MEALS IN ENGLAND

 MEALS IN ENGLAND

The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner or — in simpler houses — breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. For breakfast Englishmen often have porridge or corn-flakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, jam with buttered toasts and tea or coffee. For a change they can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or fish. English people usually have lunch about one o'clock. At lunch time in a London restaurant you can have a mutton chop, or steak and chips, or cold meat or fish with potatoes and salad, then a pudding or fruit. Afternoon tea can hardly be called a meal. It is a substantial meal only in well-to-do families (состоятельных семьях). It is between five and six o'clock. It is rather a sociable sort of thing, as friends often come for a chat (поболтать) while they have their cup of tea (за чашкой чая), cake or biscuit. In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. But in great many English homes, the midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening there is usually a much simpler supper — they begin with soup, then an omelet, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.

 

Questions:

1. What are the usual meals in England?
3. What is a traditional English breakfast?
4. What are the two substantial meals of the day?
5. When is lunch usually taken?
6. What does lunch include?
7. Is tea popular among the English?
8. When do they usually have dinner?

Vocabulary:
meal – питание, еда; lunch — обед (обычно в полдень в середине рабочего дня), ланч
porridge — (овсяная) каша
a boiled egg – варенное яйцо

cold ham – холодная ветчина

mutton chop – баранья отбивная
sausage — колбасу; сосиска; колбасный фарш
steak — бифштекс, кусок мяса/рыбы (для жаренья)
snack — легкая закуска
midday – полдень, substantial - сытный

buttered toasts – тосты с маслом

breakfast – завтрак, dinner – обед, supper – ужин

hardly – вряд ли, rather – скорее, among – среди.

Упражнение 1. Сформируйте общий вопрос:

1. She is a very good teacher.

2. Her parents are both doctors.

Упражнение 2. Задайте специальный вопрос 

1. I am looking for my watch (what?)

2. His pen friend lives in London. (where?)

3. We met after school yesterday. (when?)

4. She'll come to the party. (who?)

  Упражнение 3. Поставите правильный «хвостик» в разделительном вопросе:

1. She doesn’t like watching TV, _?

2. Her brother is older that she, _?

Упражнение 4: Поставьте альтернативный вопрос к выделенным словам:

1. He is going to read at the weekend. (to ride a bike)

2. I would like a cup of tea. (some juice)