- •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
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.
1) Had Carol been waiting long for a meal?
2) Was the restaurant full when they came?
3) What day was it?
4) Did the visitors like the service?
5) What surprised the man in the bill?
5. Listen to the dialogues again and choose the correct continuation of the sentences.
1. The man noticed that there was
a) a room at the back;
b) more room at the back.
2. The visitors were looking for
a) a table for two;
b) table 42.
3. They got one table
a) right at the back of the kitchen;
b) right at the back near the kitchen.
4. Carol ordered
a) the avocado prawn and the trout and some vegetables to start with;
b) the avocado prawn to start with
6. Here is the second part of the conversation. Listen to the recording and put down the missing words and the pronouns.
The man: I’m sorry, Carol, I should have ____ before I ____you.
Carol: Don’t ___. What would you ___?
The man: Yes. What d’you___?
Carol: Erm, let’s see, erm, I think I’ll ___ the avocado prawn to ___ with.
The man: Jolly good. And to ____?
Carol: I’m not sure. What are you ___?
The man: Some mineral water?
Carol: Yes, OK. And how about orange juice?
The man: Good idea. Right, let’s ___, shall we?
7. Make up your own conversation using the vocabulary of the recording. What's on the menu
Here are some words and word combinations that you will hear in the recording. Make sure you know them.
available—свободный, незанятый
stone cold—совершенно холодный
short-staffed—недоукомплектованный (о штате работников)
burnt underneath—подгорелый снизу
overcharge smb — обсчитать кого-либо
I. Listening and comprehension tasks
1.1. Listen to the people complaining about the service at a restaurant and answer the questions that follow.
1. Who are the people making complaints?
a daughter and a father;
husband and wife;
two strangers.
2.Who are they making complaints to?
the owner;
the waiter;
the manager.
3.Who is going to check the bill?
the owner;
the waiter;
the manager.
4. What service charge will be paid?
none at all;
4 pounds;
40 pounds.
1.2. Choose the complaints from the dialogue.
soup not hot enough/too hot
steak undercooked/overcooked/tough/raw/soggy
wrong course/wrong dessert only
one fish course/only one dessert
no bill brought/overcharged
II. Language focus and auditory memory check
2.1. Fill in the prepositions or postpositions as in the dialogue.
l. Calm !
We're a bit short-staffed present.
Um, mainly illness.
I'll pass your complaints the people concerned.
5.1 don't feel satisfied it.
6. Can you check the bill again, please.
2.2. Give the English equivalents used in the recording for the following Russian sentences.
1. Что-то случилось? 2. Мне очень жаль! 3. Я посмотрю, свободен ли менеджер. 4. Это не оправдание. 5. Невероятно! 6. Очень сожалею об этом. 7. Нас обсчитали! 8. Я очень извиняюсь. 9. Нам совсем не понравилась еда.
III. Follow up activity
When did you have a meal at a cafe or a restaurant last? Did you like the service? Have you ever made complaints at any eating place? How would you behave if you were a manager and a visitor complained to you about the service or /and the food? (Act out the situation).