4.1 Warming up: Answer the questions: Do you prefer to eat out or at home? Why? What do usually eat for breakfast, lunch, supper?

Exercise 4.1.1 Look at the menu and choose what to have. What would you like to order?

Exercise 4.1.2 Complete the chart with words from the menu. Find three word for each category:

Meat dishes	… …
Vegetable dishes
Fruit dishes
Drinks
Fish and seafood

Exercise 4.1.3 Watch a Health Product Video in the source https://yandex.kz/video/search?text=food%20pyramid%20video&path and complete the chart:

20 %	Sweets	cookies, marmalade, …, …
40 %	Proteins	…, …
60 %	…	…
80 %
90 %

 

4.2 Read and translate the text:

Food around the world

For 90 % of human history, people took their food from the world around them. They ate all that they could find, and then moved on. Then about 10,000 years ago, or for 1 % of human history, people learned to farm the land and control their environment.

The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in, or which part of our country we live in. For example, in the south of China they eat rise, but in the north they eat noodles. In Scandinavia, they eat a lot of herrings, and the Portuguese love sardines. But in central Europe, away from the sea, people don’t eat so much fish, they eat more meat and sausages. In Germany and Poland there are hundreds of different kinds of sausages.

In North America, Australia, and Europe there are two or more courses to every meal and people eat with knives and forks.

In China there is only one course, all the food is together on the table, and they eat with chopsticks.

In parts of India and the Middle East people use their fingers and bread to pick up the food.

Nowadays it is possible to transport food easily from one part of the world to the other. We can eat what we like, when we like, at any time of the year. Our bananas come from the Garibbean or Africa: our rice comes from India or the USA: or strawberries come from the Chile or Spain. Food is very big business. But people in poor countries are still hungry, and people in rich countries eat too much.

 

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Exercise 4.2.1 Are the statements true or false? Correct the false statements:

1) Food we eat depends on our choice of place;

2) There isn’t rice in the south of China;

3) In Scandinavia and Portuguese people eat a lot of fish;

4) In Europe they don’t eat pork, beef, lamb and so on;

5) Middle East people eat with chopsticks;

6) Indians use their fingers to pick up the food.

 

Exercise 4.2.2 Match the word (1-6) and its definition (a-h):

1) meal; 2) dish;                3) food;                 4) course;    5) cook;                 6) cuisine;        7) portion; 8) snack.

a) a person who makes food; b) a particular style of cooking; c) the separate stages in which a meal is served; d) food which is eaten at the same time each day; e) things that people eat, such as vegetables and meat; f) food prepared in a particular way, typical of a particular area; g) a small amount of food between main meals or instead of a;               h) an amount of food for one person, when served in a restaurant.

 

Exercise 4.2.3 Choose the right verb that suits the phrases: 

grate, boil, dice, chop, grill, roast, toast, slice, mash, fry.

1) …… water to make tea;

2) …… an onion into pieces;

3) …… sausages over the fire;

4) …… bread to make toast;

5) …… cheese for spaghetti;

6) …… a chicken for dinner;

7) ….. a banana for the baby;

8) …… a fish in a pan;

9) …… tomatoes for salad;

10) …… ham for sandwiches.

Exercise 4.2.4 Fill in the gaps using the words in columns:

Ingredients:	Verbs:	Cooking instructions:
Some apples	take	_____ some_____ and _____ them. Take 2 bananas. _____ the fruit into pieces. _____ 5 strawberries. _____ with a _____. You don’t need any sugar. ____ some _____ on the top. Enjoy your fruit salad.
2 bananas	mix
5 strawberries	cut
A spoonful of yogurt	wash
Some ice cream	add
	put

 

4.3 Discuss about Kazakh traditional food. What traditional food does your family like to cook or eat every day, may be on holidays?

 

Kazakh traditional food

Kazakh national food reflects the traditional nomadic lifestyle. And if you are planning to visit Kazakhstan, be prepared to see a wide range of meat dishes. I can assure you that vegetarianism is rarely practiced in this country. It is explained by the fact that the local climate is challenging and the food has to provide a lot of energy. Some dishes may appear extraordinary or even strange, but everything is worth trying at least once.

Beshbarmak. The national dish consists of boiled horse meat or mutton with large noodles and onions. Traditionally beshbarmak is eaten with fingers (literally, "beshbarmak" means "five fingers") from a common platter, with the family and guests sitting on the floor around a low-lying table called dastarkhan.

Kazy. This is a traditional sausage made from the rib meat of horses. The meat is stuffed inside the animal’s intestines and then usually dried or smoked before it is boiled for consumption. Kazy is an important part of any celebratory meal.

Kuyrdak. Kuyrdak is a national dish made from cow’s, horse’s or sheep’s chopped heart, liver, kidneys boiled in oil, and served with onion and pepper.

Kumys. First of all the guest of Kazakhstan family regaled with kumiss (the drink based on mare milk), shubat or airan, next meal was tea with milk or cream, baursaks, raisins, irimshik, kurt. Then the guest was tasting horse-flesh or mutton snacks - kazi, shuzhuk, zhal, zhaya, sur-et, karta, kabirga. Wheat flour cookies were very common too.

 

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Exercise 4.3.1 What ingredients include these national dishes? Write methods for their preparation:

Beshbarmak	Kazy	Kuyrdak	Kumyz
…	…	…	…

 

Exercise 4.3.2 Choose the proper equivalent to each proverb:

1) The appetite comes with eating;

2) Tastes differ;

3) The last piece of meat is especially sweet;

4) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise;

5) If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.

 

1. a) О вкусах не спорят;
2. b) Кто рано ложится и рано встаёт, здоровье,

богатство и ум наживёт;

1. c) Посмеешься до завтрака — поплачешь до ужина;
2. d) Аппетит приходит во время еды;
3. e) Остатки сладки.

 

Exercise 4.3.3 Write a composition about your favorite food.