Do not attract undue attention to yourself in public. Choosing a meal can be a problem sometimes because dishes are called unknown foreign names. Do not guess - ask the waiter to help you.
When eating take as much as you want, but eat as much as you take. Do not eat too fast or too slowly, cut as you eat.
Sit up straight and face the table, do not put your elbows on the table while eating. Do not reach across the table - simply say: "Would you please pass the salt," etc.
There is no rule about eating everything on your plate, to indicate that you have had enough place knife and fork together, not criss-cross. When refusing a dish or a helping simply say: "No, thank you," when accepting - "Yes, please."
Do not leave the spoon in your cup, when drinking tea or coffee. Do not empty your glass too quickly - it will be promptly refilled.
6. Study following words and word-combinations:
elbow
to cut
to attract
to reach across
to refuse
to accept
to empty
to refill
to guess
undue
criss-cross
promptly
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7. Questions:
1. How must you sit at the table?
2. When you cannot reach something on the table what must you do?
3. How do you indicate that you have had enough?
4. When you do not wish a dish what do you say?
5. When you want some more what do you say?
6. Who can help you to choose the meal?
8. Speech Patterns:
1. Will you please show (bring) us the menu?
Will you please bring me another glass (plate, spoon)?
Will you please lay the table for four?
Will you please show us to the table I have reserved?
2. What would you recommend for lunch (the first course)?
What would you offer for a good dinner?
What would you offer for the sweet (soft drinks)?
3. I'd like to have my coffee black.
I always have my fruit juice iced.
I usually have my tea strong.
I'd like to have my steak a bit underdone.
I want you to serve my soup hot.
4. What about an omelette? No, I'd rather have bacon and eggs.
What about a good steak? No, I'd rather have some chicken.
What about a cake? No, I'd rather have a piece of pudding.
What about a glass of milk? No, I'd rather have a glass of fruit juice.
5. As to the steak, it was a bit overdone.
As to the coffee, it was quite cold and tasted like petrol.
As to the fish, it was a bit oversalted (undercooked, half-raw).
As to the meat, it was not very fresh and badly cooked.
Memorise these dialogues. Practise them in pairs changing the text.
1. I'd like This, This and This
Rogov: May I sit here?
Waiter: Yes, you may sit at this table or that one if you prefer.
Rogav: Can I see the menu?
Waiter: Here it is, slr! Will you order now?
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Rogov: Yes, I'm, short of timeJ ld1ike to have this this one and this.
Waiter: You mean the steak, don.'t you? Howdo you like it, rare, medium or -?
Rogov: Quite rare, please. As for the vegetables: Id like some potatoes, cabbage and carrots. Waiter: Do you want your coffee black or with milk?
Rogov: Black, please.
Waiter: Very well, sir. I won't be long,
The Soup Was Stone Cold.
Waiter: Well, anythfng else, sir?
Rogov: Thank you. Everything is all right, but
Waiter: But... what?
Rogov: This steak, it's overdone and rather tough.
Waiter: I'm terribly sorry, sir.
Rogov: And... the cabbage, It's simply uneatable. As to the soup, it was stone cold.
Waiter: Oh, I'm very sorry. Perhaps 1 should take the steak back, sir?
Rogov: 1m afraid you'll have to.
3. There's Nothing like Roast Saddle of Mutton
Pavlov: Waiter!
Waitress: Yes, sir. Can I have your order?
Pavlov: Will you please bring me the menu?
Waitress: Of course, Here you are.
Pavlov: Oh, you have quite a long list of dishes. Well, what would you recommend for the 1st course?
Waitress: You memean soups? I think there is nothing like chicken soup. It's our cook's (chefs) speclality.
Pavlov: Indeed? All right then: chicken soup. What kind of ggrill would you recommend?
Waitress: Oh, if you want to have a fine mea, order roast saddle of mutton, I think you'll enjoy it. Well, what about the sweet, sir? A cup of coffee, cakes, apple juice, ice-cream?
Pavlov: Just bring me a glass of Juice Hnd a cake, please.
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Pavlov: Waiter, my bill, please. How much is it?
Waiter: Here you are, sir. Two pounds and 70 pence, please.
Pavlov: Here is 5 pounds, please.
Waiter: Here is your change.
10. Make up your dialogues, using the table:
A talk at the table
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8. MEDICINE AND HEALTH
1. Read and learn new words:
To be healthy
To get illness
To consult a doctor
To look after
To give medical treatment
To receive medical treatment
To describe the symptoms of the illness
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To prescribe the treatment ()
To write out the prescription
To strip to the waist
To listen to heart and lungs
To feel the pulse
To take the temperature
To measure a blood pressure
To test the sight
A cough
A cold
A flu
A sore throat
Measles
Mumps
Chicken pox
Scarlet fever
Whooping cough
To prevent illness
To cure illness
Chemists shop
2. Read and translate the text:
Medicine and Health
Good health is better than the best medicine.
And if your health is good, you are always in a good mood. If you want to be healthy you should go in for sports and keep yourself fit.
But if something is wrong with our health we must consult a doctor. A doctor is a man who looks after people who are ill. He gives them medical treatment.
People who are receiving medical treatment are called patients. If you dont feel well you should consult a doctor. If you feel too ill to go to the doctors you will have to send for him.
The doctor asks you to describe to him the symptoms of your illness. He asks you to strip to the waist, listens to our heart and lungs, feels our pulse, takes the temperature and measures our blood pressure. Finally he will prescribe the treatment and write out the prescription. Doctors prescriptions are made up by the chemist.
But if the illness is serious you have to go to the hospital where they have all the
necessary equipment.
If our teeth need attention we have to go to the dentist. A dentist is a doctor who cares of peoples teeth.
When our eyes are ill we go to the oculist who will test our sight and write out a
prescription for glasses.
If we have a stomach-ache we have to go to the therapeutist.
The common illnesses are: a cough, a cold, a flu, a sore throat. Children often get measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever and whooping-cough. You may also have a toothache, a headache and a stomach ache.
Things used to prevent or cure illnesses are: medicine, pills, powders, injections,
bandages, antiseptics, tablets.
We can get them and other patient medicines at the chemists shop.
3. Answer the questions:
1. What is better: good health or the best medicine?
2. When your health is good you are always in a good mood, arent you?
3. Do you want to be healthy?
4. Do you go in for sports?
5. When do you have to consult a doctor?
6. Does the doctor treat patients?
7. Do you describe the symptoms of your illness to the doctor?
8. What does the doctor do when he wants to examine you?
9. The doctor writes out the prescription, doesnt he?
10. What do you do with this prescription?
11. Who do you consult when you have a toothache?
12. Who do you consult if your eyes are ill?
13. Who do you consult if you have a stomach-ache?
14. Who do you consult if you caught cold?
15. What things are used to prevent illness?
16. What do you feel when you have the flu?
17. How long does it take you to recover from a cold? (a splitting headache, a cough)
18. Do you always follow the doctors prescriptions?
19. Have you been sick this year?
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5. Read and translate the text:
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The Health Service
The level of medical service both in Britain and the USA is very high. Health care is free in England (except private Health care) and every employed citizen is obliged to pay a weekly amount of money to the national health service. The sum necessary to run medical services 
is very high and a large part of it comes not from weekly payments but from taxes.
Health Care is very expensive in the USA. Everything must be paid for. For example, in the USA if you turn to a city hospital, you should pay at least $50. Separately you will pay for a consultation, minimum $5060 for a visit. Medicine will cost you a minimum of $1520. You need a prescription to purchase many drugs in American drugstores.
If you are a foreigner, you can get medical service free of charge in medical institutions attached to different charities and religious organizations. The National Health Service (NHS), UK, provides free medical treatment for visitors from the EU and Commonwealth countries and to visitors from other countries with reciprocal health arrangements. An NHS prescription costs £ 5.25 at present.
