Английский язык. Ч. 1. Гималетдинова Г.К - 28 стр.

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                                        РАЗДЕЛ III
     Текст А. “In Search of Good English Food”
     Грамматика. Времена группы Perfect Active
     Текст Б. “Lord of the Flies”
     Словообразование. Образование существительных с помощью суффикса -er

                                    TЕКСТ A
                         In Search of Good English Food
      How come it is so difficult to find English food in England? In Greece you eat
Greek food, in France French food, in Italy Italian food, but in England, in any High
Street in the land, it is easier to find Indian and Chinese restaurants than English
ones. In London you can eat Thai, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Polish,
Swiss, Swedish, Spanish, and Italian – but where are the English restaurants?
      Why has this happened? What is wrong with the cooks of Britain that they pre-
fer cooking pasta to potatoes? Why do they now like cooking in wine and olive oil?
But perhaps it is a good thing. After all, this is the beginning of the 21st century and
we can get ingredients from all over the world in just a few hours.
      The British have in fact always imported food from abroad. From the time of the
Roman invasion foreign trade was a major influence on British cooking. English
kitchens absorbed ingredients from all over the world – chickens, rabbits, apples and
tea. All of these and more were successfully incorporated into British dishes. Another
important influence on British cooking was of course the weather. The good old Brit-
ish rain gives us rich soil and green grass, and means that we are able to produce
some of the finest varieties of meat, fruit and vegetables, which don’t need fancy
sauces or complicated recipes to disguise their taste.
      However, World War II changed everything. Wartime women had to forget 600
years of British cooking, learn to do without foreign imports, and ration their use of
home-grown food. Britain never managed to recover from the wartime attitude to
food. We began to believe that British food was boring, and we searched the world
for sophisticated, new dishes. The British people became tourists at their own dining
tables and in the restaurants of their land! This is a tragedy! Surely food is as much a
part of our culture as our landscape, our language, and our literature. Nowadays,
cooking British food is like speaking a dead language. It is almost as bizarre as hav-
ing a conversation in Anglo-Saxon English!
      However, there is still one small ray of hope. British pubs are often the best
places to eat well and cheaply in Britain, and they also try to serve tasty British food.
Can we recommend to you our two favourite places to eat in Britain? The Shep-
herd’s Inn in Melmerby, Cumbria, and the Dolphin Inn in Kingston, Devon. Their
steak and mushroom pie, Lancashire hotpot, and bread and butter pudding are three
of the gastronomic wonders of the world!
                                       Словарь
Greek – греческий                               Indian – индийский
French – французский                            Chinese – китайский
Italian – итальянский                           Thai – тайский