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| 1. Mr. Blake usually gets up at 7:30 | 1. It’s 7:30. Mr. Blake … |
| 2. As a rule they have breakfast at 9 a.m | 2. It’s 9 a.m. They … |
| 3. She always takes a walk at 5 p.m. | 3. It’s 5 p.m. She … |
| 4. Ann does the shopping at 11 a.m. | 4. It’s 11 a.m. Ann … |
| 5. She watches TV in the evening. | 5. It’s evening. She … |
| 6. Mother always makes sandwiches for breakfast. | 6. Now she … |
| 7. Miss Smith usually has tea at 5 p.m. | 7. It’s 5 p.m. She … |
| 8. Mary takes a shower in the morning. | 8. It’s morning. Mary … |
| 9. He usually takes a cocktail before dinner. | 9. The dinner is ready. He … |
| 10. Miss Black gives music lesson to children. | 10. Don’t enter the room. Miss Black … to Liza. |
Exercise # 6. Translate into English:
1. Ця людина дуже добре говорить англійською, але я його не розумію, оскільки він говорить дуже швидко. 2. Як називається напій, що ви зараз готуєте? - О, це молочний коктейль. 3. А з чим зазвичай їдять борщ? З чорним хлібом і часником? Можна і так, але українці полюбляють борщ з пампушками. 4. Зараз спостерігається швидкий розвиток харчової промисловості. Українська кухня швидко поповнюється новими стравами. 5. Чи не вип’єте з нами філіжанку кави? Ми саме п’ємо каву.
Unit 7 English Food
1. Read and learn the following words and word combinations:
impression – вра́ження;
e.g. She was in fact a woman of forty, and she gave me an impression of having more teeth, white and large, that were necessary for any practical purpose. S. Maugham “The Luncheon”
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the former – попередній;
the latter – останній (з двох, що були названі; ant. – the former);
to improve – покращувати;
to can – консервувати (м'ясо, овочі, фрукти);
can – могти (модальне дієслово);
e.g. We eat what we can and what we can’t we can.
to appreciate – цінувати;
to condemn – засуджувати, визнавати непридатним;
fish and chips – риба та картопля у фритюрі;
e.g. Fish and chips is still Britain’s most famous fast food. “Today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper”, English people used to say.
overdone – пережарений;
to grouse (about, at) – бурчати; syn: mutter, mumble, grumble;
e.g. A friend of mine discovered an important secret, namely that the English mutter and mumble. (G. Mikes How to Be an Alien)
to throw (threw, thrown) – кидати;
to make matters worse – ускладнювати справу;
sufficiently – достатньо;
soggy – мокрий, сирий;
kidney – нирка;
saddle of mutton – «сідло барашка»;
e.g. “ Saddle of mutton ” is a traditional English dish cooked of a cut of mutton including part of the backbone.
kippers – копчена риба (особливо оселедець);
tasteless – несмачний; позбавлений смаку́; ant: tasteful, delicious;
to justify – виправдовувати; syn: defend, support, maintain; ant: accuse, charge, blame;
instance – приклад; syn: example;
to strain – проціджувати; фільтрувати;
to spend holidays abroad – проводити свята/канікули за кордоном;
to appreciate – оцінювати; syn: to esteem, to estimate, to value;
to appreciate unfamiliar dishes – оцінювати незнайомі страви;
to be unadventurous – не ризикувати;
unfair – несправедливо; syn: unjust, dishonest; ant. fair, just, honest;
red-currant jelly – желе з червоної смородини;
restaurants are run and staffed by foreigners – і керують ресторанами, і працюють в них іноземці;
e.g. People have to come to Britain from different parts of the world, bringing their favourite food with them and often opening restaurants run and staffed by foreigners.
2. Read and translate the tex: English Food
The two features of life in England that possibly give visitors their worst impressions are the English weather and English cooking. The former is something that nobody can do anything about, but cooking is something that can be learned. English food has often been described as tasteless. Although this criticism has been more then justified in the past, and in many instances still is, the situation is changing somewhat. One of the reasons that English cooking is improving is that so many people have been spending their holidays abroad and have learned to appreciate unfamiliar dishes. However, there are still many British people who are so unadventurous when they visit other countries that will condemn everywhere that does not provide them tea and either fish and chips or sausages, baked beans and chips or overdone steak and chips.
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One of the traditional grouses about English food is the way that vegetables are cooked. Firstly the only way that many British housewives know to cook green vegetables is to boil them for far too long in too much salt water and then to throw the water away so that all the vitamins are lost. To make matter worse, they do not stain the vegetables sufficiently so that they appear as a soggy wet mass on the plate.
It would be unfair to say that all English food is bad. Many traditional British dishes are as good as anything you can get anywhere. Nearly everybody knows about roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but they are by no means the only dishes that are cooked well. A visitor if invited to an English home might well enjoy steak and kidney pudding or pie, saddle of mutton with red-currant jelly, all sorts of smoked fish, especially kippers, boiled salt beef and carrots, to mention but a few.
A strange thing about English that the visitors may notice is that most of the good restaurants in England are run and staffed by foreigners – for example there is a large number of Chinese, Indian restaurants and, to a less extent, French and Spanish ones.
3. Answer the following questions:
1. What two features of life in England give visitors their worst impressions?
2. What is the reason of improvement of English cooking?
3. Why are some English people still dissatisfied while visiting other countries?
4. How are vegetables cooked in Great Britain?
5. Does the way of cooking vegetables influence their vitamins?
6. Why cannot one say that all English food is bad?
7. What are the most famous traditional English dishes?
8. Whom are the most famous English restaurants run and staffed by?
9. What restaurants can we find in Britain?
10. Have you ever tasted any traditional English dish?
4. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
impression, to describe, tasteless, to justify, instance, to improve, abroad, appreciate, unfamiliar, unadventurous, condemn, to provide, fish and chips, baked beans, overdone steak, to grouse, to make matter worse, sufficiently, soggy, plate, roast beef, kidney pudding, saddle of mutton, red-currant jelly, kippers, carrots, foreigner, to a less extent
5. Give English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
найкраще враження, англійська кулінарія, ситуація змінюється, одна з причин, проводити канікули за кордоном, оцінити невідому страву, не ризикувати, печена квасоля з чіпсами, готувати овочі, достатньо, йоркширський пудинг, проціджувати овочі, копчена риба, штат робітників ресторану
6.Make the following sentences complete by translating the phrases in brackets:
1. The two features of life in England that possibly give (приїжджим найгірше враження – це англійська погода і англійська кухня).
2. English food (часто описується як несмачна).
3. But now English cooking is improving (оскільки багато людей їздять за кордон і привозять невідомі страви).
4. (Але багато британців засуджують страви інших націй) if they are not provided with English tea or fish and chips.
5. One of the traditional grouses about English food (це спосіб приготування овочів).
6. Many housewives cook green vegetables (дуже довго у окропі, поки не втратяться всі вітаміни).
7. (Але було б несправедливо сказати) that all English food is bad.
8. (Майже всім відомий йоркширський пудинг і ростбіф) the only dishes that are cooked well.
9. (Англійці полюбляють їздити на пікнік) when they go to watch outdoor sports or go to musical evenings in parks.
10. (Барбекю стає все більш популярним у Великій Британії) and all sorts of food can be cooked in this way.
7. Put all possible questions to the sentences given below and compose a dialogue:
1. Although Britain is quite a small country, it offers a wide choice of food and drinks.
2. People have come to Britain from different parts of the world, bringing their favourite food with them and often opening restaurants.
3. British people have travelled to other countries and brought new foods back home.
4. A traditional British dinner is meat and the vegetables.
5. Two favourite meals with children are fish fingers and chips, and baked beans on toast.
6. Going to a restaurant for a meal, instead of going out, is called “eating out”.
7. People often take their food to a park or a beach, and sit on the grass or the sand.
8. Pubs (or public houses) are found in most towns and villages, and are often the centre of life in that area.
9. Fried fish and cooked potatoes were first sold in the streets of London and other cities in 1850s.
10. Today big supermarket companies can buy food all over the world.
8. Find synonyms and antonyms among the words given below, put them down according to the model, find them in the text if any and read the sentences with them:
| Model: to justify – | syn. to defend | ant. to accuse |
| to support | to charge | |
| to maintain | to blame |
to justify, to grouse, to support, to appreciate, to mutter, to grumble, to defend, to maintain, tasteless, unjust, dishonest, esteem, fair, just, honest, tasteful, delicious, accuse, blame, charge
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