a bottle of beer a cup of tea a glass of water
a kilo of potatoes a loaf of bread
a packet of biscuits a piece of cheese
a slice of bread a tin of peaches
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Ex. 6. Answer these questions:
1. How many meals a day do you usually have?
2. When do you usually have breakfast (lunch, dinner, tea, supper)?
3. Who does the cooking in your family?
4. Who usually lays the table for breakfast?
5. Which do you prefer, to lay the table or to cook a meal?
6. What things should be put on the table for dinner (tea)?
7. What is your favourite dish? Can you cook it?
8. What products can't we do without?
9. What do you like for the first course (the second course)?
10.What do you usually have for dessert?
11.What is your favourite drink?
12.What vegetables can you have in winter? In summer?
13.What berries are your favourite?
14.Who takes away the dirty dishes after a meal in your family?
15.What should be done with dishes after a meal?
Ex. 7. Complete the following sentences:
1. Help yourself to.... 2. The meat is.... 3. The soup lacks.... 4. Can I offer you...? 5. Will you have...? 6. May I trouble you.... 7. Will you pass...? 8. Shall I treat you...? 9. For dessert I'll have.... 10. Will you...? 11. Let's have.... 12. They serve....
Ex. 8. Name four or five kinds of:
meat dishes; soup; fruit; dishes taken for breakfast; dessert; beverages; appetizers; sweet dishes.
Ex. 9. Insert prepositions or post verbal adverbs:
1. My dinner usually consists... three courses. 2.... the first course I usually take either cabbage or mushroom soup. 3. Will you put.., plates, knives, spoons and forks? 4. He prefers coffee... tea. 5. The English are very particular... what they eat. 6. Help yourself... the cake. I think it is very tasty. 7. May I trouble you... a slice. brown bread. 8. Dick treated us... sweets. 9. Weak tea is not.... my taste. 10. May I offer... you another cup... tea? 11. Have you washed... yet? 12. They often dine... 13. He took us... the cafe "Aurora" to have lunch. 14. What will you take... the second course? I'm fond... roast chicken. As... me I prefer fish... chicken.
Ex. 10. Match the beginnings and the ends of the definitions:
| 1) Breakfast is 2) Veal is 3) Lunch is 4) Water is 5) Mutton is 6) Supper is 7) Beef is | a) the meat from a sheep that we use as food. b) a meal that you eat in the evening. c) something you drink or wash yourself in. d) the meat of a cow or bull. e) a meal that you eat in the morning. f) the meat of a calf used as food. g) a meal that you eat in the middle of the day. |
Ex. 11. Correct the false statements. Don't forget to begin your sentences with one of these phrases:
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| No, you are not right. I dont agree at all. Im afraid youre mistaken. It cant possibly be true. I dont think it is right. No, its wrong. I think its just nonsense. On the contrary. Not at all. Oh, no, it isnt so. Thats not right. | Thats wrong surely. Im afraid thats not so. Its wrong. Id like to object. I believe, it isnt so. May I make an objection? Its all wrong. Its quite wrong. Its not right. I entirely disagree. |
1. A sugar-bowl is used for keeping salt in.
2. When you clear the table you bring dishes from the kitchen.
3. Soup is served for dessert.
4. Honey is usually bitter.
5. Sugar is usually salty.
6. Coca-cola is a hard drink.
7. Cauliflower is a very beautiful flower.
8. Cucumbers are red or rosy.
9. Vinegar is used to make food salty.
10. Onion is never put in soup.
11. Pineapples should be eaten when they are unripe.
12. Porridge shouldn't be given to children.
13. English people never have toast and marmalade.
14. Pudding is a traditional Russian dish.
15. When people are hungry they drink water.
16. When people are thirsty they eat bread.
17. Eggs are never fried.
18. A pumpkin is a very small vegetable.
19. Children never have soft drinks.
20. You can grow bananas in Russia.
Ex. 12. Read the sentences and translate them into Russian:
1. There are two vegetables on the table, an onion and a garlic.
2. We grow many vegetables: potatoes, onions, beans.
3. I don't like green pepper in my salad.
4. There is too much garlic in the salad.
5. Please cut two tomatoes into slices.
6. I prefer beetroot to carrots.
7. Are there many marrows in your vegetable garden this year?
8. I like cauliflower very much. Do you?
9. Let's make tomato and cucumber salad with onion.
10. Go to the greengrocer's and buy a head of cabbage. I'm going to cook cabbage soup.
Ex. 13. Read the following definitions and guess what vegetables are described:
1. A very large dark yellow roundish vegetable that grows on the ground.
2. A soft fleshy juicy red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
3. A vegetable with a green skin, flesh and seeds used for giving a particular hot taste to food.
4. A plant rather like an onion which is used in cooking to give a strong taste to food.
5. The large green leaves of any of several plants, forming a round, oval or long head, eaten mainly as a raw vegetable in salads.
6. A vegetable with a fairly long orange-red pointed root.
7. A type of garden vegetable with green leaves around a large white head of undeveloped flowers.
8. A type of plant with a large purple fruit that is eaten as a vegetable, usually cooked.
9. A type of roundish root vegetable with a thin brown r yellowish skin that is cooked and served in many different ways.
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Ex. 15. a) Say what berries and fruit are your favourite:
Model: My favourite berries are cranberries.
My favourite fruit is a pear.
b) Say which fruits or berries you prefer:
Model: Personally I prefer peaches to apricots.
or: I like pears more than apples.
c) Read and translate these word combinations:
dates overripe bananas orange squash
dry figs black currant jam raspberry jelly
sweet pears green gooseberries pineapple juice
quince juice a small apricot a bunch of grapes
ripe peaches a bowl of fruit a big pomegranate
overripe figs sour cranberries a piece of watermelon
an apple pie sweet tangerines strawberries with cream
tasty cherries a plate of dates a basket of blackberries
unripe plums a slice of lemon a handful of red currants
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Ex. 16. Put the verbs in the correct form:
1. You (to be) hungry, (to sit down) to table. Mum (to bring) the soup.
2. Who usually (to clear) the table after supper?
3. Please (to take away) the dirty dishes. I (to be) pressed for time.
4. I'd like (to treat) you to this apple pie. I (to hope) it (to be)very tasty.
5. Let's (to have) some more mashed potatoes. I (to be) still hungry.
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7. Let's (to treat) them to some juice. I (to think) they (to be) thirsty.
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12. Who (to do) the cooking in your big family? - Our grandmother usually (to do). She (to like) it very much because she (to be) a cook when she (to be) young.
Ex. 17. Read the joke and retell it:
"When I serve dinner should I say, 'Dinner is ready' or 'Dinner is served?'" the new cook asked her mistress.
"If you cook it the way you cooked it yesterday, just say, 'Dinner is ruined,'" said the lady of the house.
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