V food and restaurants and /w, understanding phonetics ARR hg 1 READING & SPEAKING a What kind of food or dishes do you PIER near tor your associate with these countries? RTE at orraly ct ina typical da? The United States China France 3 Doyou ever cook? Italy Japan Mexico 4 Do you ever eat ‘unhealthy’ food? How do you feel about it? 5 Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment? Read the interviews with Alice and Jacqueline. | @ are people's diets in your county getting better or worse? Match the questions with their answers. bo Di ek ‘AI think people are trying to improve ther diets, but they are doing it the ‘wrong way by following diets lke the Atkins diet. Personally, | don’t thin very healthy to cutout entire groups of foods like carbohydrates. B_ Not very often. | don’t have the time or talent to cook full meals. | usually @ frozen meal or order a takeaway. ‘C_] Sometimes | get fast food for lunch, | have to admit that | love French fies. ee! terrible about it afterwards, but | don't doit very often. 1D]! usually have a bow! of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch eat at a restaurant near my office. | prefer Japanese or Indian food. | usually eat rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. | don’t eat meat, but leat alot of fish, Inthe evening, I just have something light at home. E(_] Lam trying to cut down on the amount of fat | eat. I'm also trying to eat ‘more wholemeal bread. F (_) Not really. | enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the day == ST ‘AL Yes, 1 cook every evening for my family. | often make soup o traditional French dishes like ‘boeuf bourguignon’, which isa kind of beef and red wine ies ‘we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don't eat, big, What's important for me is quality, ot quantity. BL Yes, 'm trying to eat less chocolate, CLI think people's diets are getting worse and worse. It's quite strange because we have alot of information now about how bad fastfood is fr you. ''m afraid it’ problem in alot of European countries. D/_| Not at home. | think most of te food | cook is healthy, but occasionally when I eat out | have something unhealthy, but it doesn’t worry me. EL1Yes, definitely. For me good meals with the family make me happy! Fm quite traditional and | have three main meals a day. For breakfast, | like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, I often eatin a restaurant with my colleagues. | usually have vegetables and meat or fish but I love pasta and rice too. Inthe afternoon, | have fruit with biscuits or | 8 piece of chocolate. In the evening, | have a proper meal with my family. “Adapted trom the Bish press€ Read the interviews again and answer the questions below. Write A (Alice), J (Jacqueline), or B (both of them) Who... 1 often eats in restaurants ae 2 eats quite alot of sweet things * 3 eats ready-prepared food 4 cooks big meals at home 5 enjoys eating ~ 6 feels bad when she eats unhealthily 7 is trying to eat less of something = 8 prefers having good food to having a lot of food 9 is negative about eating habits in her country _ 4 Match the Inighlight@dl words or phrases with the definitions. to have a meal in a restaurant, not at home 2 ___ a sweet food made by bees, which people often eat on bread the quantity you eat of a kind of food during a meal 4. _— to make cold food hot 5 —_____ food you buy from a restaurant to eat at home 6 _— food from animals or plants used for cooking, €.g. oil, butter, ete a _— food prepared in a particular way, €, sushi, lasagne, etc. 8 —_______ made from brown flour a liquid food, often made of vegetables, e.g. tomatoes, onions 1 10 reat cooked for along time in liquid, usually with vegetables ¢ Which of the two women do you think has the healthier diet? Why? £ Now interview cach other with the questions from 1b, How similar ae your eating habits? Is food a pleasure for you? > S Yes, definitely, | love eating 2 GRAMMAR present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs a GA Listen to Rumiko answering questions 2-6 from the interviews. Do you think food for her is fuel or pleasure? Why? Listen again and answer the questions. 1 What does she usually have in the morning? 2 Where does she usually have lunch and dinner? 3 Why doesn't she often cook? 4 Does she eat or drink anything unhealthy? 5 Is she cuting down on anything at the moment? Why (not)? 6 What's happening to the Japanese diet at the moment? § 7 Does she think this isa completely bad thing? € Look at some of the things Rumiko said. Circle the correct form. Then compare with a partner and say why the other form is wrong. 1 I don't usually have T'm not having breakfast at work. 2 T used to go to fastfood restaurants, but now I prefer / Lam refering eating something healthier. 3 Tam drinking | I drink lot of coffee every day. 4 I think Japanese people get/ are geting fatter. 5 [like | I'm liking the fact that there are more different kinds of food and restaurants now. d_ © p.t30 Grammar Bank 1A. Read the rules and do the exercises. € Make questions to ask your partner with the present simple ‘or continuous. Ask for more information, ‘What / usually have for breakfast? How many cups of coffee / drink a day? ‘Where / usually have lunch? How often / eat out a week? / prefer eating at home or eating out? need to buy any food today? / you hungry? / want something to eat? ‘ake any vitamins oF food supplements at the moment? 1 try to eat healthily at the moment?3 VOCABULARY food and restaurants 4 PRONUNCIATION /v/ and /u:/, a Do the quiz in pairs. understanding phonetics rk g uf ‘Can you thinly | * ls ‘ONE red frit, ONE yellow fruit, ONE green fruit ‘TWO things that a strict vegetarian doesn't eat. THREE kinds of food which are made from milk Look at the sound pictures. How do you coun things people have for ee pronouncl eat FIVE things people eat betweer ne a z a b Put the words in the correct column. ‘IX vegetables you can put in a salad 7 ‘SEVEN things which are usually ona table ina restaurant Rather oak eed eee juice mousse soup spoon sugar b© __ p.144 Vocabulary Bank Food and restaurants. ‘Ask and answer the questions below with a partner. (42) Listen and check. © p.157 Sound Bank. Look at the typical spellings for /u/ and fu. Look at the information box. How do phonetic symbols in a dictionary help you pronounce words correctly? ao “A Pronouncing difficult words Some words are difficult to pronounce because 1 they have a ‘silent syllable or letter, eg. vegetables I'vedstabla/ 2 some letters are pronounced in an unusual way eg, steak /sterk/ 3 you aren't sure where the stress is, e.g. dessert Idiz's! f ©4139 Look at some more food words which are difficult to pronounce. Use the phonetics to practise saying them correctly. Then listen and check. 1 knife /nadl/ biscuit Pbiskit/ salmon ‘seman 2 sausages /'snsidguz/ a kind of restaurant (French, Italian, etc) | lettuce Pets! b restaurant dish ¢ takeaway food sugar "fuga! 3 yoghurt jogat! menu Pmenju:! diet dare! ‘6 How important are these things to you in a Number 1-4 (1 =the most important) the food! |) the service _) “i AD Listen and repeat the sentences. 7 How do you prefer these things to be cooked? 1 The first course on the menu is lettuce soup. Grilled, etc) € 2 What vegetables would you like with your steak? chicken eggs potatoes 3 Do you want yoghurt or chocolate mousse for dessert? ¢ 4 [ take two spoonfuls of sugar in my coffee. ‘tytn onal oleae $ Songs an bs ae yn rou y 6 Would you like a fruit juice?5 LISTENING Have you ever tried English food? What did you think of it? b G15 Kevin Poulter, an English chef, has just opened a restaurant in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Listen to an interview with him and number the photos 1-3 in the order he mentions them. ¢ Listen again and answer the questions. 1 Why did he decide to open restaurant in Chile? 2 Why did he cal it Frederick's? 3 Why were Chilean people surprised when he opened his restaurant? 4 What English dishes does he serve in his restaurant? Are they popular? 5 Where does he recommend tourists eat in England? Why? 6 How many women work in his kitchen? Why does he think there are so few women in restaurant kitchens? 7 What English food does he miss most? d Do you think an English restaurant would be a success if it opened in your town? Why (not)? What food from your country would you miss most if you went to live abroad? bie re 6 SPEAKING a Work in groups of three A, B, and C. First read sentences 1~6 and decide (individually) whether you agree or disagree. Think about examples you can use to support your point of view. 1 Women worry more about their dit than men. 2 Young people today eat less healthily than ten years ago. 3 Men cook as a hobby, women cook because they have to. 4 Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot of meat. 5 You can often eat better in cheap restaurants than in expensive ones. 6 Every country thinks that their cooking isthe best. b Now A say what you think about sentence 1. B and C listen and then agree or disagree with A. Then B say what you think about sentence 2, etc. Try to use the expressions in Useful language. K = stiniesme > Wdoinkitse > Gwin depinde > Useful language feenimole 2 rages 2. ortonFood and restaurants 1 Food Put two food words in each column. Use your dictionary to help you. beans duck lettuce /"etis! meat | fish/ seafood | fruit | vegetables peaches prawns /pro:nz/ salmon /'seman/ sausages /‘spsidgiz/ strawberries /stracbariz/ b Add three more words to each column. 2 Food adjectives Complete the adjective column with a word from the box. fresh frozen home-made low-fat raw /ra:/ spicy /‘spatsi/ sweet takeaway Adjective 1 Love my mum's cooking food is always the bes. 2 Indian food like curry is very : 3 Sushi is made with fish. —_ 4 Food which is kept very cold is 5 food is food you buy at a restaurant and take home to eat, 6 People on a diet often try to eat food 7 These eggs are [N7, Thought them today. - 8 This to's very You've put 90 much sugar in it 3 Restaurants and cooking Tae a Match the words and pictures. ee keife naif? pl /nawv2! ore fork nee desserts /dt'z:ts! pe ie spoon ey plate ere sass Strawberrie main courses mein ko:sta/ een napkin (serviette) Set salt and pepper starters b Match the words and pictures. boiled rice [I iy iB 6] roast chicken J baked potatoes grilled sausages 3 fried eggs steamed vegetables Ops Can you remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner, ELELLD Muttizom ww.oup.com/elt/englishfle/intermediate8B quoantifiers 00, too much, too many 1'm stressed. I have too much work My diet is unhealthy. | eat too many cakes and sweets, don't want to go out. 'm too tired. + Use 100, too much, to many to say ‘more than is good’ + Use foo + an adjective NOT f'm-too-much tired. *+ Use too much + uncountable nouns (e.g coffee, time). enough + Use too many + countable nouns (eg. cakes, people). litle, afew Do you cat enough vegetables? I don't drink enough water. ‘This dress isn't big enough, + Use enough to mean ‘all a Cross out the wrong form. How much / many meat do you eat? 1 Idrink too / too much cofiee. A Do you take sugar? ‘A. Do want some chips? Teat alittle n I drink very little coffee. B Yes. justallttle B Yes, but just afew. Can you buy a few bananas? He has very few friend © + Use alittle very little and a few / very few to talk about small quantities. + Use alittle very litle with uncountable nouns and a few / very few with countable nouns. b Complete the sentences with too, too much, too many, or enough. You eat 100 much red meat. It isn’t good for you. 1 My father’s not very fit. He doesn’t do _ exercise 2 Teat too much / too many biscuits. 2 I can't walk to work. It’s far. 3 Idon' drink enough water / water enough. 3 There are carson the roads today, 4 oak e | am too / too much busy. 4 Idon't sleep ___ only five or six hours, but I really need eight. 5 You work too much / too many. 5 Iwas tired to go out lastnight. 6 Tonly drinks few | ite coffee. 6 There were ope at the party, soit wa imposible to d 7 I don't have enough time / time enough. eee silanes 8 He has a few / alittle good friends. 5A quantifiers large quantities: small quantities ‘zero quantity “They have a lot of money. ‘ADo you want some ice cream? B Justa little. ‘There isn’t any room in the car. ‘She has lots of friends. The town only has a few cinemas. ‘There’s no room in the car. He eats alot. Hurry up. We have very litte time, ‘A How much money do you have There arent many cats near here |II|_T have very few close fends BNone. Do you watch much TV? ti hose ie Dorft run. We have plenty of time. erin a ee i Yemcurtatiied my jit = some, ib + Use none (without a noun) in + Use alot of lots of in #) sentences. arlene al i Sones Se very little and very few = not much / many. short answers. eg. He talks a lot. ‘more than you necd or want less than you need * Much many normally used | dont Tike this iy. I's too big. | There arent enough parks SS as Mea a sau tele 9) (Tha out srt Squat coough nal eneen ere are too many touris! ae eee 5A ‘Use 100 + adjective, too much + uncountable noun, too many’ plural countable nouns. Use enough before a noun but after an adjective. a. Circle the correct answer, Tick (V) if both are possible. I think this restaurant is((00/ too much expensive. 1 There are to0 much | too many people in my salsa class. 2 Nobody likes him. He has very little / very few friends. 3 We've had a lot of / lots of rain recently. 4 There aren't enough car parks/ ar parks enough in the city centre. 5 Thave no! I don't have any time, 6 He works a lot/ much. At least ten hours a day. 7 A Do youspeak French? B Yes, a little / a few. 8 Idon't have no time / any time for myself b Right (W) or wrong (X). Correct the wrong sentences. She drives too muuch fast. 100 fast 1 Slow down! We have plenty time. 2. We have t0o many work at the moment. 3 Tthink { made a few mistakes’ in the letter. 4 He isn’t enough old to understand. 5. We can’t go tomorrow. We're too busy. 6 Wehave verylitle time’ to do this. 7 A How many eggs are there? B Any 8 He's retired so he has much free time.The two biggest bestseller in any bookshops are cookbooks and diet books. ‘The cookbooks tell you how to prepare food and the diet books tll you how not to eat any of it. Andy Rooney, US humorist YR Rm) (cee eg 1 READING b Match the [GHIGHEG words to a a Read the text. Mark the sentences T (True) or F (False). word with a similar meaning below. 1 Americans eat more fruit than any other food. F 1 worldwide —tlobal_ 2 Cocoa drinks are good for your health. a 2 think 3 People are buying more soy drinks. 4 3 now 4 People are buying less pasta, 4 becoming —— 5 choose i 5 Nuts are good for you * 6 asubstitute for 7 getting bigger ie 8 look after, keep from danger our ¢ Complete the sentences with the [Bighlighf@d words from the text. d . % 1 Many vegetarians eat soya as an jet pence 2 Some people ____ that all mo ld ready-cooked meals are unhealthy. 3 The number of people buying organic ya (| ee countries. 4 The UK government is. Most people (believe! that heath | other food and sales of bread, is very important and, because of pasta, and cereals are rowan this, many are tying to eat more much more slow. People are also healthily. For example, people in. becoming more interested in fesh 5 In the US and Europe, many children the UK ate eating less salt and ‘rut and vegetables and ‘farmers’ are fatter because of their more low fat margarine and milk; markets’ are geting more popular veil frit is now America's second- throughout Europe. When they favourite snack and Japan is | can, people often epiti ‘natural 6 Many people — —a change in (Guin promoting cocoa goodness, and theyre buying diet because it makes them feel better because itis a healthy ‘more products that are heathy, ike 7 Abalanced diet can help to ‘allemalve to soft drinks fke Coca fruit salads, ond nuts. They are Cola. These changes in eating also buying products that help to you from illness. habits ae also having an effect on rote! the environment, ke 8 Unhealthy eating is now a the food market. (Global sales are _ organic vegetables So its dear problem: not just inthe US and increasing for soy drinks and that things in the food weld wil dinable yeghurs more than any | never be the sae again studying how to encourage people to change their eating habits, Europe.2. GRAMMAR present simple and continuous; action and non-action verbs a Complete the sentences with the present simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 She ___goes to the gym three times a week. (go) 2 He __ at home today. (work) oe you usually ___ late? (get up) 4 They usually ___ a big meal in the evening. (not have) 5 What you —__ tonight? (do) 6 I _____ going out to restaurants. (love) 7 Tean't play tennis this weekend: 1 ___ to the mountains with my family. (go) 8 She _ low fat products very often. (not buy) 9 Could you turn the music down, please? 1____towateh TV. (try) 10 1______ guilty when I eat chocolate, (fee) b Correct any mistakes inthe BiGHINGHIG phrases. Tick () the correct sentences. | (CBOSERERAVERTER at the moment. 2 (URRLSVARESHINGIOUE but it’s very expensive. Llove eating out 3 (DSIYOWREEOAIM the man in that photo? It's our old ‘maths teacher, ——— 4 Nowadays people MORIURIRGPAVNI| more for healthy foes << eee 5 Can you answer the phone? (AN) on my mobile. 6 I'm sorry, I don't understand. (WHGE@OSSnISWORE “meaning? 7 You look worried. WiKi St= 7oW Hine aouH? 8 I'm not sure if we're going skiing this weekend. [ReSWepEAIE on the weather. —— 9 (MRE that people today eat too much unhealthy food. 10 |SHERGESHRECORIE] with us tonight because she's tired. Student's Book p.130 Grammar Bonk 1A 3 VOCABULARY food and restaurants 4 Complete the sentences with a word from the list. home-made meal raw spicy diet chicken steak takeaway meat frozen 1 His diet _ is terrible: he eats too many sweet things. 2 Strict vegetarians don’t eat ____ or fish. 3 ____ vegetables have more vitamins than when they are cooked. 4 Llove _ food but I don’t have much time to cook. 5 She likes her well done. 6 I'm very busy so I often just buy a meal and heat it up in the microwave. 7 Our biggest — of the day is usually lunch, 8 She doesn’t like Mexican food because it is too 9 Our typical Sunday lunch is roast al especially like the wings. 10 We often buy Chinese or Indian food. food on Fridays - either b Label the pictures.More Words to Learn Write translations and try to remember the words. Word __ Pronunciation _ Translation bow! noun fool! dish noun {rag Tr ao fat noun Mev sa pe Ee ee Rs | 7 portion noun a soup noun { stew mown wholemeal adjective | "hoolmi eatout verb i LISTENING Ea Leen ent ot roe ree ‘eat more or less healthily ‘ten ago. ELZILELD Student's Book p.144 Vocabulary Bank “Tek () wha the man says. i“ 1 Young people today eat heather food than they 4 PRONUNCIATION /u:/ or /u/; silent letters fe ton yeas agp. a Circle the word with a different sound, ere ee a seme rare = sh 3 Young people today eat the same food that they uf @ wg) ne I ~ ~ Ey Usten again and mark the sentences T (True) or | food | sugar | biscuit | good F (False), according to the speaker. spoon mousse | fruit | lettuce ee = iP 2 People were more wotied (Gook) | butcher | juice | would ponte poe 4 3 Young people try not to eat too much fat b Write the words. oe _ Oa 1 fvedstabla/ vegetables 4 /"biskny 4 Young people eat more rut and 2fsemnf - __ 5 /'jogat/ _ ‘vegetables now. : = Smal 6 Yfoktoy See iins fe € Cross out the silent letters in each word in b. Use'the phonetics to help you. a ee eecrnerateateniel nam 1 vesKtables ‘Then check in your dictionary. dd. Practise saying the words in a and b. 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