Unit 11 Food, glorious food

1 Here are some of the things we think about when we decide about our meals. Talk with your partner
about how these considerations affect your choices in what you eat.

variety flavour

How do these things affect your choices in what you eat?

nutritional value/­ ease of preparation/

health benefits availability

pleasant associations

2 Now decide which consideration is the most important to determine your own meal choices.

Further discussion
• What is your favourite dish? Why do you like it? What do you like about it?

• What makes a meal memorable? What else is important apart from the food being served?

• T
 hink back to the meals you have had in the last 24 hours. For each of the considerations in the task
above, give each meal a mark out of 5. How highly did the meals score? Were they ‘good’ meals or ‘not
so good’? Explain why you gave each mark.

• ‘Live to eat. Don’t just eat to live.’ How would you interpret this quotation? How far do you agree with it?

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 Unit 11 Food, glorious food

Procedure
Activity
› Put students in pairs. Photocopy and hand out one worksheet per pair.
Pair work: speaking
› Students follow the format of the Part 3 task from the C1 Advanced
Aim Speaking exam. They spend up to two minutes talking about the question
To discuss diets and meals; to and the five qualities, then another minute or so on the follow-up question.
practise C1 Advanced exam
› Finally, ask two pairs to form groups of four, and discuss the questions from
Speaking tasks (Parts 3 and 4)
the Further discussion task together.
Vocabulary › Walk around and monitor the task.
Eating and drinking
› Ask each group to report back on the most interesting points of their
Preparation discussions, and invite comments from the rest of the class. Wrap up by
Make one copy of the worksheet asking how important students think food is in our lives, and why.
for each pair.

Time
10–15 minutes

Lesson link
Unit 11, page 163

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