Unit 3.

Vegetables, fruit, herbs and spices.

Read the words and find out the definitions:

Banana	an orange-coloured vegetable
Beet	a plant with a bulb divided into sections, which have a strong smell and taste and are used in cooking
Cabbage	a small green or purple fruit that grows in bunches on a vine
Carrot	a large round yellow citrus fruit with a soft juicy pulp
Cucumber	a round vegetable with a strong flavour
Garlic	a tropical fruit with a yellow skin
Grape	a large tropical fruit with yellow flesh and prickly leaves and skin
Grapefruit	a juicy fruit that gets narrower near the stalk
Maize	a round green vegetable
Melon	a vegetable that grows underground
Onion	a long green vegetable, eaten raw
Pea	a plant used as a vegetable or for making sugar
Pear	a tall kind of corn with large seeds
Pineapple	a large juicy fruit with yellow or green skin
Potato	a small round green seed of a climbing plant, growing inside a pod and used as a vegetable
Peach	a soft round juicy fruit with a slightly furry skin and a large stone

Herbs and spices.

Dill – укроп

Leek- лук -порей

Lettuce['letɪs] - салат

Spring onion ['ʌnjən]– зелёный лук

Parsley ['pɑːslɪ]– петрушка

Salt – соль

Pepper – перец

Clove [kləuv] - гвоздика

Mustard ['mʌstəd]– горчица

Ginger ['ʤɪnʤə]– имбирь

Cardamom ['kɑːdəməm] – кардамон

Cinnamon ['sɪnəmən] - корица

Coriander [ˌkɔrɪ'ændə] – кориандр

Cumin ['kjuːmɪn], ['kʌmɪn] – кумин/зира

Nutmeg – мускатный орех

Paprika – паприка

Sumac ['s(j)uːmæk], ['ʃuː-] – сумах

Tamarind – тамаринд

Caraway ['kærəweɪ] – тмин

Saffron ['sæfrən], [-rɔn] - шафран

Exercise 1. Make up sentences about spices.

For example: Clove comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. It is usually used in rice or meat.

1. Clove/Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka/ rice, meat.

2. Mustard/ India, China/carry, marinade or pickles.

3. Ginger/ the tropics/ (fresh) Asiatic dishes, (milled) sweet pastry.

4. Cardamom/ South India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam/ carry, pilaf.

5. Cinnamon/ Sri Lanka, the Seychelles /chocolate cakes, hot chocolate, mulled wine.

6. Coriander/India, the Middle East, America/ carry, Greek fish, marinade, vegetable and meat dishes.

7. Cumin/ North Africa, the Middle East, India, China/ pilaw, carry, couscous, Arabic dishes with mutton.

8. Nutmeg/ Indonesia/ mutton dishes, cakes, goulash, East – European dishes.

9. Sumac/Sicily, South Italy, the Middle East/ meat sauce, marinade for fish, used instead of lemon to give sour flavour.

10. Tamarind/ India, South Asia, the Middle East/carry, soup (especially with lentin), east fish dishes and rice, Indian drinks.

11. Caraway/ Holland, Germany, Poland, Morocco/ sauerkraut, rye bread.

Exercise 2. Read the text. Pay attention to new words.