Wimpy menu

Cheeseburger	£1.75	Milkshakes	90 p
Hamburger	£1.50	Coca Cola	65 p
King burger	£2.00	Orange Juice	80 p
Chicken nuggets	£1.75	Fanta	65 p
French fries	60 p	Coffee	60 p
Icecream	85 p	Hot chocolate	75 p
Apple pie	85 p

In the Far East, for example, open-air food stalls serve hot food quickly and cheaply. In Britain however, these open-air food stalls of the orient became the Chinese takeaways, which can be found in many cities, towns and villages of the USA, Britain and many other countries. Takeaways sell hot food carried out to eat in an­other place. Takeaway food is a treat for many families. The most famous British takeaway is still the fish and chip shop.

Exercises

a. Write out from the text one of the sentences in which the verb is used
in the Past Indefinite Tense:

b. Add a few similar sentences:

The Past Indefinite Tense

statement	negation	question
/ had lunch at McDon­ald's yesterday.	She did not have lunch with me yesterday.	Did you have a good lunch yesterday?

=1 Grammar Notes

1 The Past Indefinite Tense is used to express a usual or habitual state or action in the past, as well as a one-time action in the past.

2 This tense is often used with the same adverbial modifiers of time, as the Present Indefinite Tense (usually, often,.,.).

3 This tense is usually formed with the help of the ending -ecf of the regular verbs. But as to irregular verbs It Is necessary to memorise their three forms.

The most popular irregular verbs are:

to be	was/were	been
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
buy	bought	bought
come	came	come
do	did	done
find	found	found
get	got	got
go	went	gone
have	had	had
know	knew	known
leave	left	left
mean	meant	meant

meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
read	read	read
see	saw	seen
send	sent	sent
sit	sat	sat
speak	spoke	spoken
tell	told	told
understand	understood	understood
wear	wore	worn
write	wrote	written

с Write down a few sentences about what you did yesteday. e.g. Yesterday I met one of my school-mates and...

d. Have a talk with your group-mate about yesteday.

e.g. Did you listen to the radio or...?

Did anything extraordinary happen to you yesterday? What did you do...^

e. Translate into English paying attention to the use of The Past Indefinite Tense:

1 Они любили обсуждать отличия в культурах разных народов.

2 Недостаток знаний стал причиной недопонимания.

3 В прошлом году он не ездил за рубеж.

4 Вы не знаете, где она была в прошлом месяце? Я знаю, что она уезжала из Москвы.

5 Какие исторические достопримечательности вы увидели во время вашей поездки? Что вам более всего запомнилось?

6 Я прочитала эту статью еще на прошлой неделе.

f. Sum up what the text says about:

■ open-air food stalls in the Far East

■ Chinese takeaways in Europe and America

■ fish and chip restaurants

i other fast food restaurants

■ Wimpy menu illustrated

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sometimes called sweets pudding afters (especially at home)

small items, e.g. sandwiches, pies, etc.

g. Have a look at another menu. Read the following questions paying attention to the intonation and ask your group-mate to answer. Write down the answers.

	Dinner	Fish	*P
r	Starters £ p	Dover sole		s
Prawn cocktail	Grilled trout		j
courses	Chilled melon	Cod in cheese sauce
V	Garlic mushrooms	Children's Portions
Main Courses	Burger'n'beans
	Meat	Fish fingers 'n'chips^		(
r	Rump steak	Desserts "m~^
dishes <	Pork chop Lamb casserole	Chocolate fudge cake Ice cream (various)
V	Chicken Kiev prices include vegetables, chips or boiled potatoes	Apple pie with cream Tea, coffee snacks always available		s f

1 'Is it a 'menu of a 'fast 'food s restaurant? 'What 'makes you»think so?

2 'How 'many 'courses do they / offer?

3 'What would you 'have for the» starter?

4 'How 'much could your 'dinner» cost?

5 'Would you 'tip the s waiter?

h. Sort out these dishes under the headings starters, main courses or desserts:

chicken casserole, coffee gateau, fresh fruit salad, sorbet, Irish stew, pate and toast, prawn cocktail, rump steak, choco­late fudge cake, grilled trout, shrimps in garlic
starters	main courses	desserts

j. Write down the words meaning the meat of these animals:

calf, deer, sheep (two names), pig (three names)

k. Write down the names of fruit and berries which grow in our region. Are there others not listed here?

peach, plum, grapefruit, grape, nectarine, star-fruit, blackcurrant, raspberry, melon, water-melon, lime, kiwi-fruit, mango, apple, pear

3. 'Reading' a wine bottle

Traditionally, different types of wines are associated with different-shaped bottles. For example, Bordeaux wines have tall, narrow bottles with squarish shoulders and are coloured green for red wine (claret), green or clear for white.

The label on the bottle should give the name of the country of ori­gin, the region, chateau or estate from which the wine comes, probably the vintage (the year,in which it was made), and the name of the shipper or producer. '

The commonest shapes.

These are 14 of the commonest shapes of wine bottles. On the top left are three of the traditional bottles of France, then Chianti of Italy in its old style wicker basket — now fast disappearing. Far right are the squat, long-necked port bot­tles.

i. Say which are fish and which are usually called seafood:

prawns, sardines, squid, oysters, mackerel, mussels, hake, crab, plaice, trout, lobster, cod, sole, whiting

1 Bourdeaux red 2 Burgundy 3 Burgundy pot 4 Chianti 5 Cote de Provence б Franconian flagon 7 Loire 8 Rhine 9 Moselle 10 Alsace 11 Bordeaux white 12 Champagne 13 Vintage port 14 Port

Exercises

4. Dinner-party

a. Say what new facts you have learned from this text.

b. Have a look at this picture. Each person is breaking a rule of table manners. What are they doing wrong?

с Complete this advice for very young people:

1 Don't speak__________________

2 Don't reach across_____________ Ask someone to pass it.

3 Don't put____________________

4 Don't waive your______________ in the air.

5 Don't lift your bowl____________

^ast week at a dinner-party, the hostess asked me to sit next to ylrs. Rumbold. Mrs Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight э1аск dress. She did not even look up when I took my seat beside ler. Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was nusy eating. I tried to make conversation.

— A 'new 'play is 'coming to the 'Globe soon, I said.
'Willyou^seeit?

— No, she answered.

— 'Will you 'spend your 'holidays 'abroad this year? I asked.

— No, she answered.

— 'Will you 'stay in ^England? I asked.

— No, she answered.

In de^spair, | I 'asked her if she was

en'joying her Winer. - a large, unsmiling Ыу

— 'Young man, she answered, | if you 'ate 'more and 'talked
'less, | we would 'both en joy our dinner!

=J Do you know this?

People in Britain usually put the table napkin on their knees. It is polite to press your peas on to the back of your fork. It is impolite to make a noise when you are drinking soup.

d. Say what you think about table manners of Russians.

Exercises

г. Write down the words which are pronounced in the following way:

['houstis] [3'bro:d]

[tait] [(ts) 'to:k]

Lkonva'seijn] ___________ [tu m'd30i]

b. Read the dialogue paying attention to the intonation marked.

¹ Английский для гуманитариев

с. Write out from the text the sentences in which the verbs are used in the Future Indefinite Tense.

d. Add a few similar sentences: The Future Indefinite Tense

statement	negation	question
/ shall/will spend my holidays in Brazil.	He will not (won't) join me.	Will you go abroad for holiday? Where will you go? \
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e. Have a look at this picture, read the conversation and answer the following questions:

1 Where do you think these people are speaking? What makes you think so?

2 When do you think the gentleman will return?

3 Will he miss the plane?

4 At what time will the plane leave?

f. Translate into Russian paying attention to the use of the Indefinite Tenses:

1 Я не знаю, когда он вернется. Возможно, дней через шесть.

2 Мы надеемся, он не опоздает на этот рейс.

3 — Он будет завтракать в самолете? — Думаю, что да.

4 Возможно, сначала ему предложат прохладительные напитки, а на обед — на выбор мясо или рыбу.

5 Я не знаю, какие рестораны или службы готовят еду для авиа­пассажиров.

5. The Organic Food Show

Today more and more people in Britain want good food they can trust. As a result, the demand for organic food is growing. Organic food is produced without harmful synthetic chemicals and using natural, non-intensive farming methods which are equally good for plants and animals.

More than a quarter of households already buy some organic food. Organic plain yoghurt is now a brand leader, organic milk disap­pears as fast as it is put on the shelves, while organic bread, carrots and potatoes are becoming the food of choice. There's no doubt, too, that, if the price is right, most people would prefer to buy organic. The British Organic Food Association will start a campaign 'We Prefer Organic' in Oxford. More than 600 product entries, collec­tively representing the creme de la creme of the new food revolu­tion which is sweeping the country will be tested. The week of testing will culminate at Raymond restaurant near Oxford, where the final judging takes place. The judgement will be made by a panel of chefs and food experts to sample some of the best organic food in Britain.

It is encouraging to see entries from conventional manufacturers such as Hartley's, as well as supermarket own-brand organic prod­ucts. It means greater availability and more competitive prices. The judges are in for a tough time: they will be tackling 36 different sausages, 44 breads, cakes and pastries, 61 preserves and condi­ments, not to mention fabulous ice-creams and cheeses. The range and diversity of entries — including organic Chinese winter melons show how fast organic food is moving.