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Read and translate the following text.
British and Russian Cuisines.
British cuisine.
Breakfast in a British hotel is a large meal. It usually begins with a choice of fruit juice, porridge or cereal. Then comes the main course with a choice of bacon and egg, bacon and sausage, boiled egg, scrambled egg, or fish. Finally there is toast and marmalade. You may choose tea or coffee to drink, though in cheaper hotels you may be offered only tea. In more expensive hotels there is more choice at each stage.
Lunch in a simple hotel begins with soup, though in a more expensive one you usually have a choice of soup, fruit juice, or starters (snacks). For the main course there are three main choices: cold meat and salad, fish, or roast meat and two vegetables. Then there is a choice of sweets, such as hot apple tart, a hot milk pudding, cold fruit salad, or ice-cream. If you wish to finish the meal with coffee, you must pay for it as an extra.
At about five o'clock there is a very light meal called tea. This consists of a cup of tea and a cake.
Dinner in a hotel is very similar to lunch, except that there is usually more choice and it is nearly always dearer.
Russian Cuisine.
As for Russian cuisine, it is famous for exotic soups, cabbage shchi and solyanlca, which is made of assorted meats. Russians are great lovers of pelmeni, small Siberian meat pies boiled in broth, pies, pickles, and sauerkraut.
Of our folk soft drinks, kvass is the best known. It is made of brown bread or rye flour. If you add it to chopped-up meat and vegetables, you get okroshka, an exquisite cold soup.
Top restaurants recommend the guests pressed and red caviar, salmon, sturgeon in aspic, marinated herring, and so on.
There is a large variety of desserts. For dessert you can have apples baked with sugar, fruit and berry compotes. «No dinner without bread,» goes the Russian saying. As to rye bread, Russians eat more of it than any nation in the world — a peculiarity of the Russian diet.
As for me, I prefer “slow food” to fast food. My eating preferences are…
Assignments:
1. Compare British and Russian cuisine.
2. Speak about your eating preferences.
3. What are your favourite dishes?
COMMUNICATION
1. Two customers, Paul and Nina Martin, arrive at a restaurant. It's 8.30 p.m. Read the four dialogues (waiter=A, Paul=B, Nina=C). Fill in the gaps with the phrases in the box.
■ we'd like a ■ your table is ready ■ can I have ■ what name is it ■ Do you have ■ Would you like ■ Here's the menu ■ can I help you ■ so that's ■ I'm sorry, we're fully booked ■
1) A Hello, 1_______________________?
С Hi, yes,2_______________________________ table for two.
А 3__________________________ a reservation?
С No, we don't.
2) A 4 _______________ at the moment. But we have a cancellation at 9.00.
В At 9.00. Yes, that's fine.
A OK, 5______________________________, please?
В Martin.
A 6 _____________smoking or non-smoking?
С Non-smoking, please.
3) A Would you like a drink while you're waiting?
В Yes, er...7_____________________ a beer, please?
A And for you?
С I'll have a sparkling mineral water.
A OK,8_________________________ a beer and a water.
4) A Excuse me,9_______________. This way, please... Is this table all right for you?
С This is fine.
A 10____________, the specials are on the board.
В Thank you.
2. Read the dialogues again. Underline the phrases
that mean:
2.... until your table is ready
3. have you booked?
4. come with me
5. someone has said they are not coming
6. dishes which are only available today.
3. Who usually says these things? Write W (waiter)
or С (customer).
1. This way please.
2. I’d like a hamburger, please.
3. I’d like the bill please.
4. Would you like a drink?
4. Do you have a table for four?
5. Do you have a reservation?
6. I have a cancellation for 8.30.
7. This is cold.
8. Are you ready to order?
9. Can I have your name?
10. We have a reservation for 9.00.
COMMUNICATION
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