V food and restaurants P. oj and /u:/, understanding phonetics Mem ete 1 READING & SPEAKING ‘We talk to women around the world about their relationship with food. 4 What kind of food or dishes do you Be peer tor our ociate with these countries? ele wally ot ina pict day The United States China France 3 Bu yourever cook? Italy Japan Mexico 4 Do you ever eat ‘unhealthy’ food? How do you feel about it? 5 Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment? bb Read the interviews with Alice and Jacqueline. | @ Are people's diets in your country getting better or worse? Match the questions with their answers. The United States Alice Freeman is a lawyer from San Francisco. ‘A think people are trying to improve their diets, but they are doing it the ‘wrong way by following diets like the Atkins diet. Personally, I Won't think it very healthy to cut out entire groups of foods like carbohydrates. BL Not very often. | don't have the time or talent to cook full meals. | usually a frozen meal or order a 4 C1 Sometimes | get fastfood for lunch. | have to admit that | fove French tres. [eel terrible about it afterwards, but | don’t do it very often D1! usually have a bow of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch | eat at a restaurant near my office. | prefer japanese or Indian food. | usualy est rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. I don’t eat meat, but | eat a lot of fish, Inthe evening, I just have something light at home. E(_| Lam trying to cut down on the amount of fat t eat. I'm also trying to eat smote wholemeal bread F (| Not really. | enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the day. ALI Yes, 1 cook every evening for my family. | often make soup or traditional French dishes lke ‘boeuf bourguignon’, which isa kind of beef and red wine by ‘we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don't eat big What's important for me is quality, not quantity. | 8 (Yes, I'm trying to eat less chocolate. C(I think people's diets are getting worse and worse. I's quite strange because we have a lot of information now about how bad fastfood is for you, | 'm afraid its a problem in a lot of European countries. | D [| Not at home. | think most ofthe food 1 cook i healthy, but occasionally ‘chen UESIEMEEI have something unhealthy, but doesn't worey me. ET Yes, definitely. For me good meals with the family make me happy! | 1 fm quite traditional and | have three main meals a day. For breakfast, | like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, I offen eatin 2 restaurant with my colleagues. | usually have vegetables and meat or | fish but I love pasta and rice too. In the afternoon. I have fruit with biscuits or a piece of chocolate, n the evening, | have a proper meal with my family€ Read the interviews again and answer the questions below. Write A (Alice), | (Jacqueline), or B (both of them). Who...? 1 often eats in restaurants ; f 2 eats quite a lot of sweet things - 3 eats ready-prepared food 2 _ 4 cooks big meals at home i 5 enjoys eating = _ 6 feels bad when she eats unhealthily = _ 7 is trying to eat less of sometl "8 profers having good food to having alot of food = 9 is negative about eating habits in her country = 4 Match the highlight€ words or phrases with the definitions. to have a meal in a restaurant, not at home 2 _____ a sweet food made by bees, which people often eat on bread 3 the quantity you eat of a kind of food during « meal 4 _— to make cold food hot food you buy from a restaurant to eat at home 6 food from animals or plants used for cooking, e.g oil, butter ete. 7 _— food prepared in a particular sway, eg. sushi lasagne, ete. 8 made from brown flour a liquid food, often made of vegetables, e.g. tomatoes, onions 10 meat cooked for a long time in liquid, usually with vegetables € Which of the two women do you think has the healthier diet? Why? {Now interview each other with the questions from 1b, How similar are your eating habits? Is food a pleasure for you? > sti oan 2 GRAMMAR present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs a GA Listen tw Rumiko answering questions 2-6 from the interviews. Do you think food for her is fuel or pleasure? Why? b Listen again and anower the questions. 1 What does she usually have in the morning? 2 Where does she usually have Iunch and dinner? 3 Why doesn’t she often cook? 4 Tiase che eat or drink anything ‘unhealthy? 5 Is che cutting down on anything at the moment? Why (not)? 6 What's happening to the Japanese diet at the moment? Does she think this is a completely bad thing? ¢ Look at some of the things Rumiko said. Circle the correct, form. Then compare with a partner and say why the other form is wrong 1 don't usually have / I'm not having breakdast at work. 2 L used to go to fast food restaurants, but now I prefer / Lam preferring eating something healthier. 3 Lam drinking | I drink a lot of coffee every day. 4 think Japanese people get/ are getting fatter 5 like / I’m liking the fact that there are more different kinds of food and restaurants now. d_ © p30 Grammar Bank 1A. Read the rules and do the exercises. € Make questions to ask your partner with the present simple or continuous. Ask for more information. ‘What / usually have for Breakfast? How many cups of coffee / drink a day? Where / usually have lunch? How often / eat out a week? | prefer eating at home or eating out? J nced to buy any food today? J you hungry? { want something to eat? / take any vitamins or food supplements at the moment! try to cat healthily at the moment?3 VOCABULARY food and restaurants a Do the quiz in pairs. PAY) TWO things that a strict vegetarian doesn't eat is of food which are made from milk FOUR things people have for breakfast FIVE things people eat between meals ‘SIX vegetables you can put in a salad SEVEN things which are usually on a table in a restaurant b © __p.144 Vocabulary Bank Food and restaurants. ¢ Ask and answer the questions below with a partner. 2 Whats your favourite?) 2 fruit b vegetable d home-made dish 3 What food do you like sating.2 when the weathers very b when you're feeling a bit. ¢ for Sunday lunch 4X there anyknd of food Restaurants 5 What's your favourite...? kind of restaurant (French, Italian, etc.) b restaurant dish takeaway food Number 1-1 a(t =the most important) ota the food |)» the service |) a the atmosphere] the price _} 7 How do you prefer these things to be cooked? Grilled, boiled, etc.) chicken fish eggs potatoes 8 If you eat steak, how do you like it cooked? (rare, medium, ) 4 PRONUNCIATION /o/and /u:, understanding phonetics a Look at the sound pictures. How do you pronounce them? b Put the words in the correct column. butcher ook food fruit good juice mousse soup spoon sugar ¢ G12) Listen and check. d_ © p.1s7 Sound Bank. Look at the typical spellings for /o/ and fu. € Look at the information box. How do phonetic symbols in a dictionary help you pronounce words correctly? A Pronouncing difficult words Some words are difficult to pronounce because 1 they have a silent’ syllable or letter, e.g, vegetables /vedgtable) 2 some letters are pronounced in an unusual way eg. steak /sterk/ 3 you aren't sure where the stress is, eg. dessert | © fan’ £ 13> Look at some more food words which are difficult to pronounce. Use the phonetics to practise saying them correctly. Then listen and check. 1 knife Jnaut/ biscuit Porskat/ salmon /'semon/ 2 sausages —_/'sostdgt2/ Jettuce Pes! sugar ‘og 3 yoghurt jogat ‘menu 5 diet g “2 Listen and repeat the sentences, 1 The first course on the menu is lettuce soup. 2 What vegetables would you like with your steak? 3 Do you want yoghurt or chocolate mouste for dessert? 4 Ttake two spoonfuls of sugar in my coffee. 5 Sausages and biscuits aren't very good for you. 6 Would you like a fruit juice?5 LISTENING a Have you ever tried English food? What did you think of it? a b G5) Kevin Poulter, an English chef, has just opened a restaurant in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Listen to an interview with him and number the photos 1-5 in the order he mentions them. ¢ Listen again and answer the questions, 1 Why did he decide to open a restaurant in Chile? 2 Why did he call it Frederick's? 3 Why were Chilean people surprised when he opened his restaurant? What English dishes does he serve in his restaurant? Are they popular? Where does he recommend tourists eat in England? Why? How many women work in his kitchen? Why does he think there are so few women in restaurant kitchens? 7 What English food does he ‘miss most? d_ Do you think an English restaurant would be a success if it opened in your town? Why (not)? What food from your country would you miss most if you went to live abroad? 6 SPEAKING a Work in groups of three A, B, and C. First read sentences 1-6 and decide (individually) whether you agree or disagree. Think about examples you can use to support your point of view. 1 Women worry more about their diet than men, 2 Young people today eat less healthily than ten years ago. “5 Men coak as a hobby. women cook because they have to. 4 Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot of meat. 3 You con often eat better in cheap restaurants than in expensive ones. 6 Every county thinks that their cooking is the best. b Now A say what you think about sentence 1. B and C listen and then agree or disagree with A. Then B say what you think about sentence 2, etc, Try to use the expressions in Useful language. Useful language forwamo sages) Mot agSSD wie THT Gwin tp = — = =: a ee