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Ordering in a restaurant

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an appetiser

a chef chives

chowder

to come with dressing an entree a menu salmon

rare medium-rare medium well-done a small dish at the beginning of a meal, astarter a skilled cook a small onion-like herb commonly added to potatoes a kind of soup usually containing fish and vegetables to include (in a meal) a sauce added to salads a main dish a list of dishes available in a restaurant a large fish with silvery skin and pinkish meat very pink, used to describe a way of cooking meat slightly pink, used to describe a way of cooking meat normally cooked adjective used to describe a way of cooking meat fully cooked adjective used to describe a way of cooking meat

A) Read the conversati­on below and fill in blanks with the words given.

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I) Waitress: Good evening, are you ready to order, or do you need a little more time?

Tim: Yes, I’m ready to order.

Waitress: Did you notice on our (1)................... that we have two seafood specials tonight? One is poached (2)...................and the other is grilled shark.

Tim: That sounds really good, but I think I am going to start with the shrimp cocktail (3)................... . And as for my (4)..................., I think I’ll have the New York steak.

Waitress: And, how would you like that steak?

Tim: I’d like that (5).................... I don’t like it when the meat is even a little pink.

Waitress: I’ll make sure the (6)................... prepares it just the way you like it. The New York steak (7)................... mashed potatoes, a baked potato, or steak fries.

Tim: I’ll take the baked potato.

Waitress: Would you like sour cream and (8)................... on that?

Tim: I’ll have sour cream.

Waitress: Your meal also includes a choice of soup or salad.

Tim: What is the soup today?

Waitress: Clam (9)................... or chicken vegetable. Tim: I think I’ll have the salad instead.

Waitress: What kind of (10)................... would you like?

Tim: Blue cheese.

B) Fill in the blanks with the words given.

1. She always has Italian .................. on her salad.

2. Gerrie doesn’t like most kinds of fish, but she does like ...................

Keith’s mom makes the best fish ..................

I have ever tasted. She uses shark, corn, potatoes, carrots, onions and peppers.

I like my baked potatoes with butter. I don’t like sour cream and ..................

5. Gene is studying at a school in Paris to become a .................. He hopes to run his own restaurant.

6. The steak was prepared very .................. It looked like they hadn’t even cooked it.

7. That Chinese restaurant has a fantastic selection of dishes on their ..................

8. The meal .................. soup or salad and a dessert afterwards.

9. The .................. at that restaurant are huge. There is no reason to order side dishes or dessert.

10. Buffalo wings, potato skins, and shrimp cocktail are all famous American .................. 3. 4.

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