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Unit 7 and CLIL

6 British food traditions

1 Read the text and match the titles and pictures to the paragraphs.

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a Christmas pudding
b Cheese rolling
c Cornish pasties

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d Burns Night
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This tradition takes place in May in different parts
of the country. People roll a round cheese down a hill. Then

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they try to catch it. The winner gets the cheese as a prize.
The competitors run very fast and they often fall over. Cheese
rolling is a dangerous sport and sometimes people break an
arm or a leg. It is a very old tradition.
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Burns was a famous poetpoems
from Scotland.
Scottish people celebrate his birthday – 25th January -
with a Burns Night Supper. They sing, dance, read poems
and eat traditional food. They always eat haggis. It looks
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like a large round sausage. The inside of a haggis is made
of a sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, with spices, oats
and onion. The outside is made of a sheep’s stomach.

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This is a traditional pudding that English people eat on
Christmas Day. They make it five Sundays before Christmas.
A Christmas pudding is like a cake, but it has got lots of dried
fruit in it. It is traditional to put a coin in the pudding when
you make it. If you find the coin, you will be rich!

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These are a kind of pie from Cornwall. Cornwall is a
region in the south-west of England. The outside is made of pastry,
and there is meat and vegetables in the middle. They stay warm
for a long time. There were lots of miners in Cornwall in the past.
Miners worked underground, in the mines and put hot pasties in
their pockets.

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2 Find these words in the text. Write.
From text 1:

1 A w __ __ __ __ __ wins a competition.

2 A c __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ takes part in a competition.

From text 2:

3 A p __ __ __ writes poems.

From text 4:

4 A m __ __ __ __ works underground in a mine.

5 P __ __ __ __ __ is made of flour, fat and water or milk. We use it to make pies and pasties.

3 Look at the picture. Find the word in text 2 for this group of things used in
cooking. Then think of one food that you can use each of them in.

cloves black peppercorns star anise cinnamon

cardamom nutmeg ginger saffron

tumeric paprika cumin seeds coriander seeds

They are ________________.
An example: We use cloves in stewed fruit.
We use ___________ in ____________.

4 Read the text again and write T (true) or F (false).

1 Cheese rolling isn’t dangerous. ____

2 People read poems at a Burns Night Supper. ____

3 English people make a pudding with a coin in it for Christmas. ____

4 There is dried fruit in a Cornish pasty. ____

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