Make a presentation and tell your group mates how to cook your favourite dish. Tell them about the ingredients, the stages of cooking and tips to succeed in cooking it.

READING 3

1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer:

Fast-food is such a pervasive part of American life that it has become synonymous with American culture. Fast-food was born in America and it has now swollen into a $106-billion industry. America exports fast-food worldwide and its attendant corporate culture, has probably been more influential and done more to destroy local food economies and cultural diversity than any government propaganda programme could hope to accomplish. No corner of the earth is safe from its presence and no aspect of life is unaffected. Fast-food is now found in shopping malls, airports, hospitals, gas stations, stadiums, on trains, and increasingly, in schools. There are 23, 000 restaurants in one chain alone, and another 2, 000 are being opened every year. Its effect has been the same on the millions of people it feeds daily and on the people it employs. Fast-food culture has changed how we work, from its assembly-line kitchens filled with robotic frying machines to the trite phrases spoken to customers by its poorly paid part-time workforce. In the United States, more than 57 per cent of the population eats meals away from home on any given day and they spend more money on fast-food than they do on higher education, personal computers, or even on new cars. (from https://www.boostyourenglishscore.com/online-schooling/learning-english-online/advanced-level/reading-exercises/advanced-reading-passage-2.html)

1. This passage on American's fast-food industry -----.

A) shows convincingly that it is falling into disfavor

B) is clearly written by someone who loves good food

C) concentrates on negative aspects of the sector

D) reveals the support it received from government propaganda

2. The word " swollen" in line 2 -----.

A) emphasizes the speed at which the industry has grown

B) suggests that the growth is excessive and unhealthy

C) draws attention to the inevitability of the growth of the industry

D) implies that the industry will continue to grow on steadily

One point that receives a lot of attention in the passage is -----.

A) the fact that fast-food is now more popular outside the US than it is inside

B) the consideration the fast-food companies show to their employees

C) the fact that fast-food meets our dietary needs

D) the far-reaching effects of the fast-food industry

The writer of the passage clearly regrets the fact that -----.

A) the growth of the fast-food industry has now come to a halt

B) local and traditional styles of food are being pushed off the market

C) the fast-food industry cannot retain the high standards with which it started

D) there are still more traditional restaurants than fast-food ones

The assertion at the end of the passage that Americans spend more money on fastfood than they do on higher education -----

A) is a criticism of the amount of money spent on fast-food by Americans

B) is an indication that higher education in the US is not expensive

C) is, in the light of the rest of the passage, a gross exaggeration

D) suggests that Americans are greedy for good food

SPEAKING

1. Read the proverbs and find their Russian equivalents. Illustrate the meaning of the proverbs in short situations:

1. Tastes differ. 2. Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper. 3. Half a loaf is better than no bread. 4. You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

2. Comment on the quotes:

1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (G.B. Shaw)

Do you/we can really love another person as much as we love food? We will die without food, but will we die without the person we love the most?

1. One should eat to live, not live to eat. (Moliere)

What happens to people who ‘live to eat’? How can we ‘eat to live’? What should we do? What are some specific things to avoid? Have your eating habits changed during your life?

1. No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. (Ch. Morley)

The kind of food we eat can have a strange effect on our feelings. Are there any foods that make you happy? Any foods that make you sad? Any foods that make you ready to fight? Do you really think we can avoid loneliness while eating spaghetti?