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MEALS
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1. jam ;
2. honey
3. ham ,
4. sausage
5. fried eggs
6. porridge ()
7. scrambled eggs , -
8. break
9. canteen
10. roast
11. cutlets
12. abundant
13. dessert
14. beet
15. mushroom
16. meat
17. vegetables
18. pork
19. veal
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21. chicken
22. meal ;
23. sugar
24. boiled
25. fried
26. marmalade , ;
27. instead of
28. juice
29. biscuit
30. poultry
31. carrot
32. bean ;
33. pudding ,
34. cream
35. cabbage
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MEALS
People in different countries have different ideas about what is good to eat and what is the best diet for them. So, we live in a country where breakfast is a very rich meal. We have not only a roll with butter, jam or honey, but ham or sausage and fried eggs or porridge for breakfast.
In the morning I have my typical breakfast. It may be a cup of tea with some sandwiches or scrambled eggs with milk.
Lunch is not very popular in our country but when we have some breaks at the University called windows we have lunch in our University canteen. We may take fried fish, roast meat, cutlets, beefsteak with potatoes and different salads. For dessert we may take compote, tea with lemon, ice-cream or fruit.
The main and the most abundant meal of the day is dinner, but as we are students its better to call it supper. A full typical dinner consists of soup, a main course and a dessert. My favourite soups are: red beet and mushroom soups. For the main course I usually have some meat or fish, potatoes and vegetables. The most typical meat is a pork or veal chop or chicken. Some other dishes are different kinds of salads.
As for the British, there are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and consists of porridge with milk and salt or sugar, eggs boiled or fried, bread and butter with marmalade or jam. Some people like to drink tea, but others prefer coffee. Instead of porridge they may have fruit juice, or they may prefer biscuits.
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The usual time for lunch is 1 o'clock. This meal starts with soup or fruit juice. Then they have some meat or poultry with potatoes, carrots and beans. Then a pudding comes. Instead of the pudding they may prefer cheese and biscuits. Last of all is coffee black or white. Some prefer juice or lemonade.
Tea is the third meal of the day. It is between 4 or 5 o'clock, the so-called 5 o'clock tea. On the table there is tea, milk or cream, sugar, bread and butter, cakes and jam. Friends and visitors are often present at tea.
Dinner is the fourth meal of the day. The usual time is about 7 o'clock, and all the members of the family sit down together. Dinner usually consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables potatoes, green beans, carrot and cabbage, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice-cream or cheese and biscuits. Then after a talk they have black or white coffee.
This is the order of meals among English families. But the greater part of the people in the towns and nearly all country-people have dinner in the middle of the day instead of lunch. They have tea a little later between 5 and 6 o'clock, and then in the evening, before going to bed, they have supper.
Exercises
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1. What do we call a meal-time? 1. One of the several parts of a meal.
2. What do we call a sandwich? 2. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper
3. What do we call a course? 3. Two pieces of buttered bread with
something between them.
4. What do we call meals? 4. Usual time for taking a meal.
5. What do you say if you want to have 5. I am hungry as a hunter.
another cup of tea?
6. What do you say when you are very 6. Pass me the salt, please.
hungry?
7. What do you say if there is not enough 7. May I ask you for another cup of
salt in the soup? tea?
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1. Students may have dinner at .
2. Dinner consists of .
3. For dessert we may have .
4. I'm hungry as .
5. The salt is too far from me, .
6. May I ask you for?
3. why, where, when, who, what, :
1. do you have dinner? I have dinner in the canteen. 2. do you usually have dinner? I usually have dinner at two o'clock. 3. do you usually have for dinner? I usually have chipped potatoes and a cup of coffee. 4. do you do after dinner? I go to the reading hall. 5. do you have dinner in the canteen? I have no time to go home. 6. can you have dinner at home? I can have dinner at home on Sundays. 7. is coming to the canteen? I am.
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1. When do you have breakfast?
2. What do you have for breakfast?
3. When do you have dinner?
4. Where do you have dinner?
5. What do you usually have for dinner?
6. What kind of soup do you prefer?
7. What do you usually have for the main course?
8. What do you like to have for dessert?
9. What kind of vegetables do you like?
10. Do the English keep to their meal times?
11. How many meals a day do the English usually have?
12. What are these meals?
13. What is the usual English breakfast?
14. At what time do the English have lunch?
15. What do they usually have for lunch?
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16. Where do they have their lunch?
17. At what time do the English have dinner?
18. What do they usually have for dinner?
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1. get to know ,
2. restaurant
3. occasion ,
4. wedding
5. anniversary ; ;
6. customer
7. relaxed atmosphere
8. eating out
9. feeling of London
10. the Ritz ( )
11. to be in fashion
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BRITISH RESTAURANTS
When a man and a woman want to get to know each other better, they often go out to a restaurant together. After all, it's easier to talk in a quiet atmosphere with soft music, wine and good food. Most British families go to restaurants only on special occasions, like birthdays or wedding anniversaries. The restaurants' best customers are business people, who meet in them to talk business in a relaxed atmosphere away from the telephone. They can eat what they like because the company pays the bill.
For visitors to London, eating out can be fun. But if you want that special feeling of London, go to the Ritz in Piccadilly for tea any afternoon at about half past four. And you'll see that the prices are very high. Then you can try England's favourite food fish and chips. Take it away and eat where you like in the park, on the bus or while you walk down the street.
British restaurants have not always been famous for their good food. Too often, they offered only fried food and chips with everything. But now healthy food is in fashion.
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1. Where do the British men and women go when they want to get to know each other better?
2. When do British families go to a restaurant?
3. Why do businessmen prefer to go to restaurants?
4. Do the businessmen pay the bill?
5. Are the British restaurants famous for their food?
6. What do they often offer a customer?
7. What can you tell about the Ritz?
8. What is the Englishmen's favourite food and where can you eat it?
9. Is healthy food in fashion now?
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Dialogues
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AT DINNER
Mother: Glad to see you, Pete. We are going to have dinner. Will you join us?
Pete: Thank you, very much. I'm not hungry as I've had a late breakfast.
Mother: What did you have for breakfast?
Pete: Boiled eggs, a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea.
Mother: Dinner is ready. Take your seat, please. For the first course I'll give you cabbage soup.
Pete: Oh, it is to my taste.
Mother: Help yourself, Pete. Do you want a piece of ham? I think it is tender today. Here is a very nice piece.
Pete: Oh, it is so delicious. Thank you very much, Mother. I think I'll help you to wash up the dishes.
AT A RESTAURANT
Nick: Is this table free, waiter?
Waiter: Yes, sir. The menu, please.
Nick: Well, Mary, are you hungry?
Mary: I'm not very hungry. I think I'll have some meat with vegetables and something for a sweet.
Waiter: What do you wish, sir?
Nick: Please, give us roast beef, salad, mushrooms, two coffees and ice-cream.
Waiter: Will you have anything to drink?
Mary: Mineral water and a bottle of wine, please.
Nick: What have we to pay, waiter?
Waiter: Here is the bill.
Nick: Thank you very much.
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1) A.: - I want some coffee, please.
B.: - I haven't got any coffee. Would you like some tea instead?
: - Yes, please. I'll have some tea.
: tea, milk, lemonade, beer.
2) A.: - Shall I bring you some tea now?
B.: - No, bring me some coffee instead.
: orange juice, cornflakes, wheat flakes, bacon and eggs, sausages and eggs.
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3) A.: - I want some bananas, please.
B.: - I haven't got any bananas. Would you like some apples instead?
: - Yes, please. I'll have some apples.
: plums, oranges, pears, apricots, peaches.
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a menu, what would you like to start with?, will you have , the main course, let me see, to hate, I'd rather, for a change I'll start with and have , to have the same, what will you have to follow?, can I have the bill?
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1. Hungry as a hunter. .
2. The fat is in the fire. .
3. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. , .
4. As the tree, so the fruit. .
