3 WE ARE WHAT OBJECTIVES

WE EAT
FUNCTIONS:
apologising; talking about food;
ordering a meal

GRAMMAR:
countable and uncountable nouns; a/an,
some, any; (how) much / (how) many, a
lot of / lots of; too and (not) enough

Watch the video and think: how does what we VOCABULARY:

food and drink; adjectives to talk about
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eat affect our health and the environment? food; expressions with have got

A B C

D E F

READING 4 3.01 Read and listen to the article.

Match the sentence halves.
1 Name the food in the pictures. What other food 0 The number of people in the world is c
and drink words do you know in English?
1 A lot of people
2 Make sentences that are true for you. 2 Farms cover about
Compare your ideas in class. 3 It takes a lot of water and energy
4 Insects can help
always breakfast. 5 They are healthy because
often lunch. 6 Many people don’t know that
I have … for
sometimes dinner. a one third of land.
never b they’ve got protein in them.
c increasing very fast.
3 Look at the photos on page 31. What do they d some food colouring comes from a beetle.
show? Ask your teacher for the words you don’t e eat unhealthy food.
know. Then answer the questions. f to produce the meat people eat.
g with our problem.
Can you think of a food that …
5 SPEAKING Think about your answers to the
questions below. Then work in pairs and compare
• comes from another country? your ideas. Do you agree?
• has got a lot of vitamins? • Do you think about the planet when you choose
• is (not) very healthy? what you eat?
• is unusual for you? • Would you eat insects? Why (not)?
• is good for your muscles and bones? • What foods from your country are perhaps unusual
for other people?
• What impact do your choices make?
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WE A RE WHAT WE EAT UNIT 3

reepy- e f u t u re ?
f ood o f t h
th e s u p e r
The number of people in the world is growing fast – every year there are
about 70 million more people. So, we’ve got two questions that need
answers: Have we got enough space on our planet for so many people? and
How can we make sure they’ve all got enough food to live?

Many people eat too much meat – Protein keeps our muscles and bones
steaks, beef burgers, sausages, etc. in good condition, too.
That’s not good for us and we need There are two more reasons why
big farms to produce all that meat. The insects are good food options: insect
farms already use 30% of all the world’s farms don’t need so much water and
land: they create greenhouse gases and energy. Also, they don’t use so much
use a lot of water and energy. space.
However, we can do something to For some people in countries in Asia
help. We can eat meat only one or and Latin America, eating insects is
two days a week, for example, and not unusual. But for people in Europe
eat more vegetables – that’s healthy. and many other countries, it seems
We can also eat some different types very strange.
of meat – creepy-crawlies! That’s
right, grasshoppers, worms, flies What about you? Do you eat any healthy food? How much
and lots of other insects. They’re meat do you eat in a week? Perhaps you think you don’t eat
the superfood of the future. They’ve insects? But maybe you’re wrong! Why’s that? Because the
got a lot of protein. Protein is very red food colouring that is in many things that we eat comes
important for our health, and it’s from … an insect called the ‘cochineal beetle’!
good for our hair and our skin.
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Food and health

6 Complete the five conversations. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
1 Do you want some ice cream? 4 Do you eat any vegetables?
A No, thanks. Can I have an apple or a banana? A I hate apples.
B She’s not hungry. B It’s fast food.
C They’re very good. C No, I don’t like them.
2 Have some water. 5 Have some more biscuits.
A I drink it. A Thanks, but one’s enough for me.
B No, thanks, I’m not thirsty. B You can have a banana.
C Look at them. C I’m very healthy.
3 Would you like more chocolate?
A It’s over there.
B Yes, I do.
C I’d love some, but I’m trying not to eat it.

7 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Compare your answers. Do the people in Exercise 6 care about healthy food?

The doesn’t want a … He/She asks for …

person in likes … He/She says … cares about …
number 1 I think he/she
never eats / drinks … He/She wants … doesn’t care about …

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 VOCABULARY
Food and drink
1 3.02 Write the names of the food under
the pictures. Listen and check.
1 6
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions
to find out three things from Exercise 1 your
partner likes and doesn’t like.
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GRAMMAR
Countable and uncountable nouns 2 7
3 Read the sentences.
1 Can I have a carrot? 3 I don’t like peppers.
2 I don’t like rice.
Choose the correct words in the rule.

RULE: Nouns that you can count (one carrot, two 3 8

carrots, etc.) are 1countable / uncountable nouns.
Nouns you cannot count are 2countable / uncountable
nouns. They have no plural forms.

4 Look at the photos in Exercise 1. Which are

countable and which are uncountable?
Add three more things to the lists.
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a/an, some, any
5 Complete the sentences with a/an, some and any.
Then choose the correct words in the rule.
1 A Would you like coffee?
B No, thanks. I’ve got tea.
2 Can I have apple or banana?
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3 Have biscuits.
4 Are there peppers in the kitchen?
5 There isn’t yogurt in the fridge. (how) much / (how) many, a lot of / lots of
7 Look at the examples. Complete the rule.
RULE: Use a/an with 1singular / plural countable nouns.
Use some with 2singular / plural countable and How much meat do How many people eat
uncountable nouns. you eat? insects?
Use any in questions and in 3positive / negative
sentences. I don’t drink much We haven’t got many
Use some in questions when offering or asking for coffee. carrots.
something. Farms use a lot of water. For a lot of people eating
insects is not unusual.
6 Complete the text with a/an, some and any. Insects have got lots of We can eat lots of
protein. creepy‒crawlies.
Do you like pancakes? They are easy to make! All
you need is 1 milk and flour and 2 egg!
You also need 3
frying pan and 4 oil to RULE: We usually use (how) much and (how) many in
fry them. After you make the pancakes, you can put questions and negative sentences.
5
ice cream on top! Do you know 6 easy Use many with plural 1
recipes? nouns and much with 2
workbook page 28 nouns.
Use a lot of / lots of with both countable and
uncountable 3 .
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8 Complete the questions with much or many. Then 12 3.05   Complete the dialogue with all,
match the questions (1–6) with the answers (a–f). altogether, change, help, milk, minutes, please and
1   How   apples do you want? something. Then listen and check.
2   How   sugar is in an avocado? Café assistant: Customer:
3   Are there   boys in your class? Good morning. Can I
4   How   peppers are there? 1   you?
I’d like some coffee, please.
5   How   time have you got?
6   Have you got   homework? Do you want
2   or sugar? Just milk, 3   .
a I think there are about five.
b Just one, please. Would you like Yes, I’d like a cheese and
c Only 10 minutes. 4   to eat? mushroom omelette, please.
d No, I haven’t.
e I have no idea. I don’t think it’s a lot. Is that 5   ?
Oh, I’d like a carrot juice,
f Yes, there are 12, and 5 girls. too, please.
That’s £9
workbook page 28 6   .
Here you are.
Here’s your
LISTENING 7   . Your
9 3.03   Complete the menu with words from breakfast will be ready
in a few 8   . Thank you.
the list. Listen and check.

apple | ​cheese | ​chicken | ​chocolate 13 SPEAKING   Work in groups of three. One is the café

coffee | ​mushroom | ​potato | ​tea assistant; the others are customers. Order meals.
Use the menu in Exercise 9 and the language in
Exercise 12.

LUNCH STOP PRONUNCIATION

Vowel sounds: /ɪ/ and /iː/  Go to page 120. 
ROLLS/SANDWICHES: CAKES:£2
2 fillings £4.50 Carrot
Extra fillings 50p 5 WordWise: have got
Tomato
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and walnut
Tuna
14 Put the words in order to make sentences.
1
1 got / cakes / some / They’ve / great
Curried 2 DRINKS:£1.50 2 I’ve / Don’t / reasons / worry / my / got
Sweet corn Orange juice
3 that / a / problem / got / you / Have / with
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juice
SOUP (WITH BREAD): £4 8
15 Complete with the expressions from the list.
Coffee
Chicken and 3
Hot chocolate
4
and onion a problem | ​​my reasons  |  ​​a headache
Spicy red pepper time | ​​something to do
0 A I’ve got a problem with my homework.
B History? Sorry! I can’t help you.
1 A Are you OK?
10 3.04   Steve and Hannah are in Lunch Stop. B I’ve got   . It hurts.
Listen and write what they eat and drink. 2 A Why are you not inviting Jane to your party?
Steve:   B I’ve got   , but I don’t want to
Hannah:   tell you.
3 A Phil, can you help me, please?
11 3.04   Listen again. Answer the questions. B Sorry. I'm busy. I haven't got   .
1 What does Steve say about his roll? 4 A Let’s go to town tomorrow.
2 What does Hannah say about her soup? B Sorry, no, I’ve got   tomorrow.
3 Why does Hannah need a fork?
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 READING
1 Read the article quickly and answer
WRITING
the questions. What you eat
1 Where is the writer? 3 INPUT Match the sentence halves and read Matt Silver’s

2 Why is it difficult to get vegetables paragraph about what 15‒year‒old Amanda eats.
there? 1 Hello, I’m Matt Silver and a shops and restaurants.
3 What do the Inuits eat a lot of? today I’m d b but not too much.
2 3.08 Read and listen to the 2 Amanda has lots of c a lot of healthy food.
article and answer the questions. choices d writing about 15‒year‒old
3 There are many good Amanda Claxton.
1 Why is the writer staying in an
Inuit village? 4 Amanda tries to eat e and that’s very healthy.
2 What other food apart from meat 5 She likes fruit f she loves sweets, but she
can the people find there? 6 She sometimes eats tries not to eat too many.
3 What is the problem with growing meat, g for food here.
vegetables there? 7 Amanda loves fish, h and vegetables.
4 What is surprising about the Inuits’ 8 There is only one little
health situation? problem with Amanda’s
food choices;

4 Write out the paragraph in your notebooks.

5 PRODUCE Imagine Matt Silver is writing about what you eat.

What is healthy or unhealthy about your food? What do you
eat too much / not enough of? Write Matt’s paragraph.

EATING
around the world Matt

Part I: The Inuits It’s a popular place for tourists in those months. But
winters are long and hard, and the life for the 250
Hello, I’m Matt Silver, and people in the village isn’t easy at all. The roads are
this is an article from our covered in ice, and the sea is frozen, too.
new series ‘Eating around
the world’. The Inuits don’t have a lot of choices for food. The
summer is too short and not long enough for the
I’m writing this from Kulusuk, Inuits to grow vegetables. They sometimes find
an Inuit village in Greenland. berries during the warmer months. And they eat
It’s a pleasant place in summer, seaweed. But there are no other vegetables, so
with mild temperatures and they don’t eat enough greens. There is a shop in the
fantastic views of the icebergs on village, but during the winter it doesn’t get any fresh
the sea just in front of the village. vegetables.
This is why the Inuits eat lots of raw and boiled
meat. They eat sea animals – seals, whales and fish –
and they eat reindeer and other land animals. These
animals have a lot of fat on them because it keeps
them warm in the freezing temperatures. Do the
Inuits eat too much fat? Isn’t that very dangerous?
Well, here’s the surprise: in the western world,
people say ‘Don’t eat too much fat!’ But the Inuits
eat a lot of animal fat and they are healthy, perhaps
because they eat boiled rather than fried meat. Life
for the people from Kulusuk can be difficult but they
are healthy. Maybe we can learn a lot from them!
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10 Complete with not enough or too.

My dad always says there’s 1 much rain in the
UK in the summer, and that it’s 2 hot .
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He’s right. And I feel that it’s 3 boring to spend
holidays here. We usually go to the south of Italy for
our holidays. There are lots of beaches, so there are
GRAMMAR never 4 many tourists. I love the food; that’s why
I often eat 5 much.
too many/much, (not) enough + noun
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6 Choose the correct word and complete the rule.
1 I try not to eat too much / many sweets.
VOCABULARY
2 He eats too much / many fat.
3 They don’t eat much / enough greens. Adjectives to talk about food
4 There are too many / much people in the city. 11 Write the adjectives under the photos.
5 She doesn’t eat many / enough meat.
boiled | fried | grilled | roast
RULE: Use too 1

with countable nouns, and too A B C D

2
with uncountable nouns.
Use (not) enough with 3
and 4 .

7 Complete with too much, too many or not enough.

1 There are onions on this
pizza. I don’t like them. 12 Put the words in the list in order from ‘very good’
2 There’s salt in this soup. to ‘very bad’.
I can’t eat it.
(a bit) boring | delicious | horrible | nice
3 There is sugar in my
coffee. Can I have some more, please?
4 There are cars on the 13 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions.
road. It’s dangerous to ride my bike. Use the words from Exercise 12.
5 We’ve got homework boiled or roast beef? | grilled or fried
tonight. I want to watch TV. chicken? | boiled or roast potatoes?
6 There are chairs. boiled or fried eggs? | grilled or fried fish?
Can you stand?

too + adjective, (not +) adjective + enough What do you prefer,

boiled or roast beef? Roast beef. It’s delicious
8 Use the example sentences to choose the correct
words in the rule.
The winters are too long there. Look
The summers are not long enough. Savoury means not sweet, for example, salty or
spicy. Savoury is a positive adjective. Salty is a
RULE: We use too + adjective to say that something is negative adjective, meaning food has too much salt.
1
more / less than we like or want.
We use not + adjective + enough to say that something
14 How do you say these words in your language?
is 2more / less than we like or want.
Write two types of food for each category.

9 Complete the sentences. delicious | disgusting | fatty | fresh | salty

0 The test is too easy. It’s not hard enough . savoury | spicy | sweet | tasty | yummy
1 The film isn’t exciting enough. It’s . sweet: chocolate, strawberries
2 The T‒shirt is too expensive. It’s . workbook page 30
3 It’s not warm enough today. It’s .
4 Your bike’s too small for me. It’s .
5 His car’s not fast enough. It’s .
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1 Look at the photo. What food is it? How do you

3.09

know? Listen and read to check.

Dad: Hi, Jordan! I’m home.

Jordan: Hi, Dad!
Dad: So, what are you doing?
Jordan: I’m making pizza – for me and my friends. Jordan: But I don’t like mushrooms.
Dad: Hmmm … 1What about me? Dad: 4
So what? You can always take them off. I think you
Jordan: I’m really sorry, Dad, it’s just for us. need some chilli pepper 5as well.
Dad: Oh right. Look at this kitchen! What a mess! Jordan: Dad, stop it. It’s horrible. Thanks a lot.
Jordan: Sorry, Dad. But don’t worry. I’m finishing now! Dad: Are you 6upset with me? Now I feel bad. I just
Dad: OK then. Now, how can I help? wanted to help.
Jordan: 2
Actually, I’m OK. It’s just a pizza. Jordan: Don’t worry, Dad. We can just eat crisps.
Dad: Onion? Red pepper? Just that? We can make that Dad: No, you can’t. You can eat pizza. Get me the phone
better, I’m sure. and I’ll order one. Ice cream, too!
Jordan: Really? Jordan: Really, Dad? Thanks!
Dad: Let’s add 3a couple of mushrooms. There we are. Dad: And I can eat this one here!

2 Read and listen again and answer

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FUNCTIONS
the questions. Apologising
1 What is Jordan doing?
2 Who is he making it for? 5 Look at the phrases. When and why might you
use them?
3 What does his dad put on the pizza?
4 What does Jordan decide to give his friends?
KEY LANGUAGE
5 What does his dad offer to do?
1 I’m really sorry. 3 Don’t worry.
2 I feel really bad. 4 It’s OK.
Phrases for fluency
3 Match the underlined expressions (1–6) in the 6 3.10 Complete the dialogue with words from
dialogue to the definitions (a–f). the Key Language box. Listen and check. Then act
a too – as well it out in pairs.
b unhappy with – Man Oh no. I’m really 1 .
c one or two (but not many) – Woman 2
worry. It’s not my favourite picture.
d What is the situation (for me)? – Man But it’s broken. I 3 really bad.
e In fact, – Woman 4
OK. Really. I don’t really like it anyway.
f Why is that a problem? –
7 In pairs write a short dialogue for the picture.
4 Use the expressions from Exercise 3 to complete Act it out.
the mini‒dialogues.
1 A Mum? John’s got his sandwiches.
But me?
B Well, I’m making
cheese and tomato sandwiches for you right now.
A Cool! Can I have an
apple ?
2 A I broke your watch. I’m sorry.
Are you me?
B Don’t worry about it. ,
it wasn’t very good.
3 A I can’t go to the cinema. I’ve got homework.
B ? You can do it at
the weekend.
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 WE A RE WHAT WE EAT UNIT 3

LIFE COMPETENCIES
We all make mistakes. We say we’re sorry so that the person feels better and
understands that we care. Saying sorry is important, but sometimes we also
need to show we are sorry by our actions.

Saying sorry 4 Work in pairs. Compare your answers to Exercise 3.

Do you agree?

5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss which of these

things is a good idea for the people in Exercise 3.
More than one answer is possible.
• Can you think of other ways of apologising?
• Say sorry immediately.
• Say ‘I’m here for you’.
• Change our future actions.
• Be quiet.
• Write a short letter or card to say sorry.
• Say something funny.
• Buy a present or flowers.
1 09 Watch the vlog. What are the names of • Wait and say sorry later.
Jack’s brother and sister? • Say ‘I love you!’ and smile.

2 09 Watch again and complete the sentences. 6 Work in pairs. Write a situation similar to the ones
We all make 1
. in Exercise 3 where someone needs to apologise.
Saying ‘sorry’ helps make things 2 .
7 SPEAKING Read your situation to the rest of the
When you say sorry, you should mean it.
class. Discuss these questions:
A3 sorry is worse than no sorry (probably).
1 Who needs to say sorry?
A good sorry says three things:
2 What is the best way to say sorry?
• I am 4 .
3 What does the person saying sorry have to say?
• It’s my 5 .
Do they need to do anything else?
• How can I make things 6 ?
4 How do you feel after you apologise?
Is sorry really the 7
word? Probably not.
Me and my world
3 Read these situations. Who do you think needs to
8 Tick (✓) the sentences you agree with. Compare
say sorry and why?
with a partner.
A Tom arrives late to school for the second time in I say sorry a lot.
a week. The teacher gives him a detention. I find it difficult to say sorry.
Tom needs to say sorry because he’s late. I don’t always mean it when I say sorry.
B Abby’s dad calls her lazy because she never tidies Sometimes sorry is not enough.
her bedroom. Saying sorry solves a lot of problems.
C Zoe forgets her friend’s birthday. The next day, her
friend doesn’t speak to her. TIPS FOR SAYING SORRY
D Emily is wearing her new shoes. Amy says they look
terrible. Emily is upset and tells her friends not to • Don’t be afraid to recognise when you make
speak to Amy. a mistake.
E George orders a cheese and onion pizza. The waiter • Say sorry when you make a mistake. It shows
brings him a tuna and pepper pizza. that you care about others.

F Kevin’s mum asks him to watch her cake in the • Saying sorry isn’t always enough. Sometimes
oven. He forgets and it burns. you also have to change your actions.

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