Read the text and compare meals in England and in our country

Text 1. Meals in England

Additional texts for reading

Exercises

1. Answer the questions on the text:

1. Does Oleg like shopping and why?

2. What are the rules to be rational and economical?

3. What shops does he usually go to?

4. What is the difference between a self-service and non-self-service shop?

5. Where does he put the food while going round the supermarket?

6. What does he buy at a grocery‚ butchery‚ bakery‚ confectionery‚ dairy?

7. Why does he go to a department store?

8. Which method of shopping do you like most of all?

2. Ask your friend:

– if he (she) likes do shopping;

– how often he (she) makes expensive purchases;

– if there is a big choice of goods in the Torgovy Dom store;

– how much a TV-set (a computer‚ shoes‚ smoked meat) costs;

– what he (she) buys on a friend’s birthday;

– what shops there are near his (her) house;

– if the prices are high in the shop near your house;

– what kind of clothes he (she‚ mother‚ father‚ brother‚ sister) prefers: sport or elegant.

3. Name the following by one word:

1. What do we call a person who sells goods (does shopping‚ to whom you pay money)?

2. What do we call a place where you do shopping (pay for your goods‚ try on clothes‚ the goods are displaced)?

3. What do we call the department (shop) where ready-made clothes (shoes‚ face creams‚ milk‚ meat‚ bread‚ vegetables) are sold?

4. Be ready to speak about:

– the shops in your street;

– a self-service shop;

– your usual shopping round;

– at your favourite department.

Study the following vocabulary before reading the texts:

tea – плотная еда с чаем

well-to-do (= well off) – cостоятельный, зажиточный

When we cook, we boil, roast, fry or stew our food. We boil eggs, meat, chicken, fish, milk, water and vegetables. We fry eggs, fish and vegetables. We stew fish, meat, vegetables or fruit. We roast meat or chicken. We put salt, sugar, pepper, vinegar and mustard into our food to make it salted, sweet, sour or simply tasty. Our food may taste good or bad or it may be tasteless.

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 cornflakes 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 can hardly be called a meal. It is a substantial meal only in well-to-do families. It is between five and six o’clock. It is rather 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. But in great many English homes, the midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening there is usually a much simpler supper – an omelets, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.

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