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Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a __________alien,

I'm an Englishman in New York.

Task 16. Answer the questions about the song.

1. What is the difference between Englishmen and Americans?

2. Why do the English use walking cane?

3. Why will a gentleman walk but never run?

4. Can manners make a man?

5. Can modesty and propriety lead to notoriety?

6. Are gentleness and sobriety rare only in America?

7. Why is a candle brighter than the sun? What does it mean?

8. What is the main idea of this song?

English meals

This is what the English call “meals”

Text A

English Meals

The traditional English breakfast consists of porridge, fried bacon and eggs, marmalade on toast, tea with milk or coffee.

Marmalade is made of oranges. The milk is usually cold. When the English have tea they prefer to pour milk into the cup first and then tea, but not the other way round. The taste is different.

Nowadays a lot of people just have cereal with milk for breakfast. Sometimes instead of marmalade they have jam or honey. Jam is made from fruit other than oranges.

At offices and factories there is a tea or coffee break at eleven. Then at midday the English have lunch. It is usually from 1 to 2 p.m. when most offices are closed for the lunch time.

There are two courses in the midday meal – a meat course with lots of vegetables or all sorts of salad and a sweet course. It may be fruit pudding and custard. Then they have tea or coffee.

For some people lunch is a quick meal. In cities they go to sandwich bars, where they can have vegetables, meat or fish to go in the sandwich.

If you ask for coffee in Britain it is usually served white. One should ask for black coffee if he wants his coffee without milk.

In pubs people can have good, cheap food, both cold and hot. At schools pupils are served a hot meal, though sometimes schoolchildren take a sandwich with a drink from home.

In the middle of the afternoon there is another break for “tea”. It is a meal and a drink. They have tea or coffee often with a sandwich, cake or biscuits.

The evening meal is dinner. It is the main meal of the day. The English may have it between 6 or 8 p.m. The whole family usually gathers at table. Englishmen are fond of good, plain food. They like soup, roast beef, chops, steaks and Yorkshire pudding, fried fish and chipped potatoes.

Yorkshire pudding is not sweet. It is a mixture of eggs, flour and milk. It is served with roast beef, Brussels sprout and carrots. The dish comes from Yorkshire, England’s largest county. Yorkshiremen eat it separately before a meal.

When dinner is over Englishmen may go to the local pub and order some beer, dark or light. There are usually a lot of people in the local pubs. They play darts, dominoes and billiards, discuss the latest news or the weather forecast.

The English do not usually have supper. Though in some working families they do have it. They have supper rather late and eat roast beef, fish and chips and a cup of tea finishes the meal.

At any time between 10 and 12 p.m. the English have a drink and a snack. Then they go to bed.

On Sundays a lot of families have additional lunch. It consists of roast beef, lamb, pork or chicken with vegetables and potatoes.

Task 1. Read and memorize the following groups of words.

Task 2. Complete the following sentences.

1. The traditional English breakfast consists of … .

2. When the English have tea … .

3. Sometimes instead of marmalade … .

4. At offices and factories there is … at eleven.

5. There are two courses in the midday meal … .

6. In pubs people can have … .

7. At schools pupils are served … .

8. Englishmen are fond … . They like … .

9. Yorkshire pudding is … .

10. Englishman may go to the local pub and … . They play …, discuss … .

11. Working families have supper rather late and … .

12. At any time between 10 and 12 p.m. the English … .

Task 3. Translate from Russian into English.

а) состоять из;

быть сделанным из;

предпочитать;

на завтрак;

быстрый прием пищи;

подавать;

главный прием пищи;

собираться за столом;

простая еда;

пойти в паб;

заказать пиво;

играть в дротики;

обсуждать прогноз погоды;

заканчивать еду.

в) яичница с беконом;

злаки с молоком;

мясное блюдо;

сладкое блюдо;

пудинг со взбитыми сливками;

кофе с молоком;

черный кофе;

горячая еда;

кофе с сэндвичем;

жареная рыба;

картофель фри;

смесь яиц, муки и молока;

брюссельская капуста и морковь;

светлое (темное) пиво.

Task 4. Answer the questions.

1. What is the traditional English breakfast?

2. What tea do the English usually prefer?

3. What do Englishmen have for breakfast nowadays?

4. What is jam made of?

5. When do the English have a tea or coffee break?

6. When do they have lunch?

7. What does a meat course consist of?

8. What is a “sweet course”?

9. Where do the people in cities go to have lunch?

10. What is “white coffee”?

11. What food do the English have in pubs and schoolchildren at schools?

12. Where do the English have the main meal?

13. What does it consist of?

14. What is “Yorkshire pudding”?

15. When do Yorkshiremen eat such a pudding?

16. When do the English go to the local pub? What do they do there?

17. Do the English have supper?

18. Who has supper in Great Britain?

19. What do working families have for supper?

20. Do the English eat anything before going to bed?

Task 5. Fill in the table.

Task 6. Translate the words and expressions in brackets into English.

1. When the English have tea they (предпочитают наливать сначала молоко в чашку) and then tea, (но не наоборот).

2. Sometimes (вместо мармелада) they have (джем или мед).

3. Marmalade (сделан из апельсинов), jam (сделан из других фруктов).

4. At offices and factories (есть перерыв на чай или кофе в 11 часов).

5. There are two courses in the midday meal (мясное блюдо с овощами и сладкое блюдо).

6. If you ask for coffee in Britain (он обычно подается с молоком).

7. For dinner the English like (суп, ростбиф, котлеты, жареную рыбу и картофель фри).

8. Yorkshire pudding (подается с ростбифом, спаржей и морковью).

9. Englishmen may go to the local pub (и заказать светлое или темное пиво).

10. In the local pubs the English (играют в дротики, обсуждают последние новости и прогноз погоды).

Task 7. Read and translate the text. Agree and disagree with the following statements.

1. Visitors to Britain believe the English food terrible.

2. English coffee is horrible, because the English can’t make coffee.

3. Parties and celebrations are centred on food.

4. The range of plants and domestic animals the English eat is rather wide.

5. The English are fond of using different spices and sauces for cooking.

Text B

Britain and good food are two things which are not commonly associated. Visitors to Britain have various opinions of all sorts of aspects of the country, but most of them seem to agree that the English food is terrible. The most common point of view is that the British food has very little taste at all.

The country has neither a widespread “restaurant culture” nor a “café society”. In the middle of the day people just want to eat quickly and are not interested in quality. The coffee is horrible not because the British prefer it in that way, because they don’t go to a café for a delicious, slow cup of coffee. They go there because they need the caffeine.

Even at home they pay little attention to food and drink. The coffee is often as bad as it is in the cafes. Parties and celebrations are not normally centred on food. If a British person expresses a liking for barbecues it does not mean that he or she likes barbecued food. It means that he or she enjoys the typical barbecue atmosphere.

British people have been mostly urban. They have had little contact with the land for longer than the people of other countries. That is why the range of plants and domestic animals they eat is rather narrow.

However, the picture is not entirely negative. While the British are conservative about ingredients, they are no longer conservative about the way they served. But now the British are extremely open to the cuisine of other countries. The country’s supermarket shelves are full of spices and sauces needed for cooking dishes from all over the world. Besides there is an increasing interest in the pure enjoyment of eating and drinking.