Read and translate the text. Usually I have my dinner at home

Usually I have my dinner at home. It is my most substantial meal of the day. I come home at four o'clock and say to my mother: “Ma, is our dinner ready? I am ever so hungry”-“Yes, it is. Go and wash your hands,” she answers.

My mother is not a young woman, but she does the cooking herself. While I wash my hands, my mother lays the table for dinner. She lays a white table-cloth upon the table, then puts plates, spoons, knives and forks on it. In the middle of the table she puts a dish with white and brown bread, a cruet-stand with a salt-cellar and pepper- and mustard-pots?

I sit down at the table and begin with some kind of appetizer. If there is none, I take a piece of bread, sprinkle it with salt, smear it with mustard and eat it. Then my mother hands me a plate of soup. Usually it is cabbage soup, which I like very much. I take a spoon and begin to eat my soup with a good appetite. Yet I seldom take a second helping of soup.

For our second course we have either fish, or cutlets, or meat cakes, or a chop with potatoes or some other kind of vegetables.

For the third course we have either stewed fruit, or a pudding, or some kind of pie.

On Sundays and particularly on holidays our dinners are somewhat different. We sometimes have salmon, sturgeon or caviar for our hors-d'oeuvre. As to the soups, they are the same, either a clear chicken soup with small meat pies or cabbage soup.

For the second course we may have a goose or a turkey. For dessert we often have ice-cream, pineapple or some coffee with apple pie.

3. Match the words on the left with the examples/definitions on the right.