You can taste cheese, home-baked bread and smoked pork. Everything is cooked fresh, daily, and the quality of the produce is superb.
There is a huge variety of foods such as figs, beans, bitter herbs, olives, dates, almonds and other nuts.
Tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and avocados are ripened and beautiful there.
Oriental vegetables are very tasty.
You can find fresh exotic vegetables – okra, black-eyed beans and purple leafy artichokes, oranges, grapefruit…
… lemons, strawberries, plums, apricots, peaches and nectarines, watermelons and melons, sweet seedless grapes and pinkish grapes.
A lot of slithering silver fish make an attractive sight in the market – red mullet, sea bream, sea bass and the delicious swordfish. You will also find octopus, squid and cuttlefish.
Moving on to the meat stalls, you’ll see plenty of red carcasses. Meat is eaten very fresh, and you may well notice the difference in flavour. Lamb and beef are lean and tasty and have excellent quality. Goat has a pleasant, slightly gamy flavour; it’s very lean and well worth trying.
The delicatessen stall sells honey and a range of different olives and tubes of cheeses made from goats’, ewes’ or cows’ milk.
You are always welcome at the oriental market!
Vocabulary
Oriental- восточный
Superb -превосходный
Fig -инжир, фига
Bitter herbs -пряные, травы
Date -финик
Almond -миндаль
Aubergine -баклажан
Avocado -авокадо
Okra -бамия, окра
Artichoke -артишок
You are always welcome
at the oriental market!
Answer the questions
1 What will you taste at the oriental market?
2 Is everything cooked fresh daily?
3 The quality of the produce is superb, isn’t it?
4 What can you see moving on to the meat stalls?
5 Where can you buy honey and different olives?
6 Would you like to visit the oriental market?
7 What would you taste and buy at the oriental market?
Give Russian equivalents to the given phrases:
Home-baked bread
Smoked pork
A huge variety of food
Fresh black-eyed beans
A lot of slithering silver fish
Self-respecting cook
Depending on where it is made
One of the mobile baking stands
Honey soaked doughnuts in syrup
The
end!