A Question of Taste fs 2 ) ‘A Match the countries to the foods. Pi 1 Fran ChinaVocabulary: tastes and textures 'A Write appropriate adjectives next to each food below. 4 pizza 2 potnio chip as 5 bananas Se 6 lemonade 3 yogurt 18 FB Work in groups. Do you like these foods? Say why or why not. + apples + sushi > applepi + hot sauce + avocadoes + spaghetti carbonara ‘A: Do you ike spaghetti carbonara? B: Yes. 1 love creamy foods. G: don't lke ft because it's realy salty. Pronunciation: multisyllable adjectives ‘AB usten to the adjectives and write them in the table. Notice that the two-syllable words all have the stress on the first sylable, but the three-syllable words have the stress on different syllables. fied iui sviey eicius creamy | herrble —asgustng enmety rious {_ wenderar ot 1 Oranges are juicy and delicious. 2 Creamy foods are disgusting, 3 Spicy foods are fantastic: 4 Carrots are crunchy and nutritious. Work in pairs. Practice saying these sentences. Listen and check.Grammar: too/(not) ... enough/really/very AEE) Language in context Listen to the conversation below. Are the people completely happy with their dinner? “Tiffany: This lemon pepper shrimp isn’t spicy enough for me and it’s too salty, ‘Sean: My beef is spicy enough, but the vegetables are really mushy. Jeff: Well, the rice is really good, Tiffany: Yeah, and the soup is delicious. ‘Sean: Yeah, and anyway, it wasn’t too expensive. 'B Notice Match the words to their definitions. Then find ‘examples in the conversation to check your answers. 1 t00 2) sufficient 2 enough b) extremely 3 notenough «more than it should be 4 really/very 4) less than it should be The beet is too salty, The vegetabies are really good. The soup isn't very hot. he ple is sweet enough. The potatoes aren't soft enough. € Practice Complete this conversation with too, enough, really, very. Excuse me, my steak is (1) _____ greasy Sorry. Il bring you another one, of course. How is yout food, st? I: Well, the fish is (2) ___good, but the potatoes aren't hot coo @ ae OK, and what about the vegetables? ‘They're hot (4) —__, but they're (3) —__ salty, Imo sorry. Ill bring you a new seal, and of course your dinners fre. And we'll include our special fruit tars for dessert. They're (7) _____ good! Oh, thank you very much. I'm sorry if we're (8) —___ critical! “+ The food isn't ht enough X Te fod it enough hot BB now you do it Work in groups. Prepare a role-play complaining about the food in a restaurant. Use the conversation in Exercise C to help you. Act out your role-play forthe class.A(B) Listen to ella and Andrew talking about a restaurant they went to, Who liked the restaurant and who didn't? Listen again. What does Ella complain about? What does Andrew complain about? Write E or A next to the appropriate things. the steak, the pie the vegetables the coffee the pasta the cake the soup the price [i thin of a cinner that you had recently. Make notes about the good things and the bad things. ‘Then tell the rest ofthe class. I went toa friend's wedding atthe Ritz Hotel. The wedding was fun, but the food was horrible. The meat was too salty | don't really Ike salty food. The potatoes were good, but the Vocabulary: containers [A Match the phrases to the objects in the picture. 11 a package of pasta cookies 20 acanofsoda/soup 3 1 ajarof mayonnaise/jam 4Z1 abox of chocolates/cereal 5 L] abottle of water/ketchup 6] abag of chips/flour [BB Work in pairs. Look at the picture for 30 seconds. Student A, close your book and try to remember what’ on the shelves, Student B, check and make corrections. Then switch roles. ‘A: There are fve cans of soup. 2B: No, there ae four EE wnat other things can come in these containers? Ask your classmates for thelr ideas. ‘A: What else comes in a can? B: Lets see, vegetables and ...Grammar: How much/How many and quantifiers ‘A Language in context Read the article Why is junk food bad for you? se Health Alert! NO et ee ety eee een sy) The definition of unk food is eee oy eer every week How much candy do you eat? Many people today eat fewer vegetab ee noe en ony The result ion that eae Definition from Macmillan Essential Dictionary for Learners of Ameria English 208 B Notice Look at the words in bold in the text in Exercise A. Complete this table with How much and How many. ‘With count nouns With noncount nouns a ‘cans of soda do you drink? | (2) soda do you drink? 1 orink a few cans a week. ke 2 tle sait on my food I drink a lot of/mary cans a week. | use @ lt of sugar in my coffee. I need to eat fewer chips. | should eat less junk food. You should eat more vegetables, You ought to eat more protein. 1 don't eat many cookies. 1 don't eat much fat € Practice Circle the correct quantifiers. 1 Leeat more /fewer fruit than my sister. ‘A eat alt of sugar} 2 How many / much cheese do you want on your sandwich? 3 Oh, that's 4 Do you eat much / many snacks? 2 Jot of / much salad! Please give me less / ewer ieitanen 5 You should eat more / much bananas. 6 Yantai sugar on my ru Sch IS so Pec, 1 (dont) eat alto You shouldn't eat much /less fat. Isn't good for you. | o | ‘wont to ean iess/more.. | | 1 (aon) eat enaveh too much/many J 8 Many / Muck people drink soda every day te [9 Now you do it Discuss your eating habits in groups. ( How many people think they should have healthier eating habits?Reading: prediction “The lat sentence ina paragraph often hes you predict the topic ofthe next paragraph [A Look at the title of the story and the picture in Exercise B. What do you think itis about? B Read each paragraph and circle one option to predict the topic of the next paragraph. Then read to check. AHot _. Competition Last year, my dad and I decided to take a trip, just the two of us. ‘My dad found out about the International Chili Cookcoff in Terlingua, Texas, ‘and we decided to enter. Chilis a kind of stew with meat, tomatoes, onions, land a lot of spices, and a chili cook-off is a competition to see who can cook the best chili For weeks before the trip, my dad experimented with chili recipes, We decided on a spicy and delicious vegetarian version. Terlingua, here we come! 1 think the topic of the next paragraph is... a) their arrival in Terlingua. b) the results of the competition. Chili isa Texan invention, and when we arrived in Terlingua, we were the only people not from Texas, a state neat Texas, oF Mexico. Atypical conversation went like this: “Where are you from?” “New Jersey.” “Huh.” End of conversation. We walked around and watched other chili cooks at work. We ‘were shocked at the things we saw! I think the topic of the next paragraph is... a) unusual types of chili. b) many chili recipes similar to theirs. People were making chili from absolutely everything—ostrich meat, rattlesnake meat, whatever. One guy even put his cowboy boots in his chili! What were we thinking? How were we going to compete with that? "Maybe we shouldi’'t enter,” my dad said. “Oh, come on! But let’ think of something more unusual than vegetarian chili [said. “© Choose the ending that you think is going to happen. Find evidence in the text in Exercise B to justify your answer. ) they invent an unusual type of chil but they don’t win. ‘0 they decide not to enter, but they have fun eating other people's chili, D Read the ending of the story. Did you guess correctly? ‘The next day, there were hundreds of people walking around and trying different types of chili. We made Surf Chili” with fresh tuna fish, Some people tried it. Most people didn't We gota few compliments on the originality ofthe recipe, but no one actually said they liked it In the end, we didn’t win, but we had fots of fun and a great story to tell our friends back home. Oh, and the winner? It was a recipe with buffalo ‘meat and five kinds of hot peppers—way too spicy for two people from New Jersey!Speaking: explaining what you mean {When you don't know the English word for something, or you need to explain a word to someone else, you can use a description to explain what you mean. You can talk about the item's appearance {and its components, or you can compare it to similar things. ‘A Match the descriptions to the pictures. Notice the phrases in bold 1 It’s a type of fruit. Is similar to an orange, but smaller and sweeter. Its like a chicken, but really big W's a very large fruit, green on the outside and red on the inside X 4 Its a kind of sauce. I's red and it comes in a bottle 5 It’s similar to soup, but thicker. It usually has meat and spices, 8 FBS Work in pairs. Use the expressions in bold in Exercise A to describe three foods or dishes. Take turns guessing the foods. Language use: writing a recipe AA Read the pizza recipe. Would you like to try it? Why or why not? iia Saami an onion oes Saree Oye ee eee UdussLainieldiesiatisiculitaeee jai aak ou uleuletone at eee ee eee anata ee cae eae ce ape tee ose aig te 8 FEY Work in groups. write a recipe for a pizza cook-off. Share your recipes with the class. Vote for the best one. ‘A Let's make salmon pizza B: What's salmon? Ac Its 0 type of fish 6: OK. So, what are the ingredients?Thiers dies Information and research: writing a survey * Decide what specific information you want to find out about your topic * Brainstorm a list of things to ask about. le questions and clear answer options. YOUR PROJECT: Prepare a survey about eating habits. Then use ito ALES Work in pairs. Brainstorm a list of healthy and unhealthy foods and drinks in your notebook. Then circle eight things on your list that you want to ask about. 8 EY witn your partner, write eight questions on the survey on the next page about the things You circled on your list in Exercise A. See 1 ew much salto you put on yur fod a) > 0 ¢ FB write answer options for each question in your survey. The choices should be clear and specific. Decide how many points to give each choice. Bt How much salt do you put on your fod? a) sone (2) b) alittle (1) ©) ae (0) | 2 Hach iat day catia? a) mone (0) by atl () Lets put. ‘And how mary points should we ge to..?EB interview another pai. Ask your questions and tell them the answer choices. Do not show them the points. Write their scores in the final two columns of your survey. | How much sade you put on our fod? 2) none (2) b) alte (i) e) alto) ‘A How much salt do you put on your food? B: None, a lite, or a lot? Gi use a lot of salt. ‘As And you? D: None. ‘opinion to give to each person. Your score wns 8 s0 maybe your dts not healthy enough Yo cata let of vegetables, but you ale eat to mach unk jo You ought to drink a ot mare water and less sda Reflect. Did you find out the information you wanted? What would you change in your survey before you used it again?A Circle the correct words. (5 points) Leo: Maura: Leo: Maura: Leo: What are your favorite kinds of foods? ‘Well, I Hove (1) creamy / crunchy foods like avocadoes. And I also like (2) salty /steet foods, so 1 always have dessert in restaurants. Really? I prefer (3) salty / sweet foods. I don’t eat much sugar. !don’t really like avocadoes because they’re kind of (4) crunchy / mushy, Do youeat meat? Yes, but I don’t like meat if it's too (5) sour /greusy B Complete this shopping list with the correct type of container from the box. Some words need to be plural. (5 points) oT (Cooctage can_bag_ bottle tor) Circle the correct words. (10 points) John: Waiter: Td like lime soda, please, Sure. Do you drink (1) little /a lt of soda? No, only (2) litte /a few, but | drink (3) too /really much coffee. ‘And how (4) much / many fastfood do you eat? Teat (5) Tittle /less fast food than (6) lot of / much people, but I don’t eat (7) more /enough vegetables. Yeah, to me, most vegetables are (8) fo /enougl bland, but I'm trying to ea (9) less /fewer ‘meat and more vegetables. You're eating vegetable soup now. Do you like it? ‘Well it’s not really salty (10) enough / muck for me, but it's good.