English food and tea High tea (at 6 o’clock)

High tea combines delicious sweet food such as scones, cakes and
1) What is the traditional English breakfast? buns3, with cheese on toast, cold meats, pickles and poached eggs on
toast. Nowadays high tea is often replaced with supper.
Sometimes called a “fry-up”, the full English breakfast consists of fried
eggs, sausages, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms and fried bread. It is
accompanied by tea, coffee or orange juice and toasts. The traditional
English breakfast can also include baked beans and hash browns1. And you? What did you eat during the week?
2) What is a typical English breakfast? Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Typical breakfast in England includes a bowl of cereals, a piece of toast, Breakfast
orange juice and a cup of tea or coffee. Nowadays, lots of English
people, especially children, have a bowl of cereals for breakfast.

3) What is a typical English lunch? Lunch

A lot of children at school and adults at work have a “packed lunch”. It
comprises a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink.
Dinner
4) What about dinner?
A typical British meal is “meat and two vegetables”. One of the
vegetables is often potatoes. The traditionally meal is rarely eaten
except on Sundays. Today, lots of English people eat Indian food with
spices and rice (curry for example). Rice and pasta dishes are favoured
as the “British dinner”. Challenge:
Afternoon tea (at 4 o’clock)
Ask the waiter what is the most famous pastry he sells.
It consists of tea served with sandwiches (cucumber sandwiches with
the crusts cut of) and/or assorted pastries. 1

Cream tea is famous in England. It consists of tea with Devon clotted 2

cream served with scones and strawberry jam.

1 Hash browns : pommes de terre sautées 2 clotted : coagulé 3 buns : petit pains
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