The One With The Cooking Class

Intermediate (Lesson 1)

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Speaking.

Warm-up! Food: fuel or pleasure? What kind of food or dishes do you associate with these countries?

The United States

China

France

Italy

Japan

Mexico

Reading.

Read the interviews with Alice and Jacqueline. Match the questions with their answers (put numbers of questions in the gaps). Which of the women has the healthier diet?

 We talk to women around the world about their relationship with food.

1. Is food a pleasure for you?
2. What do you normally eat in a typical day?
3.  Do you ever cook?
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?
6. Are people's diets in your country getting better or worse?

The United States. Alice Freeman is a lawyer from San Francisco.

A  I think people are trying to improve their diets, but they're doing it the wrong way, by following diets like the Atkins diet. Personally, I don't think it's very healthy to cut out entire groups of foods like carbohydrates.
B  Not very often. I don't have the time or talent to cook full meals. I usually heat up a frozen meal or order a takeaway.
C   Sometimes I get fast food for lunch. I have to admit that I love French fries. I feel terrible about it afterwards, but I don't do it very often.
D I usually have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch I eat at a restaurant near my office. I prefer Japanese or Indian food. I usually eat rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. I don't eat meat, but I eat a lot of fish. In the evening, I just have something light at home.
E  I am trying to cut down on the amount of fat I eat. I'm also trying to eat more wholemeal bread.
F  Not really. I enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the day.

France. Jacqueline Fabre is an IT consultant from Lyons.

A  Yes, I cook every evening for my family. I often make soup or traditional French dishes like 'boeuf bourgignon', which is a kind of beef and red wine stew, and then we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don't eat big portions. What's important for me is quality, not quantity.
B   Yes, I'm trying to eat less chocolate.
C   I think people's diets are getting worse and worse. It's quite strange because we have a lot of information now about how bad fast food is for you. I'm afraid it's a problem in a lot of European countries.
D Not at home. I think most of the food I cook is healthy, but occasionally when I eat out I have something unhealthy, but it doesn't worry me.
E  Yes, definitely. For me good meals with the family make me happy.
F  I'm quite traditional and I have three main meals a day. For breakfast, I like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, I often eat in a restaurant with my colleagues. I 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. In the evening, I have a proper meal with my family.

Vocabulary.

Match the words from the text with their definitions.

wholemeal heat uphoney   fat portions

eat out take away dishsoup cut down onstew

1. 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 a meal
4. to make cold food hot
5. food you buy from a restaurant to eat at home
6. food from animals or plants used for cooking, e.g. oil, butter, etc.
7. food prepared in a particular way, e.g. sushi, lasagne, etc.
8. made from brown flour
9. a liquid food, often made of vegetables, e.g. tomatoes, onions
10. meal cooked for a long time in liquid, usually with vegetables
11. to eat less of something, to reduce

Grammar

Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

1. They have always breakfast in bed on a Sunday morning.
2. She can't come to the phone now. She has a shower.
3. We are needing an answer from you before Wednesday.
4. I'm studing a lot now because I have exams next week.
5. She don't eat meat at all.
6. They always are late.
7. Do you go out tonight?
8. She has cut down on sweets and gets thinner and thinner.
9. Are you going to the park this afternoon? — I don't know. It's depending on the weather.

Vocabulary Practice.

Food and restaurants. Put the words in the correct categories.

Sausages, prawns, beans, lettuce, strawberries, duck, peaches, salmon

meat	Fish/seafood	fruit	vegetables

Vocabulary Practice.

Food adjectives. Complete the gaps with the following words:

fresh, frozen, home-made, low-fat, raw, spicy, sweet, takeaway

1. I love my mum's cooking.   food is always the best.
2. Indian food like curry is very .
3. Sushi is made with   fish.
4. Food which is kept very cold is .
5. food is food you buy at a restaurant and take home to eat.
6. People on a diet often try to eat  food.
7. These eggs are  , I bought them today.
8. This tea's very  . You've put too much sugar in it!

Speaking.

Can you think of … ?

ONE red fruit, ONE yellow fruit ONEgreen fruit

TWO things that a strict vegetarian doesn't eat

THREE kinds 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

Grammar Practice.

Complete the sentences with the present simple or continuous from the verbs in brackets. Use full forms of to be.

1. She   to the gym three times a week. (go)
2. He  at home today. (work)
3. you usually  late? (get up)
4. They  usually a big meal in the evening. (not have)
5. What you  tonight? (do)
6. I going out to restaurants. (love)
7. I can`t play tennis this weekend: I  to the mountains with my family. (go)
8. She  low fat products very often . (not buy)
9. Could you turn the music down, please? I  to watch TV. (try)
10. I guilty when I eat chocolate. (feel)

Vocabulary Practice.

Complete the sentences with a word from the list:

steak, meat, diet, take away, home-made, raw, meal, chicken, spicy, frozen

1. His   is terrible : he eats too many sweet things.
2. Strict vegetarians don`t eat  or fish.
3. vegetables have more vitamins than when they are cooked.
4. I love  food but I don`t have much time to cook.
5. She likes her  well done.
6. I`m very busy so often just buy a  meal and heat it up in the microwave.
7. Our biggest of the day is usually lunch.
8. She doesn`t like Mexican food because it is too  .
9. Our typical Sunday lunch is roast  , I especially like the wings.
10. We often buy  food on Fridays — either Chinese or Indian food.

Watching.

 Watch the video and check if the sentences are true.

1. A customer had meal in a smoking hall.
2. He didn't drink wine.
3. The meal wasn't delicious.
4. The customer had a T-bone steak, medium rare.
5. There was no dessert in the restaurant.
6. The customer had coffee latte and an éclair.
7. The waitress got a tip from the customer.
8. The customer paid by cash.
9. The waitress recommended an ice-cream
10. The customer didn't like the restaurant.

Translate into English and compose sentences with these words and phrases

1. стейк на косточке
2. десерт
3. счет
4. я могу порекомендовать
5. следуйте за мной
6. шоколадный эклер
7. вкусный
8. мне налить сейчас?
9. свежий яблочный пирог
10. конечно
11. сезонные овощи
12. картофель в мундире

SAVE ANSWERS SEE YOU SOON!

The One With The Cooking Class

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