1. arrange the replies in the dialogue in the correct order. — could i have a slice of pumpkin pie? — are you ready to order? 1 — good morning. can i see the menu, please? — yes, i am, thank you. i’ll have three scrambled eggs with country ham, toast and jam, please. — would you like anything to drink? — here you are, sir. — thanks. — anything else? — sure. coming right up. — i’ll have a tomato juice and some iced tea. 2. read the text. mark the following statements true ( t ) or false ( f ). in those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. they ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. they would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. that is why there is the rhyme, «peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old». 1) the text tells us about englishmen’s cooking traditions of the past. t 2) from the text we know how to cook peas porridge. 3) in the old days people preferred to eat vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish in the fire. 4) it was quite usual for people to eat a stew cooked a day before. 3. for each item (1—4) choose the correct variant (a, b, c or d). 1) if people ate more fruit, they healthier. a) are; b) were; c) will be; d) would be. 2) if it so cold, we would go for a swim in the sea. a) was; b) were; c) weren’t; d) wouldn’t. 3) if i had a garden, i vegetables. a) will grow; b) will be growing; c) would grow; d) grew. 4) if i you, i’d drink less coffee. a) wasn't; b) were; c) would; d) would be.

Tom, Thanks for offering to chair tomorrow’s meeting for me. Apart from Sally and Dave, the sales staff …needn't.. attend, but the Personnel people …mustn't.. miss it, as several matters concern them. You …needn't.. mention the new offices – we can deal with that later and you …needn't.. discuss the changes in the computer course timetables since they’re not urgent. Don’t forget that you …mustn't.. mention the visit by inspectors – we don’t want people panicking. You …mustn't.. forget to bring up the matter of the Smithson contract, and you also …mustn't.. leave out the new manager’s appointment. You …needn't.. go into details unless people have questions. But remember you …mustn't.. give anyone the idea that their job is at risk because of this. Make it clear that employess …needn't.. speak unless they want to. Last but not least, you …mustn't.. mention the staff-party Mr. Jones wants to announce that himself. By the way, you …needn't.. take notes, as my secretary will be there to do that. Thanks, Laura. 

 Almost all American composers of note belong to the 20th century, and include such names as Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and Virgil Thomson. Edgard Varese and John Cage have gained fame as experimental composers.
   It is through the development of popular music in the 20th century that the USA has dominated the western world. Jazz, a style of music created at the end of the 19th century by black Americans out of their gospel and blues songs, was being played all over the USA by both black and white musicians by the 1920s, and influenced the development of both dance music and popular songs in the 1930s and 1940s.
   After the Second World War jazz and popular music developed in separate directions. Black musicians created a more sophisticated style called bebop. The rhythm and blues music that derived from jazz, combined with aspects of country and western music, developed into rock-n-roll in the 1950s with the music of Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and others.
   In the 1960s some British groups, especially the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, became internationally famous and for a brief period popular music was dominated by developments in Britain. Since that time, rock has incorporated folk music, soul music has developed, and many social phenomena, such as drug culture, the civil rights movement and the peace movement, have found their expression in rock music.
   The musical has also made an important contribution to popular music. Developing from the British music hall and American vaudeville early in the 20th century, composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein on Broadway, and Ivor Novello, Noel Coward and more recently Andrew Lloyd Webber in Britain, have made the musical into one of the most important forms of popular music.