Theme: English meals and dishes
Plan:
1. Write down an essay on the given topic” English mealsanddishes.”
Recommendations: Read the given topic and make your essay. Rewrite the unknown words, look up them in the dictionary, read them correctly, translate them and try to understand the material. Pay attention to the content and grammar.
THE USUAL MEALS IN ENGLAND
The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner or, in simpler houses, breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. For breakfast English people mostly have porridge or corn-flakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade with buttered toast and tea or coffee. For a change they can have a boiled egg, cold ham or fish.
English people generally have lunch about one o’clock. At lunch-time in a London restaurant one usually finds a mutton chop, or steak and chips, or cold meat or fish with potatoes and salad, then a pudding or fruit to follow. Afternoon tea hardly can called a meal. It is substantial meal only in well-to-do families. It is between five and six o’clock.
In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. Dinner-time throughout England is about seven o’clock in the evening.
2. Say what you have for breakfast (dinner, supper).
3. Situations:
a) What will you answer and do if you are hungry (you’ve just had your dinner; you can’t stay as Mother is waiting for you)?
b) What will you ask your neighbor to do if you want him to give you something you can’t rich?
c) What will you say if you want to make somebody eat something?
d) What questions will you ask a friend of yours if you meet him or her in the refreshment room?
4. Play the game «Proverbs».
5. Give antonyms of these words:
tender, overdone, sour, substantial meal.
6. Answer the following questions.
What meals do you have every day? Where do you have breakfast (lunch, dinner)? What do you call the spoon to stir tea with? Why do you put sugar into our tea? What must we do with meat before cokking it? What do you call two pieces of buttered bread with cheese or meat between them? What do we eat meat with? Do you prefer to eat meat when it is well done or overdone? What do we sometimes do with vegetables before cooking them?
7. Make up dialogues, using the following expressions and phrases.
a) Cooking Dinner:
1) I need your help badly. There is so much to do;
2) Try the potatoes with a fork;
3) Mash the potatoes with butter when they are soft;
4) May I trouble you for …?
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5) No trouble at all;
6) Open the tins;
7) Find the mincing-machine;
8) Clear the peelings off the table.
b) At Dinner:
1) The meat is tender (tough);
2) It lacks salt;
3) It is tasty;
4) … have (has) a poor (good) appetite;
5) To ask for more …;
6) Try some jam with the pancakes;
7) They go well with jam;
8) Well, how did you find the dinner?
9) It was really fine.
c) Having Guests:
1) Make yourself at home;
2) What do you say to …;
3) Well, I don’t mind;
4) Help yourself to …
5) I’d like another helping of …;
6) Thanks a lot;
7) Some more …?
8) Yes, just a little, please;
9) Would you like …?
10) I shouldn’t mind;
11) Another cup …?
12) No, thanks. That’ll do.
d) In the Refreshment Room:
1) a service-counter;
2) dairy products;
3) to have a bite (a substantial meal);
4) The tables are laid;
5) The dishes are jn the table;
6) to pay money;
7) to be handed a dish in;
8) to look at the menu;
9) There is no self-service;
10) to clear away the plates and cups.
8. Make up situations, using the following expressions:
1) to be invited to a party;
2) to see the New Year in;
3) to be dressed in;
4) to be invited to the table;
5) to wish a Happy New Year.
9. Write a letter to your friend describing a birthday party. Use the following expressions:
To be invited; to decide not to go; to change jne’s mind; to come in time; to enjoy greatly.
10. Make up sentences in the passive, using the words and expressions given below:
beetroot soup, broth, cabbage, cake, carrots, chips, ham, macaroni, meat, noodle soup, onion, pastry, pie, porridge, potatoes, rice soup, roll, sausages, semolina:
to be added, to be baked, to be boiled, to be cooked, to be cut into slices, to be dressed, to be fried, to be mashed, to be peeled, to be poured out, to be roasted, to be scraped, to be stewed, to be stirred, to be underdone, to be well done.
11. Answer the following questions.
What kinds of vegetables do you know? Which of them can be scraped (peeled)? When do peaches (apples, grapes, etc.) get ripe? What aue your favourite dishes? Which of them can you cook? What must you do if you want to cook mashed potatoes (stewed vegetsbles, buckwheat porridge, roasted meat and broth)?
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New Words and Expressions
Kipper –копченная рыба
Tinned salmon [‘sәemәn] – консервированная лососина
Pineapple –ананас
Custard – заварной крем
To rinse- промывать
To infuse (draw) tea- заваривать (настаивать) чай
12. Listen to the text and retell it.
AN INVITATION TO TEA
Strictly speaking, tea is not a meal at all, but a meal at all, but a suitable occasion for a chat over one’s cup of tea. There are two kinds of tea in England, “afternoon tea” and “high tea”. Afternoon tea takes place between three-thirty and four – thirty and consists of tea,however, is a substantial meal and is eaten between five – thirty and six- thirty by family it will consist of ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad, or a kipper or tinned salmon, with strong tea, bread and butter, followed by stewed fruit, or tinned pears, apricots, or pineapple with cream, or custard and cake.
Tea making in England is an art. The hostess first of all rinses the tea-pot with boiling water (this is called “warming the pot”) before adding four or five teaspoonfuls of tea. The amount of tea varies, of course, according to the number of people present. The pot is then filled with boiling water and covered by a tea–cosy to allow the tea to infuse (draw) for five minutes. English people seldom put lemon juice in their tea.
13. Situations
a) Remember the last time you had guests. What did Mother give them for dinner? Did you help her?
b) You have to prepare dinner. Tell us what you will buy and cook.
c) You are laying the table.
d) Imagine that you are going to cook breakfast as Mother is out. What will you do and say to your little sister who is helping you?
e) You’ve just come home and you are going to have dinner. What will you do, eat and tell your mummy about your school life?
f) You’re at the school refreshment room. Speak to your friends and to the woman who serves at the counter.
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g) Your family is going to have supper. Have a talk with them on any topic you like.
h) Imagine that today is your birthday and all your friends will come to your birthday. What will you do? What will you treat your friends to?
Literature:
1. L.Diment, “Brush Up Your Talk”, Мoscow, 1972
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4. Т.И. Матюшкина-Герке, «Английский язык»;
5. Христорождественская Л.П., Минск «Харвест» 199 Англ язык. Практический курс
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9. English-Russian Dictionary/ Russian-English Dictionary
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