Post reading tasks

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Task 5.Read the article more carefully. Choose the best answer, a, b or c.

1. The writers believe that British cooking ...

a) has always been very bad.

b) was good until World War II.

c) is good because it is so international.

2. They say that the British ...

a) eat only traditional British food in their homes.

b) don't like cooking with foreign ingredients.

c) buy lots of foreign ingredients.

3. They say that the British weather...

a) enables the British to produce good quality food.

b) often ruins fruit and vegetables.

c) is not such an important influence on British food as foreign trade.

4. They say that World War II had a great influence on British cooking because ...

a) traditional British cooking was rediscovered and some good cheap recipes were produced.

b) people had limitless supplies of home-grown food

c) people started to believe that British food was boring, so after the war they wanted to cook more interesting and international dishes.

5. They say that...

a) British tourists try lots of new dishes when they are abroad.

b) nowadays it is very unusual for British people to cook British food.

c) literature and language are more culturally important than food.

6. The writers' final conclusion about British cooking is that ...

a) there is no hope.

b) you will only be able to get British food in expensive restaurants.

c) you will be able to get more good traditional British dishes, especially in pubs.

Task 6.Discuss the following questions as a class.

1. Do you agree that food is as much a part of a country's culture as its landscape, language, and literature?

2. What dishes would you like to try if you are in Britain? Why?

3. Do you agree that nowadays national cooking traditions are becoming less vivid and in the near future there will be no such thing as national cuisine? Why do you think so?

4. What traditional Russian dishes do you like best? Can you think of any Russian dishes that foreigners usually don't appreciate? What foreign traditional food you would never try?