Exercise 3. Now compose a similar dialogue and act it in pairs.
Now read and translate the text.☺Pay attention to the new vocabulary below.
The usual meals are breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper. Breakfast is generally a bigger meal than you have on the Continent, though some English people like a "continental" breakfast of rolls and butter and coffee. But the usual English breakfast is porridge or "Corn Flakes"with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade (made from oranges) with buttered toast, and tea or coffee. For a changeyou can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or perhaps fish.
We generally have lunch at about one o'clock. A businessman in London usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or restaurant; but if I am making lunch at home I have cold meat (left over probably from yesterday's dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding or fruit to follow. Sometimes, we have a mutton chop, or steak and chips, followed by biscuits and cheese, and some people like a glass of light beer with lunch.
Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal, but it is a sociable sort of thing, as friends often come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuit.
In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. We had rather a special one last night, as we had an important visitor from South America to see Mr. Priestley.
We began with soup, followed by fish, roast chicken, potatoes and vegetables, sweet, fruit and nuts. Then we went into the sitting room for coffee and cigarettes.
But in my house, as in a great many English homes, we make the midday meal the chiefone of the day, and in the evening we have the much simpler supper — an omelette, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
But uncle Albert always has "high tea". He says he has no use for these "afternoon teas" where you try to hold a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread and butter about as thin as a sheet of paper in the other. He's a Lancashire man, and nearly everyone in Lancashire likes high tea. They have it between five and six o'clock, and they have ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad, or sausages, with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, then stewed fruit, or a tin of pears, apricots or pineapple with cream or custard and pastries or a good cake. And that’s what they call a good tea.
(from C.E. Eckersley)
What does English breakfast usually consist of?
What can you say about English lunch?
What is the difference between “afternoon tea” and “high tea”?
What do you know about dinner in Britain?
What do they call a good tea in Britain?
Learn the following words by heart. ☺
Baking
Bread (white, brown, rye)
Loaf of bread
Fresh bread
Stale bread
Roll
Bun
Rusk
Pie
Croissant
Pudding
Biscuits / cookies
Sponge cake
Cake
Plumcake
Pastry
Meat
Ham
Pork
Beef
Veal
Mutton
Beefsteak
Mince
Sausage
Fat
Frankfurter / frank
Hot dog
Chop
Cutlet
Doughnut
Liver
Heart
Tongue
Tender meat
Tough meat
Fat meat
Lean meat
Hamburger
Poultry
Turkey
Chicken
Goose
Duck
Dairy products
Milk
Cream
Sour cream
Cottage cheese
Cheese
Boiled egg
Fried eggs
Omelette
Youghurt
Butter
Margarine
Mayonnaise
Grocery
Cereal
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
Mustard
Vinegar
Oil (sunflower, olive)
Celery
Pumpkin
Nuts
Almond
Cashew nut
Nutmeg
Berries
Strawberry
Raspberry
Gooseberry
Cranberry
Blackberry
Hard drinks
White wine
Sparkling wine
Red wine
Whisky
!!! Study the following expressions of the topic under consideration.
Breakfast may consist of…
Menu includes
For the first (second) course…
For dessert
What do you recommend?
What’s your favourite dish?
Where can we get a quick meal?
Can you tell me if there’s a restaurant around here?
Is the service at this restaurant good?
I am hungry / I am starving.
I am thirsty.
Menu, please.
What’s the house speciality?
What shall we start with?
Would you like a refill?
Won’t you have some more?
Help yourself.
With pleasure.
I prefer wine to sherry.
Please, pass me the salt
The meal is tasty / delicious.
I am satisfied / full
May I have the bill?
I’ll treat you.
It’s on me.
Have a pleasant meal! Enjoy!
To your health!
I am an immense / great eater.
I am a small eater.
Who’s going to stand treat?
I’d like to have a bite.
How is it cooked?
This meat dish is perfectly cooked.
It is underdone (overdone, halfdone).
Cake is fatting.
I’ll die from overeating.
I don’t care for fish (meat) in any shape or form.
Appetite comes with eating.
To spoil one’s appetite
Eat smb. out of house and home
The belly has no ears.
Сніданок може складатися з …
У меню є …
На першу (другу) страву …
На десерт
Що Ви порадите взяти?
Якою є Ваша улюблена страва?
Де можна швидко поїсти?
Чи не могли б Ви мені сказати, чи є тут ресторан недалеко?
Чи у цьому ресторані добре обслуговування?
Я зголоднів / помираю з голоду.
Я хочу пити.
Меню, будь-ласка.
Які у Вас фірмові страви?
З чого почнемо?
Чи налити ще?
Чи не хочете ще?
Пригощайтеся.
Із задоволенням.
Я надаю перевагу вину над хересом.
Будь-ласка, передайте мені сіль.
Страва смачна / дуже смачна.
Я ситий.
Рахунок, будь-ласка.
Я пригощаю.
Я сплачую.
Смачного!
За Ваше здоров’я!
У мене гарний апетит.
У мене поганий апетит.
Хто пригощає?
Я хотів би перекусити.
Як це приготовано?
Ця м’ясна страва чудово приготована.
Вона недосмажена (пересмажена, недоварена).
Від торта товстішаєш.
Я помру від обжерливості.
Я не їм рибу (м'ясо) ні в якому вигляді.
Апетит приходить під час їжі.
Зіпсувати апетит
Проїдати всі харчові запаси
Соловейка казками не нагодуєш.
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