Meals in Britain

Read the text, explain the words and phrases in bold as in the example.

Before reading

Answer the following questions:

1. Which are your favorite foods/drinks?

2. Which are vegetables/meat/fruit/sweets?

3. When do you eat breakfast/lunch/dinner?

4. How often do you eat vegetables/fruit/sweets?

5. Which of the foods/drinks can you have for breakfast/lunch/dinner?

Read the sentences, then listen and match the number to the letters.

1. The usual British meals are

2. The evening meal is

3. Traditional breakfast is

4. For many people lunch is

5. Afternoon tea means

a) a quick meal.

b) the main meal of the day for many people.

c) two things.

d) a very big meal

e) breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper.

Meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion.

The usual British meals are breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper.

Traditional breakfast is a very big meal - sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. But nowadays many people just have cereal with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Marmalade and jam are not the same! Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting!

English breakfast Fish and chips White-Chocolate&Strawberry-Pudding

For many people lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of bars, where office workers can choose the kind of bread they want - brown, white, or a roll - and then all sorts of salad and meat or fish to go in the sandwich. Pubs often serve good, cheap food, both hot and cold. Schoolchildren can have a hot meal at school, but many just take a snack from home - a sandwich, a drink, some fruit, and perhaps some crisps.

Afternoon tea means two things. It is a drink and a meal! Some people have afternoon tea with sandwiches or cakes. Cream teas are very popular. You may also have scones (a kind of cake) with cream and jam.

The evening meal is the main meal of the day for many people. They usually have it quite early, between 6 and 8 pm, and often the whole family eats together.

On Sundays many families have a traditional lunch. They have roast meat, either beef, lamb, chicken, or pork with potatoes and gravy. Gravy is a sauce made from the meat juices.

The British like food from other countries, too, especially Italian, French, Chinese, and Indian. People often get takeaway meals - you buy the food at the restaurant and then bring it home to eat. Eating in Britain is quite international.

Look through the text; make some necessary notes to talk about traditional British food.

Read the sentences, then listen and write T (for true) or F (for false).

1. First of all the guest of Kazakhstan family regaled with kumiss shubat or airan, next meal was tea with milk or cream, baursaks, raisins, irimshik, kurt.

2. The main meal of every dastarkhan and one of the most delicious for Kazakh people was Kazakh style grilled meat.

3. The most honorable guest received particular method cooked head of the ram.

4. Kumiss and tea were the first dishes of the meal.

5. Today Kazakh meal is the same as the old one and still it is not imbued with ancient laws of hospitability.

6. Kazakhstan cuisine doesn’t include any other dishes.

7. During its long history Kazakhstan people didn’t gather a huge experience in cooking dishes from meat and milk.

8. The most popular Kazakhstan national foodstuff is milk.

9. Kazakh people placed high emphasis on long-term storage of foodstuff.

10. Every family had cast-iron cauldron (kazan) for cooking.

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