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1. Yummy Christmas

2. What I know about food and table manners

3. In the café

4. Restaurants and food

5. Anecdotes

6. A smart boy

7. My favourite restaurant

8. Meals in Britain

9. Food

10. Fruits and vegetables

Yummy Christmas

 In Austria, at the festive table is necessarily present carp stewed with beer sauce with ginger bread, and dessert - sweet cheese pancakes in custard with caramel apricot sauce.
In England, spiced wine is served, tartlets with jam of dried fruits, plum pudding with a sprig of holly, symbolizing the crown of thorns, red berries symbolize the blood of Christ.
In the Czech Republic sweet rolls filled with poppy, dried fruit and cottagecheese are served.
In Holland, help themselves with "oil balls". These are small balls made of flour and raisins, fried in butter and sprinkled with sugar.
In Estonia the traditional Christmas dishes are stewed cabbage with blood sausage, pumpkin salad and spicy cookies.
In Italy they always eat fresh pork sausage with braised lentils.

In France, will be served foie gras, oysters and seafood, then - a goose, and at the end - a chic chocolate roll filled with chestnut cream.
In Poland, on New Year's table there are 12 dishes- carp, which is considered a symbol of family happiness, and a cake with raisins, almonds, poppy seeds and honey.
In Mexico at Christmas children are presented with figures made of papier-mache, filled with candies.

Vocabulary

1. a sprig of holly- веточка падуба

1. the crown of thorns- терновый венок

2. poppy- мак

3. dried fruit- сухофрукты

4. stewed cabbage- тушёная капуста

5. spicy- пряный

6. braised lentils- тушёная чечевица

8. chestnut- каштан 8. 11. tartlets- тарталетки

9. almonds- миндаль

10. custard- заварной крем

11. tartlets- тарталетки

What I know about food and table manners

I have usually meals four times a day. They are breakfast, lunch at the University (rare), dinner and supper.

Dinner is the substantial meal of a day. It consists of 3 courses. We can’t imagine Russian dinner without a plate of soup. The second course is meat and fish with potatoes, pasta with vegetable salad. For dessert we eat a glass of juice, compote or tea. Potatoes, pancakes, cereals are usually cooked in my family. As for me I can prepare a fried egg or a scrambled egg, make tea.

I am busy and spend much time at the University. Sometimes I eat here in the canteen or a snack bar, cafe or restaurant.

Food may be useful or unhealthy. High fat food, sweets are bad for our teeth, make us fat. Juice, fruit and vegetables, meat gives me energy, contains a lot of vitamins.

In order to stay healthy it’s important to have a balanced diet - in other words, food that contains something from each of the three main groups of food. These groups are protein, fat and carbohydrates.

English people have four meals: they are breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. In the morning they have breakfast. At 12 o’clock they have lunch. Between 4 to 5 p. m. they have tea. In the evening they have dinner.

Dinner is the most substantial meal of a day. Fish and chips is a popular traditional British dish: fish deep-fried in butter, served with chips. On Christmas they usually eat roast turkey and Christmas pudding.

Well-educated people pay a lot of attention to good table manners. They are:

1. You should sit up straight.

2. You shouldn’t eat with your fingers.

3. You shouldn’t put your elbows on the table.

4. You shouldn’t put your dirty knife, spoon and fork on your plate.

5. You shouldn’t talk with your mouth full.

6. You shouldn’t lick your fingers.

7. If you are very hungry, you shouldn’t rush to your food.

8. You shouldn’t put more than one piece of bread or cake on your plate.

9. You should say "Thank you" after the meal.

In the Cafe
A woman came into the café for a plate of soup. When it was served she looked at it and said:

“Waiter, I can`t eat this soup”.

The waiter took the plate away and brought another plate of soup.

“I think you`ll like it, madam”.

“I can`t eat this soup”.

“Why? This soup is very tasty. Why can`t you eat it?”

“Because I have no spoon!”

Restaurant Cloze

Fill in the blanks with words from the box:

appetizer bar breakfast brunch buffet

chef cook dessert dinner dishwasher

fancy fast-food lunch non-smoking salad

smoking soup tip waiter

People Who Work in a Restaurant:

The person who serves your food is called a ___________________. The person who cooks your food is called a ____________________ if it is a cheap restaurant or a _____________________ if it is an expensive restaurant. A ___________________ is somebody who washes dishes. If the food and service is good, people usually leave a __________________.

Meals and the Time of Day:

Most people eat ____________________ after they wake up. Around noon people have their midday meal, or _____________________. And ___________________ is the meal that people eat in the evening. However, sometimes, especially on Sunday, people like to sleep in, so instead of having breakfast, they eat a meal between breakfast and lunch called ______________________.

Parts of a Meal:

At lunch or dinner sometimes people order a snack before the meal called an ________________________. A __________________ or a ___________________ is often served alongside the main meal. After dinner, people sometimes treat themselves to ___________________.

Types of Restaurants: It’s nice to eat at a ___________________ restaurant, but that can be expensive. Sometimes, if you are short on time or short on money, you might go to a ______________________ restaurant because the food is cheaper and served faster. Some restaurants have a ________________________, which means you take a plate up to a table loaded with food and you can put as much food as you want on your plate. Other restaurants have a ___________________ where you can get an alcoholic drink while you are waiting for your table. Most restaurants these days have a _________________ and a _________________ section.

Anecdotes

-What's worse than finding a worm in the apple you're eating?

- Finding half a worm.

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-What goes in dry, comes out wet, and gives warm satisfaction?

-A tea bag.

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"Waiter!"
"Yes, sir."
"What's this?"
"It's bean soup, sir."
"No matter what it's been. What is it now?"

A smart boy

Once a little boy entered a shop and said to the shopman: “How much will I have to pay for ten pounds of sugar, two pounds of coffee and three pounds of butter?” The shopman took a piece of paper and a pencil, wrote something down and said: “Four dollars and fifty cents.”

Then the boy said: “How much change will you give me if I give you five dollars?’

“I shall give you forty cents,” answered the shopman.

“Thank you,” said the boy, “I don`t want to buy anything. It is my homework for tomorrow, and I cannot do it myself.”

My Favourite Restaurant

I like to eat out and I go to a (1)_________ for dinner twice a week.

I (2) ___________with my husband, Bill.

Our (3) _________ restaurant is an Indian restaurant in Cleveland Street in Surry Hills. It is not very big (4) ________ it is always busy. There are only a (5) ________ tables in the restaurant and there is a white (6) _________ on each table.

There is also a vase with (7) ________ flowers on each table. There are plants in the (8) _______. We usually (9) ________ hot curries and eat them with rice. The food is (10) _________ so we enjoy it very much. The service is (11) _________ and friendly.

Bill and I always have a (12) _________ evening at our favourite restaurant.

These are words to choose from:

favourite tablecloth go few corners delicious order restaurant pleasant but quick lovely

Meals in Britain

A traditional English breakfast is a very big meal-sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms… 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 other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting!

For many people lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of sandwich 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, cheep 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.

“Tea” means two things. It is a drink and a meal! Some people have afternoon tea with sandwiches, cakes and, of course, a cup of tea. Cream teas are popular. You 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 p. m. 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, vegetables 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.

VOCABULARY

Look at the word search below. There are seventeen words connected with food. They go across and down. Find them and write them here. The words begin with these letters.

M___________ B____________ C___________ C ___________ R____________

F___________ B____________ V___________ Y ___________ P ____________

E __________ G____________ S ___________ B ___________ H ____________

J __________ L ___________

L	C	Y	P	N	C	R	I	S	P	S	M
A	V	Z	O	B	P	B	A	N	A	N	A
M	U	S	T	E	A	K	N	B	T	R	R
B	Z	Q	A	M	O	Y	R	Y	J	A	M
K	G	F	T	G	H	O	D	F	G	H	A
B	A	C	O	N	F	G	R	A	P	E	L
H	J	K	F	I	S	H	T	Y	U	I	A
H	O	N	E	Y	B	U	B	R	E	A	D
R	A	S	D	F	G	R	Z	K	L	P	E
I	B	V	E	G	E	T	A	B	L	E	I
C	Z	X	C	V	B	N	M	L	P	G	J
E	W	E	C	E	R	E	A	L	B	G	U

FOOD

 

            Let’s talk about food. Everyone knows the importance of food. And it is also important what food to expect when you go abroad.

In the USA, there is food that is considered typically American. For example, barbecues in nice weather. It means that people eat outside, and the meal is grilled. At the traditional barbecue, there are hamburgers and hot dogs, although nowadays there are steaks, chicken, and fish. There is also corn, potato salad, and Cole slaw (cabbage salad). And let’s not forget beer and other drinks.

If people go to a barbecue in summer, what do they eat during winter or if the weather is not nice? Well, for breakfast, cereal with milk is popular. Some enjoy a heavier breakfast with eggs, bacon, and toast. Lunch is generally a light meal, like a sandwich, and dinner is the main meal. In the USA, a lot of chicken is eaten, as well as all kinds of meat and fish. Eating out is very common, especially in large cities where everyone is always in a hurry. There are many restaurants that offer take-out food, so you can eat at home.

If you are still hungry there are many kinds of desserts. Apple pie is the most traditional and typical dessert. That’s why there is the expression: “ As American as apple pie.” 

What else? Americans love fast food. It’s food that you can get quickly at restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King, and others like that. The man or woman at the register can ask you, “For here or to go?” Which means “Would you like to eat in this restaurant, or would you like to take the food home?”

So, you know something about food in the USA. Welcome to America!

 

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