IV. What is your favourite dish and how do you like it to be cooked?

1. Characterize the dishes and drinks using the words from the box.

salty, sour, bitter, sweet, juicy, fattening, aromatic, (un)healthy, tasty, pleasant to taste, messy, nourishing, strong in taste, tasteless, mild, spicy

Example: Cakes are usually sweet and tasty, but unfortunately many of them are fattening and not very healthy. Some cheeses have strong taste and some of them are mild in taste, some are spicy and some are milky but all of them are nourishing, healthy and good for a quick snack or impromptu party (unexpected entertaining).

Dumplings, cakes, watermelon, coffee, cheese, hamburger, bacon and eggs, pickles, lemons, salads, chocolates, milk, spaghetti, pizza, roast chicken, cornflakes, cabbage, crisps (chips), fish and chips, pancakes, marmalade, steak, garlic, onions, cocktails, beer, apples.

2. Learn more adjectives to describe food and test your ability to guess the meaning of the unknown words without using the dictionary. Complete the sentences with one of the adjectives given in the box.

burnt, stale, sweet, unleavened, greasy, bland, delicious, sour, spicy, more-ish, sickly, freshly-made

1. When you enjoy eating a dish you usually say that it is ____.

2. Food cooked without salt and pepper is ____.

3. Crisps as well as sun-flower seeds are often very ____. The more you eat the more you want.

4. Sugar will make your coffee _____ but if you add too much it will be ____.

5. ______ bread doesn’t cut easily.

6. I can’t eat a lemon without sugar. It is very ____.

7. These buns were bought three days ago, they are ____.

8. Don’t fry the eggs for too long. They will taste _____.

9. Indian curry is _____.

10. Chips often are very _____. There is too much fat on them.

11. ____ bread is made without yeast.

V. Can you cook? What do you usually cook at home? Is your kitchen well equipped? Do you mind spending much time in the kitchen and do you use sophisticated techniques to cook for a special occasion?

1. Add the names of the utensils, given in the box that we usually use to perform the following actions.

Kitchen board, colander, grinder, spoon/fork, sieve, whisk, spatula, rolling pin, fork/potato masher, tin opener, bottle opener, knife/scissors

We usually drain paste/vegetables in _____, beat eggs with ____, stir food with ____, cut things with ____ or _____, open a bottle with _____, open cans with ____, mash potatoes or other flesh with _____, spread pastry out flat and thin with ______, lift something with _____, put flour through _____, grind coffee in ____, cut on _____.

2. Very often it is difficult to explain why we use this or that word, yet we say «запекать мясо» but «выпекать хлеб», «квасить капусту», but «солит огурцы» and not vice versa. Make appropriate word combinations using the words from different columns. Think of the Russian variant for each combination.

1. bake a) peas

2. mash b) a drink

3. fix c) cucumbers

4. peel d) bread

5. dry e) cabbage

6. shell f) potatoes

7. grind g) beef

8. pickle h) banana

9. roast i) apples

10. shred j) coffee beans

11. slice k) meat

12. grate l) lemon

13. mince m) grapefruit

14. cut n) cheese

15. squeeze o) carrots

3. Do you know how to say «охладить/заморозить/разморозить», «отделить от костей», «нарезать кубиками», «посолить/приправить специями», «припустить в масле», «готовые/консервированные супы», and do on in English? Use the words from the box to paraphrase the sentences.