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Vocabulary Follow-UpOrdering in a Restaurant
Vocabulary in Conversation 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 ______ that we have two seafood specials tonight. One is poached ______ and the other is grilled shark. Tim: That sounds really good, but I think I am going to start with the shrimp cocktail ______. And as for my ________, I think I'll have the New York steak. Waitress: And, how would you like that steak? Tim: I'd like that _____. I don't like it when the meat is even a little pink. Waitress: I'll make sure the _____ prepares it just the way you like it. The New York steak ____ mashed potatoes, a baked potato, or steak fries. Tim: I'll take the baked potato. Waitress: Would you like sour cream and _____ 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 _________ or chicken vegetable. Tim: I think I'll have the salad instead. Waitress: What kind of _______ would you like? Tim: Blue cheese. Vocabulary Follow-Up 1. She always has Italian ________ on her salad. 2. Gerrie doesn't like most kinds of fish, but she does like ____________. 3. Keith's mom makes the best fish _____ I have ever tasted. She uses shark, corn, potatoes, carrots, onions and peppers. 4. 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 __________. "Get" 1) Complete the following text by filling in the blanks with the appropriate preposition or prepositions. Use the following prepositions: around to, down, in, into, over with, down to, out, out of, up on, at Becoming a Chef Becoming a chef isn't easy. It seems like I just cook twenty-four hours a day. From 8 am to 3 pm I work at a restaurant downtown to earn money to pay for cooking school. From 4 pm to 7 pm I have classes, and then I have to take the train home. I don't usually get ____ until after 8 pm and I have to make myself dinner before I start doing my cooking homework. By the time I get ____ doing my assignments, I am exhausted and I can't stand looking at food. Unfortunately I have no choice, I have to practice preparing special dishes for class. Practicing is constantly a problem; either my roommates are bothering me or the dog is trying to get ____ the food. Yesterday, while I was trying to prepare steak tartar and chocolate mousse, the dog ran into the kitchen and tried to get ____ the counter. I screamed, "Get _____!" but he wouldn't stop. My roommates aren't much better. While I was trying to get the dog ____ the kitchen, my roommate, Fred, showed up and got _____ the bag of chocolate I needed for my mousse. I took one look at him eating my chocolate and yelled, "Get _______!" By the time I got _____ work, it was after 10 o'clock. I just wanted to get the cooking _____; I didn't even care if I did a good job. How am I supposed to learn to cook under these conditions? 2) Now reread the above passage to help you complete the list of definitions below. get _____________: to arrive in a place Focus on Verbs The following passage should be completed by putting the verb in parentheses in the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous. Where's the waiter? Robin: I think the waiter (forget) _____ us. We (wait) ____ here for over half an hour and nobody (take) __ our order yet. Michele: I think you're right. He (walk) _____ by us at least twenty times. He probably thinks we (order, already) ________. Robin: Look at that couple over there, they (be, only) ____ here for five or ten minutes and they already have their food. Michele: He must realize we (order, not) ______ yet! We (sit) ____ here for over half an hour staring at him. Robin: I don't know if he (notice, even) _____ us. He (run) _____ from table to table taking orders and serving food. Michele: That's true, and he (look, not) ______ in our direction once.
Date: 2015-12-24; view: 773
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