My summer holidays

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What are the four meals a day in an Uzbek home?
   
2. 
   What does the breakfast consists of?
   
3. 
   What is the usual time for dinner?
   
4. 
   What do Uzbek people eat for dinner?
   
5. 
   What do they drink in hot summer?
   
6. 
   What do they have between 4 and 5 o’clock?
   
7. 
   What is the usual time for supper?
   
8. 
   What national Uzbek food can you prepare yourself?
   

Exercise 4. Speak on the topic using the following words and word combinations:

four meals a day; the first meal of the day; consists of … ; boiled or fried …; prefer coffee; instead of porridge; the usual time for dinner; followed by; with fried or mashed potatoes; desert; prefer to have national meals; Uzbek people often; in hot summer; between 4 and 5 o’clock; green or black tea; the last meal of the day; the usual time for supper; all the members of the family; sit down together; guests and visitors; to cook holiday dishes; after a long traditional conversation; a lot of sweets with fruits and melons; the order of meals; among many Uzbek families; in the middle of the day; instead of dinner.

Exercise 5. Speak about traditional meals in your family or traditional meals of a medical student.
ABOUT MYSELF

My name is Rashid Kurbonov. I am 21. I am from Margilan, Fergana province. Our family lives in a big house in Sharof Rashidov Street. Our family is large; we are 7 in the family. My father is an engineer at a textile factory. My mother is a housewife. Everybody considers that it is not a profession, but I think that this job requires great responsibility, attention and labour. Our mother does her best to keep our house tidy and clean, to feed everybody with tasty and delicious food and provide friendly atmosphere at home. I have two younger sisters. They are twins, they are 8 and they go to school. Their names are Fotima and Zuhra, of course. It is so difficult to differentiate them and only our mother knows exactly who is Fotima and who is Zuhra. They both are great mother’s helpers. Our grandparents live with us, they are pensioners. We love each other very much.

I graduated from Margilan Academic Liceum where I studied deeply natural sciences – Biology, Organic and Non-organic Chemistry and other subjects. I decided to enter Andizhan State Medical Institute. We have no doctors in our family and I hope to be the first one.

I am a third-year student of Pediatric Faculty, group N 304. My favourite subjects at the Institute are Human Anatomy and Normal and Pathologic Physiology. Lectures, atlases, textbooks, internet information and hard work in the dissecting room help me to gain deep knowledge of these subjects which are the basis of medicine. I am fond of English and joined the students’ English Language Club. It helps me to improve my conversational English and to read medical literature in the original.

If I have free time I like to play computer games, to watch an interesting film on CD-disk or spend an hour or two at a fitness club.