Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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I put the knives and the soup-spoon on the right-hand side and the forks on the left, except the pudding-spoon and fork, which I put across the top.
Then I put out the serving-spoons and forks, the carving-knife and fork, the bread-board and a knife to cut the bread, and I sharpen
the carving-knife, as I know Mr. Priestley hates a blunt carving-knife.
On the left of each guest I put a small plate for bread and on his right a wine-glass if we are having wine, and in the middle of the table I put a jug of water with a few pieces of ice from the refrigerator in it. Then I put out the table-napkins for each guest, put the coffee-cups and saucers, with cream and brown sugar and coffee-spoons on the tray, and I am ready for the guests to come in.
FRIEDA: Thank you very much, Susan.
There's another thing I want to ask you about, Mrs. Priestley. I have never tasted anywhere else such lovely cake as I get at your house; will you please tell me how you make it?
MRS. PRIESTLEY: I'm glad you enjoy my cakes and it's very nice of you to say so. They are quite easy to make. I'll write down the quantities of flour, butter, sugar, fruit, etc., that you need and directions for mixing and baking. If you follow these directions you can't go wrong.
FRIEDA: Thank you very much, Mrs. Priestley. I'll do exactly what you tell me and if I can make a cake like yours I shall be very proud of myself.
HOB: Well, Frieda, I hope your cake will be better than those made by Aunt Aggie. I went to see her one day and found her nearly in tears. "What's the matter?" I asked.
"Oh," she said, "I've just made a cake and the mice have been and eaten it!"
"Well," I said, "why worry about what happens to a few mice?"
¦ КОММЕНТАРИИ
В этом уроке вам встретились слова, произношение которых может вызвать трудности. Например, в слове marmalade три буквы а, и все они произносятся по-разному: ['ma:m3leid].
Вот эти слова:
apricot ['eipnknt], biscuit ['biskit], cocoa ['кэикэи], drawer \dro:|, fruit [fru:t], guest [gest], pastries ['peistriz], pears [peaz], pineapple
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f'painsepl], salad ['sselad], salmon ['saeman], spread [spred], steak [steik], stewed [stjuid], tomatoes [ts'maitauz], tongue [Ur)]
lay
Вот формы этого глагола: lay, laying, laid, laid. Это переходный (transitive) глагол, т.е. после него стоит дополнение. Вот несколько примеров его употребления:
Susan lays the table.
The chicken laid five eggs today.
In Shakespeare's "Macbeth", the scene is laid in Scotland.
Lay the flowers on the table.
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1. Придумайте предложения со следующими словами: meal, ham, salad, important, spread, protect, carve, jug
2. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Why did Frieda want to know about EngUsh meals and cooking?
2. What are the names of the usual meals?
3. What, to English people, is "the Continent"?
4. What is a "continental breakfast"?
5. What, does Mrs. Priestley say, is "the usual English breakfast"?
6. Where does a business man in London usually go for lunch?
7. What do the Priestleys have for lunch?
8. What did they have for their "special" dinner?
9. What is a "high tea"?
. 10. Why are table-matsused?
11. What is cutlery?
12. What is a carving-knife used for?
Сочинение
1. Напишите о национальной кухне вашей страны.
2. Расскажите а) как вы накрываете на стол, б) печете пирог, в) варите вкусный кофе.
3. Опишите посещение ресторана.
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Some More Shopping
MR. PRIESTLEY: I think it will be useful to know something more about shopkeepers and what they sell in their shops. Frieda, your conversation at the grocer's sounded so real that I am sure you are used to shopping of that kind.
FRIEDA: Well, my friend Mary and I have a little flat together and we both do the shopping, generally on Saturday morning.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Today is Monday, so you probably remember what you and Mary did on Saturday morning. Could you tell us?
FRIEDA: I shall be very glad to do so. You will remember that I bought some bacon, tea and so on; there was really a lot more. I have the bill here, so you can see exactly what I got at grocer's. While I was there Mary went to Bones the butcher's for a small joint of beef and half a leg of lamb (about 2 to 3 lb.), and then to the greengrocer's, which is also a fruiterer's, for 2 lb. of eating apples and
2 lb. of cooking apples, a dozen oranges, 1 lb. of mixed nuts, 2 lb. of beans, 8 lb. of potatoes and a good-sized cabbage.
I called round at the dairy to pay our bill for the milk (1 pint daily), the cream and the new-laid eggs (1 dozen) that had been sent to our flat during the last week. Mary went to the fishmonger's to get some herrings for our supper.
We went together to the baker's and paid for the bread that we had had, two brown loaves, two white loaves and six rolls, and bought 1 lb. of fruit cake and half a dozen small cakes (he's a confectioner as well as a baker)-and then went home, feeling rather tired.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Well, Frieda, you have certainly given us some useful vocabulary there.
