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WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

A. Vocabulary (In the Kitchen)

1. Discuss these questions.
a. What’s your favorite meal?
b. When do you have your main meal of the day?
c. Who cooks your main meal and how long does it take to prepare?
d. Do you like cooing? Why?/Why not
2. Find the words in the puzzle. It is about the words in the kitchen. The next picture
will help you to find the words.
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3. Choose the correct verbs. Sometimes more than one answer is correct
a. Bake/fry/microwave food in a frying fan
b. Fry/boil/roast food in a wok
c. Roast/steam/bake food in the oven
d. Heat up/fry/microwave food in the microwave
e. Boil/bake/steam food in a saucepan
f. Grill/roast/steam food under the grill
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B. Reading

4. Read the article. Match headings a)-d) to paragraphs 1-4

a. Ready meals around the world
b. How British eating habits are changing
c. Too busy to cook
d. How healthy are ready meals?
5. Read the article again. Are sentences 1-4 true or false? Change the false ones.
a. Linda Roberts cooks a three-course meal every evening.
b. We spent more time cooking 20 years ago than we do now.
c. Health advisers say we should never eat ready meals.
d. The Spanish eat a lot of ready meals.
e. Linda doesn’t think her mother will start eating ready meals.
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C. Grammar
1. Look at the article and the cartoon again. Match the verb forms in bold to these
meanings. There are two verbs forms for each meaning.
a. We use the Present Continuous for thing that:
1) Are happening at the moment of speaking: ‘m cooking
2) Are temporary and happening around now, but maybe not at this exact
moment.
3) Are changing over a period of time.
b. We use the Present Simple for:
1) Habits, daily routines, and things we do every day/week/year, etc.
2) Things that we think are permanent or true for a long time.
3) Verbs that describe states (have got, be, know, etc)
2. Look at these verbs. Do they usually describe activities (A) or states (S)?. Do we
usually use state verbs in the Present Continuous?

3. Fill in the gaps with these words/phrases. Use the Present Continuous

a. Good cooks _________ celebrities in the UK.

b. I ____________ some soup in the microwave
c. Ready meals ___________ people to eat healthily.
d. That smells good. What __________you_____?
e. I ___________ long hours at the moment so I _______ properly.
f. The market for quick, healthy meals…………….
4. Write sentences or questions. Use the Present Simple.
a. / you often buy ready meals?
_________________________
b. / he know I’m here?
_________________________
c. The Spanish and Italians /cook/ more than the British.
_________________________
d. Over 60 million people/live/ in the UK
_________________________
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e. He /not/ work/ on Fridays.

_________________________
f. I/not/think so.
_________________________
5. Read these paragraphs. Is Linda or her mother speaking in each paragraph, do you
think?
1
The ready meal I _____(cook) right now is chicken and vegetables. I _______(eat) a
lot of ready meals because I ______(prefer) to do other things in the evening. I
_______ (learn) Italian at the moment, so I often ______(watch) Italian films in the
evening. I ______(think) my Italian ______(get) quite good.

2
I _____ (not understand) her. She says that she _______ (out on) weight-well, that’s
because she _______(never eat) properly. Also she ______ (not know) how to cook,
so why _______ she______(study) Italian instead of going to cookery classes?

 Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple or Present Continuous.

6. Make the sentences about how eating changing habits in your country are changing.
Use these ideas or your own.
a) Fast food
b) Organic food
c) Restaurants
d) Prices
e) Supermarkets
f) Food from other countries
g) The amount people eat
h) Quality of food

e.g Teenagers are eating more fast food these days.

References
Redston, Chris and Cunningham, Gillie. Face2face (Intermediate student’s book).
Cambridge University Press
Tims, Nicholas, et all. Face2Face (intermediate workbook). Cambridge University Press