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TEXTS FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION

1. Listen to the text ”Fish and Chips” and render it.

FISH & CHIPS
The English people like fish and chips. Everybody seems to have a
fish and chips supper at home at least once a week. There are fish and
chips shops in the side streets of every English town. Mobile shops
sometimes go out to the villages.
The pieces of fish are dropped into deep boiling oil for a few
minutes. They come out crisp and hot, and then wrapped in paper so that
those who come to buy them could take them away.
But if you wish you can eat your fish and chips without taking
them home - there is always a small cafe in the shop.
By the end of the evening many people come for chips to eat them
out of paperbags in the streets. One of the problems of this prosperous
industry is the litter in the streets from paperbags.

2. Listen to the text ”At Dinner” and a) describe the atmosphere at table; b)
answer the following questions:

1. What kind of fish was served?
2. Who refused the cutlet?
3. Did Soames like the asparagus?
4. What was Bossiney offered with his sweet?
5. What did June think of wine?
6. What came upon a silver dish?
7. What were olives served with?
8. What fruit did they eat?

AT DINNER

(From ”The Man of Property”
by J.Galsworthy)

Dinner began in silence; the women were facing one another, and
the men.
In silence the soup was finished - excellent, if a little thick; and
fish was brought. In silence it was handed.

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