Make up dialogues using the suggested substitutions.

1. - Can I take your order now?

- Yes, I’ll try the veal cutlet, fried potatoes and cauliflower (roasted meat with mashed potatoes, tomato-soup, beefsteak, vegetable salad, etc.).

2. - What would you say to salad, clear soup, mutton chop and coffee?

- It’ll be very good indeed. I’d rather add a bottle of fruit water if you don’t mind (mushroom soup, rissols with vegetables, orange juice).

3. - What are you going to order for the first course?

- I don’t feel like having any soup today. I’ll have apple juice instead (fruit salad, mixed salad, tomato and cucumber salad, a glass of yoghurt, etc.)

4. - What do you have for dinner today?

- For the first beetroot soup and roastbeef with boiled potatoes for the second.

5. - Would you like to take a steak with green peas?

- With pleasure. I like it very much. (fried chicken with potatoes, a cutlet with macaroni, etc.)

6. - What would you recommend me for dessert?

- I think there is nothing like ice-cream and chocolate (meat-pudding, apple-pie, etc.)

7. - How do you like your tea: strong or weak?

- I like it rather strong (meat – rare – medium – well done; cabbage – boiled, stewed; potatoes – boiled, mashed, fried).

8. - What do say to an omelette?

- No, I’d rather have bacon and eggs (a good steak and roast chicken).

Exercise 5. Use the following sentences in short dialogues of your own.

1. The pudding is just to my liking.

2. The salad tastes good.

3. As to the steak, I want it a bit underdone.

4. No, thanks, I want neither ham nor sausage.

5. Help yourself to some more pie.

6. The steak is very tender.

7. As to the soup, it was cold and tasted awful (It had a nasty taste).

8. You know, I have a sweet tooth.

Ø SPEAKING

Menu

Starters

Iresh Fruit Salad

Mixed Salad

Greek Salad

Green Salad

Mixed vegetables

Prawn Cocktaile

Smoked Salmon

Parma Ham with Melon

Avocado with Prawns

Home-Made Pate

Meat / Fish Jelly

Fruit Juices

Soup

Vegetable

Onion

Tomato

(Normandy) Snail

Clear

Chicken Broth

Main Courses

Lancashire Hotpot with Seasonal Vegetables

Nut and Mushroom Roast with Brown Rice

Spanish Omelette

Lasagne al Forno

Rö sti

Moules Mariniere

Meat

Grilled Filler Steak

Grilled Lamb Cutlets

Farmhouse Cottage Pie

Steak and Kidney Pie with New Potatoes and Vegetables

Veal Escalope Holstein

Veal Escalope Elisabeth

Roast Stuffed Pork

Braised Liver

Wiener Schnitzel

Pepper Steak

Lancashire Hotpot

Fish

Grilled Dover Sole

Fried Scampi

Salmon

Cod

Garnish: potato, rice, spaghetti, green peas, French beans, seasonal vegetables, olives.

Desserts

Vanilla Ice Cream with Strawberries

Apple Pie with Custard

Assorted Fruit

Chocolate Nut Sundae

Puff-cake / pastry with Raspberry Jam

Chocolate Sponge

Trifle

Cherry Shortcake

Fruitcake

Pancakes sewed with Lemon Juice and Brown Sugar

Chocolate Mousse

Blackberry Fool

Apple Crumple

Irish Coffee

Liqueur Coffee

Galic coffee

Soft Drinks

Fruit Cocktail

Milk-Shake

Iced Orange Drink

Coke

Beer (dark / light)

Lemonade

Mineral Water

Sparkling Water

7. You suggest to your husband eating out instead of cooking at home. He disagrees first giving his reasons. But then you manage to persuade him and you go to a restaurant.

8. You are in a restaurant looking through the menu. There are a lot of dishes you don’t know. Before you decide on smth. ask the waitress to tell you about them and then make orders.

9. Your friend and you are having lunch in a restaurant in London. Before paying the bill discuss the dishes you’ve eaten, the service and how much to tip the waiter.