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G present simple and continuous, action and nen-action verbs V food and cooking Do you drink P short and long vawel sounds allot of coffee? Mood food Yes, but Im trying to cut down at the moment. 1 VOCABULARY food and cooking a Dothe quiz in pairs. 3 LISTENING & SPEAKING OOD & EATIN 4. Isthere any food or drink that you couldn't live without? How often do you eat /drinkit? 2 Doyouever have @ ready-made food? Can you think of..? ONE red fruit, ONE yellow fruit, OME green fruit ‘TWO kinds of food that some people are allergic to ‘THREE kinds of food that come from milk b takeaway food? What kind? FOUR vegetables that you can put in a salad Bolwites yoartevourite FIVE containers that you can buy food in autrut ‘51x things that people sometimes have for breakfast b vegetable? ‘Are there any that you really don't ike? > p.152 Vocabulary Bank Food and cooking. 4 When you eat out do you normally order meat, fish, or vegetarian? 5 What food do you usually eat 2 when you're feeling a bit down? bb before doing sport or exercise? fresh frozen lowfat raw spicy takeaway tinned € before you have an exam or some important work to do? 4)4)) Listen to these common adjectives to describe food. Do you know what they mean? Then say one kind of food which we often use with each adjective. 2 PRONUNCIATION short and long vowel sounds ‘a 463) Listen to five people talking. Each person isanswering one of the questions in Food & Bating above. Match cach speaker with a question. a Lookat the eight sound pictures. What are the words and sounds? ‘What part of the symbol tells you that a sound is long? TB [agit atte Spy Yom wo spear A pic spicy grilled z chocolate box Speaker B Speaker E 2G) | beef steamed OBI, | sw fork Speaker ¢ ATE. | beans breakfast ("| Balled sale Listen again and make notes about their |e | Ee ct \chondensves thc oucton ih epanns “Gp | marine orn SULT cicumber bectroo What do you have in common? b_ Look ar the words in each list. Cross out the word which doesn’t have the sound in the sound picture. € 45%) Lisrenand check d_ > p.166 Sound Bank. Look at the typical spellings of the sounds in a. 4 READING a Arethe foods in thelist carbohydrates orproteins? With partner, think of four more kinds of food for each category cake chicken pasta salmon live in a stressful world, and daily life can sometimes b_ Witha partner, answer the questions below ARE Aniisd oF Bsistesedil. Gora poocla gu: with either carbohydrates or proteins, : SEbd: tlhuars ty alternalive thernplce, ‘What kind of food do you think itis better to to find a cure could be somewhere completely ital ‘in the kitchen. + for lunch if you have an importa Clayton, a food expert from Middlesex University, says meeting brain is affected by what you eat and drink, just ike every + for breakfast E rt of your body. Certain types of food contain substances which + for your evening meal iaeaew yelithinkeand tael? « ronacstéelingstrensed or example, food which s high in carbohydrates can make us feel more xed, It also makes us Feel happy. Research has shown that people on often begin tofeela little depressed after two weeks because they re eating fewer carbohydrates. __ Onthe other hand, food which is rich in protein makes us feel awake Read the article again. Then with a partner, _ad focused. Research has shown that schoolchildren who eat a high rotein breakfast often do better at school than children whose “breakfast is lower in protein. Also, eating the right kind of meal atlunchtime can make a difference if you have an exam in the “afternoon or a business meeting where you need to make some © Lookat the title of thearticle. What do you think itmeans? Read the article once to find out, and to check your answers to b. say in your own words why the following people are mentioned. Give as much information as you ~~ uick decisions. In an experiment for a 8BC TV programme two 1 Dr Paul Clayton hess players, both former British champions, had different 2 people ondiets neal before playing each other. Paul hada plate of prosciutto 3 schoolchildren F and sala (ful of protein from the red meat), and his opponent 4 Pauland Terry Terry had pasta with a creamy sauce (full of carbohydrate). In the 5 nightclub ow sere in Bouriemouth T chess match Terry felt slepy, and took much longer than Paul to make decisions about what moves to make. The experiment Find adjectives in the article for the verbs "was repeated several times with the same result. and nouns in the list. What's the difference 3 hhetween the two adjectives made from stress? other powerful mood food could becomea secret yeapon in the fight against crime. In Bournemouth in "the south of England, where late-night violence can be FRE Ealey wee problem, some nightclub owners have come up with sleep (verb) power noun) violence (noun) "asolution. They give their clients free chocolate at the end at yroir of the night, The results have been dramatic, with a 60% == duction in violent incidents. £ Ask and answer the questions with a ‘Why does chocolate make people less agressive? First, it partner. auses the brain to release feel-good chemicals called endorphins. it also contains a lot of sugar, which gives you energy, and can help stop late-night tiredness turning into aggression. These two things, together ‘with a delicious taste, make chocolate a powerful mood changer. 1 What time of day do you normally eat arbohydrates? How do they protein and make you fet How often do you eat chocolate? Does it make you feel happier? "Mood food - what the experts say ‘reading the article, is there anything "* Blueberries and cocoa can raise concentration levels for up you would change ahour your eating habits? ae ats . - Food that is high in protein helps your brain to work more _ efficiently “+ For relaxation and to sleep better, ent carbohydrates 3 After re ‘oily fish @g. salmon) eaten regularly can help to fight depression. from a Brtsh newspaper 5 LISTENING & SPEAKING a Ask and answer the questions with a partner. RESTAURANTS. 1. How often do you eat out? 2 What's your favourite..? a kind of food (French, Italian, etc) b restaurant dish 3. How important are these things to you in a restaurant? Number them 1-4 (L= the most important) the food the service the atmosphere the price 4 Have you ever tried English food? What did you think of it? b 7) Read the text about Steve Anderson, Then listen to Part 1 of an interview with him, and number the photos in the order he mentions them. © Listen again, Why does he mention each thing? d_ (8) Now listen to Part 2 and answer the 1 Whar does he say is the hest and worst thing about runninga restaurant? 2. What's the main difference between British and Spanish customers? 3. What kind of eustomers does he find difficult? 4 How does he think eating habits in Spain are changing? € What about you? Answer the questions with a partner, 1 What was your favourite food when you were achild? 2 Isthere anything that you like / don't like cooking? 3 Inyour country, when people eat out would they normally cell the chef what they really rink about the food 4 Doyou know anyone who is a ‘difficult OEY STEVE ANDERSON has always had a passion for food, He was first taught to cook by his mother, who is half Burmese. After studying physics at university, he got a holiday job helping on a cookery course in Italy, where he ‘met several famous chefs. One of them, Alastair Littl, later employed him as a trainee chef. Two years later he moved to Valencia in Spain and opened a restaurant, Seu Xereo, now one of the most popular restaurants in town. 6 GRAMMAR present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs a. )9)) Listen again to some of the things Steve said, CirelD the form of the he uses, | This week for example I cook | 'm cooking nearly every day. We usually close | ave usually closing on Sundays and Monday’, but this Monday isa public holiday: 2 The British always say saying that everything is lovely. Pe 3. Actually, Ithink J prefer erring that honesty, because it helps us to Know what people like. 4 Unfortunately, [think hey get they're getting worse, People eat | are eating more unhealthily b With a partner, say why you think he has chosen each form. ¢ > p.132 Grammar Bank 1A. Learn more about the present simple and the present continuous, and practise them, 4d. Make questions to ask your partner with the present simple or continuous. Ask for more information. Onatypical day Atthe moment / nowadays What / usually have for breakfast? need to buy any food today? { drink Coke or fizzy drinks? How want anything co eat right now? many glasses { drink a day? What? — Where / usually have hunch? take vitamins or food = What j usually have for lunch supplements at the moment? during the week? | try to cut down on anything at the = Jever cook? What | make? moment? = prefer eating at home or eating — | the diet in your country } get out? 7 SPEAKING oe WHAT DO YOU THINK? Men are better cooks than women, Both boys and girls should learn to cook at school. Cheap restaurants usually serve bad food. (On a night out with friends, where and what you eat isn't important, Not all fast food is unhealthy. Every country thinks that their cuisine is the best in the world a (130) Listen to nwo people discussing more, the man or the woman? Why? entence 1, Who do you agree with b (1/14) Listen to the phrases in the Useful language box. Copy the intonation, Useful language: Giving your opinion (1) lagree. mot sure. For example. Idon't agree. (Ithink) it depends. in my opinion. €Insmall groups, say what you think about sentences 2-6. Try touse the Useful language phrases. Bitutory 14] 7)

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