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brynza (salted cheese), ham, cabbage, etc. But the menu doesn't limit itself to potatoes; there
is also a great selection of salads, hot sandwiches (toasts) with ham, fried mushrooms and
cheese, varenyky (Ukrainian ravioli with cherry, meat, potato and mushrooms), hot fragrant
soups, mouth-watering desserts (delicious pies, fruit with souffle and fruit jelly) and various
drinks (from ice-cold refreshing drinks to hot chocolate and coffee).
Lively and bright interiors, in which green, yellow and red colours dominate, create a
pleasant atmosphere and festive mood.
4. Read the text, translate it into Ukrainian and try to retell it.
ENGLISH MEALS
The usual meals are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner; or, in some homes, breakfast,
dinner, tea and supper. The usual English breakfast is porridge, bacon and eggs, marmalade
(made from oranges) with buttered toast, and tea or coffee. For a change you can have a
boiled egg, cold ham, or perhaps fish.
The English generally have lunch about one o’clock. The businessman in London
usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or a restaurant;
but if he is making lunch at home he has cold meat (left over probably from yesterday’s
dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding or fruit to follow. Sometimes the
English have a mutton chop, or steak and chips, followed by biscuits and cheese, and some
people like a glass of light beer with lunch.
Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal, but it is a sociable sort of thing, as friends
often come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuits.
In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. But in a great many English
homes, the midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening there is usually a
much simpler supper – an omelet, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes
just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
Put 8-10 questions to the text. Say a few words about English meals.

5. Read the following text and say whether the following statements are true, false or
not given in the text.
Understanding British meals is one of the great mysteries to the foreign visitor. Over
the centuries, the British have shown a tendency to name and rename their meals, and to
move them about the day in an apparently random fashion. Further to confuse outsiders, we
give different names to each meal depending on our social class and part of the country we
live in.
Breakfast, which was once taken at 5 o'clock in the morning, can now be at any time
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before 11.30. It has thus overtaken dinner. In Norman times – the 12 century – dinner was
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at 9 am; by the 15 century it had moved to 11am; and today it can be eaten at any time
between noon and 2.30 in the afternoon and is called lunch by a large proportion of the
population, especially the middle and upper classes and people from southern Britain. Many
farm labourers, however, who start work at sun-rise and have their breakfast before they go
to work, still stop for a lunch break at about 9 o'clock.
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In the 14 century, supper was at 4 o'clock – which is now called tea-time. But outside
the south-east of England, working families have tea or high tea at about 6 in the evening
while the rest of their fellow-countrymen have dinner, which is often also called supper, at
about 7.30 pm.
1. The British don’t give names to their meals.
2. The names of British meals are meant to confuse foreign visitors.
3. The British once took their breakfast at 5am.
4. In some parts of the country the names of meals never changed.

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