Задания для студентов СПО специальности "Технология общественного питания"

Билет 1. Food
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I usually have four meals a day. In the morning I have breakfast. At school I have lunch. At home I have dinner and in the evening I have supper. Besides, I like to eat an apple or a banana, or to drink a glass of juice between meals, if I'm thirsty. Yesterday I got up at 7 o'clock, washed, cleaned teeth and dressed. Then I had breakfast. I had mashed potatoes with meat, a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea for breakfast. At school we had a pie and a glass of orange juice. I'm always hungry when I come home after school.
Yesterday my mother cooked cabbage soup' roast chicken and rice, made pudding and tea. It was so tasty' I ate everything with pleasure. For supper we had pancakes with jam and sour cream. These are my favourite things.
My mother thinks that one apple a day keeps the doctor away. That’s why she buys fruit and vegetables every day. Yesterday she bought oranges and kiwi. I have a sweet tooth and my parents often buy me ice-cream, sweets, chocolate, cakes, cookies and other tasty things. I like them very much.

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1. I usually have .... a day.

2. ...I like to eat an apple or a banana or to drink a glass of juice ... meals, if I'm ... .

3. I'm always ... when I come home after school.

4. For supper we had ... with jam and ….

3. Согласитесь или исправьте неверные утверждения
1. In the morning I have supper.

2. I had mashed potatoes with meat, a hamburger and a cup of tea for breakfast.

3. Yesterday my mother cooked cabbage soup, roast chicken and rice and made pudding and tea.

4. My mother thinks that a potato a day keeps the driver away.

4. Ответьте на вопросы
1. How many meals a day do you have?

2. Where and when do you have breakfast (lunch, dinner, supper)?

3. What did you have for breakfast (lunch, dinner, supper) yesterday?

4. What do you like to eat when you are hungry?

5. What do you like to drink when you are thirsty?

6. Do you like fruit and vegetables? Why?

7. Do you have a sweet tooth? What do you like to eat?

Билет 2. My meals
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It goes without saying that I prefer to have meals at home. At the weekend I like to get up late and have a good breakfast of scrambled eggs, or pancakes, or something like that. But on weekdays I'm always short of time in the morning. So I just have a cup of strong tea or coffee and a couple of sandwiches.

As I spend a lot of time at school (usually eight or nine hours) it's necessary to have a snack at midday just to keep me going. That's why I have to go to the school canteen to have lunch. Our school canteen leaves much to be desired. It has become a tradition with our canteen to serve chops and watery mashed potatoes every day with a glass of cocoa or stewed fruit.

But I enjoy my evening meal at home. My mother is a wonderful cook and her dinners are always delicious and various.

To begin with, we usually have some salad — tomato and cucumber salad or mixed salad (I like it very much). For the first course we have some soup — noodle, mushroom or cabbage soup, or maybe some fish soup for a change. For the main course we have meat, chicken or fish dishes, for example, steak or fried fish with spaghetti or potatoes (boiled or fried). We also have a lot of vegetables — green peas, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers. I prefer meat to fish but my mother makes me eat fish from time to time. She says it's good for my brains.

For dessert we have some fruit, fruit juice or just a cup of tea with a slice of cake.

On Sundays we sometimes go to McDonald's. I like everything there: cheeseburgers, hamburgers and Big Macs, apple pies and fruit cocktails. But unfortunately we can't afford to go there very often, because it's rather expensive for a family and besides, they say it's not very healthy to eat at McDonald's.
2. Ответьте на вопросы письменно
1 How many meals a day do you usually have?
2. What do you usually have for breakfast?
3. Where do you have lunch (dinner)?
4. How many courses does your lunch (dinner) usually consist of?
5. What is your favourite dish?
6. What vegetables do you like?
7. What do you usually have for dessert?
8. How often do you eat out?
9. Have you ever eaten at McDonald's?
10. Some people say that eating at a restaurant is a waste of money. Do you agree?
11. Can you cook?

3. Укажите правильный ответ
1. After а hard working day I came home and was as hungry as a ….. .
a. wolf b. hunter c. lion d. bird
2.We wanted to have a snack and went to the cafe but unfortunately it was ….. .
a. full b. free c. packed d. crowded
3. Peter doesn`t like juice, he prefers steward fruit for ……. .
a. dinner b. breakfast c. lunch d. supper
4. You should know that soup is eaten with a …… .
a. knife b. napkin c. fork d. spoon
5.……….. is a green, red or yellow fruit, which is very useful for our health.
a. apple b. orange c. pine apple d. strawberry
Билет 3. 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст. Сделайте краткий конспект текста.
English food is full of dishes that have strange names and wonderful flavours. Though the current national dish is currently considered to be Chicken Tikka Masala, there is much famous, more traditional fare to be enjoyed. All through the day, you can tickle your taste buds with things like bubble and squeak, kedgeree, a Cornish pasty, or a Devon scone. The food is complimented by the pleasant teas, ales, and ciders specific to the nation of England as well. Whether you prefer Edwardian culinary delights, Victorian tasty treats, or more contemporary fare, you can explore the local cuisine all over the countryside and in the city as well.
Start your day off with a Full English breakfast, a substantial start to the day. Traditional components to this traditional hearty breakfast are fried eggs, fried toast, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, bangers (links of pork sausage fried up in a skillet, sometimes exploding with a bang), rashers of bacon, and baked beans. Some add black (blood) pudding or white pudding to the plate. Add a pot of tea to the table and you have a spread worthy of lingering at the table on a lazy weekend. If you are more inclined to a simpler, but still filling meal to jumpstart the day, traditional English porridge will hit the spot. Devilled kidneys on toast were once the breakfast food of choice. Brunches often include kedgeree, a curried rice, haddock, and egg concoction.
If you can think about lunch after that filling breakfast, you might try a traditional sandwich like roast beef and horseradish or egg and watercress. Cornish pasties are pastries filled with savoury meat and potatoes are crimped closed and cooked to make them portable pies, perfect for a picnic lunch. Fish and chips are also a traditional take-away English food. Grab some from a fish and chips stand and keep on going, or sit back and relax while you enjoy this deliciously fried treat. Hang out at a pub for steak and ale pie, Ploughman's, or smoked salmon.
Afternoon tea is perhaps the most famous eating tradition in England. People around the world associate the nation with this repast. It starts with crustless, dainty sandwiches, moves to cakes and scones, and is rounded off by petit fours. All along the way you drink delicious English teas. English food for afternoon tea is rich and indulgent, even though it was originally invented as an afternoon pick-me-up. No matter the time of day, traditional English delights can please your palate.

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Mealtimes:
In many European countries it is normal to have a long break in the middle of the day when all members of the family return to their houses to eat together. This is not very common in Britain because normally it is a long way from the place of work or school to the home. Consequently the British people tend to have a big breakfast before they go to work and the meal at midday is not spent with the members of the family but with workmates or schoolmates. Lunch is normally eaten between 12.30 pm and 1.30pm. Most people finish work at five thirty. It often takes at least an hour to get home from the school or workplace so people tend to eat their evening meal or "dinner" between 6.30pm and 8pm.
On Sundays people don't have to work so they take the opportunity eat together with their family. Sunday lunch is usually the best meal of the week and many of the meals which are considered typically British are eaten for Sunday lunch. For example, roast beef and yorkshire pudding.
This is a typical British family eating together on Sunday.
After lunch the father will smoke his pipe and read the newspaper sitting on his favourite armchair 
while his wife washes the dishes. The children will play traditional English games such
as hopscotch, skipping or doctors and nurses.
Although everyone in Britain understands that "breakfast" is the first meal of the day. There is a lot of confusion about the words for other meals such as "dinner, lunch, tea, high tea , elevenses, brunch, supper" and if you ask a British person what these words mean, most of them will give you a different answer according to what part of the country they are from or from what social class they are from. Another example of this is the pronunciation of the word "scones" ( a type of cake eaten with Devonshire clotted cream, strawberry jam and cups of tea, known as a "cream tea")
Breakfast.
Generally speaking the British breakfast is much bigger than in most other countries. Many people like to have a fried breakfast which can consist of fried bacon and eggs with fried bread and possibly fried tomatoes or black pudding. Of course not everybody wants to eat a lot early in the morning and many people prefer to just eat toast and marmalade with tea or coffee. Cereals are also very popular. The most common is cornflakes. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc. If you go to a Britsh supermarket you will see that there are many types of cereals available. In Scotland many people eat "porridge" or boiled oats. Porridge is very heavy but in the winter it will keep you warm on your way to school.
Lunch
If you go to Britain to study English and you stay with a family you will almost certainly be given a "packed lunch" to eat for your midday meal. Some factories and schools have canteens where you can eat but the packed lunch is the most common thing to eat. A packed lunch normally consist of some sandwiches, a packet of crisps, an apple and a can of something to drink, for example, coca-cola. The contents are kept in a plastic container and you take it with you when you go to school or work. The quality of the packed lunch can vary from terrible to very good, it all depends on who makes it.
Dinner
Things are changing and most British people eat meals from many different countries for example spagetti or curry. In fact you could even say that the British don't eat much British food. However the most typical thing to eat for dinner is "meat and two veg". This consists of a piece of meat accompanied by two different boiled vegetables. This is covered with "gravy" which is a sauce made with the juice that was obtained when the meat was cooked. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. The British eat a lot of potatoes.

Билет 5. Russian cuisine

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There have always been two types of Russian cuisine - on the one hand, the aristocratic, rich style, and on the other hand – a peasant, simple, everyday style. Russian people loved chicken (turkey emerged at the beginning of the 17th century). Veal was not eaten. Russian kitchens only boiled, steamed or simmered food. Food was never heated in fat (butter).
During the times of the Rus, many different kinds of bread, cakes and pirogs were baked and filled with things which were in the house, farm, garden, field, or forest: chicken, vegetables, peas and beans, fruit, berries or mushrooms. The rivers were full of fish, so

Pirogs filled with all types of fish were very common. Chicken pirogs were eaten on public holidays. Meat was eaten boiled and on special occasions at the end of the meal like blessed food. There was no shortage of soup, especially vegetable soup: borsch, stchi – a soup made from marinated cabbage. Other, favourite was the famous Russian kasha. So there is a Russian saying : “ Stchi and kasha is all we ever get to eat''.
The cuisine of the aristocracy preferred the blinse cakes (pancakes) or towers, which were invented by Russian gourmands and comprised blinses of all manner - of different fillings piled up on top of each other. In the times of Catherine 11 it became fashionable to serve French and Russian meals at receptions, followed by delicious desserts and exotic fruits. The evening meal at the tsarist court comprised 80 courses for each person. There were hot broths, marinated chicken, rabbit, tortoise, sausages, pirogues, salads, oysters, bitter oranges, pastry, blinses, sweets.
It is of upmost importance for the Russian hospitality to set a rich table. Blinses are still very popular both by themselves or filled with meat, fish, caviar, and sour cream. Originally, they symbolized the sun.
2. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту
1. What were the two types of Russian cuisine?
2. How did the Russian cooked the food?
3. Veal wasn't eaten, was it?
4. Was food heated in fat (butter)?
5. What did Russian people use to fill cakes, blinses, pirogs?
6. What soups did Russian people cook?
7. What did the cuisine of Russian aristocracy Tasty treat prefer?
8. What dishes were served at the tsarist receptions?
9. It's a Russian tradition to set a rich table, isn't it?
10. What Russian dishes are still popular?

Билет 6. Russian Cuisine
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Russian cuisine is rich and varied. In Russia there is a large variety of milk products: a sort of dry, granulated cream cheese called "tvorog", thick sour cream called "smetana", and several types of sour milk products of the yoghourt type. Smetana can be used with almost anything: a dollop of it in the soup, a spoonful eaten with meat dish, or strawberries and apples sliced up small and eaten mixed with smetana. It is also used on pancakes. Smetana is an almost universal flavouring sauce, or if you like, it can be drunk by the glassful with or without sugar. Smetana is made from cream. It contains 2,5% of protein, 20 - 40% of fats, lactic acid. One hundred grams contain 203 kilo-calory.
Kefir is a pleasant, useful beverage made from cow's milk, yeast and lactic acid bacteria. It's a dietary product. Ryazhenka is a sour milk product made from baked milk, very pleasant to taste.
There is a big choice of appetizers, soups, hot and dessert dishes. You can recommend your guests soft, pressed and red caviar. Its vitamin content is especially high. Then, of course, salmon, hot and cold smoked sturgeon, pikeperch in aspic or stuffed, herring, red herring, Baltic salt-sprats; fried, smoked, marinated smelt and the like.
As for cold meat dishes our guests can taste ham, lean cold boiled pork with spices (buzhenina), jellied tongue, meat jelly and horse-radish sauce and various salads beginning with salad "Stolychnii" up to Russian salad. For a change you can taste frozen apples. They are delicious. Russian blini with caviar and mushrooms in thick sour cream sauce are popular hot appetizers.
How about soups? There are plenty of them. Fresh cabbage meat shchee, shchee "Petrovskie" (cooked from soodak fish and fresh cabbage), Moscow borshch, kidney and cucumber soup (rassolnik), meat and fish sawlyanka, ookha (special fisherman's soup), mushroom soup and soups in season - okroshka and cold beetroot soup are very popular with our guests. For the hot dish guests can order pike-perch in white wine or fried, sturgeon of all kind - boiled, steamed or on a spit, fried burbot or carp in thick sour-cream sauce or meat dishes to their taste: beef-Stroganoff and mashed potatoes, roast veal, special pot-roast stuffed cabbage-rolls (golubtsy), Siberian pelmeni, suckling with buckwheat "kasha", stewed rabbit and hare and so on. Now a few words about buckwheat "kasha" which may be eaten with meat like potatoes as well as a cereal with butter or milk. It's very popular in our country because it's a very useful product.
It's recommended for stout people, for people suffering from diabetes. Buckwheat kasha purifies our organism and makes us stronger.
There is a large variety of poultry and game dishes: roast chicken, roast duck and goose stuffed with apples and sauerkraut, roast partridge, hazel-grouse, wood-grouse, wood-cock, black-cock, pheasant and quail. They are juicy and tender dishes.
How about dessert? For dessert you can have baked apples, fruit and berry kissels (made from fruit or berry juice and potato flour), compot (made from dried stewed fruit mixed), dessert fruits: aromatic melons from Middle Asia, watermelons from the Volga, juicy grapes, pears, apricots, peaches, tangerines, oranges. And at last Goorievskaya kasha. This dessert dish was made in honour of the victory over Napoleon in the war of 1812. Taste it!
These dishes are served at the Russian restaurants "Sadko", "Troyka", "Okolitsa" and at many other fashionable restaurants in our city.
Russian cuisine is famous for its Russian pies which were baked in Russia in good old times and remain popular nowadays. They are: kulebiaka (a Russian pie with meat or cabbage filling), rastegay (a pie with special fish filling), open curd tarts (vatrushJa), honey-cakes, twists of bread (krendeli), boubliki (thick ring-shaped rolls), baranki (ring-shaped rolls), sooshki (small ring-shaped crackers), Russian Easter cakes and various fancy-cakes.
As for drinks we should recommend fruit and berry beverages: morse, kvas and zbiten (an old Russian beverage made from kvas, cognac or vodka, honey, tea and spices). Welcome to our restaurants!

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Salad-Bars are equipped with a special counter with an open refrigerating vegetable show.
There are: cut lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, spring onions, olives, hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, carrots, beetroot, brown onions, dill, .parsley, celery, cabbage, sauerkraut and also boiled meat, fish, sausage, cheese, cottage cheese and so on. In separate dishes there are: butter, sour cream, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, granulated sugar, horse-radish sauce. Each visitor puts vegetables, meat, fish or both, dressings and sauces in his salad-dish to his own taste. These bars represent one of the variants of "Swedish Board".
Fruit-Bars. It's a new type of bar in our social catering. There are many juices, up to fifteen, electric mixer for milk cocktails, electric coffee-pot, samovar. Customers may have tea, coffee, buns, cakes, pies etc.
Milk-Bars. Great attention should be paid to milk-bars. They can recommend a wide choice of milk products and beverages. Customers can taste milk noodles home style, noodle pudding stuffed with apples, Russian blini with butter or thick sour cream, pies, curd items, cheese sticks, butter, cheese and sausage, sandwiches, milk and cream shakes. Many dishes are made in the presence of customers. Milk-bars will be built close to big dairy shops.
Express-Bars are arranged at the railway stations, hotels, in the shopping centers. Their aim is to serve the customers as quick as possible. The assortment is the following: sandwiches, baking items, pastry, milk products.
Snack-Bars are intended for quick service of customers at the counter. The assortment is minced or plain beefsteak, entrecote, roast chicken, duck or goose, cooling beverages, juices, cocktails, coffee.
Beer-Bars sell bottled and unbottled beer, mineral and fruit wa­ter. There are no strong drinks on sale. Cheese, salted, smoked, dried fish, chipped potatoes, biscuits, small dried rings (sooshki), dried crusts, olives, stuffed eggs, shrimps go nicely with beer. You can also have sandwiches, cold and hot snacks.
Disco-Bars work in the evening. Their halls should be decorated beautifully. Young people come to these bars to have a good time, to dance, to listen to the music, to see the performance. Disco-bars should be equipped with modern musical apparatus and large screens for demonstrating slides. They should also have a television-set, video tape-recorders, special devices producing light effects. Cooling and mixed drinks, snacks and hot dishes are on the menu. For dessert guests can have strawberry, apricot, peach and nut ice-cream.
Welcome to the bars!

Билет 8. The recipes
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Fresh Cabbage Shchee (for four litres)
Beef or pork - one kilo with bone
Fresh cabbage - one kilo
Brown onions - 150 grams
Fresh tomatoes - 2 pieces or one spoonful of tomato paste
Root celery - one piece
Root parsley - one piece
Bay leaf - two pieces
Some dill and spring onions
Salt (to taste)
Water - four litres
The meat is boiled till it's half ready (for an hour or two). Then you put schredded fresh cabbage. Sliced brown onions, carrots, tomatoes, root celery and parsley are fried for twenty - twenty-five minutes in the frying-pan and put in the saucepan. Bay leaf is put at the end of cooking and should be taken away after shchee is ready. Shchee is served with sour cream, cut small spring onions and dill. Cooking-time - about three hours.
Sauerkraut Shchee
Sauerkraut is washed and stewed for an hour in the frying-pan. You can use butter or some fat. Meat is boiled in the saucepan. After an hour sauerkraut is simmered with meat. If you like you can put a potato or two ten minutes before putting the sauerkraut. Otherwise the potato(es) will taste badly. Fried vegetables: brown onions, tomatoes or tomato paste, carrots and greens: celery, parsley and bay leaf are put in the saucepan. Everything is simmered for half an hour. Sauerkraut shchee is served with thick sour cream, cut dill and parsley. Cooking-time is about three hours. Sauerkraut shchee is an old Russian dish.
Okroshka
(four - five portions) Kvas - 1 litre
New cucumber(s) - 1 of medium size
Spring onions - 100 gr
Hard-boiled eggs - 2
Boiled beef- 100 gr or boiled sausage/sausages
Lean ham - 50 gr
Spring onions and cucumber(s) are washed and sliced. So is boiled beef and ham. Hard-boiled eggs are cut large. All this is put in the kvas, salted to taste. It's better to have kvas sour. If it's sweet you can put a slice of lemon or citric acid at the tip of the knife. In home-made cooking a potato (boiled and cut) is added. Before serving okroshka it's recommended to keep it in a cool place or refrigerator for two hours. Okroshka is served with thick sour cream, cut parsley and dill. If it's too thick you should add some more kvas.
Chicken "Tabaka"
Chicken "Tabaka" is roasted under press for an hour. Before roasting the chicken is greased with the prepared mass of pounded garlic (2-3 cloves), ground pepper, cut greens and salt. Chicken "Tabaka" is served on a large plate and garnished with chipped potatoes, marinated onions, tomatoes or cucumbers, raw or pickled. Tomato or pomegranate sauce is served separately. Cooking-time is an hour.

Билет 9. British Cuisine
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Some people criticize English food. They say it's unimaginable, boring, tasteless, it's chips with everything and totally overcooked vegetables. The basic ingredients, when fresh, are so full of flavour that British haven't had to invent sauces to disguise their
natural taste. What can compare with fresh pees or new potatoes just boiled and served with butter? Why drown spring lamb in wine or cream and spices, when with just one or two herbs it is absolutely delicious? If you ask foreigners to name some typically English dishes, they will probably say "Fish and chips" then stop. It is disappointing, but true that, there is no tradition in England of eating in restaurants, because the food doesn't lend itself to such preparation. English cooking is found at home. So it is difficult to find a good English restaurant with a reasonable prices. In most cities in Britain you'll find Indian, Chinese, French and Italian restaurants. In London you'll also find Indonesian, Mexican, Greek... Cynics will say that this is because English have no "cuisine" themselves, but this is not quite the true.

2. Письменно ответьте на вопросы

1. What do foreigners say when they criticize English food?
2. Do English people use a lot of sauces?
3. From a foreigner's point of view, what are typically English dishes?
4. Do all English eat in restaurants?
5. What kind of restaurants can you find in Britain?
6. Is it the true that English have no cuisine?

Билет 10. Caucasian Cuisine

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Caucasian cuisine is rich in various appetizers, soups, hot and cold dishes. A great variety of green vegetables is used in making appetizers. They are: egg-plants, tomatoes, string-beans, cabbage, sauerkraut, cauliflower, beets, potatoes, garlic, brown onions, spinach and also greens, spices, mushrooms, eggs and walnuts. The latter are used in making sauces to dishes of all kind. What appetizers can guests taste? Here are some of them.
1) Egg-plants stuffed with wal nuts, garlic, brown.onion , cut small kinza, celery, parsley, dried cinnamon, clove, winy vinegar, cayenne, salt.
2) Baked egg-plants with walnuts and pomegranate.
3) Fried egg-plants and tomato sauce.
4) Salted egg-plants and walnuts.
5) Grilled mushrooms and walnut sauce.
6) Stewed tomatoes and walnuts.
7) String-bean salad.
8) Spinach, garlic and thick sour-cream etc.
There are soups to any taste but most popular are spicy soup khartcho, tender chihirtma and thick chanahy.
As for meat dishes you can taste meat-boiled, roast, stewed, grilled and on a spit. For example:
1) boiled beef in tomato sauce with greens;
2) roast beef and string-beans with greens;
3) beef fillet stewed in walnut and tomato sauce;
4) pork fillet stewed with quince;
5) boiled mutton in garlic sauce;
6) liver in pomegranate sauce;
7) pilaf.
Meat on a spit shashlyk is served everywhere in Georgia. It is suckling, lamb, beef, chicken and even kidneys.
The poultry dishes are also very popular in Caucasian cookery:
1) oiled chicken in garlic sauce;
2) roast or boiled chicken in walnut sauce (bazha).
The sauce is made from minced walnuts, garlic, cut
small kinza, salt and vinegar. The chicken is roasted or boiled, then cut in pieces, put on a dish and poured with this sauce.
3) chakhohbily of chicken;
4) chicken "Tabaka";
5) satsivy of poultry.
How about fish and fish dishes? The guests can taste:
1) fried fish in tomato sauce;
2) boiled fish in garlic sauce;
3) satsivy of fish.
There are many egg-dishes:
1) cheese-sulguny and eggs;
2) tomatoes and eggs;
3) string-beans and eggs;
4) walnuts, pomegranate and eggs and some others.
Let us add a few words about baked items. We all know kha- chapouri - pies with cheese and egg filling. But not everybody knows that khachapouri can be baked with potatoes, kidney-beans or top beets. Then go pies with raisins and walnuts, honey pies and sweet, delicious gozinaky (shelled chopped walnuts boiling with honey). Gozinaky is a traditional New-Year dish. For tea you can have a great variety of jams: apricot, sweet cherries, water-melon, fig, quince and even green tomato jams.

Билет 11. Meals and cooking

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Living in Russia one cannot but stick to a Russian diet. Keeping this diet for an Englishman is fatal. The Russians have meals four times a day and their cuisine is quite intricate.
Every person starts his or her day with breakfast. Poor English­men are sentenced to either a continental or an English breakfast. From the Russian point of view, when one has it continental it ac­tually means that one has no breakfast at all, because it means drinking a cup of coffee and eating a bun. A month of continental breakfasts for some Russians would mean starving. The English breakfast is a bit better, as it consists of one or two fried eggs, grilled sausages, bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms. The English have tea with milk and toast with butter and marmalade. As a choice one may have corn flakes with milk and sugar or porridge.
In Russia people may have anything for breakfast. Some good-humoured individuals even prefer soup, but, of course, sandwiches and coffee are very popular. One can easily understand that in Great Britain by one o'clock people are very much ready for lunch. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day. That would be music for a Russian's ears until he or she learns what lunch really consists of. It may be a meat or fish course with soft drinks followed by a sweet course.
The heart of a Russian person fills with joy when the hands of the clock approach three o'clock. His or her dinner includes three courses. A Russian will have a starter (salad, herring, cheese, etc.), soup, steaks, chops, or fish fillets with garnish, a lot of bread, of course, and something to drink. The more the better. At four or five the Russians may have a bite: waffles, cakes with juice, tea, cocoa, or something of the kind.
In Great Britain they have dinner at five or six. Soup may be served then, but one should not be misled by the word "soup". British soup is just thin paste and a portion is three times smaller than in Russia. A lot of British prefer to eat out. "Fish and Chips" shops are very popular with their take-away food. The more sophisticated public goes to Chinese, Italian, seafood or other restaurants and ex­periments with shrimp, inedible vegetables and hot drinks.

Билет 12

1. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами (см. приведенные ниже слова).

1. This morning my breakfast is ... because I have very little time.

2. Sometimes I eat ..., bread and butter and drink a cup of ... or ... .

3. On my days out my breakfast is ... .

4.I prefer ... tea.

5. We serve our guests ... .

6. Do you like ... sandwiches?

7.1 don't care for ... tea. I prefer it ... .

8.1 don't eat ... bread. I like ... bread.

9. Peter eats ... apples. He doesn't care for ... apples.
scant, ham and cheese, fried eggs, strong freshly-made, substantial, coffee, cocoa, weak, strong, fresh, stale, sour,sweet, quickly.
2. Переведите следующие словосочетания.
Приготовленный завтрак, копченая колбаса, яичница-болтунья, жареное мясо, кипяченое молоко, отварное мясо, сушеная черная смородина, поданная еда, выпечные пироги, копченая осетрина, соленая осетрина.

3. Переведите на русский язык.
l. What can I do for you?

2. Breakfast for two, please.

3.What would you like for breakfast?

4. Here is the menu. Make your choice, please.

5. Today we've got a big choice of milk products and dishes.

6. Would you like ice-cream or whipped cream?

7. Strawberry jam is delicious.

8. I'd rather have curd pancakes and a meat patty.

9. How much do I pay?-Five roubles.

10. I don't care for boiled milk.

11. Will you bring us something substantial to your taste?

12. I'm very much in a hurry.

13. I'll serve you in no time.

14. Would you like cranberry jam? - With great pleasure.

15. Can I have an open curd tart for tea?

16. What's the bill?