- •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
4. Say if the phrases below are true or false:
If the phrases are false If the phrases are true
correct them using the following: agree with them using the following:
No, you are not right. Yes, it’s really so.
I entirely disagree. It’s true, I believe.
I don’t agree at all. I think you are right.
I’m afraid you’re mistaken. I agree with you.
It can’t possibly be true. I can’t agree more.
I don’t think it is right.
No, it’s wrong.
I think it’s just nonsense.
On the contrary.
Not at all.
Oh, no, it isn’t so.
That’s not right.
That’s wrong surely.
I’m afraid that’s not so.
It’s wrong.
I’d like to object.
I believe, it isn’t so.
May I make an objection?
It’s all wrong.
It’s quite wrong.
It’s not right.
Arthur and Don Anderson went to a small town for enjoyment.
They had to stay the night at their friends'.
They didn't have to eat in the hotel.
Don Anderson remarked that they usually didn't serve good food at hotels like that.
Arthur said there were a lot of places where they could have a meal in that town he waiter said there was good roast beef on the menu.
Arthur ordered the roast beef but Don Anderson refused to have it.
Don Anderson was trying to put on some weight.
The waiter assured Arthur that he could have both Scotch salmon and trout.
Arthur liked Dover sole.
The waiter said he would bring Dover sole at once.
Arthur agreed to have roast beef in the end.
5. Paraphrase using the words and phrases from the text:
to be a guest at a hotel for a time to become thinner for sale in this season
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to offer food for eating a list of dishes in a meal to ask for something to be brought in return for payment
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6. Fill in the blanks with the pronouns some, any, anything, somewhere, anywhere:
We can't eat ... else.
Can we eat ...?
They haven't got ... salmon on the menu today.
He says he is trying to lose ... weight.
Are you trying to lose ... weight?
If I can't have ... peaches, I'd like ... apricots.
Have you got ... tasty on the menu?
Can't you have a meal ... else? - I'm afraid there isn't ... else inthis village.
Is there ... soup for dinner today?
I'd like ... mashed potatoes with ... meat to begin with. - Sorry, we haven't got ... except hot tea оn the menu.
7. Transform the dialogue into indirect speech. Vary the reporting verbs (to ask, to wonder, to want to know, to remark, to greet, to agree, to object, to murmur, to be in doubt, to hesitate, to suppose, to tell, to say) :
Model: Don wonders if they can eat somewhere else, as there are very few small hotels that serve good food.
8. Retell (he conversation in the person of: a) Arthur, b) Dun Anderson, c) the waiter.
9. Translate the word combinations into English paying special attention to the prepositions:
по делу в отеле в меню на десерт |
за обедом на первое на работу за столом |
с работы на работе на рассвете в продаже |
зависеть от в этот время года отправиться в большой город |
10. Translate into English in writing:
Разве мы не можем поужинать в шесть часов?
Разве мы не можем пообедать пораньше?
Разве ты не можешь позавтракать вовремя?
Здесь очень хорошо кормят.
В этом кафе плохо кормят.
Официант уже идет к нашему столу.
Неужели официант не может подойти к нашему столу?
Мне бы хотелось заказать обед. Что вы можете порекомендовать?
Что у вас в меню? Я вижу, что у вас в меню есть ростбиф, но я предпочитаю бифштекс.
10. Я не хочу картошки, дайте мне, пожалуйста, салат из моркови.
11. Хотите картошки? Боюсь, что у нас больше ничего нет.
12. Мне бы хотелось немного лососины. - У нас сегодня нет в меню лососины. Возьмите форель, она очень свежая.
13. Что вы предпочитаете, форель или камбалу? - Форель, она вкуснее.
14. В это время года в продаже мало рыбы.
15. В продаже много капусты в это время года?
16. Она никогда не ест мяса, она говорит, что предпочитает рыбу.
17. Дайте мне попробовать яблоко из вашего сада. Да, ваши яблоки гораздо лучше наших. Наши слегка горчат.
18. Пришло лето, ешьте больше овощей и ягод.
19. Давайте купим арбуз на десерт. Говорят, они в этом году сочные и сладкие, слаще, чем в прошлом году.
Section II.
1. Dramatize the dialogue with a fellow student paying special attention to italicized words:
AT A RESTAURANT
John: Mr. Smith:
John:
Mr. Smith:
John:
Mr. Smith:
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How is your beef? It's fine. Very tender. My meal is very well cooked. I must remember the name of this place. How's your lunch? It's delicious. The vegetables are especially tasty; not undercooked but still firm and with a bite, you know? But you are not eating any bread. Nothing wrong with it, is there? No, no. It's just as I like it – fresh and with a lovely chewy texture. And the beer has a good rich flavour too. What about a pudding now, and a coffee to finish? I love the old-fashioned English dishes they do here. You know the sort of thing, with lots of thick, smooth custard. No, I don't think I will, thank you. I've had quite enough of this delightful food – to eat any more would just be greedy.
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2. Answer the questions using the italicized words from the conversation:
What do you say if you are having beef and you like it?
How should vegetables be cooked to be delicious?
What bread do you like?
What puddings do English people like?
What do you say if you like the food you are eating?
3. Here are the antonyms of the words which are italicized in the dialogue "At a Restaurant". Reread the conversation so that it sounds highly critical of the meal:
awful; tough; badly cooked; disgusting; tasteless; overcooked; soft; mushy; stale; with a texture like cotton wool; a poor, watery flavour; thin, lumpy; appalling
4. Translate the word combinations into Russian. Then use them in sentences of your own:
a badly-cooked meal; tough mutton, disgusting lunch; tasteless vegetables; overcooked carrots; soft and mushy beets; stale bread; watery milk; thin, lumpy custard; appalling food
5. Imagine that you've come to a cafe or a restaurant. One of you likes the food, the other doesn't. Discuss your dinner using the words from the dialogue "At a Restaurant".
6. Make up short dialogues: a) between a waiter and a customer; b) between two friends having dinner at a restaurant.
7. Suggest a recipe of your own, write it down:
8. Imagine that you are visiting a restaurant. Make up a conversation using the vocabulary given below:
Arriving |
We'd like a table for four, please. We have a table for three reserved in the name of ... Where can I leave my coat? Do you have an area reserved for non-smokers? I'd like a table near the window. We'd like something to drink while we look at the menu. What aperitifs have you got? Do you have a vegetarian menu? |
Ordering |
We're not ready to order yet, thank you. Please can we order now? Are your vegetables fresh or frozen? What is in season at the moment? What is the chef’s speciality? Does this dish contain pork (cheese, fish...)? May I see the wine list, please? Do you have non-alcoholic drinks? I'd like some fish with white sauce. |
During the meal |
I ordered steak but you've given me veal. This soup is almost cold; could you reheat it, please? Could we have some more bread, please? I'd like some iced water. Could I have another knife (this one is dirty). What are the desserts on the trolley? Is this cheese local? Do you have decaffeinated coffee? Could you let me have a packet of cigarettes, please? Can we have some vinegar (white pepper), please? |
At the end of the meal |
Can I have the bill, please? Keep the change, please. My compliments to the chef. |
9. Work in small groups. Choose one of the following situations and design a suitable meal. The meal should consist of at least three courses.
For a friend of yours and her new boyfriend. The boyfriend is vegetarian.
For a romantic evening.
For a hot summer's day.
For a friend who's on a diet.
For a child's sixth birthday party.
When you have finished, read out your menu to the rest of the class and ask them to guess which situation you chose.