Unit 12

FOOD AND MEALS.

Text: An Englishman Diary.

Grammar: The Future Continuous Tense.

Практические цели: Обобщение и закрепление лексического материала по теме “Food and Meals”, закрепление навыков устной речи и изложения текста, ознакомление с новым грамматическим материалом.

An Englishman Diary.

An Englishman's day- and who can describe it better than Englishman's wife? It begins when he sits down to breakfast with his morning newspaper.

As he looks through the headlines there is nothing he likes better than his favourite breakfast of cornflakes with milk and sugar (porridge if he lives in the North), fried bacon and eggs, marmalades on toast and tea (with milk, of course) or coffee.

He in fact gets such a meal if there is enough money in the family to buy it.

After breakfast, except on Saturdays and Sundays which are holidays, he goes to work by train, tube, bus, car, motor scooter, and motor bike or walks there. He leaves home at about 7.30.

At offices or factories there is a tea or coffee break at 11 o'clock. Then at mid-day everything stops for lunch. Most offices and shops close for an hour from one to two.

Englishmen are fond of good plain food, and they usually want to know what they eat. They like beefsteaks, chops, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, fried fish and chipped potatoes.

There are usually two-courses in the mid-day meal- a meat course with a lot of vegetables, a sweet dish, perhaps fruit pudding and custards with tea or coffee to finish.

Then to work again with another break in the middle of the afternoon, once again for tea or coffee, sometimes with a cake or biscuit.

The working day finishes at any time between four and six. When an Englishman gets home he likes to inspect his garden before the evening meal: tea, high tea, dinner or supper. When his evening meal is over, the Englishman may do a little gardening and then have a walk to the “local” (the nearest beerhouse) for a “quick one” (a drink, alcoholic, of course). There are a lot of people at the “local” and he can play darts, dominoes, and billiards or discuss the weather, the local events or the current situation. But if the Englishman stays at home, he may listen to the radio, watch television, talk or read.

Topical vocabulary.

1.Diary записная книжка-календарь

2.to describe описывать

3.headlines заголовки

4.favorite breakfast любимый завтрак

5.cornflakes кукурузные хлопья

6.porridge овсянка

7.meal принятие пищи, еда

8.tea or coffee break перерыв на чай или кофе

9.to be fond of любить

10.plain food простая пища

11.course блюдо

12.to inspect исследовать

13.beerhouse пивная

14.night cup ночная чашка

15.snack легкая закуска

16.fried fish жареная рыба

17.chipped potatoes чипсы

18.beefsteak бифштекс

19.chop отбивная

Ex. 1. In the list below cross out the things an Englishman doesn't have for breakfast.

Pancakes, vegetable salad, beefsteak, porridge, plum pudding, toasts, prawn salad, cornflakes with milk, chicken, marmalade, baked potato, fried bacon, fried fish, eggs, garlic bread, pasta, mushrooms, coffee, tea, lemon, cream, scrambled eggs, cheese, tomatoes, fried eggs, butter, fruits, salad, orange juice, ice-cream, nuts, honey, jellied fish, cold cereals, chops.