- •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
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
Starters
Soup of the day
Seasonal salad
Melon
Main courses
Grilled fillet steak
With a green pepper and onion sauce
Fisherman’s pie
Freshly caught fish in a white wine and vegetable sauce
Spinach and Cheese Calzone
Fresh spinach in a cheese and herb sauce wrapped in a pizza base
Omelette
With a choice of fillings
All the above are served with chips or potatoes and salad or vegetables of the day
Desserts
Fresh fruit salad
Lemon sorbet
Selection of cheese and biscuits
Additional material russian proverbs about meals:
A home is made by pies, not by walls.
A birthday is not a birthday without pies.
Arrows complete a quiver, and pies a dinner.
A good housewife is one who makes good shchi, not one who make conversation.
Porridge and cabbage soup is but our native food.
Bread is Lord in the home, mate in labour, companion in travel.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
A hungry man is an angry man.
Appetite is good for savoury food.
There is no spread without bread.
Cooking a dish requires patience, not only wish.
Appetite comes with eating.
They don't carry samovars to Tula town.
Every vegetable has its season.
A spoon is dear when lunch time is near.
An egg is dearest at Easter.
Keep your breath to cool your broth (or porridge).
Too much butter won't spoil the porridge.
He that will not work shall not eat.
Every one to his own taste. Tastes differ.
Cast no greedy eye at another man's pie.
You say you are a mushroom, so - into the basket you go!
Not God but man makes pot and pan.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
A house is not known for how it looks but for the things it cooks.
Not enough salt is hardly a fault, but too much salt is a cook's fault.
Hunger breaks stone walls.
One with a plough, seven with a spoon.
The last piece of meat is especially sweet.
The first pancake is always lumpy.
All goes through the mill, and all comes out flour.
As you cook your porridge, so must you eat it.
A man with a full belly thinks no one is hungry.
It's the same old broth for dinner, only made a bit thinner.
A hungry lad would dream of bread.
This is bread and this is salt, and now be kind to speak your mind.
There is small choice in rotten apples.
Horse-radish isn’t sweeter than garden radish!
Proverbs and sayings
Every cook praises his own broth. Каждый повар хвалит свой бульон.
After supper mustard. После ужина горчица.
Tastes differ. Вкусы расходятся.
A hungry man is an angry man. Голодный человек — сердитый человек.
It is no use crying over spilt milk. Бесполезно плакать над разлитым молоком.
Dry bread at home is better that roast meat abroad. Сухой хлеб дома лучше, чем жареное мясо за границей.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. Слишком много поваров портят бульон.
You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Невозможно сделать омлет, не разбив яиц.
Before you choose a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. Прежде чем выбрать друга, съешь с ним мешок соли.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. Лучше яйцо сегодня, чем курица завтра.
То lengthen your life, lessen your meals. Чтобы продлить свою жизнь, уменьши /сократи/ свою еду.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Путь к сердцу мужчины лежит через его желудок.
Не has other fish to fry. Он жарит другую рыбу /т. е. он занят другими делами/.
First catch your hare, then cook him. Сначала поймай своего зайца, а потом готовь его.