3 Check your understanding. Answer the following questions:

1. What can you say about Ukrainian hospitality?

2. What are your meal-times? What order of meals do you follow?

3. What is the difference between meals and meal-times in England and Ukraine?

4. What is English "afternoon tea?"

5. What is your favourite dish?

6. What do you generally take for the first (second) course?

4 Read and dramatize the dialogue.

- Waiter! I'd like the menu, please.

- Here you are, sir.

- I'd like some soup.

- Tomato soup?

- Yes, please. And I’d like a steak.

- Rare, medium, or well-done?

- Medium, please.

- Which vegetables would you like?

- I'd like some potatoes, some peas, and a salad, please.

- Certainly, sir.

- And I'd like some wine.

- Which wine would you like, sir?

- A bottle of red wine, please.

5 Read the dialogue.

In a restaurant Waiter: Good evening. Two for dinner? Ken: Yes, that's right.

Waiter: You can leave your coats here. Where would you like to sit?

Ken: Thank you. Where would you like to sit, Natalie?

Waiter: Would you like this table by the window?

Ken: Yes, that's nice. Could we see the menu?

Waiter: Certainly. Here it is. Shall I give you a few minutes to look at it?

Ken: Yes. We'll order in a few minutes.

Ken: Do you want an appetizer?

Natalie: Hmm. I think I'll have a shrimp cocktail. I'm crazy about shrimps. What about you?

Ken: I'm not sure. I can't decide.

Natalie: Oh, if I were you, I'd have the smoked salmon. You always say you like smoked salmon, and you haven't had any for a long time.

Waiter: Are you ready to order now? What would you like with fish? Maybe some vegetables?

Natalie: Yes. Some zucchini, some carrots, pees and some boiled potatoes.

Waiter: And a salad?

Natalie: No, I am on a diet.

Ken: Bring me a mixed salad with the appetizer, please.

Waiter: All right. Will you have some dessert?

Natalie: Can we order that later?

Waiter: Of course.

Waiter. Would you like a bottle of wine? May I suggest something?

Ken: Sure.

Waiter: We have some white wine. It's French. You'll like it.

Ken: That sounds fine. Let's try it.

6 Complete the sentences according to the dialogue:

1. Ken and … … are in the … … 2. They’d like to have … …. 3. They have a table near … …. 4. Natalie likes … … most of all. 5. They will drink … … wine. 6. Natalie like such vegetables: … …, carrots, … … . 7. Ken ordered … … . 8. They didn’t decide about the … … .

7 Ask and answer. Choose the correct answer from the right-hand column.

What do we call

a refreshment-room? a tea-spoon? a sandwich? meals? drinks? vegetables? food? fruit? dessert? meal-time? course?

-two pieces of buttered bread with cheese or meat between them; -a spoon to stir tea with; -a room in a university, in a theatre or in a cinema where one can eat something; -a plate, a pan, a cup, a teapot, a bowl, a fork, a spoon, a knife; -breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper; -bread, meat, fish, butter, eggs, cheese, sugar, bacon, herring that can be eaten by people or animals, or used by plants, to keep them living and for growth; -potatoes, tomatoes, beets, peas, cabbage, cucumbers; -pudding, cake, sweets, pie, ice-cream, jam, jelly; -one of the several parts of a meal; -water, milk, tea, coffee, cocoa, beer, wine, fruit juice; -apples, pears, plums, oranges, tangerines, grapes, bananas, berries; -usual time for taking a meal.

What do you say

if there is not enough salt in the soup? if you don't like to have dinner alone? if you want to have some brown bread? if you cannot eat anything? if you want to have another cup of tea? if you are faint from hunger? when you are very hungry? when you are thirsty?

I am as hungry as a hunter. Let’s have dinner together. Pass me the salt, please. Pass me some brown bread, please. I'm rather hungry. I am more than ready for my dinner. I have no appetite. I’d like a drop of water. May I ask for another cup of tea?