IX. Ask your partner

1. About the dinner he usually has (time, place, dishes). 2. If he takes any starter and what he

likes for it. 3. What kind of soup he likes best of all. 4. What his favourite meat dishes are. 5. What

kinds of fish he knows. 6. If- he likes stewed carrots. 7. What other stewed vegetables or fruit he

eats. 8. What he wants for dessert. 9. How many lumps of sugar he takes with his tea. 10. If he

prefers strong or weak tea. 11. What he usually does if he spills some liquid on the table-cloth. 12. If

he can cook any dishes. 13. About the way he cooks meat (fry, roast, stew). 14. If he sometimes eats

out. 15. If he prefers eating out.

X. Compose dialogues between a Russian and an Esglish student discussing

a) English and Russian meals; b) their favourite dishes; c) where each of them has

his meals.

XI. a) Study the text:

Bread -and-Butter Pudding

Beat up two eggs and add to them one pint of milk and a little flavouring. Butter the pie-dish

and cut three slices of bread-and-butter in fingers, removing the crusts. Put a layer of bread in the

dish, sprinkle with sugar and a few cleaned currants or raisins, add more bread, fruit and sugar and

then pour over the milk and the eggs. Leave to soak for one hour, then bake in a slow oven about an

hour. Sprinkle with sugar before serving.

b) Describe the way you cook your favourite dish. You may need some verbs

besides those in the text, such as mince, mix, grate, grind, chop, sift, roll, bake.

XII. Try your band at teaching:

A. Preparation. Find 3 proverbs dealing with the topic. Translate them and give their

Russian equivalents.

B. Work in Class. Get a member of the class to write one of them on the blackboard. Make

another student translate it and give its Russian equivalent. Tell the class to think of a short situation

illustrating the proverb. Correct the mistakes. (Look up the words you may need to do the exercise in

class in "Classroom English", Section VIII.)

ХIII. a) Read the text below and comment on it:

Tea

Britons drink a quarter of all the tea grown in the world each year. They are the world's

greatest tea drinkers. Many of them drink it on at least eight different occasions during the day. They

drink it between meals and at meals. They drink it watching television. Join the Tea-V set! says one

well-known tea advertisement.

(See: Musman R. Britain

Today. Lnd., 1974)

b) What is the attitude towards tea drinking in this country?

XIV. Translate toe following sentences:

1. «Сколько раз в день вы едите? — спросил врач. ~ Регулярное питание очень важно

для здоровья». 2. Он съел полную тарелку каши, хотя говорил, что совсем не хочет есть. 3.

Сегодня в меню есть мясные блюда, тушеные овощи, сладкий пудинг, разные закуски и даже

мороженое с фруктами на десерт. 4. Сколько вам кусочков сахара? — Достаточно двух 5. Не

хотите еще немного салата? — Благодарю вас, мне достаточно. 6. Суп вкусный? — Я еще не

пробовала, он очень горячий. 7. Вы сказали сестре, чтобы она принесла чистую посуду? 8. Вы

какой любите чай — крепкий или слабый? — Не очень крепкий, пожалуйста. 9. Что сегодня

на второе? — Жареная рыба с картошкой. 10. Обед подан в столовой. И. Тебе намазать хлеб

маслом? — Да, и вареньем. 12. У нас сегодня был легкий завтрак, и после прогулки мы

проголодались. Было бы неплохо сытно поесть. 13. Он наскоро поужинал и принялся за

работу. 14. Она любит консервированные ананасы больше, чем свежие. 15. В этом доме гостей

всегда угощают совершенно особенным яблочным пирогом (apple-tart). Он необыкновенно

вкусен. 16. Ее муж любит, как он говорит, вздремнуть полчасика (take a пар) после плотного

обеда. — Это вредно для пищеварения. Ему бы лучше пройтись с полмили. 17. Ты уже

накрыла на стол? — Нет еще. Не могу найти чистую скатерть.

XV. a) Study the text:

Pubs

For many British people, the pub is the centre of their social life. People from some countries

find this rather shocking, but for most people in Britain a pub is a place with a friendly atmosphere

where they can meet their friends and talk over a drink — and often over a meal.

At lunchtime you can often get sandwiches or a plough-man's lunch (bread and cheese). In

the evening many pubs serve 'basket meals' (especially chicken and chips served in a basket) at the

bar, and some have restaurants where you can get a complete meal.

It is quite normal for women to go into pubs in Britain, but like everybody else they must

follow the licensing laws. These are very complicated and control the time pubs are allowed to open.

(See "Approaches." Cambridge 1979.)

b) Comment on the text adding some more information on the topic.

XVI. Make up dialogues:

Suggested Situations

A. Helen has invited some friends to a dinner party. She has cooked ail the dishes herself and

proudly mentions the fact. Her friends do not find everything quite to their liking, but try not to show

it. On the whole, every one is having great fun.

B, An irritable husband is sitting at dinner and criticizing his wife's cooking. He is trying to

teach her the way this or that dish should be cooked though he knows very little about it. The wife is

doing her best to defend herself.

C. A hostess is treating a lady-visitor to a meal. The visitor keeps repeating that she is on a

slimming-diet, that she never eats anything fattening and that, in general, she eats like a little bird.

Yet she helps herself to this and that very heartily, till the hostess begins watching the disappearing

food with some anxiety.

D. A slow waitress is taking an order from a hungry and impatient client. All the client's

efforts to order this or that dish are refused on all kinds of pretexts: the pork is fat; the beef is tough;

they haven't got any more potatoes in the kitchen; the ice-cream has melted; the cook has a

toothache, etc.

E. Two very young and extremely inexperienced housewives are advising each other as to the

best way of feeding their husbands. One of them is inclined to take the line of least resistance and to

serve only tinned food for all the meals. The other points out that tinned food alone will never do and

suggests other ways of solving the problem.

XVII. Brash up your table manners.

A. Answer the following questions and then check your answers by comparing

litem with the answers below:

1. What is the correct way to sit at table? 2. Should you use your fork or your knife for taking

a slice of bread from the bread-plate? 3. How should you get a slice of bread from the plate standing

on the far end of the table? 4. What is the correct way of using spoon, fork and knife? 5. How should

you cut your meat? 6. What are the dishes for which knife shouldn't be used? 7. What is the way to

eat chicken? 8. What is one supposed to do with the stones while eating stewed fruit? 9. What should

you do with the spoon after stirring your tea? 10. What should you do if your food is too hot? 11.

What should you say to refuse a second helping? 12. What should you say if you like the dish very

much? 13. What should you say if you dislike the dish? 14. What shouldn't one do while eating? 15.

Where should one keep the newspaper or the book during a meal, on the table or on one's lap?

В. Make up dialogues discussing good and bad table manners. Use the