Шпаргалка по "Английскому языку"

 

Traveling by air is more comfortable, more convenient and, of course, far quicker than any other method.

Nowadays the airlines of the world offer many varieties of services in many different kinds of aircraft. Transcontinental and transoceanic flights are made in giant jet planes, some of which can carry several hundred passengers on each flight.

Airline passenger service can also be divided into scheduled and nonscheduled flights. A scheduled flights leaves at the same time on the same day to the same destination. Many scheduled flights often carry only a small number of passengers. A nonscheduled one depends on the availability of passengers and aircraft. It is more or less the air version of taxi. It takes passengers where they want to go at a time that is convenient for them.

On the flight itself, there is a difference between first class and economy class or tourist class. The first class passenger has more space and receives more in-flight service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Restaurant. Meals. Table   manners

       Americans and British people generally eat three meals a day though the names vary according to people's lifestyles and where they live.

        The first meal of the day is breakfast. The traditional full English breakfast served in many British hotels may include fruit juice, cereal, bacon and eggs, often with sausages and tomatoes, toast and marmalade, and tea or coffee. Few people have time to prepare a cooked breakfast at home and most have only cereal or muesli (AmE granola) and/or toast with tea or coffee. Others buy coffee and a pastry on their way to work.

The traditional American breakfast includes eggs, some kind of meat and toast. Eggs may be fried, 'over easy', 'over hard' or 'sunny side up', or boiled, poached or in an omelette. The meat may be bacon or sausage. People who do not have time for a large meal have toast or cereal and coffee. It is common for Americans to eat breakfast in a restaurant. On Saturday and Sunday many people eat brunch late in the morning. This consists of both breakfast and lunch dishes, including pancakes and waffles that are eaten with butter and maple syrup.

     Lunch, which is eaten any time after midday, is the main meal of the day for some British people, though people out at work may have only sandwiches. The main meal of the day for most people is the evening meal, called supper, tea or dinner. It is usually a cooked meal with meat or fish or a salad, followed by a sweet course. In the US the evening meal is called dinner. It is usually eaten around 6 or 6.30 p.m

   Many people also eat snacks between meals. Most have tea or coffee at mid-morning, often called coffee time or the coffee break. In Britain this is sometimes also called elevenses. In the afternoon most British people have a tea break.

   When eating at a table with other people, it is considered polite to keep your napkin  below the table on your lap, to chew with your mouth closed and not talk with food in your mouth, to keep your elbows off the table, and to eat fairly slowly. Many people do not smoke and visitors should ask permission before they smoke in somebody's house. Close friends are much less formal in each other's houses and may get their own drinks and help to clear away the meal.

It is also better to ask somebody to pass the salt, etc. rather than to reach across the table for it. When invited to a meal at somebody else's house people often take a bottle of wine or chocolates or flowers, as a gift.