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Talking about food

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1 Prepare for your next lesson

In the next lesson you are going to talk about food and cooking. Look at the words below.

Meat/fish Fruit/vegetables Herbs Dishes Cooking verbs Preparing

seafood verbs
chicken, pork, tomato, oregano, spaghetti roast, fry, stir- chop, peel,
lamb, salmon, cucumber, parsley, mint, bolognese, fish fry, boil, grill, season, slice,
trout, tuna, onion, rosemary, and chips, a bake, simmer cut, cool, stir
turkey, lobster, courgette, coriander roast, sushi
veal, prawns aubergine,
pineapple,
beetroot

Go to https://www.linguahouse.com/r/3G (Food) and https://www.linguahouse.com/r/3F (Cooking) to

check their meaning, listen to their pronunciation and learn more vocabulary. In order to learn all the
words by heart and prepare for your lesson, click the `Add package' link in the top-right of the page.

Click to begin your review with the Expemo memorization platform.

How to use Expemo:

1. Display a question.
2. Think about the answer.
3. Display the answer.
4. Give yourself an honest grade.
5. Continue your review.

Expemo is a special tool for memorizing and reviewing words and phrases. The application displays
flashcards at specially-optimized intervals. For best results, try to use Expemo for 15-20 minutes every
day. For more information, go to http://www.linguahouse.com/ex.
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2 Speaking
Discuss any of the questions below.

1. Do you enjoy cooking? (Why/why not)?

2. What type of things can you cook? (Why)?
3. Which country's food do you like the most?
4. What foods do you hate?
5. What foods do you love?
6. Do you have a favourite restaurant? Why do you like it?
7. What is the most expensive meal you have ever eaten?
8. What is the most expensive restaurant that you have ever been to? What did you eat there?
9. What's your favourite recipe? How do you cook it?
10. What is the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?
11. Are there any foods that bring back special memories for you? What are they?
12. What kinds of food are popular in your country?
13. What special foods do you eat on holidays? (religious festivals, New Year's Day, etc.)
14. How are the eating habits now in your country different from eating habits in the past?
15. Is it an important part of your culture to have dinner parties? (Why)?
16. Do you prefer to eat with other people or on your own? (Why)?
17. How healthy is your country's food?
18. Have eating habits changed in your country in recent years? How?
19. How may eating habits change in the future?

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1- Prepare for your next lesson

Hand out page 1 of this worksheet. If you are teaching online, you can use an online service such as
http://www.ilovepdf.com to split this pdf into individual pages. Tell the student(s) that in the next lesson you are
going to talk about food and cooking. Ask them to prepare for the lesson by reviewing the vocabulary on the page,
which they might need to use. Encourage them, if possible, to use Expemo, Linguahouse's online memorization
platform which uses spaced repetition algorithms to minimize the time needed to learn new words by heart. Basic
instructions for students are included on page 1 of this worksheet.

2- Speaking

Select and ask the student(s) questions from the list and stimulate a discussion. Encourage use of the vocabulary
that the student(s) reviewed before the lesson. During the discussion, correct mistakes by paraphrasing the
students in natural English and provide the additional vocabulary that they need in order to express their ideas and
opinions.

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