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Summary 4-9

What are your favourite tastes/flavours?

Which do you like the least – sweet, salty, bitter, sour or spicy?

Do you like eating spicy foods? Are there any foods or flavours, which you didn’t use to like when you were young but which you now do like?

Read the conversation between Peter and Mike in a restaurant in Yorkshire. Peter is describing the different tastes and textures of the dishes on a menu.

From the context, try to guess what the meaning of the words/phrases in bold is.

Taste and Texture Adjectives

Read the following conversation between Peter and Mike in a restaurant in Yorkshire. Peter is describing the different tastes and textures of the dishes on a menu.

From the context, try to guess what the meaning of the words/phrases in bold are. Then do the quiz at the end to check if you are right.

Peter: So Mike, what do you fancy having?

Mike: I'm not sure. There's lots of food and dishes from around the world on this menu. You've eaten here before, what's the chicken curry like?

Peter: It's hot. The last time I had it, my mouth was burning for about 15 minutes. To be honest, it's a bit bland, it doesn't really taste of anything. If you want to have a curry, I would recommend the tikka masala, it's spicy, they use about 15 different spices in it, but it's not hot. I like it, it's really scrumptious.

Mike: I'm not sure I want Indian food. And the fish and chips?

Peter: Although I'm English, I don't like it, it's greasy. It's covered in too much oil for me.

Mike: What are the salads like here? They have a Caesar /ˌsiːzə/ salad, is it ok?

Peter: Well, yeah. I had it a couple of years ago. They use fried bacon in the salad as well, which is strange. The lettuce and the bacon were very crispy, they make a noise when you first chew them. It has fried croutons /ˈkruːtɒnz/, which were so crunchy, it was almost like eating a savoury biscuit. But for me, the Caesar sauce was too creamy, they used too much cream.

There's another salad that I had the last time I was here, called the Naples salad. It's got so many different things in it, like small pieces of lemon that give the salad a bit of a sour taste, and apples that were too mushy last time I had the salad. Because it's in theory Italian it also has pieces of parmesan in it, the hard cheese that they grate on top of Italian pasta. It doesn't sound good, but the combination works very well.

Mike: I'll order that. Have you looked at the desserts? They have a coffee cake, I like coffee, but the last time I had one was in Spain and it had a very bitter taste, it was like I was eating coffee without the cake. Also, it was a bit stale and not really fresh.

Peter: I don't know. I've never tried it. I've had the toffee (ириски) ice cream, which was really good. The ice cream is very creamy and it has small pieces of toffee in it, they are really chewy, they get stuck in your teeth. There's also the butter croissant /krwɑːˈsɑː̃; krəˈsɑːnt/, which is really flaky and it comes with a smooth raspberry sauce.

Mike: And the chocolate cake?

Peter: It's very sticky and rich, it's almost like you're eating a bar of chocolate. And it’s also very moist - slightly wet and soft

bland		mushy
spicy		bitter
scrumptious		stale
greasy		chewy
crispy		flaky
crunchy		smooth
savoury		sticky
creamy		rich
sour		moist

Check homework:

Если бы ты не сломал телефон, я бы ему сейчас позвонил. If you hadn’t broken the phone, I’d call him.

Я бы работал сейчас в Бразилии, если бы подписал контракт. I’d work/’d be working in Brazil now if I had signed that contract.

Где бы ты сейчас жила, если бы вышла замуж за того сумасшедшего путешественника? Where would you live / be living now if you had married that crazy traveller?

Если бы ты купил пальто, тебе бы не было так холодно. If you had bought the coat, you wouldn’t be so cold now.

Алекс ездила бы сейчас на мотоцикле, если бы не продала его летом. Alex would still ride her motorbike now if she hadn’t sold it in summer.

Мы бы гораздо лучше знали географию, если бы чаще ходили на уроки в прошлом году. We would know geography much better if we had come to the classes more often last year.

Ей было бы очень одиноко, если бы начальник не подарил ей на день рождения хомячка. She would be very lonely if the boss hadn’t given her a hamster for her birthday.

Mixed Conditionals

Actual Situations	Conditionals
	If-sentence (clause)	Result Sentence (clause)
He didn’t have children, so he is alone.	If he had had children (in the past)	- he wouldn’t be alone (now) - he wouldn’t be asking for help
	Если бы он завел детей (тогда)	- он бы не был один (сейчас) - он не просил бы помощи (сейчас)
Structure
His memory is not good, so he didn’t buy his medicine.	If his memory were good (now)	he would have bought his medicine (in the past)
	Если бы его память была хорошей (сейчас)	он бы купил лекарства (тогда)
Structure