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domingo, 22 de febrero de 2009

Food in Britain


Use this web page to learn more about typical food and meal times of British people.

  1. What is the difference between a typical breakfast and a traditional breakfast?
  2. What´s typically British food for lunch? Where can you eat in Britain apart from at home and in a restaurant ?
  3. What´s an English typical Sunday lunch?
  4. How are British meal times different from the Spanish ones?
  5. What ´s high tea? Do a lot of people have it? What´s cream tea?
  6. Surprisingly, What´s the most popular dish in England at the moment?
  7. What potatoes are typically British and are not called chips?
  8. Which pudding is typically British and it is not sweet? What are the main ingredients?
  9. What´s a "cornish pasty"?
  10. What´s the difference between "shepherd´s pie" and "cottage pie"?
  11. What´s a Ploughman´s lunch and where do you usually eat it?
  12. What typically British food is eaten with chips?
  13. Can you name a typical British dessert which starts with letter t_ _ _ _ _. What is it made of?
  14. The two most famous supermarkets in England: T_ _ _ _ _ and S_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

4 comentarios:

  1. Hi Ana,

    1.-A typical breakfast English is a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee, however the traditional breakfast English consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms.
    2.-It´s a packed lunch, consists of a sandwich, a packed of crips, a piece of fruit and a drink.
    3.-It’s the traditional Sunday roast. It consists of roast meat, two different kind of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding.
    4.-In Britain, breakfast between 7.00 and 9.00. Lunch between 12.00 and 1.30 p.m. and Tea from 5.30 p.m to 6.30 p.m
    In Spain, breakfast between 7.00 and 9.00. Lunch between 14.00 and 15.00 and Dinner from 21.00 to 23.00
    5.-It`s a meal they have after work between 5 p.m and 6 p.m.
    Yes, they do.
    Cream tea is a freshly baked scone with cream and jam.
    6.-It’s Ploughman's Lunch.
    7.-They are crisps.
    8.-It’s Yorkshire Pudding. Their main ingredients are flour, eggs and milk.
    9.-It’s a type of pie, originating in Cornwall, South West England.
    10.-The first is made with lamb and another one with beef.
    11.-It’s consists of a piece of cheese, a bit of pickle and picked onion and bread. It’s usually to eat it in Pubs.
    12.-Fish. Fish and chips.
    13.-Trifle. Their ingredients are sponge cake, custard, jam or fruit and whipped cream.
    14.-Tesco and Sainsbury

    See you on Thursday

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  2. Hi Ana, here you are my answers:
    1.-The typical English breakfast is a bowe of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and cup of coffee.The typical Englis breakfast isn’t eggs, bread,sausages, and cup of coffee, that’s a traditional English breakfast. It´s always served in hotels.

    2.- Many people has a "pocked lunch".This is a sandwich,a pocked of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. This people is at work or at school.
    You can have lunch in a pub or in a restaurant. You can have some sandwiches, a jacket potatoes, some omelettes... a light meal, or a main meal: starters (soup of the day, chicken Yakatori...), a fish, some steaks, a lasagne, a cheese and bacon burguer with chips, a chilli con carne with rice...

    3.- Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and vegetables.

    4.- British people has breakfast between 7am and 9am. Spanish people usually has breakfast from 8am to 10am.
    At 12 o'clock, when British people has lunch, we have coffee break.
    We have luch at about 2:30pm and 3pm.
    British people has dinner between 6:30 and 8pm. We have dinner from 9 to 10pm. We don't have tea time.

    5.- When people finishes work, he has a meal after work, between 5 and 6 o'clock. This meal is called "high tea" or "tea".

    6.- Fish and chips.

    7.- I’m sorry , I can`t find it.

    I can’t work any more this weekend.

    See you on Tuesday.

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  3. Well done the three of you, Mercedes included.
    Only a few things to correct:

    Tino
    2) There´s a missing answer: in a pub.
    5) Cream tea includes tea as well.
    6) The correct answer is curry.
    7) The correct answer is jacket potatoes
    11) The correct grammatical structures is: it´s usually eaten in pubs.
    14) You usually find Tesco´s an Sainsbury´s

    Toñi:

    Check some spellings: a bowl, a packet ( not pocked), people have/ people are

    Thank you for the effort to search for all the answers. Keep working hard.

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  4. Hi Ana:

    1.- Nowadays, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee.

    The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms.

    2.- A typical English lunch consists of a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink.

    3.- Traditionally it consists of roast meat (Beef, lamb or pork) two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding.

    4.- English:
    Breakfast: Between 7:00 and 9:00.
    Lunch: Between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
    Dinner: The main meal. Between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.

    Spanish:
    Breakfast: Between 7:00 and 9:00.
    Lunch: The main meal: Between 2:00 and 3:30 p.m.
    Dinner: Between 8:30 and 10:00 p.m.

    5.- High tea. The British working population did not have afternoon tea. They had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o'clock. This meal was called "High tea".

    Cream tea. Freshly baked scones served with cream and jam.

    6.- Rice or pasta.

    7.- Crisps.

    8.- Yorkshire pudding,made from flour, eggs and milk.

    9.- A type of pie, originating in Cornwall, South West England. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat or steak potato, onion and swede.

    10.- Is the same.

    11.- This dish is served in Pubs. It consists of a piece of cheese, a bit of pickle and pickled onion, and a chunk of bread.

    12.- Fish.

    13.- Triffle. Made with layers of sponge cake altternate with custard, jam or fruit and whipped cream.

    14.- Tesco and Sainsbury's.

    See you tomorrow.

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