Unit 18. Food and Drink
LISTENING WARM-UP
Look at the pictures. In pairs, discuss whether you agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain why.
• I really don't like foreign food and the idea of it makes me feel sick.
• I love spicy food. The hotter, the better!
• I like to taste new and unusual food. I'll try anything once.
• I think everybody likes the kind of food they grow up with.
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DEVELOP YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
WORDPERFECT
Read these sentences and then use the words in bold to complete the sentences below.
Key.1 self-service
2 stew
3 spicy
4 toast
5 pasta
6 cook
7 diet
8 cuisine
9 acquire / get a taste for
10 dish
• I've always loved French cuisine and I took a course to learn how to cook it properly.
• This one's quite spicy, so you might need a glass of water with it to cool your mouth down!
• In Europe, we eat quite well, but we still have too much salt and sugar in our diet.
• A person who makes food but who hasn't been specially trained is usually called a cook.
• Some places are self-service and don't have waiters. You get your food from the counter and pay for it before sitting at a table.
• If you acquire / get a taste for something, you try it and start to like it.
• The waiter told us that each dish on the menu was served with chips and vegetables.
• A stew is usually meat and vegetables in a sauce cooked in a pot for quite a long time.
• The Italians eat a lot of pasta, such as spaghetti and ravioli.
• Many people eat toast for breakfast. It's bread which has been cooked on both sides and they often put butter and marmalade on it.
1 I think the restaurant is ______________, so join the queue and choose what you want.
2 A ______________ is a great meal to make for a cold winter's day, especially if you have plenty of time.
3 I'd love to try some of your curry, as long as it's not too ______________.
4 I'm never very hungry in the morning and a cup of coffee and a slice of ______________ is usually enough.
5 I don't like pizza, so when we go to an Italian restaurant I usually order ______________.
6 Sarah's got a job as a ______________ at the local hospital and she says it's really hard work.
7 People in some countries have a very poor ______________ without enough vitamins.
8 Our chef is highly experienced and specialises in producing top quality European ______________.
9 The food in other countries can seem a little strange at first, but you soon ______________ it.
10 The waiter came back and said that they'd run out of chicken pie, so I had to order another ______________.
PRACTISE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Listening know-how
• Выполняя задание K, перед прослушиванием текста, прочитайте, чтоговориться о каждом участнике беседы. Постарайтесь спрогнозироватьинформацию, которую вы можете услышать в тексте. Во время прослушиваниятекста сопоставьте ваши предположения с содержанием текста дляаудирования.
• Выполняя задание L, перед прослушиванием текстапрочитайте задание и вопросы. Постарайтесь догадаться, о чем пойдет речьв тексте. В вопросах подчеркните слова, которые вы предполагаетеуслышать. Текст легче понять, если вы будете знать, о чем пойдет речь.
GRAMMAR FOCUS
First, complete the following table using the words.
absolutely wonderful very expensive
examples | we can use these expressions | |
gradable adjectives | big, cheap, interesting, _______________1, etc. | a little, tnn quite extremely, _______________3. |
ungradable adjectives | perfert amazing, exhausted, _______________2 etc. | totally, completely, quite, _______________4. |
Now look at the following sentences using the word 'quite' in two different ways.
I thought the food was quite spicy.
I thought the food was quite excellent.
In the first sentence, 'quite' means 'fairly'. That's because 'spicy' is a gradable adjective, and the sentence is the same as:
I thought the food was fairly spicy.
In the second sentence, 'quite' means 'absolutely, completely'. That's because 'excellent' is an ungradable adjective, and the sentence is the same as:
I thought the food was absolutely excellent.
Listen to these statements. For each one, decide whether the word 'quite' means 'fairly' or 'absolutely' by circling the correct answer.
Statement 1 a fairly b absolutely | Statement 2 a fairly b absolutely | Statement 3 a fairly b absolutely | Statement 4 a fairly b absolutely | Statement 5 a fairly b absolutely |
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