Section 1 Catering

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Lady&Mister Chef

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Pagina 11

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Read the passage about the history of restaurants and hotels and answer the following questions:

1. Where did travellers find accommodation during the Roman times?

2. Why did hospitality come to a halt during barbarian invasions?

3. What about accommodation in the Middle Age?

4. When did the words “restaurant” and “albergo” first appear?

5. When and where was the first tea-shop opened? What did it serve?

6. What did the first World War cause?

7. When did the history of hotels begin?

8. Why did hotels originate?

9. How are hotels classified?

10. What does the word “restaurant” mean?

Pagina 13

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Answer the following questions:

1. How many types of restaurants do you know?

2. What is a pub?

3. What is a fast-food?

4. What is catering service?

5. What is the difference between a speciality restaurant and an ethnic one?

6. What do you eat in a steak house?

7. Who are the customers in motorway restaurants?

8. What can you eat in a café?

9. Do you know the name of any fast-food restaurants?

10. What about canteens?

Pagina 14

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Read the passage about “pubs” and answer the follwing questions:

1. What is a pub?

2. Have you ever seen a pub?

3. Describe a pub, as you figure it 4. Is alcohol served in pubs?

5. What “pub grub” is?

6. Do foreigners like pubs?

7. What is the meaning of “scrumpy”?

8. What do you know about English beer?

9. Do you know the opening and closing times of a pub?

10. Do you know what may be hanging outside the door of a pub?

Activity - Section 1

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Lady&Mister Chef

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Pagina 15

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Try to develop the following subjects:

1. With your words tell the history of restaurants 2. Tell the history of hotels

3. Tell in which of the named restaurants you’d like to work and why 4. How many kinds of hotels do you know?

5. Choose the most typical kind of British restaurants and explain their differences

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Think of similar places you know, and fill in the following chart:

type of restaurant name location kind of food service price

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Decide if the following statements are true or false: T F 1. Fast-food restaurants offer cheap and slow food

2. Fast-food industry is becoming unpopular 3. Fast-food restaurants provide menus for children 4. Fish and chips shops can be found everywhere 5. Fish and chips are usually wrapped in paper

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Answer the following questions:

1. What is an inn?

2. What is a family restaurant?

3. Why have hotels increased in number, in the last two centuries?

4. What can you eat in a pizza house?

5. Have you ever been in a motorway restaurant?

6. Where do fast-food restaurants come from?

7. What are fish and chips?

8. What kind of customers attends fast-food restaurants?

9. What is a take-away shop?

10. Have you ever phoned to a take-away shop?

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Join each restaurant to the concerning meal:

1. Steak-house a. pizza

2. Speciality restaurant b. cous-cous

3. Ethnic restaurant c. roasted meat

4. Café d. hamburger

5. Fast-food restaurant e. sandwiches