Dialogue 3. A: Do you know what day is it today?

Dialogue 2

Dialogue 1

A: Hi, Mike.

B: Hi, Jane.

A: Do you know what day is it today?

B: Of course, today is Easter.

A: You’re right, it is the day of Christ’s resurrection.

B: Look, there’s the Easter bunny. He has a lot of sweets and colored eggs in his basket.

Q: Mathew, what are the biggest holidays in the USA?

M: I think, there are, probably, two holidays, that are often considered the two most special family holidays. Thanksgiving is one of our biggest holidays. It occurs on the last Thursday of the month of November.

Q: I can't but ask about Christmas shopping fever.

M: The day after Thanksgiving -Friday - is also a day off for most people, and they begin Christmas shopping on that Friday. And it's become a ritual.

Q: How long does Thanksgiving weekend last?

M: So, Thanksgiving weekend - it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, - all those days people are off. That becomes a big holiday period.

Q: Mathew, what is the second biggest holiday?

M: The second largest holiday, I think, maybe, even bigger, is Christmas. Christmas is considered one of the biggest holidays.

Q: Can you tell us about other holidays? For example, do people have the days off on other holidays?

M: Well, not everybody gets those days off, for example, Veterans' Day, Columbus Day. The only ones, who get those days off, are usually people, who work for the government and postal office workers. Columbus Day is never a day off. Veterans' Day is not a day off. The Presidents' day, which is what we have a holiday now, we used to have a holiday for George Washington's Birthday and Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

Jerry: Look, Flora! I got a Christmas card from my sister.

Flora: It's very beautiful. Why are the words "Happy Holidays" written on the card? Christmas is only one holiday. Shouldn't it be "Happy Holiday", without the "s"?

Jerry: We don't just celebrate Christmas during this season. We also celebrate the coming of the New Year.

Flora: Oh, I never thought about that before. There's more than one holiday at the end of the year.

Jerry: Now that I'm in China, I want to celebrate the holidays Chinese-style. What do you and your family do for Christmas?

Flora: Actually, we don't do much at Christmas. It's not really a big family holiday. Young people in China would rather spend Christmas Eve with their boyfriends or girlfriends.

Jerry: So is it something like a date night?

Flora: Yes, I guess you could say that. Christmas Eve is special, but we don't usually have any special plans for Christmas Day.

Jerry: Don't people give gifts to each other like they do in the U.S.?

Flora: Many parents do give gifts to their kids. But more importantly, boyfriends give wonderful, special, romantic gifts to their girlfriends!

Jerry: I see. How about the New Year in China? Is it a bigger holiday than Christmas?

Flora: Not really. We don't celebrate it because the Spring Festival is much more important to us here in China.

Jerry: The Spring Festival is known around the world as "Chinese New Year". It's the beginning of the year according to the traditional lunar calendar, isn't it?

Flora: That's right. The Spring Festival is the biggest family holiday in China, so we don't celebrate the western New Year. How about in New York? Do people celebrate New Year's Eve more or New Year's Day?

Jerry: There are two kinds of people who celebrate quite differently. Single people, or couples without children, often go out late on New Year's Eve. They drink and party after the clock strikes midnight. There are big parties all over, but the biggest is in Times Square in Manhattan.

Flora: I guess they won't have much energy left over to do anything on New Year's Day, then.

Jerry: Right. But there are families who don't do anything special on New Year's Eve. Instead, they celebrate with their families on New Year's Day.

Flora: What do they do on New Year's Day?

Jerry: They have a big meal to celebrate and often watch parades in the big cities. The parades are quite spectacular.

Flora: It sounds a little bit like our traditional Lion Dance.

Jerry: Yes, it's a lot like the Lion Dance, except there is no lion!

Exercise 12. Make up your own dialogues with these proverbs and expressions.

· So many countries, so many customs

· Customs is a second nature

· to sing carols	· to be proud of tradition
· to have different traditions in celebrating holidays	· to watch the Queen’s Christmas broadcast on TV
· to take the fortune	· to decorate houses with …
· to swim in the ice hole	· Boxing day

UNIT 10

TRADITIONAL MEALS IN BRITAIN

Proverbs and sayings

Appetite comes with eating.	Аппетит приходит во время еды.
You are what you eat.	О вас судят по тому, что вы едите.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.	Ешь по яблоку в день и врачу не будет работы.
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.	Ешь вволю, а пей в меру.
A hungry belly has no ears.	Голодное брюхо к учению глухо.

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TRADITIONAL MEALS IN BRITAIN [8]

The usual meals in Britain are: breakfast, lunch, tea and supper. Breakfast is generally a bigger meal than they have on the Continent, though some English people like a continental breakfast of rolls, butter and coffee. But the usual English breakfast is porridge or cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade made from oranges with buttered toasts and tea or coffee. For a change, you can have a boiled egg, cold ham or, perhaps, fish.

People in Britain generally have lunch about one o’clock. A businessman in London usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes out to a café or restaurant; but if he is making lunch at home, he has cold meat (left over probably from yesterday’s dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles with a pudding of fruit to follow. Sometimes people have a mutton chop or beefsteak and chips followed by biscuits and cheese, and some people like a glass of light beer with lunch.

Afternoon tea you could 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 with cake or biscuit. It will probably surprise you that the mistress of the house may ask you: “Would you like Russian or English tea?” “Russian tea” means tea with a slice of lemon in it. “English tea” means very strong tea with milk in it.

In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. In a great many English homes people make the midday meal the chief one of the day and in the evening they 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.

Some people also have “high tea”. They say there is 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. They have it between five and six o’clock, and have ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad or sausages with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, then stewed fruit, with cream or custard and pastries or a good cake. And that’s what an Englishman calls a good tea.

When evening meal is over, the Englishman may do a little gardening and then have a walk to the “local” (the nearest beerhouse or pub) for a “quick one”. There are a lot of people in the “local” and he can play darts, dominoes, billiards or discuss the weather or the local events.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

a traditional meal	традиционная еда
a continental breakfast	континентальный завтрак
a roll	булочка
porridge	овсянка
cornflakes	кукурузные хлопья
cereal	зерновые хлопья
cream	сливки
a buttered toast	обжаренный кусок хлеба с маслом
a boiled egg	вареное яйцо
ham	ветчина
a restaurant	ресторан
left over from yesterday’s dinner	оставшийся от вчерашнего обеда
pickles	маринованные овощи
a pudding of fruit	фруктовый пудинг
a mutton chop	отбивная из баранины
beefsteak	бифштекс
biscuits	печенье
a sociable sort of thing	зд.: повод для общения
an omelette	омлет
sausages	колбаса
bacon and eggs	яичница с беконом
“high tea”	плотный ужин с чаем
tongue	язык
strong tea	крепкий чай
stewed fruit	консервированные фрукты
custard	сладкий заварной крем
pastries	печенье
to have a walk to the “local”	пройтись до местного паба
“quick one”	пинта пива, т.е. кружка пива

Answer the questions.

1. What do people eat for breakfast in Britain?

2. When do people generally have lunch? What do people eat for lunch?

3. What is afternoon tea?

4. What is the main meal of the day? What does it consist of?

5. What do people in Britain eat for the midday meal and supper?

6. What is “high tea”?

7. Is there any difference between Continental and English breakfast?

8. What does “local” mean?

9. What do usually Englishmen do in “local”?

10. What is the latest English meal?

Exercise 1 Choose the necessary words from the box and put them in the sentences below:

dinner, beefsteak, an Englishman, sociable sort of thing, steak, a boiled egg, beer, drink, “high tea”, mutton chop, lemon

1. Some people also have ….

2. Sometimes people have a … or … and chips followed by biscuits and cheese, and some people like a glass of light beer with lunch.

3. Afternoon tea you could hardly call a meal but it is a … as friends often come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea with cake or biscuit.

4. For a change, you can have …, cold ham or, perhaps, fish.

5. And that’s what an … calls a good tea.

6. How do Englishmen call tea with…?

7. The main meal is …, it is between 6 and 7 p.m.

8. The most common … served is …, called ale, bitter or stout.

Exercise 2. Are the following sentences true or false? Give your arguments.

1. The Englishmen never have tea with lemon.

2. You may go out for lunch with your colleagues.

3. People in Britain generally have lunch about one o’clock.

4. Bacon and eggs is traditional English breakfast.

5. In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day

6. Now people do not have enough time to eat so much at breakfast and they usually just have a bowl of cereal and toasts.

7. Dessert is usually served at the beginning of a meal.

Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences and put special questions to them.

1. In common with other West European countries the British diet has changed over the last 20 years.

2. At breakfast time it is usual to expect cereal and toast with jam.

3. British are more prepared to experiment with different styles of cooking.

4. The main family meal of the week tends to be on Sunday lunch.

5. This is an occasion for the family to get together to talk and relax in comfortable, friendly atmosphere.

Exercise 4.Use these sentences as the topics for your dialogues. Dramatize them with your partner.

1. English breakfast is generally a bigger meal than people have on the Continent.

2. Businessmen often find it possible to have lunch in the restaurant.

3. Afternoon tea you could hardly call a meal but it is a sociable sort of thing.

4. Some people also have “high tea”.

Exercise 5. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1. Континентальный завтрак состоит из булочек с маслом и кофе.

2. Традиционный английский завтрак состоит из каши или кукурузных хлопьев со сливками, яичницы с беконом и тостов с маслом.

3. Лондонский бизнесмен идет на обед в кафе примерно в час дня, поскольку не может поехать домой обедать.

4. На обед англичане обычно едят котлету или бифштекс с жареной картошкой, салатом и маринованными овощами.

5. Вечером после обеда англичане любят посидеть в пабе и выпить пива.

6. Послеобеденный чай – скорее повод для общения, чем трапеза.

7. Обед или плотный ужин с чаем – главная трапеза английского дня.

8. С кофе или чаем англичане обычно съедают тост с маслом и сыром или джемом, печенье или пирожное.

9. Англичане не пьют чай с лимоном. Такой чай они называют «русский чай».

10. В пабе не только пьют пиво. Там можно вкусно поесть, поиграть в домино, шахматы или в биллиард.

Exercise 6.Discuss the following problems in the group.

1. Vegetarians have found the secret of long and healthy leaving.

2. Are old traditions in having meals worth keeping?

Exercise 7. Speak on the topic “English meals”.

Exercise 8. Learn the following words and word combinations and use them in your dialogues.

Eating at home	Еда дома
(not) to feel much like cooking	(не) любить готовить
to lay the table	накрывать на стол
to put on a little weight	прибавлять в весе
to eat for dinner (breakfast, supper)	есть на обед (завтрак, ужин)
to put it in the refrigerator	положить в холодильник
to be too expensive to eat out	слишком дорого, чтобы есть вне дома
to do smb. any harm	наносить вред кому-либо
it’s time for high tea	время для вечернего чаепития
a proper meal	основной прием пищи
What’s for breakfast?	Что на завтрак?
Help yourself (to some more).	Угощайтесь!
Eating out	Еда вне дома
I don’t feel much like cooking.	Я не люблю готовить.
to be sick and tired of restaurant food	быть сытым ресторанной едой
spicy [‘spaisi]	острый, пряный
to eat out	есть не дома
it’s my treat	я угощаю
lunch is on me	ланч за мой счет
to book a table	заказывать столик
to use chopsticks	пользоваться палочками
to have a snack	перекусить
What food would you like to have?	Что бы ты хотел?
I’m starving.	Я умираю от голода!
How about having dinner together?	Поужинаем вместе?
to have a wide choice of smth.	иметь широкий выбор чего-либо
What would you like to order?	Что бы вы хотели заказать?
What’s today’s special?	Какое сегодня фирменное блюдо?
Enjoy your meal!	Приятного аппетита!
Today’s main course is …	Главное блюдо сегодня...
Would you like to have a starter?	Вы хотели бы перекусить?

Exercise 9. Read, translate and dramatize the dialogues.

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