Be a host and a guest in turns

· Work in small groups. Prepare a short presentation on the restaurants and cafes in St-Petersburg.

· Write a letter to your foreign friend describing your latest visit to some interesting restaurant or cafe and the experience you have had eating there. Express your opinion.

Task 3. Read the description of some Russian dishes. Guess what they are?

1. A vegetarian salad (boiled beets, potatoes, and carrots; pickles, some chopped onion)

2. A cold soup based on kvas, green onion, herbs and spices such as black pepper, mustard or horse radish.

3. A fish soup cooked with potatoes and other vegetables.

4. Salad with rice (or pasta), boiled eggs, sweet corn and diced crab (imitation or otherwise), mixed in mayonnaise.

5. Seasoned ground beef and rice filling stuffed inside boiled cabbage leaves. Sweet pepper shells are also a popular alternative to cabbage.

6. A light refreshing drink made by boiling fresh fruit with sugar, then leaving it to cool and infuse.

7. Marinated meat cooked on a skewer. Popularity in Russia originated in the late 19th century from Caucuses region

8. A traditional Russian dish made with minced meat filling, wrapped in thin dough dumplings.

9. Also known as Fish under a Fur Coat, its a Russian favorite. Ingredients include herring fillets, potatoes, carrots, beets, eggs and mayonnaise.

10. A flexible salad composed of boiled potatoes, vegetables, often with meat, mixed in mayonnaise.This salad is the creation of a French chef, M. Olivier, who in the 1860s opened a fashionable restaurant in Moscow called The Hermitage.

11. A vegetable soup most commonly made with beets and often with meat.

12. Small dough buns or pies stuffed with variable fillings. Traditional fillings include fish (sautéed with onions and mixed with hard-boiled chopped eggs), meat (boiled and chopped, then mixed with sautéed onions and eggs), Potato (mashed, then mixed with eggs and sour cream), cabbage (sautéed, plus egg and spices).

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