What word is unnecessary in each line? Learn all the words by heart.

1) grain, wheat, barley, pork, rice, buck wheat, corn, oats, semolina, millet;

2) beefsteak, chop, cutlet, stomach, pancake, liver, veal, mutton, roast beef;

3) doughnut, dumpling, bread, roll, ring roll, ham, puff, cake, pie, toast, bun;

4) sausage, salami, bacon, cold pork, plaice, smoked ribs, fat bacon;

5) partridge, poultry, chicken, sprat, goose, turkey, duck, pheasant;

6) bream, sour cream, carp, cod, eel, herring, mackerel, perch, pike, salmon;

7) milk, cream, butter, margarine, beet, cheese, egg, cottage cheese;

8) tomato, raspberry, cucumber, carrot, potatoes, egg plant, marrow, cabbage;

9) grapes, raisin, apple, turnip, pear, plum, prune, cherry, apricot, peach, lime;

10) ginger, cinnamon, pepper, vanilla, mustard, pine-apple, vinegar, soda;

11) lemonade, beer, sherry, whisky, wine, pumpkin, tea, coffee, cocoa, porter;

12) chocolate, asparagus, ice-cream, jam, marmalade, pudding, honey;

6. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding words from the list below. Retell the text.

List of the words: improved, simplified, attitude, spices, additions, prime unfortunate, grabbing, envy, rationing, recipe, quality, required, chops, fed, increase, decline, complicated, crops, inns, mild, luscious, soil.

About Wonderful British Food

by Jeremy Morris

Britain is famous all over the world for its gardens, dogs, villages, buses, cars, private schools, the queen, sports like football and cricket, Parliament. I expect you have read about some of these things in other articles, or in books. It has been said a number of times that people _______________ enough to have been born in Britain can only read about it! However, not so much has been written about the wonderful (yes, that’s right!), the wonderful food that can be found here in Britain. Why is it British food so good, but that few foreigners (or British people for that matter) know about it?

British food has at various times in history been the ________ of Europe. In the eighteenth century British people were the best _____ and had the best cooking in Europe. People who visited us from other European countries said that nowhere else could you find such tender juicy steaks, such _____________ thick-cut mutton _______ and huge ________ pieces of beef. Our pies were famous, and the cooking in our ________ was famous throughout Europe. The reason for this was that our ________ climate, hard-working farmers, and rich _______ meant that we could produce the best meat and the ________ in the world. As a result the cooking ____________ very few _________________ like __________. English food was very tasty because of the ______________ of the ingredients and didn’t need _________________ recipes

In the Victorian age people’s ____________to food changed: it became less important. In the twentieth century two world wars meant that some of the ___________ for good old English food were _________________ or lost. Britain is an island and during the wars the country was cut off from the rest of Europe. For many years after the war there was not enough to eat and _______________ continued. Another reason for the ____________ in British cooking was the ______________ in popularity of fast food, a style of food imported from the USA in the 1960s. People wanted to eat quickly. Proper English recipes took time and were more complicated than ______________ a burger. In the last 15 years things have ____________ quite a lot. Now there are many restaurants and pubs that serve good British food.

7. Some famous British dishes have strange or surprising names. ‘Welsh rabbit’, for example, contains no rabbit at all. It is made with bread, beer, mustard and cheese. Look at these definitions of another well-known dish, ‘Toad in the Hole’. Which is the right one?

a) Stewed plums in a rich vanilla sauce.

b) A country pie made from frog’s legs, mushrooms and cream.

c) Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter.

The correct answer is ‘c’. Here are some more curious dishes for you to guess the correct definition.

Grammar Section

The Degrees of Comparison of the Adjectives and Adverbs

Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий

Прилагательные имеют три степени сравнения: положительную, сравнительную и превосходную.

Сравнительная степень односложных и двусложных прилагательных и наречий, оканчивающихся на –y, –er, –ow, образуется при помощи суффикса -er. Превосходная степень образуется при помощи суффикса –est. Прилагательные и наречия, оканчиающиеся на –y, меняют окончания на -ier и –iest. Конечная согласная у односложных прилагательных и наречий удваивается.

E.g. easy – easier – the – easiest

clever – cleverer – the cleverest

hot – hotter – the hottest

У многосложных прилагательных и наречий, оканчивающихся на –ly, сравнительная степень образуется при помощи слова more (less), а превосходная степень - при помощи most (least).

E.g. famous – more (less) famous – the most (least) famous

easily - more (less)easily - most (least) easily

Exceptions (Исключения)

Comparative Constructions

Сравнительные конструкции

Для выражения сравнения употребляются также сравнительные конструкции as…as (такой же… как), not so… as(не такой… как), not such… as (не такой… как), the.. the (чем… тем), than(чем).

E.g. Mary is not so lazy as her brother. He knows English as well as German. The longer the night is, the shorter the day. Jim is taller than Mike.

The Substantivised Adjectives

Субстантивированные прилагательные

Некоторые прилагательные могут употребляться в значении существительных. Они означают группу лиц, обладающих данным признаком, имеют значение множественного числа.

Прилагательные, обозначающие национальность, оканчивающиеся на –an, -ian, употребляются как в единственном, так и во множественном числе (добавляется окончание –s). Прилагательные, оканчивающиеся на –se, -ss, преобразуясь в существительные, употребляются со значением единственного и множественного числа. Во множественном числе окончание –s не добавляется. Для обозначения нации в целом перед субстантивированными прилагательными употребляется артикль the.

E.g. a Russian – the Russians; a German – the Germans; a Chinese – the Chinese; Swiss – the Swiss.

Put these words into the correct column below.

Computer, self-calibrating, easy, resolution, sharpness, information, printed, personal, capable, compression, technology, calculator, useful, assistant, expensive, possibility, reducible, investment.