X. Communication skills
A. Develop the following situation.
Student A:
You are a waiter / waitress at the King’s Restaurant. You start. Begin like this: “Are you ready to order?
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Take the customer’s order for:
a main course; a salad / a sandwich;
a dessert; a drink.
Give any information the customer asks for.
| Student B:
You are at the King’s restaurant. You are ready to order. Use the menu bellow. Your partner starts:
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First order your main course. Ask information about the dishes.
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Go on to order the rest of your meal.
| THE KING’S RESTAURANT
| Salads
Chicken Salad 5.45
Shrimp Salad 6.12
Vegetable Salad 3.45
French Fries 0.90
| Sandwiches
Grilled Cheese 2.55
Bacon & Avocado 5.00
Chicken with tomato 5.15
| For the Hearty Eater
Chicken Pie 5.00
Pasta 4.33
Beef stew 5.40
| Beverages
Milk 0.90
Coffee 0.70
Tea 0.60
Lemonade 0.70
| Desserts
Cheese Cake 2.65 Lemon Pie 1.70
Ice-cream 1.00 Apple Pie 1.45
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B. Try out your cooking skills!
Do you know how to make a pancake!
Add the quantities in the box to the ingredients.
Ingredients:
1. a little lemon juice
2. _____ of flour
3. _____ egg
4. _____ of milk
5. _____ of oil
6. _____ sugar
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b) a small amount
c) 125g
d) a teaspoonful of
e) 300 ml
f) one
| Complete the instructions and put them in the right order.
Method:
1. Mix the flour with the milk.
. _____ a little of the mixture into the pan.
. Put it on a warm plate and _____it
with lemon juice and sugar.
. Then _____the egg.
| a) mix – смешай
b) add – добавь
c) pour – налей
d) heat – подогрей
e) serve – подай
| . _____the oil in a frying pan.
. When the pancake's cooked on one side, flip it over (быстро перевернуть блин, подкинув его).
| C. Match the following American Holidays with their dates. If necessary use the information from the Internet and other sources.
Date
| Official Name
| 1. January 1
| a) Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| 2. Third Monday in January
| b) Father's Day
| 3. January 20 following a Presidential election
| c) Women's Equality Day
d) Columbus Day
| 4. Third Monday in February
| e) Flag Day
| 5. Last Monday in May
| f) Labor Day
| 6. July 4
| g) Veterans Day
| 7. First Monday in September
| h) Thanksgiving Day
| 8. Second Monday in October
| i) April Fools' Day
| 9. November 11
| j) Easter
| 10. Fourth Thursday in November
| k) International Women's Day
| 11. December 25
| l) Constitution/Citizenship Day
| 12. February 2
| m) Inauguration Day
| 13. February 14
| n) Halloween
| 14. March 8
| o) Memorial Day
| 15. March 17
| p) Groundhog Day
| 16. April 1
| q) New Year's Day
| 17. Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, date varies from March 22 to April 25
| r) Christmas
s) May Day
t) Independence Day
| 18. May 1
| u) Washington's Birthday/Presidents' Day
| 19. Second Sunday in May
| v) Mother's Day
| 20. June 14
| w) Saint Patrick's Day
| 21. Third Sunday in June
| x) Valentine's Day
| 22. August 26
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| 23. September 17
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| 24. October 31
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| D. Look at American Presidents (Life Portraits). Describe each of them, using the following model:
«Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president, he succeeded (сменил, следовал за) Zachary Taylor».
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| George Washington
| John Adams
| Thomas Jefferson
| James Madison
| James Monroe
| John Quincy Adams
| Andrew Jackson
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| Martin Van Buren
| William Henry Harrison
| John Tyler
| James K. Polk
| Zachary Taylor
| Millard Fillmore
| Franklin Pierce
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| James Buchanan
| Abraham Lincoln
| Andrew Johnson
| Ulysses S. Grant
| Rutherford B. Hayes
| James A. Garfield
| Chester A. Arthur
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| Grover Cleveland
| Benjamin Harrison
| William McKinley
| Theodore Roosevelt
| William Howard Taft
| Woodrow Wilson
| Warren G. Harding
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| Calvin Coolidge
| Herbert Hoover
| Franklin D. Roosevelt
| Harry S. Truman
| Dwight D. Eisenhower
| John F. Kennedy
| Lyndon B. Johnson
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| Richard M. Nixon
| Gerald R. Ford
| Jimmy Carter
| Ronald Reagan
| George Bush
| Bill Clinton
| George W. Bush
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| Barack Obama
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E. Retell the texts from Ex. III and VI (READING):
1. as you are the US President;
2. as you are the US housewife;
3. as you are the US student;
4. as you are the US economist;
5. as you are the famous US sportsman Timothy (Tim) Theodore Duncan.
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