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Святий вечір припадає на останній день Пилипівського посту. Тому на вечерю готують лише пісні страви. На честь апостолів або числа місяців у році страв готували лише дванадцять. У кожному місті чи селі вони різні, проте обовязково є калач, кутя і узвар. Вечеряти сідали, коли на небі сходила перша зірка – символ народження Сина Божого. Коли родина сідала за стіл, на ньому вже стояли кутя, узвар, дідух, хліб і пироги. Починали вечерю із запалення свічки й молитви. Господиня вносила борщ із квасолею та грибами. За борщем подавали голубці з пшоняною або гречаною кашею, вареники з капустою, картоплею, квасолею, смажену і «холодну» рибу. Готували налисники з пісними начинками: маком і медом, сушеними товченими грушами. Подавали квашену капусту з олією та цибулею. Запивали страви узваром.
11. Read the following story, choose correct answer and retell the story to your group-mates:
The Lost Gold Piece
Once a rich merchant arranged dinner for poor ex-soldiers. Mr. Lebeau was among the guests. After dinner Grandin, the host, showed his quests a large gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. However, talking and drinking the men soon forgot all about the coin. Later on the quests were about to leave the house. Grandin thought of the coin and asked for it. But the coin was gone. The village lawyer being one of the guests suggested that everybody should be searched. All at once agreed except Lebeau. His friends looked at him with surprise. “I cannot allow it”, he said. “I did not steal the coin. I will not allow anybody to search me,” he repeated. One by one the rest turned out their pockets except Lebeau though his friends were persuading him to. It seemed suspicious to everybody. From that day on nobody respected Lebeau.
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A few years passed. When this episode had become almost legendary, Grandin decided to rebuild his house. A workman found the gold coin between two planks of the floor of the room in which the dinner had taken place. Grandin hurried to Lebeau’s poor home and told him that he had found the coin and apologized for having suspected him. “But why did you not allow us to search you if you hadn’t taken the coin?” he asked.
Lebeau answered: “Because I was a thief all the same. For a week my family and I had not enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home for my wife and hungry children.”
1. Once a rich merchant arranged dinner for:
a) poor people b) poor children c) poor ex-soldiers
2. After dinner Grandin, the host, showed his guests:
a) a coin b) a knife c) a medal
3. As the coin was gone the village lawyer suggested that every guest should:
a) put off the clothes b) be searched c) pay for the coin
4. Everybody agreed except:
a) Grandin b) the soldier c) Mr. Lebeau
5. After some years Grandin decided to rebuild his house and a workman found:
a) the lost coin b) a lot of money c) some coins
6. Grandin hurried to Lebeau’s poor home
a) to apologize b) to invite him to his house c) to give him a present
7. Lebeau answered him that he had not allowed them to search him because:
a) he stole the coin b) his pockets were full of food c) he didn’t respect the host
Grammar (The Present Continuous Tense)
Exercise # 1. Put the verbs in the brackets either in the Present Continuous or in the Present Indefinite Tense:
1) What’s the matter? Where __ the flavour (to come) from? From the kitchen. Mother (to stew) meat now. 2) She seldom (to come) home so early. 3) Hurry up! We (to start) to cook our national Ukrainian borsch in five minutes. 4) The water (to boil). What __ you (to put) into borsch? 5) I usually (to boil) eggs for 3-5 minutes. 6) Where (to be) the children? They (to play) computer games now? 7) What (to do) you now? I (to make) an apple pie. 8) You (to hear) him? I (to listen) very attentively, but I (not to hear) him at all. 9) Are you busy now? Yes, I am. I (to translate) the text “Ukrainian cuisine” for tomorrow’s English lesson. 10. She always (to tell) the truth. We (to believe) her.
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Exercise # 2. Answer the following questions in the Present Continuous Tense:
A) 1. What restaurant are they going now?
2. What song is a popular singer singing now?
3. What are they laughing at?
4. Whose photos is he showing?
5. Who are you looking at?
6. What juice are you drinking now?
7. What rule is the teacher explaining now?
B) A friend of yours is planning to go on holidays very soon. Ask him about his plans. Use the words in brackets to make your sentences as in the model: Where (to go)? – Where are you going?
1. When (to leave)? 2. (To go) alone? 3. (To go) by car? 4. Where (to stay)? 5. How long (to stay)? 6. (To meet) your friends? 7. Who (to come) to see off? 8. (To take) luggage?
Exercise # 3. Put the verb into the most suitable form, Present Indefinite or Present Continuous, with a future meaning:
1. We (to have) a party next Sunday. 2. What time (to leave) the next train for Cambridge? 3. What you (to do) on Monday evening? 4. The next show (to start) at 7:30. 5. You know, Jane (to come) tomorrow and she (to plan) to stay here for a fortnight. 6. The art exhibition (to open) in three days and (to close) in two weeks.7. Alec and Mary (to get married) next week. 8. The liner (to leave) Dover at 11 a.m. Don’t miss it. 9. John (to meet) his boss tomorrow.
Exercise # 4. Give a short account of what your family is doing at the moment.
(It’s 8 o’clock in the morning, 5 o’clock in the afternoon, 9 o’clock in the evening)
