Answer the questions 1. What are the usual British meals?
2. What is marmalade made from?
3. Why do many visitors to Britain find instant coffee disgusting?
4. What do pubs often serve?
5. Why is the evening meal the main meal of the day for many people?
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Read the article and do the tasks given bellow. Stories about national meals Typical American meals are barbecue, grilled vegetables, and ribs. A very popular beverage is lemon tea. In the morning Americans have a bowl of cereal, bacon, egg, toast with jelly and a bagel. The usual noontime meal consists of something light and quick to eat. It may be a hot dog or a hamburger. After work people often have dinner. It consists of milk, and some meat. Americans also enjoy carrots, peas, spinach, beets, tomatoes, and green beans. The meat could be chicken, turkey, beef, or pork. They seldom sit at the table and eat very long; they "eat and run". The usual meals in Russia are breakfast, dinner, and supper. Russian people prefer omelets, boiled or fried eggs or just some porridge. They are 3 coursers in Russian dinner. For the first course they usually have soup: schi, borsch, rice soup with meat and potatoes, chicken broth. For the second course they like eating fried meat, cutlets with potatoes. For dessert they take stewed fruit, tea with lemon and sugar. The best typical Russian food is okroshka. It is fresh. Some people dislike eating pelmeni, because they are fat. It's difficult for stomach to deal with it. But you'll never leave Russian table being hungry.
a)Can you tell the proverbs about meal.
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Read the article and retell. The big clock on the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London is often called Big Ben. But Big Ben is really the bell of the clock. It is the biggest clock bell in Britain. It weighs 13.5 tons. The clock tower is 318 feet high. You have to go up 374 steps to reach the top. So the clock looks small from the pavement below the tower. But its face is 23 feet wide. It would only just fit into some classrooms. The minute-hand is 14 feet long. Its weight is equal to that of two bags of coal. The hour-hand is 9 feet long. The clock bell is called Big Ben after Sir Benjamin Hall. He had the job to see that the bell was put up. Sir Benjamin was a big man. One day he said in Parliament, "Shall we call the bell St. Stephen's?" St. Stephen's is the name of the tower. But someone said for a joke, "Why not call it Big Ben?" Now the bell is known all over the world by that name.
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Read the article and do the tasks given bellow. A supermarket, also called a grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments. It is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store and it is smaller than a hypermarket or superstore. The supermarket typically comprises meat, fresh produce, dairy, and baked goods departments along with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various nonfood items such as household cleaners, pharmacy products, and pet supplies. Most supermarkets also sell a variety of other household products that are consumed regularly, such as alcohol (where permitted), household cleaning products, medicine, clothes, and some sell a much wider range of nonfood products. The traditional suburban supermarket occupies a large amount of floor space, usually on a single level, and is situated near a residential area in order to be convenient to consumers. Its basic appeal is the availability of a broad selection of goods under a single roof at relatively low prices. Other advantages include ease of parking and, frequently, the convenience of shopping hours that extend far into the evening or even 24 hours a day. Supermarkets usually make massive outlays of newspaper and other advertising and often present elaborate in-store displays of products. The stores often are part of a corporate chain that owns or controls other supermarkets located nearby — even transnational — thus increasing opportunities for economies of scale.
Match the words with their definitions.
1. supermarket
2. merchandise
3. price
4. consumer
5. product
6. household
7. department
a. connected with looking after a house and the people in it
b. something useful that is made in a factory, grown, or taken from nature
c. one of the areas that sells a particular type of product in a large shop
d. the amount of money for which something is sold, bought, or offered
e. a very large shop where customers can choose from a large number of different kinds of food and other needed goods
f. someone who buys and uses products and services
g. goods that are shown in a shop for people to buy
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Read and complete the article with the phrases and words below. a new study shows
b physical activity
c participants
d quality of life
e neighborhood
f aspects of health
g pedestrians
The benefits of walking around your neighborhood Well, if you live in a neighborhood where you can easily walk to nearby shops, you are likely to be more active and thinner than if you live in a place where you have to drive everywhere, (1)_____. This is true no matter what income level the neighborhood. Researchers looked at 32 neighborhoods in Seattle and Baltimore, based on income and walkability factors. About 2,200 people, ages 20 to 65, wore accelerometers to track moderate to (2) ______. They also filled out assessments to measure their mental and physical (3) _______. People did 40 to 50 minutes more physical activity per week if their neighborhoods were designed for (4) ______, regardless of whether they lived in higher-income or lower-income neighborhoods. (5) _______ were less likely to be overweight if they lived in places that were friendly to walking. People did not rate their quality of life any better if they lived in a highly walkable (6) _______, but they did if they lived in a high-income area. Walkability did not seem to help all (7) _______, but living in a walkable neighborhood could help our health.
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Read the article and answer the questions bellow. Kazakhstan food - traditional and modern cookery The main meal of every dastarkhan and one of the most delicious for Kazakh people was Kazakh style cooked meat. Boiled meat was served in large uncut pieces. The host was cutting the meat himself and treat every guest: pelvic bones and shank for honourable old people, brisket for sonin-law or daughter-in-law, neck-bone for girls and so on. The most honorable guest received particular method cooked head of the ram. The guest should part the head between people around the dastarkhan obeying to ancient ritual showing respectful attitude to guests, old people, kids, near and far relations. The delicious aromatic meat was eaten with thin boiled pieces of pastry. Excellent addition to this dish was rich flavoured meat bouillon - sorpa, served in phials. Kumiss and tea were the last dishes of the meal. Today Kazakh meal is something different from the old one but still it is imbued with ancient laws of hospitability. On the contrary the hospitability is larger then ever for now because not only Kazakhs but people of various nations (Kazakhstan is a multinational country) have a meal around the dastarkhan: Russians, Tatars, Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Uigurs, Koreans and more. All these nations made their contribution on Kazakhs cookery.
Answer the questions
1. What is traditional Kazakh food?
2. What did the most honorable guest receive?
3. What were the last dishes of the meal?
4. Is Kazakh meal today something different from the old one?
5. Who made their contribution on Kazakhs cookery?
