ENGLISH MEALS
An Englishman's day begins when he sits down to breakfast with his morning paper. As he scans the headlines there is nothing he likes better than his favourite breakfast of cornflakes with milk and sugar, bacon and eggs, toast and marmalade, tea or coffee. It is really a big meal. Round about 11 in the morning some Englishmen who work have their tea or coffee break. Then at mid-day, say from I till 2, the city pavements are full of people on their way to cafes. This is lunch time in Great Britain. At lunch people seldom eat soup. Those who have lunch at home may eat chicken or clear soup but not always. They usually have a meat course and a sweet dish. Englishmen like steaks, chops, roast-beef, Yorkshire pudding or fish and chips. A meat course is served with plenty of vegetables: peas, beans or cauliflower. They call green cabbage leaves or lettuces "salad. " And eat it with the so called "salad-dressing", a mixture of oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and mayonnaise. A sweet dish is perhaps fruit and pudding or a pie with tea to follow. Afternoon tea can hardly be called a meal. Tea drinking is quite a tradition with the English. 5 o'clock tea is not usually served at the table though Englishmen don't find it convenient. Each person has a cup and saucer and a spoon in his hands. Strong tea is mostly drunk with sugar and cream or milk. Such tea is known as English tea. Tea with lemon is called Russian tea in England.
The evening meal, when all the family gather round the table, after their working day, goes under various names: tea, high tea, dinner or supper. It is usually a meat course followed by tinned fruit or cake and tea. When outing, that is on a picnic, the English load their luncheon baskets with all sorts of hamburgers or sandwiches made of slices of bread and butter with ham, cheese, raw tomatoes, cabbage leaves in between.
On the whole, English cuisine is not the best in the world. Englishmen prefer just "good plain food".
Ex.2. Ответьте: сколько раз в день обычно англичане едят, как называются эти приёмы пищи.
Ex.3. Выскажите своё мнение об английской кухне, сравните ее с русской.
Ex. 4.Прочитайте и переведите следующие пословицы и поговорки. Выучите их.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
I am as hungry as a hunter.
Tastes differ.
Don’t live to eat, but eat to live.
Appetite comes with eating.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Ex.5.Сопоставьте русские и английские эквиваленты.
| A | B |
| 1. dills 2. overdone meat 3. cauliflower 4. help oneself to 5. pass 6. bitter 7. head of cabbage 8. table d’hote 9. cutlery 10. mustard-pot | a. кочан капусты b. передавать c. положить себе d. общий стол e. судок для горчицы f. горький g. ножи и вилки h. пережаренное мясо i. укроп j. цветная капуста |
Ex.6. Прочитайте и переведите диалог. Инсценируйте его, сделав некоторые изменения.