- beer vine - cognac champagne vodka
Fruits
- apple apricot banana cherry currant grapes - gooseberry raspberry - strawberry lemon water- melon orange peach pear pineapple plums tangerine walnut chestnut date raisin
6. Seasoning and spices
- margarine - sunflower oil salt, pepper vinegar baking powder flower mayonnaise
What Do They Eat?
1. For breakfast
a) sandwiches
b) eggs (bacon and eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs)
c) cereals (cornflakes)
d) dairy produce (yoghurt, cheddar cheese)
e) toast with marmalade
2. For lunch
a) for the first course: -meat with vegetables
-fish and chips
-chips and sausages (plain and butter)
-ham
-Yorkshire pudding, cottage pie
-barbecued meat
-vegetables (beans, peas,
lettuce, celery)
b) for dessert: -plum/ jam/ rice/ pudding
3. For their afternoon tea
- pastries: -a cheese/ plum/ chocolate cake
-a doughnut
-a strawberry tart
-an apple pie
4. For dinner
a) for the first course: -chicken broth, beef tea, vegetable soup
b) for the second course: -meat with vegetables
5. Supper
| Vocabulary Practice |
1. Enumerate (as many as you can)
- kinds of meat
- kinds of fish
- fruits
- vegetables
- dairy produce
- dishes with eggs
- pastries
2. Make sure you can answer the following questions:
- What did you have for breakfast/ dinner/ supper yesterday?
- What are you going to have dinner/ supper today?
- Whats your favourite fruit/ vegetable/ kind of fish/ first course/ second course/ desert?
- What do you like having for dinner/ supper?
- What dishes do you cook?
3. Odd Man Out
- In each of these lines, theres one word should be not there. Can you find it and explain why you think so?
- butcher, greengrocer, baker, newsagent;
- orange, potato, apple, grape;
- kitchen, bedroom, garage, dining-room;
- gin, vodka, whiskey, lemonade;
- pear, biscuit, plum, cherry;
- carrot, vegetable, cabbage, egg-plant;
- beef, lamb, egg, pork;
- noodles, beefsteak, fish, chop;
- cornflakes, porridge, poultry, rice.
Stories and Dialogues
1. Breakfast
They say, breakfast should be substantial, but I dont
like to have breakfast. I prefer a cup of tea or cocoa with a couple of sandwiches. Sometimes I have coffee in the morning, but not very often. I have it white. My mother likes eggs for breakfast, but not me. I like neither boiled nor fried eggs. On Sunday when I take it easy, I like a toast with butter and honey. But my favourite Sunday breakfast is cold meat with mustard, or ham with brown bread.
2. Dinner
Dinner is my most substantial meal. Usually I have a four-course dinner. I like to have vegetable salad for an appetizer or herring with oil and onions. Cabbage soup is my favourite first course. I have it with sour-cream and brown bread. But sometimes I have chicken soup
or broth with rice. I prefer meat to fish for the second. I like fried or stewed meat with gravy and mashed potatoes or boiled vegetables. If I have fish for dinner I have it fried with chips and green peas. I'm very particular about my dessert. In summer I have stewed fruit or fruit juice. In winter I prefer to have hot strong and sweet tea with lemon if there's some.
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Tea
Englishmen like to have tea at five o'clock. So do I. think it does you good as you can have a very light supper after five-o'clock tea. I usually make my tea myself and like to lay the table for it. I like to have tea with lemon and sugar. My mother prefers hers with jam or marmalade.. Very often we have tea with honey and buttered toasts. On Sunday my mother or we bake something to a chat a cake or a pie. We like to have a chat over a cup of strong nice tea.
At Lunch
Vocabulary Notes:
tempt
I must have put on pounds as it is. .
You have hardly eaten anything. .
Just take it to please me. , .
or I shan't have any room for the pudding. .
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-You must have some -Wouldn''t you like
more chicken. to finish up the
-No, thanks. I'm slimming. omelette?
-Can't I tempt you? -No, really, thank
-Well, may be I could you. I just couldn't
manage a very small piece. eat any more.
-Come on, now.
Surely you can
-No, thank you
really, I must have
put on pounds as it is.
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-Another piece of meat -Do you have the rest of
pie? the mashed potato?
-No, thanks, really, I'm -No, thank you, I have
on a diet. had too much already.
-Please, do. You have -Just take it to please me.
hardly eaten anything. OK, but only a small
-It's delicious, but I piece, or I shan't have any
don't think I ought to. room for the pudding
NOTE: Although the correct name for the midday meal is ''lunch'', many English families call it ''dinner''.
To complicate matters further, the mid-morning break of coffee and biscuits is also called ''lunch''. English people do not wish each other ''Good appetite''.
An English Restaurant
- Can we take this nice table for two?
- No, I'm sorry, you can't. It's reserved. Come over here, please. You'll be very comfortable at this table. Here is the menu card.
- Thank you very much. Give us some time to look it through.
- Of course. (in some minutes) have you made the choice?
- I'll start with soup and have a beef steak to follow.
- Do you prefer the beef steak underdone or well-done?
- I like it tender.
- As for me, I had meat for my main course yesterday, so I'll have fish for a change.
- Will you have any dessert? What would you like?
- Fruit salad and ice cream for me.
- I'll have the same. And I'll take a cup of coffee. Won't you have one also?
- Yes. Make it two. That'll be all, I suppose.
- What do we have to pay, waiter?
- 69 euros and 20 cents, sir.
- Here you are. (Give a 100 note.)
- Here is your change 30 euros and 80 cents.
- Forget 80 cents.
- Thank you. Goodbye.
III. THE WAY YOU COOK
Vocabulary
1. to lay the table
-to spread the table cloth
-to put smth. down
2. Grockery and Cutlery
-bowl salad/ fruit/ sugar bowl
-plate butter/ meat/ soup/ deep plat
-dish butter/ meat dish
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-coffee pot/ cup
-saucer
-water/ milk jug
-soup tureen, soup ladle
-salt cellar
-pepper/ mustard pot
-frying pan, cooking pan
- tea kettle/ pot
-spoon soup/ dessert/ tea spoon
-knife fish/ butter/ caviere/ carving knife
-fork
-tray
3. taste: salty, sweet, hot, sour, bitter, spicy
smell: strong, appetizing
way of cooking: to roast, to fry, to boil, to barbeque,
to bake, to grill, to stew
| Vocabulary Practice |
Make sure you can answer the following questions:
- Can you lay the table properly?
- What do you need to lay the table for breakfast/ dinner/ tea/ supper?
- Have you tried your hand in cooking?
- What was the first dish you cooked?
- How often do you cook for yourself?
STORY
The Brown's Dining Room
In the dining-room we have our meals: breakfast in the morning, lunch In the middle of the day, and supper or dinner in the evening.
Here you see Mr. and Mrs. Thomson who've just arrived from abroad and are having dinner with the Browns. The host, Mr. Brown, is sitting at the head of the table, and the hostess, Mrs. Brown, is at the other and, Mr. and Mrs. Thomson are sitting on either side, facing each other.
The dining-room table is covered with a white cloth. Mrs. Brown has laid the table In the usual way, and has put the right number of knives, forks, spoons and glasses for each person. There's also pepper and salt, oil and vinegar, and mustard. On the left of each person is a table-napkin and a plate with a roll on it. In front of the host there's a carving-knife and fork.
On the sideboard the Browns usually have a bowl of fruit: apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, oranges or bananas, according to the season. The mistress of the house has just served the soup. After this there'll be fish, meat or poultry with vegetables, then a sweet, and perhaps cheese and biscuits to finish with.
Comprehension Questions:
1. Who is having dinner with the Browns?
2. Where are the host and hostess sitting?
3. Who has laid the table?
4. What is there on the table?
5. What are they having for dinner?
Discussion Questions:
1. Is the table laid correctly?
2. Do you lay the table in the same way or not?
3. Do you always lay the table like that or only when you have guests coming?
Group Activities
1. Brush up your table manners.
A. Answer the following questions and then check your answers by comparing then with the answers below:
What is correct way to sit at table?
Should you use your fork or your knife for taking a slice of bread from the bread-plate?
How should you get a slice of bread from the plate standing on the far end of the table?
What is the correct way of using spoon, fork and knife?
How should you cut your meat?
What are the dishes for which knife shouldn't be used?
What is the way to eat chicken?
What is one supposed to do with the stones while eating stewed fruit?
What should you do with the spoon after stirring your tea?
What should you do if food is too hot?
What should you say to refuse a second helping?
What should you say if you like the dish very much?
What should you say if you dislike the dish?
What shouldn't one do while eating?
What should one keep the newspaper or the book during a meal, on the table or on one's lap?
B. Make up dialogues discussing good and bad manners.
Use material of Section A for questions and that of Section for answers.
Answers to Section A:
It tastes (really) fine or It is delicious.
Never eat the stones (trying to be overpolite). Neither would it be a good idea to dispose of them dropping them under the table, placing them in your pocket or in your neighbour's wine-glass. Just take them from your mouth on your spoon and plate them on your own saucer.
Nowhere near the table. Reading at one's meals is a bad habit: it is bad for your digestion and impolite towards others sitting at the same table.
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Sit straight and close to the table. Don't put your elbows on the table. Don't cross your legs or spread them all over the place under the table.
Never lean across the table or over your neighbours to get something out of your reach. Just say: Please pass me the bread or Would you mind passinh the bread, please
Nothing. Keep your impressions to yourself and don't embarrass your hostess.
Fish dishes are usually eaten without using knife. If one does, it is considered to be a serious breach of good table manners. The same refers to rissoles, cereal and, in general, to anything that is soft enough to be comfortably eaten with spoon or fork.
Neither. Your hand quite correct for getting a slice of bread for yourself. And after all, it is you who is going to eat it.
While eating, one should produce as little noise
or sound as possible. It is decidedly bad manners
to speak with your mouth full. Don't put your bread In your soup. Don't pour yuor tea In your saucer. Don't leave much on the plate: it is impolite towards your hostess. If you have liked the dish, it doesn't follow that you should polish the plate with your bread.
Don't hold your spoon In your flat, don't tilt it so be to spill its contants. The fork should be held In your left hand, the knife In your right.
It is wrong first to cut all the meat you have got on your plate In small pieces and then eat it. Cut off a slice at a time, eat it, then cut off another, holding your knife In the right hand and your fork In the left.
No more, thank you.
Cut off and eat as much as possible by using your knife and fork: the remaining part eat holding the piece In your hand by the end of the bone.
Never cool your food by blowing at it. Just wait a bit, there's no hurry.
Don't leave your spoon In the glass while drinking. Put it on your saucer.
2. What would you say about the following questions?
Some people eat to stay alive, while for others eating In a hobby. Do you enjoy your food? Are you careful about your food or do you eat what you enjoy?
Homes are not just places, and when we invite people into our homes what happens in one country can be very
different from what happens in another.
In what happens in your country and In England the same when you ask somebody for dinner?
You have invited guests for dinner. What time would you invite them? If you invited them for that time, what time would you expect them to arrive: before that time, after it or exactly at that time?
Would you expect them to bring a gift with them? If so what sort of gift?
When they arrive would you offer them anything to drink before the meal?
If somebody who was invited for dinner brought a box of chocolate, would you open it during the evening or not?
What do you think the men guests will wear?
If you invite guests to your home (for dinner), what time would you expect them to leave?
When would the guests thank you for the meal, during it or after it? On the same day or later?
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