Supplementary Reading Text 1: Read and translate the following text. Meals

Breakfast in a British hotel is a large meal. It usually begins with a choice of fruit juice, porridge or cereal. Then comes the main course with a choice of bacon and egg, bacon and sausage, poached egg, boiled egg, scrambled egg, or fish. Finally there is toast and marmalade. You may choose tea or coffee to drink, though in cheaper ho­tels you may be offered only tea. In more expensive hotels there is more choice at each stage.

Lunch in a simple hotel begins with soup, though in a more expensive one you usually have a choice of soup, fruit juice, or hors d’oeuvres. For the main course there are three main choices: cold meat and salad, fish, or roast meat and two vegetables. Then there is a choice of sweets, such as hot apple tart, a hot milk pudding, cold fruit sal­ad, or ice-cream. If you wish to finish the meal with coffee, you must pay for it as an extra.

At about five o'clock there is a very light meal called tea. This consists of a cup of tea and a cake.

In England "everything slops for tea". In the train you are sure of being able to get it, in the car you carry it in a flask. Even at theatre and cinema matinees, during the interval, usherettes move about carrying trays laden with cups and teapots.

Finally in the city offices, as if by ritual, twice a day, about eleven o'clock and at four — steaming cups of tea.

Dinner in a hotel is very similar to lunch, except that there is usually more choice and it is nearly always dear­er. In an expensive hotel there is also often an extra fish course before the main course.

a) Give a summary of the text "Meals" and comment on it.

b) Compose dialogues on the following topics. Work in pairs.

1. Having breakfast at a hotel. 2. Having lunch or dinner at a restaurant.. 3. Having tea at a tea shop.

Text 2: Read and remember the following formulas of etiquette.