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The 6^th form Control Work 5. Dictation

English meals

There are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast is at about 8 a. m in the morning and consists of porridge with milk and salt or sugar, eggs boiled or fried, bread and butter with jam. Some people like to drink tea, but others prefer coffee, instead of porridge. They may have fruit juice or biscuits.

The usual time for lunch is 1 p.m. This meal starts with soup or fruit juice. Then some meal or poultry with potatoes –boiled or fried, carrots and beans. Then a pudding , cheese and biscuits. Last of all is coffee.

Tea is the third meal of the day. It is between 4 or 5 p. m the so –called 5 tea. On the table there is tea, milk or cream, sugar, bread and butter, cakes and jam.

Dinner is the fourth meal of the day. The usual time is about 7 p. m. Dinner usually consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables, potatoes, green beans, carrot and cabbage, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice –cream or cheese and biscuits.

My birthday

Birthday is a very wonderful day. Everybody likes to celebrate it. It is a good opportunity to spend time with friends, parents, relatives.

I was born on the 10th of January. In the morning on my birthday my parents lay the presents near my bed. So the first thing I see when I open my eyes is my presents. My Mum and Daddy and my little brother come to my room to congratulate me and to sing “Happy Birthday”.

Usually we hold my birthday party in the evening. Once we went to a cafe to celebrate my birthday, but usually we celebrate it at home.

We clean the house the day before birthday. In the morning of birthday party day my father goes shopping and buys everything we need. My mother bakes a cake or pie. By the evening food is cooked, the table is laid. We, put on evening suits and dresses and wait for the guests. The flat looks nice and cozy.

I’m always very glad to meet my guests. I like to get flowers and presents. Mum gives me the telegram from my aunt. We have an abundant dinner on this day. Mum brings in the birthday cake, I blow the candles out.

We dance and sing songs, play games and laugh, joke, tell funny stories.

I think that my birthday is one of the best days in a year.