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Task

This is a large menu of an American restaurant.

  1. Read it and try to find out what you would like to eat.
  2. Check your knowledge with the exercises.



starters (AmE)/ appetizers

soup of the day:

  • freshly made tomato soup
  • minestrone (Italian vegetable soup)
  • clam chowder (sämige Suppe mit Venusmuscheln)


  • garlic bread
  • egg rolls (in Chinese restaurants)


salads

(mixed greens, vegetables ≠ lettuce)

Tossed Fresh Baby Greens– mixed greens topped with Julienne vegetables and tomatoes, add Montrachet, Feta, or Gorgonzola cheese


Traditional Caesar Salad –river valley farms romaine lettuce with freshly grated parmesan


Spinach Salad — spinach topped with cheese, fresh strawberries, caramelized pecan nuts and raspberry vinaigrette


Iceberg Salad — A wedge of Iceberg lettuce with raisins, dried cranberries, Montrachet cheese, walnuts and thin red onion slices drizzled with curry ranch dressing

Entrée (AmE) / main dish:

meat

  • American hamburger
  • cheeseburger
  • roast beef
  • beef steak (T-bone steak)
    • rare done
    • medium
    • well done
  • chicken drumsticks, chicken wings
  • chicken schnitzel
  • pork chops (cutlet) (very unusual)

fish

  • salmon fillet
  • shrimps in a basket


pasta (noodles)

  • spaghetti with meatballs
  • macaroni with cheese


side orders:

  • bun and butter
  • chips (AmE: French fries)
  • baked potato with sour cream
  • hash browns (wie Kroketten)
  • onion rings
  • buttered corn (Maiskolben)

salad

  • cole slaw (Weißkohlsalat)

desserts

  • apple pie (as good as Granny makes!)
  • New York Style cheese cake
  • fruit compote in cognac
  • ice cream (all flavours)

beverages / drinks

all kinds of freshly pressed fruit juices


sodas:

  • coca cola
  • root beer
  • lemonade

beers:

  • draft
    • Guinness, Kilkenny
  • bottled
    • Corona, Fosters

wines:

  • red wine
  • white wine
  • champagne (sparkling wine)

water:

  • tap water (free)
  • mineral spring water

milkshake, cocoa, coffee

Interactive Exercises

Drag and Drop!

Be careful! A menu is a you can order. A typical menu consists of different . A “Menü” is a or a .

list of a foodspecial dishset menucourses

Meals and menus

A synonym for appetizer is

After the entrée you get .

is a mix of different fruits or veggies but the veggie itself is called .

Lunch, breakfast & dinner are .

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food

Match the words with the pictures!

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are bread with cheese or ham and salad

are McDonalds most famous meal (billions served)

Chips are made out of

Frankfurters and wieners are famous from Germany

Buffalo wings are not buffalo meat but . Their legs are called but you can eat all parts of this bird.

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1. Fish and shrimps are .

2. They are sweet, long and yellow.: .

3. This is what you call "Chips" in German!:

4. I like peanut on my sandwich.

5. In England lots of people eat fish and .

6. You eat it when you go to the cinema.:

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1. You cook, bake and fry food on it:

2. You put the food in and pans to cook it.

3. grow in darkness but you put them on
pizza and in salads.

4. If you grill meat in a BBQ you surely need to try out a real
American - from free range cows.

5. is not a spice but a mixture of many different
herbs and spices from India.

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