Planning.

1. Topical Vocabulary.

• Individual Tasks : make up your own lists of words on the topic. Present your lists in class. Following vocabulary groups are possible: 1) verbs 2) meat (poultry) 3) fish 4) drinks 5)spices 6) snacks 7) bakery 8) fruit 9) vegetables 10) dairy products 11) cereals and grains 12) pastas. Discuss vocabulary with your friends. Note food-stuffs especially favored by Americans.

• Essential Vocabulary 2. Do some vocabulary training.

• Idioms “Meals and Cooking”. Working with idioms: (See the assignment “Meals and cooking. Idioms” ).

2. Living to eat or eating to live.

Discussing the stories “Our changing diet”, “Food personalities”, “My diet”.

• See the assignment “Living to eat or eating to live “

• Discuss the reading “The politics of men, women and food”

• do the assignment.

Opinion poll. Find your friends’ opinions and sum up the results.

3. Getting something to eat in America and Russia.

Study the glossary. Work in pairs or in small groups. Quiz each other on spellings, meanings and usages of the words. Do the crossword puzzles. Illustrate the words with the examples of your own.

Read and discuss the story “Getting something to eat”.

a. Note some helpful phrases on the topic ( some of them are in bold italics for you in the text)

b. Vocabulary exercises /pair work/:

• Explain the difference between the following groups of words:

Breakfast-brunch-lunch-dinner- supper;

Raw-rare; medium- rare; medium-well-done ;

Soft-hard drinks ; straight-on the rocks;

Food to go –food in a doggie bag;

• Find out what meals your friends have; how they prefer their meat : what drinks soft or hard your friends prefer: what drinks are the most popular; how they prefer their drinks; if they ever tried food to go or in the doggie bag.

• Say in what way your friends’ answers might differ from those Americans might give-/optional /

• Say what food you would expect to find at each of these: sandwich shop, deli, fast food drive-in, cafeteria, coffee shop, cosmopolitan American restaurant.

c. Discuss the reading in small groups:

• Say what new facts you have learnt from the text;

• Answer the questions:

1. Where can you get something to eat “to go” if you’re short of time? Of money ?

2. Where can you get food “ to go” ?

3. Which restaurant do you think is the most expensive? The dressiest ? The most casual?

4. Which restaurants serve alcohol ? Why are you to show your ID before you go into a bar ?

5. In what case can you ask for a “doggie bag” ?

6. How do you pay in American restaurants ?

• Add if you have any information;

• Ask those who have been to the States in your class to share their experience of getting something to eat in the US with you;

• Compare what you have read with the situation of getting something to eat in Russia.

• Speech situation # 12.

Read and discuss the story “Food”.

• The text describes the aspect of getting something to eat in Russia several years ago. Read the text and tell your classmates what the situation was like in Moscow several years ago.

• How has the situation changed since then ?

• What tips of advice on getting something to eat in Russia can you give to a foreigner, a first time visitor to Russia? Discuss them with your friends.