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Meals

Exercise 4

Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below:

dinner lunch afternoon tea breakfast high tea

I usually eat four meals a day: ………… in the morning, after getting out of bed; …….. at 1 p.m.; ………………. (as a rule, a cup of tea with a sandwich) or ……….. (this is a cooked meal but less than a dinner) at 5 p.m. and ………… (supper) in the evening, at 7 p.m.

I don't eat much for breakfast. I eat eggs (fried or boiled), bacon, cheese and all kinds of porridge (buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, millet, semolina, pearl-barley, pumpkin etc). For lunch I eat soup, meat or fish and dessert.

Dinner (supper) is, as a rule, scanty: a slice of cheese, a cup of tea or coffee and an apple.

Think about your answers to the questions above. Are they the same or different? Why ‘yes’? Why ‘no’?

Exercise 5

Fill in the correct words from the list below:

Part 1.

healthy hard energy balance breakfast

…………. is, according to doctors, the most important meal of the day. It should consist of a ………. of protein, carbohydrates and vitamins. A ……….. breakfast will give you …………. and vitality you need to survive a ………... day at work.

Part 2.

canteens coffee midday cafes dessert consist lunch dinner

……… is a meal taken in the middle of the day, between breakfast and dinner. The English lunch usually ……….. of two courses – meat or fish with vegetables and a sweet course (………..). For lunch an Englishman may have chops, steaks, cutlets, fried fish with vegetables, some salad and so on. A cup of ………., fruit or fruit puddings are usually taken for the sweet course.

Some people call this meal ………, they don’t have any larger meal after lunch. Thus, the English word lunch can hardly be translated or explained as ‘the second breakfast’, the more so as there is a special word in everyday use to denote the ‘second breakfast’, - it is ‘elevenses’.

Everything in London stops at ……… for lunch. Most offices, institutions and small shops close for an hour, sat from 1 to 2 p.m. The streets, squares, crossings are full of people who are on their way to ……… . At factories, plants and docks, workers get their lunch in ………. .