UNIT 6

Cooking and Eating (Food and Drink)

Let’s Listen

Activity 1

Listen to the Audio Unit 6a (Part 3 - Short Conversations)

You will hear two dialogs, each followed by three questions. choose
the best answer to each question.

10.

(A) They are making dinner.

(B) They are eating dinner.

(O They are writing a recipe.

(D) They are shopping.

11.

(A) Peppers

(B) Asparagus

(C) Soy sauce

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(D) Onions

12.

(A) Mild

(B) Spicy

(C) Hot

(D) Medium

13.

(A) A friend

(B) A waiter

(C) A servant

(D) A president

14.

(A) A T-bone steak

(B) A hamburger steak

(C) A New York steak

(D) A rare steak

15.

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(A) A restaurant

(B) A friend's house

(C) At home

(D) A bar

Activity 2

Listen to the Audio Unit 6b Part 4 - Short Talks

You will hear two talks, each followed by three questions. choose
the best answer to each question.

16.

(A) Athletic equipment

(B) Supplies for babies

(C) Travel products

(D) Health care products

17.

(A) Gold Card members get 20% off on Tuesdays.

(B) Gold Card members get 30% off on Thursdays.

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(C) Gold Card members get 20% off every other Tuesday.

(D) Gold Card members get 20% off every day.

18.

(A) Anyone who pays the $20 membership fee

(B) All GFY customers

(C) All customers over the age of 18

(D) Customers who spend over $50

19.

(A) Nutrition

(B) Exercise

(C) New Mexico

(D) Cooking

20.

(A) They use healthier ingredients.

(B) They have become bigger.

(C) They have become smaller.

(D) They require more exercise.

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21.

(A) 333

(B) 519

(C) 590

(D) 533

Let’s Speak

Activity 3

Work with a partner! Talk about the food and drink that you
really like and other food and drink that you are familiar with
!

● I like/ I don't like …….

● I have …… for breakfast/lunch/dinner today.
● I often have ... for breakfast/lunch/dinner.
● Do you like …….. ?

Activity 4

Tell the class three things that you or your family usually
cook and eat? Please the other students ask or comment

● I usually cook……
● My mom often cooks….
● My sister usually cooks….

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Let’s Read

Reading Skill: READING FASTER

Most students read very slowly, especially in a

second language. But research shows that you will not
understand if you read slowly. Your brain needs to receive
many ideas quickly in order to make sense of what you are
reading. Reading faster is a skill that you can learn, just
like running faster. It takes practice and some training
from the ‘coach’, that is, your teacher. We will work on
reading faster, and you will be able to read as twice as fast
by the end of the semester.
The procedures to practice this are: first, read
passage 1 in just one minute. Do not read every word, but
read the whole words in a line, and continue to the
following lines. What do you feel? You might still cannot
respond correctly to the true-false statements. That is
alright for it is the first try. Next, read passage 2 for three
minutes. Read faster; do not read every word. The three
minutes might seem like a long time for you. Finally, read
the third passage for another three minutes, and answer
the questions. The last timed reading usually results in a
higher rate than they have had before.

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Reading Comprehension

How much time do people spend cooking today compared to the

past? The answer is: not much time at all. For example, the average
American family today spends just 27 minutes a day preparing
meals. In the 1960s, it was nearly an hour a day. And how many
young people know how to cook? Well, there aren't many,
according to a survey in the UK. 49% of 18-24 year olds don't know
how many minutes it takes to boil an egg! But is this change in
cooking habits a problem?

Jean-Michel Cohen, a French doctor, thinks we have a lot of health

problems today because not many people cook enough. He says
that when we buy ready-made meals or takeaway food, we don't
really think about what we're eating. This means we often eat a lot
of food - more than we need. But when we buy the ingredients, e.g.
vegetables, meat, fish, and then fry, bake or boil them, we think
more carefully about what we are eating. And when we think about

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the ingredients, we usually eat healthy meals and we eat well. So,
perhaps the answer to some of the health problems is not "eat less'
- it's 'cook more'!

(Navigate A2 Elementary Coursebook ( PDFDrive) )

Let’s focus on Grammar

Activity 5

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

There are two types of noun in English:

1. Nouns we can count (countable nouns)
e.g. lemons, pears
2. Nouns we can't cou (uncountable nouns)
e.g. rice, beef

For singular countable nouns we use a/an.

● Do you have a lemon?
● l'd like a pear.

For uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns

we don't use a or an.
● I have yoghurt for breakfast.
● I like mushrooms.

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Activity 6

Work with a partner. Match the words in the box to numbers 1-16
in the photo and make ten complete sentences.

a bottle of lemonade, a pear, beef, bread, chicken, honey,

jam, lemons, mushrooms, noodles, olives, pasta, rice,
salad, sweetcorn, yoghurt.

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Writing: CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Chronological order is one of the easiest organization to

master. It is a way of organizing the ideas in a paragraph in
the order of their occurrence in time. It is applied in writing a
recipe or history book. In academic writing, chronological
order may be used to write a historical review of the subject
of a term paper. For example, you might review the
development of science in the Muslim era before discussing
the current situation. Besides, chronological order may also
be used to write ‘how to’ or process’ paragraphs.
The first thing to be attended to in writing a
chronological paragraph is that the topic sentence should
indicate the time order. It should contain phrases like the
development of, the growth of, or the evolution of. In
addition to being focused on the topic sentence, a
chronological paragraph should be written using suitable
transitional signals. Correct uses of transition signals make
the paragraph have the quality of coherence. Transition words
that are often used in chronological paragraph are first
(second, third, etc.), next (last, finally), first of all, after that,
and since then. Subordinators in chronological paragraphs are
before, after, while, until, and as soon as.

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Developing English Proficiency

Activity 7

Look at photos 1-5 and write sentences to describe what the

man / woman is doing.

Activity 8

Write the steps on how to cook your favorite food (e.g. Nasi
Goreng/Fried rice)