Цели:
Образовательные:
- совершенствовать умения и навыки практического владения английским языком;
- активизировать словарный запас учащихся по теме.
Воспитательные:
- обобщить страноведческие знания учащихся;
- повысить интерес учащихся к изучению иностранного языка.
Оснащение:
- ТСО – проектор;
- видеофильм;
- наглядные материалы;
- картинки.
Ход мероприятия
(на протяжении мероприятия учащиеся смотрят видеофильм)
Teacher: Dear students, I liked the idea of inviting British students of a Local State School in London to visit our school. Let me introduce our guests. They have came to our school as part of their visit to Russia. They will stay with your families. And today we are going to speak about the British food and drinks.
Student: Jess, how do you like Russian cuisine?
Student: Oh, it’s unusual and so different from British food. But we liked Russian cuisine: borsch, pirozhki, pelmeni.
Student: Visitors to Britain generally agree about one thing – British cooking. “It’s terrible!” they say. “You can cook vegetables in so many interesting ways. But the British cook vegetables for lose their taste. The best British cooking is in good restaurants and hotels, or at home.
Student: British tastes have changed a lot of over the past twenty years. In the 1990s the national average for each person was 352 grams of “red” meat each week, but now it’s less than 250 grams. People prefer chicken and fresh fish. And more people are interested in healthy eating these days. In 1988 the national average was 905 grams of fruit juices each week, but now it’s nearly 2,000 grams.
Student: BREAKFAST
The traditional British breakfast is a cooked meal of bacon, eggs and sausages, preceded by cereal or fruit and followed by toast. Nowadays, this large meal is served mainly in hotels and is very popular with foreign visitors. Britons may this big breakfast at weekends or on specials occasions but prefer a smaller, healthier meal to start a normal day. The most popular choices are:
- a bowl of cornflakes and a cup of tea
- a bowl of muesli and fresh orange juice
- a piece of toast with marmalade
- a yoghurt and fresh fruit with black coffee or tea.
Student: SNACKS AND LUNCHES
Lunch is a light meal and is eaten at school or work. Lunch takes 30 – 40 minutes. Some offices have installed a microwave oven for employees to use.
Popular lunches are: a salad or a sandwich; a baked potato; beans on toast.
Snacks are very popular in Britain and many people frequently eat snacks between meals. Schools and workplaces may also sell snacks such as crisps, chocolate, sweets and biscuits. Instant snacks are the fastest – growing sector of the food market; 5,5 million packets of crisps are sold every year. British kids eat more sweets than any other nationality. Biscuits, chocolates and sweets worth more than 5 billion pounds were sold in Britain in 1990.
Student: DINNER AND TAKE AWAYS
Dinner is usually the main meal of the day and consists of two courses – meat or fish and vegetables followed by a dessert or pudding. Pre-packed or pre-cooked convenience foods are especially popular. 3,000 million pounds of frozen foods are sold in an average year. Sixty per cent of British homes use a microwave oven for cooking.
In recent years, foreign foods have become a regular part of the British diet. Indian, Italian and Chinese dishes are particularly popular for evening meals. Most supermarkets sell a range of pre-packed meals to be heated in the microwave.
Student: AFTERNOON TEA, HIGH TEA, LUNCH AND DINNER
Afternoon tea is a small meal, not a drink. Now most ordinary British families do not have time for afternoon tea at home, but in the past it ways a tradition. It became popular about a hundred and fifty years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon everybody was enjoying this exciting new meal.
Student: The British are famous for their love of sweet things, and afternoon tea with sandwiches, scones, jam and several different kinds of cake was once a traditional custom. Like the English cooked breakfast, it is now more often found in teashops and hotels than in private homes, and you can special guidebooks to tell you where the best afternoon tears are served. Most working people do not have tea as an afternoon “meal”, but they do have a short break in the middle of the afternoon for a cup of tea. Tea is often also drunk with lunch and dinner.
Student: But the British working population did not have afternoon tea. They had a meal at about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o’clock. This meal was called “high tea”, or just “tea”. Some families in Scotland and the north of England still have “high tea” and some restaurants in these areas offer it too. High tea is a big meal with a main dish – meat or fish – followed by bread and butter and cakes. You drink lots of cups of tea with high tea.
Today, most people have a meal between 12 and 2 p.m. In the past, this meal was called “dinner” in working families. But now most people call it “lunch”. “Dinner” has become a bigger meal in the evening.
Student: WOULD YOU LIKE A CUPPA?
If someone asks you if you would like a cuppa, they are asking if you would like a cup of tea. If someone says “let me be mother” or “shall I be mother”, they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot.
Student: EATING OUT
Twenty years ago, British people usually ate at home. They only went out for a meal at special times, likes for somebody’s birthday. But today, many people eat out at least once a week.
In the past, traditional steakhouses were very popular places, but now many people prefer foreign food. Every British town has Indian and Chinese restaurants, and large towns have restaurants from many other countries too.
Student: FISH AND CHIPS
Fish and chips is the classic English take – away food. It is usually bought ready cooked at special shops – fish and chip shop (or “chippies” as they are sometimes called) – and taken away wrapped in paper to be eaten at home or outside. If you go to a fish and chip shop, you’ll be asked if you want salt and vinegar to be sprinkled over your chips. Be careful because sometimes they give you too much!
Teacher: Now you know a lot about British food and drinks. Mr. Stephen Wooding, the Head Teacher of Local State School in London would like to invite a group of up 12 students and 2 teachers from our school to visit them. Do you like the idea? Soon we’ll get the invitation letter.