Page 52 - Exercise 1

Page 52 - Exercise 1

British meals and mealtimes

The first meal of the day is breakfast - usually between seven and eight o’clock. The traditional British breakfast is very big: bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans and fried bread! But nowadays people don’t usually cook a big breakfast every morning. They only have a cooked breakfast on Sundays or when they stay in a hotel. Most people have a light breakfast. These are some typical things that people have for breakfast:

cereal with milk

fruit (grapefruit is popular)

toast with jam, honey or marmalade

yoghurt

orange juice

coffee or tea

Between twelve o’clock and two o’clock people have lunch. This is often a light meal of soup, sandwiches and / or a salad. Most children have their lunch at school. They can buy food at the school canteen, or they can take a packed lunch from home. This usually has sandwiches and maybe some fruit, yoghurt or salad.

The main meal of the day is dinner. People usually eat this between about six and seven o’clock in the evening.

A traditional dinner is meat or fish with potatoes and vegetables, but many people nowadays cook food from other countries. Lasagne, spaghetti bolognese, risotto and curry are popular. Some people are vegetarians.

After the main course, some people have dessert (also called ‘pudding’) - such as fruit, chocolate cake, or apple pie with ice-cream or custard.

in some parts of Britain, people have the main meal at midday and call it ‘dinner’. They call the light meal that they have in the afternoon or evening ‘tea’. Some people also call the evening meal ‘supper’. This can be a light meal or a main meal.