II. A) Read the questions and think when a waiter might ask each question (a-h): before or during the meal?

1. Can I take your coat?

2. Is everything OK with your meal?

3. Are you ready to order?

4. Would you like anything to drink first?

5. Here is your main course…, the steak?

6. Have you made a reservation?

7. Would you like some more wine?

8. Can I get you any dessert?

b) Write each question in a proper column:

Before the meal	During the meal

c) Match each question above with a reply below:

1. ………………………………………..

Yes, I’ve booked a table for eight o’clock.

2. ………………………………………..

No, thank you. I’ll keep it with me.

3. ………………………………………..

Oh, yes, please. It’s very nice.

4. ………………………………………..

Yes, it’s wonderful, thank you.

5. ………………………………………..

Not yet. Can we have a little more time?

6. ………………………………………..

Not for me, thank you. I’m full.

7. ………………………………………..

Oh, it looks lovely, thank you.

8. ………………………………………..

Yes, please. I’ll have an orange juice.

III. Complete the dialogue with the sentences below (a-f):

Ron: Do you want an appetiser?

Linda: Hmm. I think I’ll have a shrimp cocktail. I am crazy about shrimp. What about you?

Ron: I’m not sure. I cannot decide.

Linda: Oh, if I were you, I’d have smoked salmon. You always say you like smoked salmon, and you haven’t had any for a long time.

Waiter: ………………………………

Ron: Yes, one shrimp cocktail and one smoked salmon, please.

Waiter: ………………………………

Ron: Well, we can’t decide between veal and chicken. What do you recommend?

Waiter: ………………………………

Linda: Yes, some zucchini, some carrots, and some boiled potatoes.

Waiter: ………………………………

Linda: Bring me a mixed salad with the entrée, please.

Waiter: ………………………………

Linda: Can we order that later?

Waiter: ………………………………

1. Both are good, but if I were you I’d have the veal. It’s the speciality of the house. What would you like with the veal? Maybe some vegetables?

2. Of course.

3. Are you ready to order now?

4. Fine. And the entrée?

5. All right. Do you want a dessert?

6. And a salad?

Topic 17. My Favourite Dish

Vegetable soup

Ingredients:

• 3 onions;

• 3 turnips;

• 1 carrot;

• 4 potatoes;

• ¼ of a pound of butter;

• ¼ of a pound of ham;

• a bunch of parsley;

• a spoonful of flour;

• 2 liters of broth;

• a pint of hot milk;

• sugar, salt, fried bread.

Instructions:

1. Peel and cut into small pieces 3 onions, 3 turnips, 1 carrot and 4 potatoes;

2. Put them into a pan with a quarter of a pound of butter, a ¼ of a pound of ham and a bunch of parsley;

3. Pass them ten minutes over a sharp fire;

4. Add a spoonful of flour and mix everything well;

5. Add 4 pints (2 liters) of broth and a pint of hot milk;

6. Boil up, keeping it stirred;

7. Skim it;

8. Season with a little salt and sugar and run it through a sieve into another pan;

9. Boil again and serve with fried bread in it.