VOCABULARY: Food and Cooking: A. Check The Words You Already Know
VOCABULARY: Food and Cooking: A. Check The Words You Already Know
VOCABULARY: Food and Cooking: A. Check The Words You Already Know
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Describing food and eating habits
B. For the words you don’t know, ask your partner. Use the following sentences:
Student A: What does ________ mean?
Student B: It means ___________ in Spanish. (or) I don’t know. Let’s ask the instructor.
A. Read about the following dishes and answer the questions below.
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Udon (Japan)
Main ingredients: Thick white noodles made from wheat flour, soy
sauce, rice wine, and green onions
Preparation: Udon is served cold in the summer and hot in the winter.
Interesting note: Like most noodle dishes in Japan, it is OK to loudly
slurp the noodles while eating.
Ceviche (Peru)
Main ingredients: Fresh raw seafood, citrus juice (lemon, lime, or
orange), chili peppers, onion, and cilantro
Preparation: Raw seafood is marinated in citrus juice for a slightly
sweet and sour taste.
Interesting note: Ceviche is considered a part of Peruvian national heritage.
It is often served with pisco sour, the national alcoholic beverage of Peru.
For most nouns, just add -s For words ending in -sh, For words ending with a
to make a noun plural. -ch, -ss, and -x , add -es. consonant + y, add -ies.
For words ending with a consonant + o, Some nouns are irregular and have
sometimes add -es special plural forms.
tomato → tomatoes tooth → teeth
potato → potatoes child → children
and sometimes only add -s. fish → fish
piano → pianos sheep → sheep
kilo → kilos
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A. Exercise: Use the plural form of the nouns for each sentence.
1. His family has two ________ (boy) and three _________ (girl).
2. Some (family) __________ have more than seven __________ (child).
3. We need three (egg) _________ and two (tomato) _____________ for this dish.
4. We will need three (cup) __________ and three (bowl) ___________ on the table.
5. This is a story about three (sheep) _________ who are running from two (fox)________.
Note: When speaking in general, English speakers often use the plural form of count nouns.
• I like dogs more than cats.
• Apartments are quite expensive in big cities.
Non-count nouns do not have a plural form. Many kinds of food are noncount nouns
Condiments, herbs,
Beverages Grains Categories of food
and spices
water rice sugar meat
milk wheat salt fruit
coffee flour pepper dairy
tea cilantro cereal
Nouns that describe a group of items are often non-count. The types of items within that group
are often count nouns.
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A. Correct the following sentences:
1. I’m thirsty. Do we have any milks or juices in the fridge?
→ I’m thirsty. Do we have any milk or juice in the fridge?
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3. Are there any coffees left in the coffee pot? Or do we need to make more?
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4. We’re moving to a new house. Can you help us move our furnitures?
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5. I sometimes eat fruits for breakfast, but I usually eat cereals.
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A. Describe what is in the picture. Use the correct grammar for count and noncount nouns.
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Questions
1. Who has a birthday coming soon? ______________________________________
2. How old will she be? __________________________________________________
3. Who will make the cake?_______________________________________________
4. What will her mother buy? ______________________________________________________
5. What food items are talked about that her mother will not buy? ______________________
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A. Complete each sentence with a food item. If you do not know the English word for the food you
select, look it up in a dictionary.
I love ___________________________________
I like ___________________________________
I don’t mind _____________________________
I don’t care for___________________________
I can’t stand* ____________________________
*can’t stand: You dislike the food so much that you can’t eat even a little.
B. Share your sentences with your partner and ask your partner if he/she likes each food item.
Write a sentence for each food using the conjunctions and or but. Writes sentences for the
food items that your partner talked about as well.
Examples
I love strawberries, and my partner likes them too.
I don’t care for onions, but my partner doesn’t mind them.
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I love Pato en Aji, and my partner likes them too
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I don't care about Locro but my friend can't take it.
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GRAMMAR: Some and Any
Some and any can go with plural count nouns and noncount nouns.
A. Get with a partner. One of you will be Student A, and the other will be Student B.
Student A turn to page 132. Student B turn to page 134.
There are five differences between the pictures. Without looking at your partner’s picture, ask
and answer questions to find out what has changed.
Example:
A: There are some bananas in my picture. Are there any bananas in your picture?
B: Yes, there are. How about chips? Are there any chips in your picture?
A: No, there aren’t. OK. That’s one difference. Let’s find the other four.
Difference 1: There are some chips in Picture B, but there aren’t any chips in Picture A.
there
Difference 2: ____________________________________________________________________
Difference 3: ____________________________________________________________________
Difference 4: ____________________________________________________________________
Difference 5:_____________________________________________________________________
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A. The following are words used to describe food. Look up the words you do not know.
B. Ellen reviewed a new restaurant she tried. Listen and answer the questions.
2. What were some of the good points of the cafe? (be specific)
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3. What were some things that Ellen or her sisters complained about?
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WRITING: Restaurant review
Are you the third child in your family? _________________ is the third child in his/her family.
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WRITING & SPEAKING: 5-minute conversations
F → Facts It serves Chinese food. It’s near main street in the downtown area.
R → Reasons It has great food and is not very expensive.
E → Examples My favorite dish is the Kung Pao chicken, and I also love their spring rolls.
D → Details You can have a good lunch there for about $7.
Note that you do not have to have a sentence for each category. Just try to have additional
sentences for most of your answers.
Example: What is a dish or meal that you know how to cook or prepare?
F → Facts I make it with noodles, salt, and spaghetti sauce from the store.
R → Reasons I make it because I love spaghetti, and it’s very easy to make.
E → Examples
D → Details First, you boil some water and add the noodles and a little salt.
Then you drain the noodles and add the spaghetti sauce. That’s it!
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2. Can you recommend a good restaurant?
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4. What are some of your favorite kinds of food? What are some of your least favorite
foods?
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5. Do you eat healthy food? Do you want to change any of your eating habits?
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