Assignments to the text

1. Analyse the tense forms of the verbs.

2. Write out the names of dishes (mind the articles, explain the use of the articles).

3. Say what you have learned from the Story about:

a) the womans’s behaviour;

b) the reason for the author’s nervousness.

4. Think and answer:

1) Why did the author agree to meet the woman at Foyot’s?

2) What kind of restaurant was it?

3) What impression did the woman give?

4) What phrase would she pronounce before ordering a dish?

5) What did the words “I never eat more than one thing” mean for the author and his life for the rest of the month?

6) Why did the woman think the author mean?

7) What was the author’s revenge?

8) Which of the characters do you sympathize with?

Choose the proverb which best illustrates the idea of the story. Prove your choice.

a) Appetite comes with eating.

b) Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

c) After dinner comes the reckoning.

Vocabulary