Brazil Whether at home or in a restaurant, Brazilians like eating with their friends and family.
They never eat lunch at the office and they have dinner very late — at about ten o’clock at night.
Brazilians like small cups of strong coffee, at any time of the day. As well as many different fruit drinks, Brazilians also make very good beer. They don’t eat in the street or on the bus, and they never eat with their hands. They always use a knife and fork to eat, even for pizza or sandwiches.
The Philippines
Many Filipinos have three meals a day with two snacks in between. Rice is a part of every meal - they even make desserts with rice and coconut milk. Filipinos like eating soup, meat, vegetables and a lot of different sauces. In some parts of the country, they make wine.
Families usually eat together and they like to invite people to eat with them. Filipinos eat with a fork and a spoon, or with their hands. It's polite to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal.
Finland
There are a lot of different Finnish dishes, such as smoked fish and hot soups, but fast food such as pizza and sausages are also very popular. In the streets there are stalls which sell sausages Finland's favourite food. Finns like drinking beer. They make excellent beer.
During the week, most families don’t usually have dinner together. Sometimes at the weekends they eat with their friends. They cook meals together, or each person makes and brings a part of the meal.
Task.1 Read the text about food. In which country/countries do they:
1 drink lots of coffee?
2 like sausages?
3 eat rice with every meal?
4 not eat in the street?
5 make very good beer?
Task 2. Choose true/false
1. Brazilians like small cups of strong coffee True False
2. Brazilians always eat with forks and knives. True False
3. Filipinos eat five times a day. True False
4. It's very rude to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal in The Philippines
True False
5. Tourist can buy sausages in the streets stall in Brasilia