1. Warm-up! Food: fuel or pleasure?

What kind of food or dishes do you associate

with these countries?

The United States ____ 

China ____ 
France ____ 
Italy ____ 
Japan ____ 
Mexico ____

2. Reading. Read the interviews with Alice and Jacqueline. Match the questions with
their answers (put numbers of questions in the gaps). Which of the women has the
healthier diet?

We talk to women  around  the  world  about their relationship  with  food.

1. Is food a pleasure for you?

2. What do you normally eat in a typical day?

3. Do you ever cook?

4. Do you ever eat ‘unhealthy’ food? How do you feel about it?

5. Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment?

6. Are people’s diets in your country getting better or worse?

The United States.    Alice Freeman is a lawyer from San Francisco.

A ____ I think people are trying to improve their diets, but they’re doing it the
wrong way, by following diets like the Atkins diet. Personally, I don’t think it’s
very healthy to cut out entire groups of foods like carbohydrates.

B ____ Not very often. I don’t have the time or talent to cook full meals. I usually
heat up a frozen meal or order a takeaway.

C ____ Sometimes I get fast food for lunch. I have to admit that I love French fries.
I feel terrible about it afterwards, but I don’t do it very often.

D ____ I usually have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch I eat at a
restaurant near my office. I prefer Japanese or Indian food. I usually eat rice with fish and vegetables,
soup or sushi. I don’t eat meat, but I eat a lot of fish. In the evening, I just have something light at home.

E ____ I am trying to cut down on the amount of fat I eat. I’m also trying to eat more wholemeal bread.
F ____ Not really. I enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the
day.
 France. Jacqueline Fabre is an IT consultant from Lyons.

A ____ Yes, I cook every evening for my family. I often make soup or traditional
French dishes like ‘boeuf bourgignon’, which is a kind of beef and red wine
stew, and then we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don’t eat
big portions. What’s important for me is quality, not quantity.

B ____ Yes, I’m trying to eat less chocolate.

C ____ I think people’s diets are getting worse and worse. It’s quite strange
because we have a lot of information now about how bad fast food is for you.
I’m afraid it’s a problem in a lot of European countries.

D ____ Not at home. I think most of the food I cook is healthy, but occasionally
when I eat out I have something unhealthy, but it doesn’t worry me.

E ____ Yes, definitely. For me good meals with the family make me happy.

F ____ I’m quite traditional and I have three main meals a day. For breakfast, I like hot chocolate, and
bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, I often eat in a restaurant with my colleagues. I usually
have vegetables and meat or fish but I love pasta and rice too. In the afternoon, I have fruit with biscuits
or a piece of chocolate. In the evening, I have a proper meal with my family.

3. Vocabulary. Match the words from the text with their definitions.

 wholemeal to have a meal in a restaurant, not at home

 heat up a sweet food made by bees, which people often eat on bread
 honey the quantity you eat of a kind of food during a meal
 fat to make cold food hot
 portions food you buy from a restaurant to eat at home
 eat out food from animals or plants used for cooking, e.g. oil, butter, etc.
 take away food prepared in a particular way, e.g. sushi, lasagne, etc.
 dish made from brown flour
 soup a liquid food, often made of vegetables, e.g. tomatoes,onions
 cut down on meal cooked for a long time in liquid, usually with vegetables
 stew to eat less of something, to reduce

4. Listening. Listen to Rumiko from Tokyo and answer the questions. Is food fuel or
pleasure for her? Audio 1.1
1. What does she usually have in the morning? ____ 
2. Where does she usually have lunch and dinner? ____ 
3. Why doesn't she cook often? ____ 
4. Does she eat or drink anything unhealthy ____ ?
5. Is she cutting down on anything at the moment? Why (not)? ____ 
6. What's happening to the Japanese diet at the moment? ____ 
7. Does she think this is a completely bad thing? ____ 
 5. Look at some of the things Rumiko said. Choose the correct form and try to
explain why.

 ____  breakfast at work.

 I don't usually have

 I'm not having
I used to go to fast food restaurants, but now I ____ eating something healthier.

 prefer
 am preferring
 ____ coffee every day.

 I am drinking
 I drink a lot of
I think Japanese people  ____ fatter.

 get
 are getting
 ____ the fact that there are more different kinds оf food and restaurants now.

 I like
 I'm liking

6. Grammar. Present Simple and Continuous ,action and non-action verbs

Correct the mistakes in the sentences

1. They have always breakfast in bed on a Sunday morning. ____ 

2. She can't come to the phone now. She has a shower. ____ 

3. We are needing an answer from you before Wednesday. ____ 
4. I'm studing a lot now because I have exams next week. ____ 
5. She don't eat meat at all. ____ 
6. They always are late. ____ 
7. Do you go out tonight? ____ 
8. She has cut down on sweets and gets thinner and thinner ____ 
9. - Are you going to the park this afternoon? - I don\'t know. It's depending on the
weather. ____

1. A: - I ………………………. (see) an old friend tonight. 
B: - I ……………………….(see) - so you won't be able to meet me after work, will you? 
 2. A: - Why  …………………………….(you/smell) the milk? 
B: - It . ………………….(smell) a bit strange. I think it might have gone off. 
3. A: - …………………. (you/enjoy) reading Jane Austen's novels? 
B: - Not usually, but I …………………….(enjoy) this particular one. 
4. A: - Why ……………………….(John/be) so bad tempered today? 
B: - I don't know. He ………………………….(be) usually so easy to get on with. 
5. A: - Carol and I …………………….(think) of getting married. 
B: ………(you/think) that's a good idea? You haven't known each other for very long. 
6. A: - ……………………..(you/have) the phone number of a good business consultant? 
B: - Why? ……………………....(you/have) problems at work? 
7. A: - ……………………………...(the singer/appear) tonight?
B: - Unfortunately not. She ……………………….(appear) to have lost her voice.
8. A. She … ……..…. (feel) better today after a week of hard disease.
B. I ……………………(feel) clothes to see if it’s wet or not.

9. A. They’ve just got married. They ………………….(think) about their honeymoon.

B. I ………….. (think) it’s a bad idea to go to Turkey now.

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Speak up!
Is the issue of healthy eating important to you?
Are you concerned about your daily calorie intake when choosing something to eat?
Do you know the nutritional value of the things you eat every day?
Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat?
What are the most healthful foods?

Homework
Make a mini-project. Choose one topic.
1. pros-cons of Diets
2. Are snacks good or bad
3. Healthy food vs Junk food.