Reading Comprehension – the English breakfast

What’s your favourite breakfast? Are you a healthy person who enjoys a fruit smoothie or a fruit salad? Or would you like to have an English breakfast everyday?

Let’s have a look at what goes into an English breakfast. (“To go into” means to investigate something).

The full English breakfast

Vocabulary

Bacon rashers – a thin piece of bacon or ham.

Black pudding – a very dark sausage that contains a lot of blood.

White pudding – an oatmeal pudding is a meat dish popular in Ireland with pork.

Haggis – a Scottish dish made from the organs of a sheep that are chopped up, mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings, and boiled in the stomach of the sheep.

Laverbread – a traditional Welsh delicacy made from seaweed.

Tattie cakes – a food like potato cakes.

Oatcakes – an oatcake is a type of flatbread, similar to a cracker or biscuit, or in some versions takes the form of a pancake.

Cockles – a type of shellfish with a shell that has two parts and is shaped like a heart.