The Traditional Sunday Roast.

1. Look at the picture. What can you see? What do you think? What does it make you wonder?

2. Look at the heading. What do you think the text is about?

A the food people in Britain eat every morning

B food that people eat on their birthday

C a hot meal, typical now or in the past

The traditional Sunday roast?

The traditional Sunday roast is a cooked meal with many ingredients. People often eat it in the middle of the day on a Sunday. There is always a large piece of meat, usually roast beef or roast lamb. You cook the meat in a very hot oven. The juices from the meat make a good sauce, called gravy. There are roast potatoes too, and you cook these with the meat. They are brown and crispy. Yorkshire pudding is a typical British food. It is not sweet, so and gravy. it is very good to eat with the meat. You make Yorkshire pudding with a mixture of flour, milk and egg. There are usually two or three different vegetables with a Sunday roast dinner. Peas are popular, and many people like carrots too.

Visitors to Britain sometimes think that British people have this meal every day. Is it true?

John Brown, 37: Do I always have a traditional Sunday roast? Yes, I certainly do – every week! We love it. It makes Sunday a special day in our family.

Helen White, 19: A Sunday roast? No way! I don’t have much time to eat at lunchtime. We have cooked meal in the evening but we don’t eat a lot of roast meat. It’s so unhealthy.

Ben Clark, 23:We’re vegetarians, so we don’t eat any meat at all. But we enjoy roast potatoes, and we make a Yorkshire pudding. We often make a sauce with tomatoes – it’s delicious!

3. Match the words and definitions.

1. Beef a you put this liquid food on other foods to give them a flavor

2. Crispy b a way of cooking in hot fat, or meat you cook in this way

3. flour c food like this is firm and makes a noise when you eat it

4. lamb d a very small round green vegetable

5. peas e the meat from a sheep

6. roast f white or brown powder from grain you make bread with it

7. sauce g the meat from a cow

1. Are the sentences true or false?

1. The traditional Sunday roast dinner is a cooked food.

2. People always cook chips with the meat.

3. You use the meat juices to make the gravy.

4. Yorkshire pudding is not a sweet pudding.

5. You have to eat peas with a traditional Sunday roast.

1. Who says what? Write the names John, Helen or Ben.

1. Roast meat is not good for you. __________________________

2. I don’t have time for lunch. _____________________________

3. I don’t eat meat. _______________________________________

4. A roast makes Sunday different from other days. _______________

5. You can make a very good sauce with vegetables. ________________

6. Our family has a Sunday roast every week. _____________________

6. What about you?

Do you have a traditional meal at weekends?

What is it?

Would you like to eat a traditional Sunday roast? Why?/Why not?