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1. The survey was conducted among Surgut State University students.
2. Most of students have four meals a day on weekdays.
3. Their meals as a rule are breakfast, lunch and dinner.
4. Most of the students usually have breakfast at the university.
5. Most of the students have lunch at cafes like Subway or Good Food.
6. Most of the students have dinner at the university.
7. During a day, students do not have any snacks.
Exercise 12. Answer the questions:
1. How many meals a day do you have?
2. What do you usually have for breakfast?
3. Do you usually have a light breakfast or a big one?
4. What is your main meal: lunch or dinner?
5. Where do you usually have lunch?
6. What do you usually have for lunch?
7. What do you usually have for dinner?
8. Do you have snacks between meals?
Exercise 13. Work in small groups (5 – 6 students). Conduct a survey asking the questions from the previous exercise to each other. Write down your answers and show the results to the rest of your group.
Exercise 14. Watch the video “Talking about food” (http://www.australiaplus.com/international/learn-english/talking-about-food/7528810 ) and answer the questions:
1. What do you usually eat for breakfast?
2. What is the main meal of the day?
3. What is the staple for Russia?
4. Are you a vegetarian?
5. What is healthy food?
6. Is junk food bad for you and why?
7. Do you prefer to eat sushi with chopsticks or a fork?
8. What do you usually eat?
9. Who do you usually eat with?
10. Who does the cooking where you live?
Exercise 15. Look though the vocabulary of the Lesson, text II, the video “Talking about food” again and be ready to talk about what you usually eat every day. You should say: what and where you eat; who you eat with; who does the cooking where you live.
Exercise 16. Study the information on the page http://tv.australiaplus.com/learn-english/series-3/study-notes/s3023_notes.pdf and be ready to answer the questions:
Diet:
What is a healthy diet?
Cooking:
Do you cook or eat out a lot?
Who does the cooking where you live?
Should we be taught cooking at school?
Fast Food:
What’s the different between take-away, fast food and junk food?
Is take-away food always unhealthy?
Will people depend on fast food more in the future?
What are some advantages of fast food?
Eating habits:
Do you eat on the run – grabbing something or running for the bus or to a meeting?
Do you eat alone, or always with a group – your family, with your groupmates or workmates at lunch time?
Do you prefer to eat alone or with a group?
When do you eat, how do you eat – with a knife or fork, with chopsticks, with your hand?
Eating disorders:
Why do you think some people are allergic or intolerant to certain foods?
How can we better manage our weight?
Do you think some people take dieting too far?
Are some people becoming obsessed with what they eat?
How important is exercise?
Do you think it is better to have three regular meals through the day or one large main meal?
Exercise 16. Read and translate text III. Choose the best title for the text.
1. Eating Utensils Etiquette - The Dining Etiquettes
2. Food and rules of etiquette
3. Eating habits
Text III
Etiquette at the table is not a product of modern times. Ever since eating utensils were made, they were used in daily eating rituals that constantly changed and were adapted in countless civilizations around the world. The written code of etiquette was first introduced in the behavior code called "The Instruction of Ptahhotep" which was created during the reign of Ancient Egypt's Pharaoh DjedkareIsesi in 2414-2375 BC. After that many cultures started developing their own rules of conduct during meal, position of utensils at the table and appropriate ways of using them. Empire of Ancient Rome and enforced their rules (sitting on the pillows around small table, beverages laid near the pillows, and food was consumed either by fingers or two kind of spoons) which were adapted over the centuries with various addition from their neighbors from Greece, Egypt and other regions.
European Middle Ages had very distinctive differences between table manners of three classes of people - commoners had little or no rules of eating, clergy held some structure to their communal meals, and nobility enjoyed extravagant diets and access to finer foods. As the middle class merchants and traders started acquiring higher tastes, nobility even tried to constrain them by issuing laws that put a cap on lavishness of their banquets.
During the Age of Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment, table etiquette reached new heights with the introduction of spoon, fork and table knife to majority of homes in Europe and America. Changes in eating diets and customs, rise of the middle class, and overall introduction of advancing technologies into life of every man soon created the look of eating etiquette that is in many ways preserved in our modern societies. One of the first books that defined the acceptable social norms was created in early 1520s, but the pillar of modern etiquette was defined in the 16th century book "The Courtier" by Baldassare Castiglione, which became the golden standard of behavior of men and women of high and middle classes all up to World War I.
Modern day etiquette received many changes over the last half a century, and many countries around the world have their own specific tradition regarding behavior of people in public events, and especially for eating. Here are only few of the most notable dining etiquettes that are enforced today around the world:
United States
Because arrival of eating utensils such as fork and spoon came very late to this young nation, the most used type of dining etiquette demands usage of all utensils in right hand. You hold steady the meat in left hand with fork and cut with knife with right, but when it comes to eating, fork must be transferred to right hand. This rule does not allow left-handed people to eat with the left hand.
United Kingdom
UK style is today known as more efficient and lenient to the left-handed persons, who can eat food even with their left hand if they prefer so. Another difference from American style is ability to use knife or piece of bread to force the food to be captured on the fork.
India
Traditional Indian meal is consumed only with fingers, and only from those from the right hand (left is superstitiously conserved for cleaning yourself). In more northern regions and tourist restaurants throughout the country, use of forks and spoons is more common.
Thailand
Thailand adopted very unique eating etiquette. Noodle soups are eaten with chopsticks, but all other meals are consumed with fork and spoon. Fork is used for cutting and shoving food onto spoon, from where you transfer food to mouth.
Chopstick etiquette
There are many obligation and forbidden techniques while eating which chopsticks in Asian lands. Generally, it is forbidden to use chopsticks in gestures while talking, sticking them into food, offering other to eat from your chopsticks, licking and biting food from chopsticks and more.
(http://www.eatingutensils.net/facts-about-eating-utensils/eating-utensils-etiquette/)
Exercise 17. Find the transcription and translation of these words and word combinations in dictionary and write them down:
eating utensils code
pillow beverage
consume commoner
clergy nobility
lavishness cap on
pillar lenient
chopsticks
Exercise 18. Find an appropriate answer in the text:
1. The first written reference of earing etiquette is...
2. The golden standard of pre-modern behaviour was established…
3. You are welcome to help yourself with a piece of bread….
Exercise 19. Imagine your family dinner. What rules and etiquette does your family use or prefer? Fill the table below:
| Eating utensils | Official dinner | Holiday dinner | Dinner with close friends | Birthday party |
| spoon | ||||
| fork | ||||
| knife | ||||
| dessert spoon | ||||
| salad knife | ||||
| napkin | ||||
| paper tissue | ||||
| glass | ||||
| dessert bowl | ||||
| gravy boat | ||||
| disposable cutlery |
Exercise 20. Describe a perfect official breakfast for 3 individuals with your favorite celebrity from the point of view:
a. Host
b. Guest visitor
c. Servant
d. Security
It is allowed to make a little theatrical performance involving your groupmates. Pay attention to etiquette, small talks and rules introduction and good buy.
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