N32 : Thirty-second lesson S00-TITLE : A side order of sarcasm S01 : The high court left a bad taste in the mouth of one food critic last month by finding him guilty of libel. S02 : Jay Craddock had written a damning review of a local eating place, so the owner sued him for loss of earnings. S03 : Should a reviewer be free to say what he or she pleases, or should there be limits so that they don't go too far? S04 : Imagine you were on the jury. Read Craddock's article and decide for yourself. S05 : The restaurant, which goes by the unbearably twee name of Sir Loin's, prides itself on serving the traditional cookery of England. S06 : If you eat there - and I can't think why you would - you will understand why our nation's favourite dish is chicken tikka masala. S07 : It's not that the food is bad. It's truly, ridiculously, mind-bogglingly, gut-churningly awful. S08 : And, as a famous humorist might have added, the portions are so small! S09 : The room has been decorated in mock Tudor by someone with a serious good-taste bypass. S10 : But while the décor was off-putting, we had not the faintest inkling of what was in store. S11 : I kicked off with brown Windsor soup, "made to a time-honoured secret recipe", and my partner plumped for prawn cocktail. S12 : My soup turned out to be a bowl of lukewarm dishwater, clearly the "secret" in question, S13 : while the cocktail had only a nodding acquaintance with the crustacean family. S14 : Having barely survived the starters, we braced ourselves for the mains. S15 : Our waiter, a graduate of Rude Service Catering School, plonked the plates on the table and stamped off. S16 : I had ordered the "Trad Special", faggots and mushy peas, which was as awful as it sounds. S17 : It was not even up to school dinner standard, while my partner's "classic shepherd's pie", S18 : which is such a tasty dish when cooked properly, made her feel sorry for the poor shepherd. S19 : For pudding, we had the aptly named gooseberry fool and a so-so sherry trifle. S20 : The bill, with a bottle of the house wine and a cheeky "discretionary" service charge, S21 : was slightly less than the down-payment on a new sports car. Or a bulldozer - S22 : the only vehicle which I would ever dream of returning to Sir Loin's in. S23 : So, guilty or not guilty? T00-TRANSLATE : Exercise: Translate T01 : The sales manager kicked off with a 20-minute slide presentation. T02 : What's in store for us next week? I haven't the faintest inkling. T03 : The food was so-so, but it was the decor that really put me off. T04 : Poverty is not just a side issue: it's vitally important. T05 : We don't really know one another. We're just on nodding terms.