2. Food Habits

vegetables: cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, cucumber, zucchini, leeks

meat: venison, liver, kidneys, veal, pork, beef

fish: cod, hake, plaice, whiting, mackerel, herring, sardine, trout, salmon,

seafood: prawns, shrimps, crab, lobster, squid, cockles, mussels, ousters

herbs: parsley, rosemary, thyme, chives, oregano, tarragon, sage,

spices: curry, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg

2.1 Flavors and tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, hot, spicy, mild, bland, stodgy, heavy, hard to digest, salty, sugary, sickly, tasty, tasteless, greasy, over cooked/overdone / under cooked/underdone, done to a turn

2.2 Ways of cooking food – verbs: boil, fry, bake, roast, grill, stew, barbecue.

2.3 Menus: Starters / Enters; First Course; Main Course – meat, fish, chicken, seafood; Children Portions; Desserts; Drinks / Beverages

3. Clothes and Appearance

3.1 Words used to describe materials: nouns or adjectives.

Silk, cotton, velvet, corduroy, denim, leather, wool/woolen, suede, striped, pin – striped, polka – dotted. Spotted, checked, tartan, plain.

3.2 Verbs associated with clothing.

He undressed /got undressed, throwing all his clothes on the floor.

She quickly dressed the child. I love dressing up for parties.

Those shoes don't fit the boy any more. He's grown out of them.

Can I try on those gray shoes in the window?

Red usually doesn't suit people with ginger hair.

She took off her shoes and put on her slippers. Her black bag matches her shoes.

3.3 Adjectives for describing people's clothing.

Style: long-sleeved V-neck round-neck.

General: elegant smart scruffy chic trendy with-it.

Appearance: well-dressed badly-dressed old-fashioned fashionable.

Раздел: Задания для самостоятельной работы Grammar

Выберите среди предложенных ответов единственный правильный:

1. The next morning she received a basket full of flowers. They were ____ roses.

1. wonderful big yellow

2. big yellow wonderful

3. yellow wonderful big

4. big wonderful yellow

2. They lived in ____ poverty. The children rose ____ from their poor table.

1. the, in a hungry way

2. - , hungrily

3. - , hungry

4. a, hungry

3. There is no ____ , ____ or ____ driver in the world than an Italian.

1. more wild, more mad, more dangerous

2. wilder, madder, dangerouser

3. wilder, madder, more dangerous

4. wilder, more mad, more dangerous

4. He stayed ____ for a long time, staring at the box. I watched him, wondering what his ____ move was to be.

1. motionless, the next

2. motionlessly, next

3. motionlessly, further

4. motionless, next

5. Lady Hoggin said to her husband: “Funny, this tonic tastes quite____ . It ____ that bitter taste I disliked so much.”

1. differently, had

2. different, used to have

3. nice, used to having

4. pleasantly, doesn’t have

6. Helen’s father, ____ being one of the ____ and most influential men in the world, was also my employer.

1. beside, richest

2. besides, most rich

3. apart from, richest

4. except, most richest

7. He opened the gate and crossed the sidewalk to the car, ____ that his knees felt ____ and the muscles in his legs were fluttering.

1. aware, weak

2. being aware, weakly

3. awaring, weak

4. aware, to weaken

8. I was startled when the menu was brought, for the prices were a great deal ____ than I ___.

1. higher, have expected

2. the highest, expected

3. more, was expecting

4. higher, had expected

9. He stayed ____ , watching them, feeling his pulse ____ .

1. motionlessly, quickening

2. motionless, quicken

3. motionless, to quicken

4. motionlessly, quicken

10. It was a sordid business, and I ____ to trouble myself with it ____ .

1. didn’t inclined, any longer

2. didn’t want, farther

3. wasn’t inclined, further

4. hasn’t inclined, more

11. She had noticed ____ chain upon Gretel’s neck.

1. a pretty wooden

2. wooden pretty

3. pretty wooden

4. a wooden pretty

12. Apart from the bed there was only a straw-bottomed chair to sit on, for it was ____ of the rooms.

1. smaller

2. smallest

3. the smallest

4. most small

13. At that time I worshipped Manet. His “Olimpia” seemed to me ____ picture of modern times.

1. the most great

2. the greatest

3. the greater

4. the more great

14. ____ I think of his proposal ____ I like it.

1. The longest, the least

2. The longer, the less

3. More longer, much less

4. Longer, less

15. Come and see me if you’d like. ____ Mother will be out of the way visiting ___ .

1. My, a sick

2. The, sick

3. - , the sick

4. A, sick people

16. My ____ sister is two years ____ than me.

1. older, elder

2. elder, elder

3. oldest, eldest

4. elder, older

17. If there are no ____ questions, I declare the meeting ____ .

1. farther, closed

2. further, having closed

3. farther, closing

4. further, closed

18. She was wearing a ____ dress.

1. delightful pink and blue cotton

2. pink and blue delightful cotton

3. cotton delightful pink and blue

4. delightful cotton pink and blue

19. You really shouldn’t confuse ____ and ____ .

1. a Chinese, Japanese

2. the Chinese, the Japanese

3. Chinese, a Japanese

4. a Chinese, the Japanese

20. In ____ times people lit their homes by gas, not electricity. ____ is considered safer.

1. former, The later

2. latter, The former

3. former, The latter

4. formely, The latter

21. He thought of Jane again. Jane was ____ , and that was one thing he liked.

1. really

2. real enough

3. enough real

4. reality enough

22. It seems that he spoke .