XVII. Підготуйте повідомлення за наступними темами:

1. Making an appointment with a representative of a firm. 2. Placing an order.

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Text 1: english meals

People of different nations have different tastes in food and different table manners. It is useful for us to know what sort of meals English people have and how they behave at table. Four meals served in English family every day may have different names: breakfast, dinner, tea and supper or breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner.

A traditional English breakfast consists of porridge, bacon and eggs, buttered toast with marmalade, tea or coffee.

About 11 in the morning some Englishmen who work have their tea or coffee break. They never call it meal as tea is brought to their working place.

Then at midday, everything is stopped for lunch. Most offices are closed and the streets are full of people on their way to cafes. The usual midday meal consists of 2 courses: first a meat course is served with plenty of vegetables. It may be potatoes, peas, beans or cabbage. This is followed by a sweet dish, perhaps fruit pudding with tea.

Those who eat at home usually call their midday meal dinner and make it the main one of the day. It consists of 3 or 4 courses and is cooked by the mother of the family.

The evening meal, when all the family gather round the table after their working day, goes under various names - tea, high tea, dinner or supper. It is usually a meat course followed by tinned fruit or cake and tea. But certainly it is not the same in every English home. Tastes differ.

Text 2: ukrainian cuisine

Ukrainian cuisine is famous for its great variety of dishes. For example the popular Ukrainian borsch has as many as 20 ingredients. Among the 1 course dishes there are different kinds of soups. Some of them are not translated into English: «soup with galushky», « Yushka ala Kyjiv » and so on. The 1 course is usually served with sour cream, parsley and dill.

Many meat and fish dishes are fried, roasted, stewed and boiled to give them an original taste. Especially tasty are dishes with meat and vegetables, chicken, cutlets, home - made sausage, roast duck with apples and so on.

Very often meat or fish is garnished with various vegetables: potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage, tomatoes.

Ukrainian national cuisine has many dishes made from flour. The most popular are: varenyky, galushky, mlyntsi.

Text 3: at the canteen

My working day at the office begins at 8, and ends at 5. It is simply necessary to have a bite during this time. Though I prefer to have dinner at home, sometimes I go to the canteen which is not far from my office. It is a rather wonderful place. It is a large, light clean room. There are several tables with 4 chairs round each of them. Every table is covered with a light cloth. There are also vases with napkins, salt-cellars and mustard-pots on every table.

Knives, forks and spoons are situated in a special place. Near the corner on the wall is hanging a menu-card.

Usually my dinner consists of two courses: a cup of tea or coffee, and plenty of sweet. The 1 course is soup. Best of all, I like chicken soup with homemade noodles. The 2 course is meat or fish with plenty of vegetables. It may be roast pig or stewed meat, chops or roast beef. Meat is usually garnished with potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage or tomatoes.

Sometimes for dinner I have a milk soup. At that time I am very glad because I like all the kinds of milk food such as: cheese, cottage cheese, butter and sour cream.

After all this comes my favourite dessert: tea or coffee, or stewed fruit with cakes or apple pie.

As it is a self-service canteen everybody must take away his plates after dinner to a special table.