041. Having Lunch

She walked into a restaurant. It was lunchtime. She was hungry. She sat down at a table. The waiter handed her a menu. “What would you like to drink?” the waiter asked. She asked for water. She was on a budget. She stopped buying drinks. Water was always free.

She liked eating fish. She looked at the menu. There was no fish. She called the waiter. “Do you serve fish?” she asked. “No, I am sorry,” the waiter said. She was disappointed. She looked at the menu again. She needed time to think. The waiter left.

She did like chicken. She did not like beef. She did not even like pork. She was a picky eater. She made up her mind. The waiter came back. She ordered lamb. The waiter wrote it down. He smiled and left. She ate lamb for lunch.

Vocabulary

▪ beef: carne bovina
▪ budget: orçamento, orçar, alocar
▪ disappointed: decepcionado, desapontado
▪ hungry: faminto
▪ lamb: cordeiro, carneiro, cordeiro
▪ lunch: almoço
▪ menu: menu, cardápio, menu
▪ picky: exigente
▪ pork: carne de porco
▪ restaurant: restaurante
▪ serve: servir, cumprir
▪ waiter: garçom

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