- •Vocabulary Names of meals
- •Be sure that you know the names of plates, dishes and cutlery which we use when we lay the table or cook a meal
- •Names of primary products
- •Names of dishes
- •Names of dishes the English people like to have for breakfast
- •Names of sweet things and nuts
- •Here are the names of things that make our food more tasty and piquant
- •Learn the names of some drinks (beverages)
- •Here are the names of vegetables you should remember
- •Let’s learn the names of some berries and fruits
- •Remember the adjectives which people usually use when they speak about dishes, drinks, fruit and berries
- •Important phrases that can come in handy when speaking about meals
- •Learn the wordlist which can help you to describe the way of preparing your favourite dish
- •Exercises
- •Visiting the British at Home
- •Entertaining a guest at the table
- •Speaking practice
- •2. Find in the dialogue English equivalents for the following:
- •3. Answer these questions:
- •4. Say if the phrases below are true or false:
- •If the phrases are false If the phrases are true
- •5. Paraphrase using the words and phrases from the text:
- •6. Fill in the blanks with the pronouns some, any, anything, somewhere, anywhere:
- •10. What might you say to the person/people with you in a restaurant if ...
- •12. A. Close the right column of the table and try to translate the left one. Then check up yourselves. Work in pairs.
- •1. Act the following dialogues in English:
- •2. Render the texts. Еда в Британии.
- •Еда в нашей семье.
- •Правила поведения за столом.
- •Compare english, american, russian and mordovian meals
- •The Public Talks
- •In Favour of British Food
- •Baked beans
- •Fat America
- •Virgins & Cheese Products
- •Hamburger Heaven
- •38 Billion Burgers
- •American Drinks
- •Eating out in britain
- •Eating out in the usa
- •Note the lexical difference between British and American English.
- •Russian meals
- •2. Do you know … ?
- •6. Complete these sentences about yourself and your country.
- •7. Think about the typical cooking in your country and make a list of ten or twelve basic ingredients. Mordovian Meals
- •2. Do you know … ?
- •Boiled meat-pies
- •Ingredients
- •Fried meat
- •Ingredients
- •Crucian in sour cream
- •Ingredients
- •1. Match the names of the Mordovian dishes with their descriptions.
- •2. Fill in the blanks.
- •1. Read the texts. Mark the stresses and tunes. Learn them by heart. A) The Custom of Having Meals in England
- •B) The Custom of Having Meals in Russia
- •Meals in the priestleys’ family
- •2. Compare the procedure of laying the table in your family and in the Priesteys’ family. Restaurants in hungary
- •Listen to the tape and mark true and false statements.
- •Listen to the tape again and fill in the missing words and prepositions.
- •Answer the following questions in written form.
- •II Listening and comprehension
- •2. 1. Listen to the manager at Burger Palace discussing with Carol. Check your comprehension choosing the correct answer to the following questions.
- •Eating out
- •1. Look through the vocabulary.
- •3. Listen to the people who are going out to eat. Write numbers in the box on the right to show in which order the events take place on the tape.
- •4. Answer the questions below.
- •5. Listen to the dialogues again and choose the correct continuation of the sentences.
- •6. Here is the second part of the conversation. Listen to the recording and put down the missing words and the pronouns.
- •7. Make up your own conversation using the vocabulary of the recording. What's on the menu
- •I. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •1.1. Listen to the people complaining about the service at a restaurant and answer the questions that follow.
- •At the table
- •1.3. Here some more new words and word combinations that you will hear in the recording.
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.2. Listen to the interview again. It has been divided into three parts and you will hear a beep at the end of each part. Choose the answer which best expresses the main idea of that part.
- •2.3. Listen to each part of the interview again and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Comparing table manners
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Listen to the recording and decide whether the statements below are True or False.
- •2.2. Listen again and from the list below choose the table manners that are being discussed in the сonversation.
- •2.3. When listening this time note down briefly what Stephen answers to the following questions.
- •2.4. Listen to the interview again comparing the table manners indifferent countries so as to complete the chart below.
- •III. Language focus and auditory memory check
- •3.1. The adverbs in the box are all from the recording. Listen to it again and insert the suitable adverb in the gaps.
- •3.2. Translate into English using the vocabulary of the recording.
- •IV. Follow up activity
- •Mr. Jone's visit
- •2. Mark statements as True or False.
- •3. Fill in the missing part of the sentence.
- •Meals in different countries
- •Recipes
- •Karen and pat
- •3. What do you have for a typical breakfast, lunch and dinner? Complete the You column in the chart.
- •5. Find out what sort of things other people in your class eat, drink or use in their cooking.
- •Watching the first date
- •1. Matthew is on a first date with Dawn. Watch Part 1 and decide whether these statements are true or false.
- •3. What went wrong? Watch part 2 and put the sentences in order.
- •4. Watch again and complete these extracts.
- •5. Match the sentences in 3 with the extracts in 4.
- •8. Complete the expressions below. They are all things you may hear in a restaurant. What is the hidden expression?
- •9. Put the expressions in 8 in the order you would expect to hear them.
- •10. Do you know any more expressions you might hear in a restaurant?
- •11. Work in groups of three. Act out a situation between a waiter/ waitress and two customers. Use some of the expressions in 2 and 8 and the menu below. Restaurant Co Co
- •Additional material russian proverbs about meals:
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Recipes warm lobster with herb & almond dressing
- •836 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Lobster & summer vegetable tartlets
- •445 Cals per serving for 4 as a starter;
- •665Cals per serving for 4 as a main course
- •Ingredients:
- •4. To serve, divide the vegetables between the pastry cases. Add the lobster meat and a spoonful of the cream. Garnish with chopped chervil and serve with lime slices. Mussel & saffron pilaff
- •435 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Mussel, leek & herb salad
- •225 Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Crab & orange salad
- •740Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Hot devilled crab
- •842Cals per serving
- •Ingredients:
- •Chicken and apple salad
- •Ingredients:
- •Apple and cream cheese pudding
- •Ingredients:
- •Veal chops with apple sauce
- •Ingredients:
- •Eating the alphabet
- •Grape fruit
- •Grapefruit fruit
- •Literature
Hamburger Heaven
Hamburgers! Mm... Delicious/ The hamburger is one of America's favourite foods and has helped make the USA one of the fattest countries in the world. Hamburgers are everywhere in America and no matter where you go, you'll probably be no further than 100 meters from somewhere that sells these tasty pieces of cow meat. This month, Hot English's very own Jeff Fenyo takes a look at America's insatiable appetite for burgers.
Hamburger Nation
There was once a time in the United States when people didn't eat hamburgers. US president Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) never had the pleasure of eating a double bacon cheeseburger. But then in 1904 something happened that would change the world forever. On a warm Saturday morning, at the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis, Thomas Puckerbutt arrived at his hot dog stand at 10:06 AM to prepare for the day's hungry crowd of visitors. To his horror, he was informed that there was a transport strike, and that no hot dogs would be delivered for at least another week. He was horrified, shocked and desperate. He would be ruined! He sat down in front of his stand, crying inconsolably. Then, all of a sudden, Puckerbutt began to smile as he developed a plan to save his business. At 11:23 AM the first “hamburger” was born. The crowd went wild over this delicious creation. By the late 1930's, the hamburger had become one of the most popular foods in the country.
38 Billion Burgers
Americans eat an incredible quantity of hamburgers. According to a leading hamburger researcher, the average American eats nearly 14 kilos of hamburger a year. This means that around 38 billion burgers are eaten annually. Attempts by mathematicians to calculate how many cows must be sacrificed each year to make all these hamburgers have ended in failure. The problem is that no one is certain what percentage of the cow actually goes into making the hamburgers served in fast-food restaurants. Do the hamburgers include the cows' tongues? The tails? The ears? The organs? Or are they 100% top-quality meat? Until the big fast-food restaurants reveal their secret recipes, the true number of cows used to make hamburgers will remain a mystery.
Hamburger Eating Contests
Americans love sport, and they've invented some really strange sports that hardly anyone knows about. One of these is “Hamburger Eating” and “Hamburger Eating Competitions”. These competitions are normally organized by hamburger restaurants or meat manufacturers and attract contestants from all over the country. It's a serious spot and the professional contestants spend months training their stomachs to absorb huge amounts of cow meat in very short periods of time.
The competition itself is as tactical as chess match and as spirited as a game of American football. Here's how it works the contestants slowly take their seats at the eating table and carefully observe their opponents, searching for any signs of weaknesses or nervousness. As the piles of hamburgers aге placed in front of them, it isn't unusual for the competitors to laugh in a sinister way in order to intimidate the other competitors. When all is prepared, the competition judge points the starting gun in the air. Ready, set… go! The gun is fired, and the contestants dive into their hamburgers and shove as many down their throats as possible before the judge signals the end of the competition. The contestant who eats the most hamburgers, and is still conscious and breathing at the end of the event, is the “Hamburger Eating Champion”.
Spectators
It's an exciting event, but it's also disgusting. Just imagine these sights and sounds: competitors stuffing their faces with so many burgers that the grease flows out of their mouths and trickles down their hands, arms and necks; loud and objectionable sounds coming from the competitors' abused bodies; participants turning green from hamburger overdose and becoming violently ill in front of the spectators. And the contestants aren't exactly the sort of people you get on Baywatc! It's vile, it's repulsive, but the people love it. There's still no television contract to broadcast these contests, but the demand for quality television is so high in America that the organizers are confident that millions of viewers will soon see the competitions live on TV.
Hamburger Consequences
Hamburgers are popular, but they're also making the United States one of the fattest countries in the world. Americans give the impression that they're obsessed with health and fitness, but the truth is that most people are in terrible shape and have no interest in taking care of themselves. These days fitness magazines conduct surveys each yеaг to see which city will earn the title of “America's Fattest City”. It's an award that no city wants. In case you're curious, the cities selected in 2005 as America's fattest were Detroit, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Chicago. Big cities with very big bellies.
No matter what the health consequences, Americans will never stop eating hamburgers – they are too addicted to them.