British food

A glimpse of Great Britain.

World origin

Read the article without a dictionary, try to retell it.

At leisure

Practise the translation of such sentences.

1. The equipment you are speaking about is in great demand on the world market.

2. The chief engineer I wanted to speak to was not available at that time.

3. The articles I was going through were in English.

4. The day we wanted to reserve for our talks wasn’t quite convenient to some of our firms.

5. I didn’t like the book my friend had recommended me to read.

6. The information we were discussing was very useful for us.

7. That day we had no opportunity to see the engineer I was to go on business.

8. The reports the auditor prepares annually should be available to the shareholders.

9. Each consumer looks for different qualities in the products they buy.

10. We know management includes such components as planning,
organizing and coordinating.

VIII. Supply the correct forms of the verbs (§11). Translate the sentences.

1. Such primary goods as steel, timber, minerals (to be) very important in economy. 2. This information is too outdated, if it (to use) in analysis of the present-day situation. 3. Like physical capital, human capital (to be) important enough to indicate economic development of a nation. 4. The problem is that demand (to be) practically limitless and the resources for producing goods (to limit) in supply. 5. Simplified models of economic units (to use) in macroeconomics analysis. 6. For efficient business all production costs (to minimize). 7. Every manager (to know) labour efficiency in his enterprise before preparing a report. 8. The European economy of the 2020s (to be) very different from that of Europe we (to know) for the last decades.

Purse: made from hide

The purse in which a modern girl carries her change, keys, compact, and dozens of other things has as its ancestor the Greek word bursa meaning «leather, skin, or hide». Since purses are often made out of leather the equivalent Latin word filtered into French meaning purse or the money in the purse. English adopted the word as purse familiar to us. 128

2. Translate the proverbs, think of Russian equivalents, give
a situation using them.

— A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

— An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

Britain is famous all over the world for its gardens, dogs, villages, buses, cars, private schools, the Queen, sports like football and cricket, Parliament. You have read about some of these things in articles or in books. However, not so much has been written about the wonderful food that can be found in Britain. British food has at various times of history been the envy of Europe.

People who visited from other European countries said that nowhere else could you find such tender juicy steaks, such luscious thick-cut mut­ton chops, huge prime pieces of beef and famous pies.

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