Лекция: Read and dramatize the dialogue.

— We haven’t eaten anything since breakfast. Why not have lunch somewhere? There’s no need for us to starve.

— That’s exactly how I feel. There is a small restaurant round the corner. Shall we try that?

— Well, you lead. You should know better.

— We’ll have a complete meal, I suppose. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

— I doubt if they actually have any horse on the menu, but nice old chops with stewed vegetables they do have.

— That’s a wrong place to start, if you ask me. Look, they’ve got excellent turtle soup – wouldn’t that be cool, ah? First things first!

— Botheration! Why should you always have the whole menu on the table and not eat decent two-course dinner like everybody else?

— Stop grumbling if you can help it. Better try that delicious salmon for a starter.

— A starter? You don’t seem to be in need of any start, do you?

— Indeed, I’m a hearty eater if there is one.

— Come on, give me the menu already! Well when it comes to hors-d’oeuvres I’m for the Russian caviar definitely. And – and – a mutton cutlet would suit me admiringly.

— So that’s settled. A mutton cutlet with French fries for you –

— Well-well-well, hold your horses, you horse-eater! I don’t think I’ll bother with the potatoes. Got to think of my waistline, you know.

— You and your waistline! Isn’t it quite exasperating never to eat one’s fill?

— Do you expect me to be stuffed up to my gills each time I have a snack?

— I expect nothing; I just want to eat my dinner. And well – that reminds me. A nice large plate of ravioli with ketchup is just the thing for me.

— Would you also try some pizzas or spaghetti? It’s just as fattening.

— I’m not hearing this. Now comes the dessert. Wow!

— The glutton digs his grave with his teeth.

— Stop that! I’ll have a piece of apple pudding with whipped cream, a piece of chocolate layer-cake, an éclair and –

— Pretty hard indigestion.

— Could you please eat your miserable underdone chop and mind your own business?

— My chop isn’t underdone! I bet it will be done to a turn and quite succulent.

— Glad for you. And now comes the dessert!

— I’m sorry, did you miss anything? We’re through with the dessert already, unless, of course, you’d like some ice-cream to end up with.

— Excellent notion! What do you say to a vanilla ice-cream?

— I don’t mind but I thought that perhaps you would.

— Nonsense! Why should I? So, it’s two ices.

— Let’s call it a day, shall we?

— Wait! How about some beverages?

— A glass of orange juice with ice for me.

— You know a good drink when you see one, don’t you? Iced orange juice isn’t that bad.

— Thanks. And you’ll stick to coffee, I suppose?

— Sure. I want it piping hot and of the blackest Turkish kind possible.

— So, how’s your soup? Anything particular?

— It isn’t actually a treat but it’s tolerably good.

— Tolerably! Call it turtle soup! All those dainties are never quite up to the expectations, wouldn’t you say?

— Yes. I hope ravioli will prove better.

— My chop is undersalted, and you know what? – it is underdone!

— Just so I knew! Help yourself to some cake – it’ll make up for the main course.

— I won’t have anything making up for that lump of raw meat. I’ll just have another helping, that’s all there is to it. WAITER!!!