with you friend about an evening party you are going to arrange on the occasion of your birthday.

9. Some people say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Do you share this opinion?

10. People say an evening meal should be light. Do you agree? Why?