English 8» (авторы В.П. Кузовлев и др.)

MADE BY
Anastasia Odnovalova
TEACHER
N.V. Skachko
SECONDARY SCHOOL
NAMED AFTER MARSHAL
V.I.CHUIKOV
SEREBRYANYE PRUDY
MOSCOW REGION
What is American food?
Hamburgers and hot dogs?
Fried chicken and giant steaks?
Well, yes. But spaghetti and pizza are
American too, and so is sweet and
sour pork. The fact is that Americans
eat every kind of food imaginable.
There are, for example, more than
1,000 Chinese restaurants
in New York City alone.
At the same time, people in the States
still like to think of some kinds of food
as especially American.
They like the idea of the American family
sitting around the table eating turkey at
Thanksgiving. They like to think of 'Mom'
as the best cook in the world, even if
their own mother never did much cooking.
“As American as apple pie”
and “Like Mother makes it”
are popular expressions.
AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE.
The truth is, though, that families in the US
eat together less often than they used to.
Instead of meeting at the dinner table,
families often meet in the kitchen,
around the refrigerator.
There's no time for old-fashioned cooking.
Quick snacks all through the day
have taken its place. And to save trouble,
people eat wherever they like,
in the street, in front of the TV,
or at their desks.
An enormous fast-food industry gives
hungry Americans the snacks they want
when they want them.
Ice cream, popcorn, and hot dogs are
on sale everywhere.
Best known, perhaps,
is the McDonald's
hamburger business.
But if more and more Americans eat fast food,
more and more Americans also worry about it. Fast
food makes you fat, and Americans are the fattest
people in the world. They are also the most
interested in their health, and snack food is not
healthy. The fashion for health food is growing all
the time. Among middle-class people, salads,
beans, and fruit have taken the place of steak and
ice cream. Drinking is going down too. Only 67
percent of adults drink alcohol at all, and one-third
of those drink less than they used to. Smart
businesspeople order mineral water, not wine, at
their business lunches.
Being fat, in fact, can cause real problems
for an American. He or she will find it
harder to get a good job, or even to make
friends. If you want to do well, you must
be thin. It doesn't seem fair, does it?
Advertisers and fast-food sellers
scream at people to eat, eat, eat.
But inside, there is
another voice saying
“stop, stop, stop.”
POPCORN –
A FAVORITE AMERICAN SNACK
Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a deep,
heavy pan.
 Add 25 grams of dried kernels (maize). Cover
with a lid and shake the pan. The corn will start to
'pop'. Take the pan off the heat
 when all the corn has popped.
 Sprinkle with salt or sugar and serve.

1937: The McDonald brothers, Dick and Mack, open a little drive-in restaurant
in Pasadena, California. They serve hot dogs and milk shakes.
1945: They have 20 waiters. All the teenagers in town
eat hamburgers there.
1948: They get paper boxes and bags for the hamburgers.
They put the price down from 30 cents to 15 cents.
They cut the menu down from 25 things
to only 9. There are no more
waiters - it is self-service. So it is
cheaper and faster. And they have
windows all around the kitchen –
so everyone can see it is clean.
Parents start bringing their children
to the restaurant. Poor families eat
at a restauraте for the first time.
1960s: The McDonald's company opens hundreds of
McDonald's restaurants all over the States.
1971: They open restaurants in Japan, Germany and Australia.
Now ... the McDonald's company opens a new restaurant every 8 hours!
There are McDonald's restaurants in over 70 countries.
McDonald's restaurants serve almost exactly the same food in every country.
On May 8, 1886,
Dr John Styth Pemberton, a chemist,
carried a bottle down the street
in Atlanta, Georgia, to Jacob's Pharmacy on the
corner. There, soda water was added to it, and
the new drink was put on sale for five cents a
bottle. The drink contained sugar, water, the
leaves of the coca plant, and the juice of the
kola nut. Dr Pemberton's partner, Frank
Robinson, thought of a name for it.
“Coca-Cola,” he said.
“The two Cs would look well in advertising.”
For the first year of its life, CocaCola sold only thirteen drinks a day.
By its hundredth birthday, in 1986,
it was selling 7.9 billion dollars'
worth a year. Not much of the
money went into John Pemberton's
pocket. He died two years after he
had invented Coca-Cola, and Asa G.
Candler, a clever businessman,
bought the business for $2,300.
From then on, Coca-Cola's success was all
due to advertising. The words
“Coca-Cola, delicious and refreshing”,
in flowing, graceful writing, were soon to be
seen everywhere: on calendars, clocks, trays,
and walls. The more people heard of it, the
more people wanted it, and by 1895, Candler
could say, “Coca-Cola is now sold and drunk
in every state in the United States.”
But the great days of Coca-Cola were still to come.
In World War II, the company made a promise that
every American soldier, sailor, and airman could
have a Coke for five cents a bottle, anywhere in the
world. The company knew they would lose money,
but it was worth it.
In one smart move they made sure that five billion
bottles of Coke would find their way around the
world, creating new demand in more countries.
They also knew that the idea of Coca-Cola as
something truly, especially American would be
strengthened.
In the years that followed the war,
Coca-Cola managed to make itself
one of the most powerful symbols of
America both inside and outside
the States.
“Drink Coca-Cola, and you will share
in the American dream,”
the advertisements seem to say.
So what is in this magic drink
that has become the most
successful product
in world history?
That secret is locked up
in a bank in Atlanta,
and only a few people alive
know the exact recipe.
One very important question
remains –
is Coca-Cola good for you?
Dentists say that sugary drinks
like Coca-Cola harm your teeth.
Doctors say they add to problems of
fatness that lead to heart disease.
Delicious and refreshing?
Maybe.
ogiant ['d3aient] огромный, громадный;
ospaghetti [spa'geti] спагетти (длинные тонкие макароны);
opizza ['pi:tse] пицца;
osweet and sour [saue] pork свинина в кисло-сладком соусе
o(китайская кухня);
oturkey ['t3:kij индейка ;
oThanksgiving ['Gaeoks^givirj] День благодарения (официальный
oпраздник в память первых колонистов Массачусетса,
отмечается в последний четверг ноября);
oas American as apple pie типично американский;
oexpression [ik'sprejn] выражение;
oold-fashioned [.auld'fsejnd] несовременный, старомодный,
oстаринный;
osnack легкая закуска;
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enormous громадный, огромный;
beans ['bi:nz] фасоль;
smart [sma:t] толковый, разумный, зд. крутойadvertiser
['aedvetaiza] рекламодатель;
to add добавлять;
kernel [кз:п1] зерно, зернышко;
maize [meiz] кукуруза;
lid крышка;
to pop с треском лопаться;
to sprinkle ['spnrjkl] посыпать;
drive-in restaurant ресторан для автомобилистов;
milk shake молочный коктейль;
waiter ['weita] официант;
self-service ^self'saivis] самообслуживание;
beer [bio] пиво;
Norway ['no:wei] Норвегия;
salmon ['sseman] лосось, семга;
the Netherlands [neSelandz] Нидерланды;
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delicious [di'hjss] очень вкусный;
refreshing [n'freJiQ] освежающий, живительный;
Atlanta [et'laente] r. Атланта;
Georgia ['<J3O:d3i9] Джорджия (штат США);
pharmacy ['fa:masi] аптека;
coca plant ['кэикэ plaint] кока (южноамвр. кустарник и его
пистья);
kola ['keule] кола (тропическое дерево);
flowing [llauiQ] плавный, гладкий;
graceful ['greisfal] изящный;
tray поднос;
smart move разумный поступок, мудрый шаг;
demand [di'maind] спрос;
to strengthen ['strerj08n] усиливать(ся), укреплять(ся);
powerful ['pauefel] мощный, сильный;
advertisement [8d'v3:tism8nt] реклама;
to be locked up быть запертым;
exact recipe [ig.zakt 'resipi] точный рецепт.
Based on
The World of English
by M. Farrell
Faces of the USA
by E. Laird