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to a fast food meal at McDonald’s and tell you more about American food.A, say what you fell about B’s words. Oh, that’s really different from ours.VI. Furthering Listening and SpeakingTask 1: Foods around the WorldFood is national and international. Many people like their own national dishes and a variety of foreign ones. You can find European and Asian restaurants in most large cities. You can find Italian, French, Chinese, and Mexican restaurants in New York, Washington, San Francisco, and many other cities in the United States. You might also find Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants in some American cities . American hamburgers and hot dogs are popular in Tokyo and Paris. In almost every country you will find rice, potatoes, eggs, bread, soup, meat, vegetables, milk, fruit, and other basic foods. People just cook them differently in different countries. People all over the world also prefer different things to drink. The English drink a lot of tea, and the French drink a lot of wine. Americans prefer coffee, milk or soda. German beer is now pletely international. Children are often very conservative about new foods. In the United States they often prefer to eat the same three or four favorite dishes: hamburgers and French fires, hot dogs, fried chicken, and ice cream.1. national international national dishes foreign ones. cities European Asian 3. hamburgers hotdogs Paris4. tea coffee milk pop5. children three or four hamburgers fried chickenTask 2: Trouble orderingI’ve always ordered my soft drinks in a simple example,I might say“A Coke ,please.”Lately,though,this hasn”t seemed to now often respond,“Regular Coke,Diet Coke or Coke Zero?”O(jiān)r,they may say:“I’m sorry ,we don’t have have Pepsi,Diet Pepsi,7up,Hartridges,Virgin Cola,Sprite,and Red Bull.”Ehausted by listening to the long list of soft drinks,I thought I’d make life one day I simply asked the snack bar staff at a cinema for a “dark,cold,carbonated drink”.The young man behind the counter smiled and asked ,“Yes,sir,and would like a long ,thin cylindrical plastic sucking device with that?”