(ooute 7 WARM UP 1 Look at the pictures and match these drinks with the lasses you would serve them in. 1 | beer champagne cocktail liqueur spirit strong spirit z 3 4 5 _ soft drink 6 7 8 wine CATERING in THEORY Bar service What would you expect to find in a well-stocked bar? Certainly you would hope to find a waiter’s friend, a gadget with a bottle opener to open bottled beers and soft drinks, a corkscrew to remove corks from bottles of wine, as well as a foil cutter to remove the foil on top of bottles. Then you might find an ice bucket to keep white wine and champagne chilled and a paring knife for slicing lemons and other fruit to garnish drinks, Most good bars these days have a cocktail shaker, with a screw top and a pouring spout to mix and pour cocktails; together with a pitcher, or a tall mixing glass to stir cocktails, such as Martinis or Manhattans ‘There might also be an electric blender, to make creamy cocktails lik and measures, also known as jiggers, in various sizes to measure out liqueurs or spirits A long bar spoon for stirring drinks would be useful as would individual plastic stirrers or swizzle sticks to put into customers’ drinks; not to mention straws, cocktail sticks, cocktail umbrellas and serviettes, Pina Coladas, | Essential bar glassware should include the classic shaped cocktail glasses with solid | stems so you do not warm the drink when you are holding it; champagne flutes, with | very long stems; highball glasses for soft drinks or long cocktails; wine glasses or i goblets and pint and half pint beer glasses. There should also be an old-fashioned | glass, which is short with a thick bottom, used for serving spirits such as whisky, a liqueur glass with a delicate stem and a small bowl, and the smallest glass of all, a shot glass for strong spirits such as tequila. (_ READING COMPREHENSION 2 Read the text about what you would expect to find in a well-stocked bar and answer these questions. What would you use to open a bottle, remove a cork and cut foil? ir What should you chill in an ice bucket? What could you garnish drinks with? What would you use to make a Martini cocktail? What kind of cocktail would you make in an electric blender? What would you use a long bar spoon for? Why does a cocktail glass have a solid stem? What two British measures do beer glasses come in? What kind of stems do champagne flutes have? Which is the smallest glass of all? Activities SoavaununasService | [JOBULE 7 VOCABULARY 3 Read the text again and match these words and expressions with the pictures, then complete the sentences. waiter’s friend + cocktaitstick - cocktail umbrella » cork + ice bucket + jiggers + serviette » straw » swizzle stick Activities - E F 6 H ' "| This Pina Coladas looks lovely with an 1 init 2 Ohno! The in this bottle is rotten! The wine smells like vinegar! 3 Here's a to stir your drink with, Madam, 4 Do you want a to drink that can of coke with? 5 Puta with an olive on it in that Martini cocktail! 6 Excuse me, can | have some more ice in this ? This wine isn't chilled enough, 7 Cant have a to put under my drink, please? 8 Can | borrow your ? The bottle opener is broken on this one and | need to open this beer. 9 You can buy ip lots of different sizes to measure spirits with USTENING 4 2" Listen to a bar manager and a barman doing a bar inventory and write the quantity next to each item in exercise 3 (AD. yuri D 6 B E H c F ' 5 (22 Listen again and make a list of what the barman needs to order. Which of the items in ex. 3 are not mentioned? SPEAKING 6 Prepare a short presentation (3-5 minutes) about the different kinds of bar service (cocktail, wine bar, coffee bar, etc.) and the essential tools to run a bar successfully, including glassware and its uses.