Exercise 5. Translate the following useful advice. New words

Removing Inedible Items from Your Mouth

1. Olive pits: drop delicately into your palm before putting them onto your plate.

2. Chicken bone: use your fork to return it to the plate.

3. Fish bones: remove with your fingers.

4. Bigger pieces: bigger bones or food you do not appreciate you should surreptitiously spit into your serviette (napkin), so that you can keep it out of sight.

Foods You Can Get by Hand

1. Bread: break slices of bread, rolls and muffins in half or into small pieces by hand before buttering.

2. Bacon: if there’s fat on it, with a knife and fork; if it is crisp, crumble it with a fork and eat with your fingers.

3. Finger meals: follow the cue of your host; if finger meals are offered on a platter, place them on your plate before putting them into your mouth.

4. Foods meant to be eaten by hand: com on the cob, spareribs, lobster, clams and oysters on the half shell, chicken wings and bones (in informal situations), sandwiches, certain fruits, olives, dry cakes and cookies.

Exercise 6. PROVERBS AND SAYINGS TO MEMORIZE

1. After dinner sit/sleep a while, after supper walk a mile.

2. Old friends and old wines are best.

3. To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth.

4. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.

5. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

Exercise 7.*** GIVE IT A NAME

1. It is meat from a pig. The meat is salted and sometimes smoked.

2. The thick part of the milk that you can whip to put on cakes.

3. It is meat from a pig.

4. It is a kind of food which is used to sweeten other food and drinks.

5. It is sliced bread made brown and crisp by heating.

6. It is a finely cut meat mixture put into a skin.

7. It is a floury mixture that can be cooked to make pastry or bread.

8. It is a kind of sweet that you chew but do not swallow.

9. It is a small fruit with a thin dark red or yellow skin. It has a large stone it the middle.

10. When you do it, you put something into a liquid and leave it there.

11. It is a food made with flour and baked in an oven.

12. When people do it, they cook food in a pan with hot fat or oil.

13.When you do it, you mix a liquid inside a container with something like a spoon.

Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Present Simple или Present Continuous:

1. Mother (to cook) very tasty soups. 2. Nick (to make) breakfast every morning. 3. I can’t speak to you now as I (to do) my homework. 4. They (not to watch) TV at the moment, they (to read) newspapers. 5. I usually (to have) dinner after work. 6. My parents (to have) dinner now. 7. You (to cook) every day? 8. You (to cook) meal now? 9.I (not to drink) coffee now. I (to write) a composition. 10. Look! The baby (to sleep). He always (to sleep) after dinner.

Exercise 2. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Past Simple или Past Continuous:

1. When my sister (to wash up) yesterday, she (to break) a cup. 2. Mother (to have) breakfast at 8 o’clock yesterday. 3. I (to have) dinner at the restaurant last Sunday. 4.When I (to prepare) breakfast in the morning, I (to cut) my finger. 5. He (to cook) meat soup last Monday. 6. When her grandparents (to come) to visit her last Monday, she (to cook) meat soup. 7. When I (to open) the door, my friends (to sit) at table and (to have) dinner. 8. When Nick entered the bar, the barman (to stand) behind the counter and (to make) cocktails. 9. When he (to phone) me, I (to have) tea with my friends. 10. I (to prepare) dishes for the evening party the whole yesterday’s afternoon.

Exercise 3. Образуйте Participle I и Participle II от следующих глаголов:

to cook — готовить, ... — готовящий, ... — приготовленный

to boil — кипятить (кипеть), ... — кипящий, ... — прокипяченный

to fry — жарить, ... — жарящий, ... — зажаренный

to read — читать, ... — читающий, ... — прочитанный

to order — заказывать, — заказывающий, ... — заказанный

to add — добавлять, ... добавляющий, ... — добавленный

to use — использовать, … — использующий, … - использованный

to recommend — рекомендовать, … — рекомендующий, … - рекомендованный

Exercise 4. Переведите предложения на английский язык, используя Participle I и Participle II:

• 1. Я увидел на кухне сестру, готовящую обед. 2. Суп, приготовленный сестрой утром, был холодный. 3. Положите очищенные овощи в кипящую воду. 4. Девушка, заказывающая обед, попросила принести жареную осетрину. 5. Я предпочитаю отварное мясо.
• 1. Готовя это блюдо, я использовал говядину. 2. Официант, обслуживающий наших гостей, очень вежлив. 3. Он сидел у окна и глядел на играющих детей. 4. Друзья обедали, обсуждая новости дня.
• 1. В комнате они увидели накрытый стол. 2. Продукты, купленные женой, он положил в холодильник. 3. Чтобы приготовить этот салат, вам понадобятся соленые огурцы и отварные овощи. 4. В нашей семье все любят жареный картофель. 5. Копченую и вареную колбасу я обычно покупаю в специализированном магазине.

Exercise 5. Прочитайте по ролям, заменяя подчеркнутые слова другими:

Family Dinner

Joan: I’m so hungry. Have you set the table yet?

Mother-in-law: Yes, I have.

Joan: Is dinner ready?

Mother-in-law: Yes, it’s ready. Look at the table.

Joan: The table looks perfectly and the smell is wonderful.

Mother-in-law: Will you have some soup?

Joan: Yes, thank you.

Mother-in-law: We have roast beef for the main course.

Joan: I like the way you make it.

Mother-in-law: I know. Here are some boiled potatoes for you.

Joan: Will you pass me the pepper, please?

Mother-in-law: Here you are. Let me give you a little more roast beef.

Joan: Yes, thank you. It is really very good.

Mother-in-law: Will you have a cup of coffee?

Joan: Yes, thank you. With great pleasure.

Mother-in-law: Shall I put milk and sugar in it?

Joan: No, thank you, I don’t like coffee with milk and sugar.

Making Cabbage Rolls

Jane: Most of all I like cooking salads. What about you?

Olga: As for me, I prefer making meat dishes.

Jane: What did you cook last?

Olga: I made cabbage rolls last Sunday for my sister’s birthday party. It’s her favourite dish.

Jane: Can it be called golubtsy?

Olga: Yes. Both of these names are for the same dish.

Jane: I like it too. Do you boil cabbage leaves?

Olga: I place whole head in a large kettle with boiling water and boil it 2 — 3 minutes.

Jane: And how do you prepare the filling?

Olga: I saute meat with onion, add rice, eggs, salt and pepper, place three tablespoons of this mixture on each cabbage leaf and wrap it.

Jane: And what kind of mixture do you pour over the cabbage rolls?

Olga: I mix tomatoes, bouillon, sugar, salt and pepper.

Jane: Do you cook them in oven?

Olga: Yes, about one hour, turning occasionally.

At Table

Hostess: Won’t you have another helping of salad?

Guest: Thank you, I’ve had a good helping of it.

Hostess: You haven’t eaten any meat.

Guest: No, thanks. I don’t eat meat. I’m vegetarian.

Hostess: You are a poor eater. Can I help you to anything else?

Guest: No, thank you, I’ve had quite enough. I mustn’t overeat, I don’t want to put on weight.

Hostess: What will you have, tea or coffee?

Guest: I’ll take a cup of tea, if you please.

Hostess: Have some jam, please. We have strawberry jam and raspberry jam. Which do you prefer?

Guest: Thank you. I like both.

Hostess: Won’t you help yourself to some cake?

Guest: Just a tiny piece.

Hostess: Take some more pie. It won’t do you any harm, I’m sure.

Guest: You are very kind. I really think I’ll take a little more. I’m very fond of pies.

Hostess: May I offer you another cup of tea?

Guest: Thank you, I think I’ll trouble you for a second cup.

Hostess: No trouble at all. Is there anything else you’d like?

Guest: Will you please pass the sugar? Thank you.

Exercise 6. Составьте диалоги, используя следующие сюжеты. Ниже приведены фразы, которые вы можете использовать в своих диалогах.

1. Хозяйка угощает гостя.

2. Две подруги (два друга) делятся секретами приготовления любимых блюд.

3. Ваш друг (подруга) спрашивает о приготовлении какого- либо блюда, и вы даете рекомендации.

4. Гости ресторана выбирают детские и/или фирменные блюда на обед.

5. Вы с другом (подругой) составляете меню для праздника.

Useful phrases

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