Worksheet 3.

FOOD AND TASTES

Look at the following diagram which represents the different tastes a food can have.
How are they called in your language?

Now look at the actions that each taste does on your body and the sources where
you can find them:

Now make a list of different foods which contain each of the flavors seen above:

Sweet Sour Salty Bitter Pungent Astringent

_________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
_________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
_________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________

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PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1. Put the verb in brackets into present continuous.

a) Mary __________________ (drink) an orange juice for breakfast.

b) The children _____________________ (eat) an omelet in the kitchen.
c) Where is mum? She _________________ (cook) the dinner.
d) Charles _______________ (eat) a huge chocolate ice-cream. He is going to have a
stomachache!
e) We will go to the mountain tomorrow. At this moment, my parents _________________
(prepare) the food and the drinks.

2. Write a sentence about what these people are doing. Use the present continuous.

a)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

b) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

c) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

d) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

e) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

f) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

g) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

h) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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3. Look at the two pictures and spot the differences.

a) Write sentences about picture A with the verbs in the box. Use the present continuous.

Read a newspaper Eat ice cream Sit Take photos Talk on the phone

Wear a raincoat Stand Read a book Drink coffee Wear a sweater.

Example: Tom is wearing a raincoat. He isn’t wearing a sweater.

1. Mr James ……………………………………………………………………………….

2. David …………………………………………………………………………………..

3. Jan and Karen ………………………………………………………………………….

4. Sue ……………………………………………………………………………………..

b) Now write questions and answers based on picture B. Use the present continuous.

Example: Is Tom wearing a raincoat? No, he isn’t. He is wearing a sweater.

1. _______________________________________________________________________?

2. _______________________________________________________________________?

3. _______________________________________________________________________?

4. _______________________________________________________________________?

5. _______________________________________________________________________?
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PRESENT SIMPLE and PRESENT CONTINUOUS

ROUTINE EXCEPTION

This is Susan. For dinner, she usually eats

vegetables, but today she is eating a
hamburger.

This is Sako. He always eats spaghetti

when he goes to a restaurant, but today
he is eating rice.

This is Caroline. In the winter she

normally eats soup, but today she is
eating pizza.

They are 2 American tourists. When they

are on holidays they usually eat
sandwiches, but today they are eating
paella.

They are Tom’s family. For lunch, they

always eat a French omelet, but today
they are eating sausages.
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1. Put the time expressions under the right heading. Translate them.

Every day Now Always

On Fridays These days This afternoon

Hardly ever Today Very often

When I’m tired In the evening At the moment

Usually Never sometimes

PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

2. Make questions for the following answers

Question:

Answer: Mark and George are engineers.

Question:

Answer: Pam starts school at nine o’ clock.

Question:

Answer: Bob is writing a letter.

Question:

Answer: John hates football.

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Question:

Answer: Yes, I do. (You like hip hop)

Question:

Answer: No, she isn’t (Reggie is listening to the teacher)

Question:

Answer: It is half-past seven.

Question:

Answer: No, I haven’t (got any brothers or sisters)

Question:

Answer: Yes, she does. (Paula walks to school every morning)

Question:

Answer: Our children visit their grandparents twice a week.

3. Complete the following sentences with the present simple or the present
continuous form of the verb in brackets.

1. We usually _______________ (have) lunch at two o’clock.

2. Listen! ____________ the phone ______________? (ring)

3. I __________________ (sit) in the park today.

4. ___________ people ___________ (put) trees in their houses at Christmas?

5. My brother always _____________ (watch) tennis on TV.

6. The boys _______________ (study) at the moment.

7. Bill ______________ (not play) outside now.

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4. Underline the correct verb in each sentence, present simple or present

continuous.

1. We learn / are learning grammar at the moment.

2. Helen is wearing / wears blue jeans and a t-shirt today.

3. I always stop / am stopping the car at a red light.

4. In summer we are going / go to the beach.

5. Tom and I watch / are watching a good film at the moment.

6. Dad washes / is washing the car now.

7. The gardener comes / is coming to our house every Sunday.

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Countable nouns are words like car, book, and chair.

They are the names of things that you can count: you can say “one car”, “two
books”…
They can be singular ( a cat, a book) or plural ( two chairs, lots of books)
Uncountable nouns are words like rice, smoke, sugar, water.
These are things that you can´t count: you say “smoke” but not “one smoke”.
Uncountable nouns are only singular.

B) Choose an appropriate noun + of to indicate quantity.

A) Put a “C” for Countable
and “U” for Uncountable. Cup slice packet pocket bottle jar bar glass

Tea
Pencil Example: biscuits / three – three packets of biscuits.
Furniture Bread / four __________________________
Bicycle Coffee / two __________________________
Beauty Soap / two ___________________________
Turnips Cake / tree ___________________________
Money Meat / two ___________________________
Dish Sugar / tree ___________________________
Sugar Milk / five _____________________________
Rice
Dress
Advice
C) Look at the Picture and write complete
sentences using phrases of quantity:

Example:

I need to buy a tin of sardines.

______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
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D) Put a / an or nothing (-):

I need ________ new car.

I never drink ________ coke.
Mary is ________old friend.
She was wearing ________ blue jumper.
The table is made of ________ glass.
I often listen to ________ music.
The police are looking for him with ________ dogs.
My room has got ________ really big bed.

E) Put in a / an or one.

She´s got ________ nice skirt.

She´s only got ________ coat.
Can I have ________ boiled egg?
No, I said ________ egg, not two.
I´ve got ________ problem. Can you help me?
She´s only got ________ child.
________ boyfriend is enough.

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Food and drinks (many/much/some/any)

1. Match the pictures with the words in box and then classify the words:

Fruit Vegetables Drink Other

Water coffee cereals cheese
Cheese banana beans onions bread
milk cola carrots oil rice
lettuce pear oranges sugar

Quantity
Countable Uncountable
Affirmative
A lot of many a / some A lot of --- some
Negative
A lot of many a / any A lot of much any
Interrogative A lot of many a / any A lot of much any
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2. Look at the picture again and write sentences with a (n), some or any:

Example: There are some oranges.

1. oranges
2. tea
3. coffee
4. bread
5. beans
6. fish
7. bananas
8. carrots

3. Make the nouns in column B countable by using the words in column A.

A B

A bottle of Bread

A cup of Rice

A packet of Wine

A loaf of Cheese

A carton of Coffee

A piece of Milk
4. Copy and complete the sentences with much or many :

Example: There isn’t much coffee in the cup.

1. There isn’t ________ coffee in the cup.

2. They haven’t got money.
3. There are ______ oranges in the Algarve.
4. Have you got ____ friends? Not ________.
5. We didn’t buy ______vegetables yesterday.
6. We haven’t got ______ in the fridge.

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LISTENING: MY FAVOURITE FOOD

Listen to the CD twice and answer the questions below:

1. Who travels a lot?

2. Who likes sweet things?

3. Who had her favourite food on holiday?

4. Who prefers vegetables?

5. Who likes food from his own country?

Now listen again and write a sentence about each speaker:

Sally...

Lucy...

Gavin...

Graham...

Marian...

Match the food with the person who mentions it:

Marian

Lucy

Gavin

Graham

Sally
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AT A RESTAURANT

Look at some vocabulary you may use when you go to a restaurant:

Appetizer Dressing Entrée Menu

Medium-rare Medium Well-done to order

Now read the following dialogue and complete it with the words you have just
learned:

Waitress: Hi, how are you doing this afternoon?

Tim: Fine, thanks. Can I see a ______________, please?
Waitress: Certainly. Here you are. Would you like something to drink?
Tim: Yes, please. I’ll have a coke.

Waitress: Are you ready _____________?

Tim: Yes, I’m ready. I’ll have the shrimp cocktail as _____________ and a steak
as ___________.
Waitress: How would you like that steak?
Tim: ________________. I don’t like it when the meat is even a little pink.
Waitress: Ok. The steak comes with some salad. What kind of _________________
would you like? Oil and vinegar or mayonnaise?
Tim: Oil and vinegar, please.

Waitress: Here you are. Enjoy your meal!

Tim: Thanks.

Now write a similar dialogue and practice it with a partner. At the end of the class
you are going to role-play it.
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Fill in the blanks with IS or ARE, then

write TRUE or FALSE for each
sentence:

…… There ………… four women in

the room.

…… There …… a cat near the table.

…… There ………a Christmas tree in

the other room.

…… There ……… a sofa in the room.

…… There ……… two clocks on the

wall.
It’s Christmas Eve and everybody is busy. Write what they are doing and
fill in the blanks with IS/ARE, then match the name to the person: …… There …………apples in a basket.

Brittany ……. carrying the bowl to put it in the oven. …… The basket ………… under the
Annie ………… taking the plate with cookies to Jimmy. chair.

Stuart …… sitting on the chair, looking at his sister. …… There ………… chairs in the
Margot and Kelly ………… preparing a delicious chicken soup. room.
Angie ………. filling the goose.
…… One of the chairs ………………
Paula ………… making some cinnamon cookies.
yellow.
Jimmy ………. mixing the ingredients for the cookies.
…… There ……… just one table in
Now read the text and find the mistakes about what
the room.
the people in the picture are doing:
…… There ……… a little girl looking
It’s Christmas Eve and we are all busy cooking. Since I am
out of the window.
the little one, I can sit on my chair and look at everybody. Brittany is
making soup, she makes the best chicken soup in the world. Margot,
…… Two women ……… making soup.
my grandmother, is helping her. Aunt Angie is filling the goose, she
has a secret recipe. My brother Jimmy is mixing the ingredients for
…… The girl ……… baking some
the cookies that Paula is baking. They have a lot of cinnamon. I love
cinnamon! Annie, my cousin, wants to help Brittany, so she is bread.
peeling the apples, there are a lot of apples in the basket.
…… There ……… five kittens under
Tonight Santa Claus is coming, so we must finish everything the table.
before midnight.
…… The kittens ……… sleeping.
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(Adapted from Windows on the USA, McGraw Hill)

Complete the sentences with the words from the box:

New England Americans Turkey Pumpkin Dinner Thanksgiving

Meal Prayer Thursday Apple pie Ocean Winter
Thanks November Food Pilgrims families

a. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth ___________in________________.

b. Some families say a _______to give_____________for their ______________.

c. On Thanksgiving day ______________want to remember the ________________

and
d. their trip across the _____________ in 1620.

e. Thanksgiving ____________ is like the _______________of those pilgrims after -

their
f. first long ____________________in__________________.

g. The typical thanksgiving dinner meal has: _________________,

_________________, __________________.

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