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1. We eat what we can and what we can’t we can.
2. Today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapper.
3. One should eat to live, not live to eat.
4. You are what you eat.
5. Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
6. A hungry man is an angry man.
7. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
10. Read, translate and make brief written reports according to the subtitles of the text about food and drinks in England:
It is interesting to know and remember:
In Britain you can find traditional food like roast beef or fish and chips – and vegetarian food for those who do not eat meat. Tea is often described as the national drink, but in Britain’s pubs you can drink beers and wines from many different countries.
Home-Cooked Food
Some people like to “to go to work on an egg” – they eat an egg for breakfast before going to work. But many more breakfast on cereal – often cornflakes – while others have toasts with butter and marmalade. And, whatever they eat, most people drink tea or coffee.
Some people have their biggest meal in the middle of the day and some have it in the evening, but most people today have a small mid-day meal – usually sandwiches, and perhaps some crisps and some fruit. The evening meal is usually called “tea” or “dinner”. A traditional British dinner is meat and two vegetables. The most popular meats are chicken, beef (from a cow), pork (from a pig), and lamb (from a young sheep).
Three traditional British meals are: bangers (sausages), beans (baked beans) and mash (mashed potato), stew (meat cooked with lots of vegetables), and the Sunday roast.
Sunday is a day when many families like to enjoy a big meal together. They usually have a big piece of meat which is roasted (cooked in the oven for about two hours) with potatoes. Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce, and lamb with green mint sauce – perhaps made with mint grown in the garden.
After dinner, people eat dessert – something sweet like fruit, chocolate, cake, or apple pie.
Fast Food
“Today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapper,” people used to say. Why? Because years ago fish and chips were packed in newspaper to keep them warm until they were eaten. This doesn’t happen any more, for health reasons, but fish and chips are still Britain’s most famous fast food. The fish is cooked in hot fat and is usually eaten with chips on which people put salt and brown vinegar, and/or tomato sauce, or even curry sauce. You can buy many other kinds of hot fast food today, for example, burgers and fried chicken from the USA, pizza from Italy, and kebabs from Middle East.
Sandwiches make a quick lunch, and are easy to take to school or work. The word “sandwich” comes from a man called John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who lived in the eighteen century in the English town of Sandwich. He liked to play games at the table for a long time without stopping for a meal and so his cook put some beef between two pieces of bread – and made the first sandwich.
A Sweet Tooth
Cakes, chocolate, ice-cream … the British love them all. A meal is not a full meal without some kinds of dessert and sweet things are very popular as a snack too. Every shopping street has a baker’s shop selling bread and cakes, and a newsagent’s shop selling chocolate and ice-cream as well as newspapers.
Chocolate is the most popular sweet snack. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) brought chocolate from Central America to Europe at the end of the 15th century but it was not really eaten in Britain until the mid-19th century. The Cadbury family began to make drinking chocolate in Birmingham in 1831.
There are three main kinds of cooked desserts (also called puddings): baked puddings (cooked in the oven, for example, fruit pies), boiled or steamed puddings (cooked over boiling water, for example Christmas pudding), and milk or cream puddings (for example rice puddings).
Going for a Drink
“See you in the Red Lion,” someone says to you. Yes, but which Red Lion? There are hundreds of pubs called the Red Lion; in fact it is the most popular pub name in Britain. Other names often used are The King’s Head, The George (also named after a king), and The Plough.
Pubs (or public houses) are found in most towns and villages, and are often the centre of life in that area. People go there to have a drink, eat a meal, meet friends, listen to music and play games like darts. Most pubs belong to a brewery (a company which makes beer) but sell not only different kinds of beer but wine, whisky, gin, rum and vodka.
A Nice Cup of Tea
In 1610 tea was brought from China to Europe. At first it was very expensive so not many people could buy it, but by 1750 it was widely drunk in Britain. By the late 18th century, Britain was at the centre of the world tea business and soon afterwards the tradition of taking afternoon tea either at home or in a tea shop, began. Tea shops became popular with women because they could go there alone, to meet friends. The traditional way of making tea is:
1. Boil some fresh cold water.
2. Put some hot water into the tea-pot to make it warm.
3. Pour the water away.
4. Put one teaspoon of tea-leaves per person, and one extra tea-spoon, into the pot.
5. Pour boiling water onto the tea.
6. Leave for a few minutes.
7. Serve. Bon appetite!
Grammar (The Past Continuous Tense)
Exercise # 1 Put the verb into the correct form: the Past Continuous or the Past Indefinite
1. I (to walk) slowly down the street when somebody (to call) me. 2. The woman (to put) some perfume into her bag when the shop-girl (to see) her. 3. The woman (not to see) that the girl (to look) at her. 4. She (to look through) the documents when I (to talk) to the manager. 5. He still (to work) when I left. 6. I (to wonder) whether you could lend me some money. 7. I (to break) a plate last night. I (to do) the washing up when it (to slip) out of my hand. 8. Fred (not to drive) very fast when the accident (to happen). 9. We (not to step) to look at a shop window. 10. He (to live) in Paris during his last years.
