VOCABULARY UNIT 8

Can eating be a sport?

Complete the sentences and answer the questions.

1. What do we call food that is cooked in extremely hot water? ______

2. What do we call a famous person? ______

3. I’m from Rome and my friends call me the Roman. That is my _____

4. Fruit and vegetables are good for you. They are _____ food.

5. Which verb means not to eat at certain times?

6. We say people who like to eat have a good.

7. A person who is heavy _____ a lot.

8. An event that started a long time ago and is repeated every year is a _________

9. What do we call a woman whose husband is dead _________

10.Think of a synonym for take part. ________

11.What do we call the time something appears in a newspaper or on TV? ________

12.Where do you have your thoughts, feelings and intelligence? _________

13.What do we call food, e.g. bread cooked in an oven? _________

14.What is the adjective form of nature? ________

15.What has eight legs and lives in people’s houses and gardens? _________

Word building. Circle the correct words.

1. An artist needs a lot of imagine/imagination.

2. When I compete/competition/competitive I want to win.

3. I think sailing is excite/excitement/exciting.

4. They differ/difference/different in their options and they never agree.

5. We stayed in an isolate/isolation/isolated village in the mountains.

6. Out team’s defend/defence/defensive is very strong

7. Most TV programmes bore/boredom/boring me.

8. Mum did a lot of prepare/preparation/prepared for tonight’s dinner.

Phrasal verb synonyms

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs.

Collect stop stretch complete discover return participate

continue 1.

1.

I always _____ my legs before I start running.

2. He weighs 95 kilos, but he can’t _____ eating fast food.

3. I went to bed, but my brother _____ watching TV until 1 a.m.

4. We didn’t _____ in the last competition, but we want to play in the next.

5. Scientists _____ water on Mars in 2007.

6. I usually walk home, but my dad _____ me from school yesterday.

7. She lived in London for five years, but then she ______ home to Canada.

8. I didn’t do my English homework, but I _____ all the maths exercises.

Describing food. Complete the text with the words in the box

Fresh sweet tender bland salty

A lot of people say that pasta hasn’t got a taste. They say it’s 1 _____, but I don’t agree. 2 _____

pasta from a shop that makes pasta every day has got a good taste. And of course, you have to

put lots of salt in the water when you cook it so that it’s quite 3 ______ when you finish. You also

have to be very careful to cook it for the right time. It has to be 4 _______. If you can’t cut it with

your teeth easily, it’s horrible. You can also use some pasta to make 5 _______ dishes with sugar.

In fact, you can use it for lots of different meals.

Ways of cooking. Complete the sentences with cooking verbs

1. You have to b __________ pasta in lots of water.

2. They don’t b __________ the bread at the supermarket in an oven.

3. Do you r ________ the meat in the oven?

4. When we go camping we g ________ fish over a fire

5. I always f _______ an egg in some oil for dinner.