Meal times

Project I: Design a web page/a blog Lesson: Describe food habits Communicative task: Write an email Resources: Grammar: Simple present/sequencers/ Comparative/superlative Lexis: Meal times/dishes

Listen to the teacher reading the text then answer the following questions: 1) What is the first meal of the day? 2) Why do English people have their lunch in restaurants? 3) Is dinner the principal meal in England?

Listen to the teacher reading the text then answer the following questions: 1) What is the first meal of the day? 2) Why do English people have their lunch in restaurants? 3) Is dinner the principal meal in England?

British meals Traditionally English people have three meals a day; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is served in the morning. It is used to be a large meal with cereal, eggs and bacon, sausages and tomatoes. But such a large breakfast takes a long time to prepare and is not very healthy. Nowadays, Britain's’ most popular breakfast consists of cereal, toast with marmalade, juice and yoghurt with a cup of tea or coffee. Lunch is a light meal. Most people have no time to go back home for lunch so they eat at school, café, pubs or restaurants. The main meal is dinner, which is usually between 6 and 7 p.m. A typical evening meal is supper dish with vegetables and dessert. The most important meal of the week is the Sunday dinner, which is usually eaten at 1 a.m. The traditional Sunday dish used to be roast beef, but nowadays pork, chicken or lamb are more common. On Sunday evenings, people have meat or high tea. The famous British afternoon tea is becoming rare, except at weekends.

Write an E-mail to a British friend of yours where you will inform him/her about Algerian mealtimes, meals and what these meals are made of. Start like this: Dear Mark, Unlike the British, the Algerians have only..............meals a day. First, they have………..when they get up, usually at………. . It is made of…………………………………… . Next, they have……………at around………..etc

E-mail Dear Mark, Thanks you for informing me about the British mealtimes. It’s my turn to give you information about Algerian mealtimes. Unlike the British, the Algerians don’t eat more than three meals a day. First, they have breakfast when they get up, usually at 7 o'clock .It's made of bread, jam butter, and white coffee. Next, they have lunch at around 12.This is the biggest meal time of the day. Dinner is in the evening at about 20:00. I hope you have now some information about Algerians meal times. Yours faithfully Ahmed

Bacon: cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig. Marmalade: Citrus fruit variant of jam but distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel. Café: a coffee shop, buying simple meals or snacks. Pub: a public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic may be bought nd consumed and also provides food. Supper: any meal eaten in the evening High tea: a late afternoon or early evening meal, also known as ‘’meat tea’’.

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