social standing.
II. Try your hand at teaching:
A. Preparation. Write 15 questions about Text A. See to it that a word or phrase from Ex. I
is used either in each of your questions or in answers to them.
B. Work in Class. Ask your questions in class and correct the students' mistakes (see
"Classroom English", Sections I, II, III, VIII, IX).37
37 One of the students may ask questions, another correct the mistakes after each question and answer
III. Study Texts В and С and
a) explain the meaning of:
delicious (about food), layer-cake, oven, napkin, a big eater, done to a turn, seconds.
b) give the Infinitive oft
overdone, spilt, upset, mashed, stewed.
IV. a) Give a summary of Text В in reported speech.
Example: Text С is a talk between two friends in the dining hall of their Institute. They
seem very hungry, but they haven't got much time left before the end of the break, so one of them
stands in the line, while the other reads the menu. There is a rich choice of dishes in it but as they are
in a hurry they take only salads, fish jelly and chicken soup, which shows that they are obviously
Russians: the English are not overfond of soup, as you know.
b) Learn Text С by heart and recite it la pairs.
V. Study Essential Vocabulary II and the commentary to it and answer the
following questions:
1. What kinds of food do you know? Give as many nouns denoting food as you can. 2. What
meals do you know? 3. What dishes do you know? Give as many names of dishes as you can. 4.
What is understood by a "course"? What attributes may qualify this word? 5. What can be boiled? 6.
Do we fry meat or do we roast it? 7. What is an omelette made from? 8. What are cornflakes
generally eaten with? 9. What is the difference between fried potatoes and chips? 10. What kind of
meal is five o'clock tea in England? Do you know other names for this meal? 11. What kinds of fruit
do you know? 12. Do we roast fish? What is the way to cook it? 13. Do you ever have stewed fruit
for dessert? 14. Do you usually have a starter before dinner or do you do without it? 15. Where do
you have your meals on weekdays and on Sundays?
VI. Fill in prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
1. Take another helping ... salad. 2. I think I'll trouble you ... a second cup of tea. 3. Will you
please pass ... the sugar. 4. She is going to make some fish soup ... dinner. 5. Marmalade is made ...
orange peel. 6. The egg is eaten ... a small spoon. 7. Their meal consisted ... two courses. 8. What can
you recommend ... the first course? 9. The meat is done ... a turn. 10. No sugar ... me, thank you.