Lesson 6, страница 15 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

The Hot Dog - страница 15.

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LESSON 6

Read the text and say what a hot dog is.

The Hot Dog

NEW WORDS
a dish [dɪʃ]	— блюдо
a frankfurter ['fræŋkfɜːtə]	— сосиска (амер.)
a dachshund ['dæks(ə)nd]	— такса
a sausage ['sɒsɪdʒ]	— сосиска
especially [ɪ'speʃəlɪ]	— особенно
a tank [tæŋk]	— специальный резервуар для жидкости
a row [rəʊ]	— ряд

People of different countries have their own favourite food. You already know some things about traditional Russian and English dishes. Here are some facts about a thing that has become popular all over the world.

Look at the picture. What do you see in it? What kind of dog is it? Have you ever eaten hot dogs? Do you like them?

Hot dogs came to Russia from America. But its home country is Germany.

In its home country people called this food frankfurter, after Frankfurt, a German city.

Frankfurters first appeared in the United States in 1860. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund [ˈdæks(ə)nd] sausages”. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. “Dachshund sausage” was a good name for the frankfurter.

Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. Their sellers kept them warm in hotwater tanks. As they walked up and down the rows of people, they shouted, “Get your dachshund sausages!” People bought the sausages and put them on buns, special kind of bread.

One day in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan went to see a baseball game. When he saw the men selling the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund in it – not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn’t know how to spell dachshund. So, under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”.

The cartoon was a sensation [senˈseɪʃn], and so was the new name.¹ If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking around with hotwater tanks. As they walk up and down the rows they shout, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”.

"True", "False" or "Don't Know".

1) A frankfurter and a hot dog is just one and the same thing.

2) Hot dogs came from Russia to the USA.

3) Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausages”.

4) Tad Dorgan created a newspaper cartoon of a hot dog.

Решение.