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(intermediate level)

TRUE OR FALSE?

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1

English people drink tea at any time during the day.
'Afternoon tea' is a meal.

2

The English usually eat sandwiches or cakes and biscuits for afternoon tea.
The English often finish the day with a hot drink. It's usually tea or cocoa.

3

When you say 'a drink' you don't necessarily mean alcoholic drinks.
The English drink far more tea than coffee or milk.

4

The English drink tea with milk rather rarely.
You never start an English breakfast with orange or grapefruit juice.

5

The tealeaves are to be put into the kettle when the water is boiling.
You use a kettle only for boiling the water. Tea must be made in a teapot.

6

You must pour the milk on the tea when it is still in the pot.
You never boil water in a teapot. But you heat the pot up with hot water.

7

English breakfast is usually quite a large meal.
Lunch in England is often merely a snack.

8

The English may eat bacon and eggs or buttered toast and jam for breakfast.
They usually have cornflakes or cereals for lunch or before lunch.

9

Porridge is a typical evening dish. It's usually eaten with vegetable dressing.
Milk is never poured onto cereals and cornflakes in England.

10

Cornflakes and cereals are eaten with a spoon.
They may be the first course of breakfast. Cold milk is usually put on them.

11

In England there are picnic areas where the prices of restaurants are very low.
You can park your car in a picnic area and have a meal out in the open air.

12

You may be a guest in an English house for weeks without ever having soup.
Forks and knives are usually laid on the same side of the plate in England.

13

They never have sweets after a large meat dish in England.
You always have a salad with the meat in an English restaurant.

14

You usually leave the tip on the table in an English restaurant.
Or you don't give a tip at all.

15

There're usually as many glasses laid as drinks you're going to have.
You shouldn't leave the spoon in your cup when drinking tea or coffee.

16

You lay your knife and fork side by side when having finished eating in Europe.
In England they may lay them criss-cross but many people consider this impolite.

17

They do not usually wish good appetite in Britain.
You thank the host or hostess for dinner only after leaving the table.

18

It's very rude to refuse to try your host's favourite dish in England.
They never heat the plate before serving a hot meal in England.

19

You shouldn't put your elbows on the table while eating.
You don't normally smoke at the table before having eaten the dessert.

20

A ladle is used for cutting meat into even pieces.
A ladle is used for baking cakes in an oven.

21

Take-away restaurants provide hot food that you can take and eat at home.
It's not so expensive to get your meals from a take-away restaurant.

22

You can have a quick meal quite comfort-ably at a Wimpy bar.
Alcoholic drinks are not normally served in a Wimpy bar.

23

The origins of the traditional English pubs go back before the Middle Ages.
The English drink more beer than wine or champagne.

24

You can't have wine and spirits in an old English pub.
Ale is always made from ginger.

25

You can't have bottled beer in an old English pub.
Beer can be bitter or mild. Porter is a kind of dark-brown bitter beer.

26

The continental type of light beer is called lager in England.
Soft drinks never contain alcohol.

27

The inn-keeper will say 'time is up' when he wants to close the pub.
Pubs are always open from morning to evening in Britain.

28

Pubs are usually closed between 12 a.m. and 3 or 4 p.m.
There is no music in an English country pub.

38

'Simmering' means cooking something at almost boiling-point.
A frying pan is used for broiling meat or potatoes.

39

Hard boiled eggs will be better if you scramble them before serving.
You can't put a lump of sugar into your teacup.

40

Your coffee will be stronger if you make it in an electric coffee grinder.
Soft boiled eggs are usually cooked for more than four minutes.

41

Champagne is served in mugs in a fine restaurant.
Starchy foods can make you fat.

42

There isn't much protein in meat and eggs.
Carbo-hydrates are considered to be fattening.

43

An egg whisk is a dish similar to an omelette or scrambled eggs.
There is no difference between early morning tea and high tea.

44

The directions for preparing a dish of food are called the recipe.
A recipe usually starts with the list of ingredients.

45

A grater is used for grinding coffee.
They never put grated cheese on Italian spaghetti.

46

You can't buy milk or cheese in a dairy.
'Mutton' is the flesh of sheep used as meat.

47

Roast beef is usually sliced after being cooked.
The English often eat fish and chips with salt and vinegar.

48

Mussels and whelks are often referred to as shellfish or sea fruits.
Shops selling sea fruits by the seaside are as popular as fish and chips shops.

49

You have to pay an extra charge if you want to have vinegar with the mussels.
Fish and chip shops offer you a smaller variety of foods at reasonable prices.

50

You can't have a hot meal in a cafeteria in Britain.
A cafeteria is a kind of self-service restaurant.

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