Have you ever

tried a cronut?

B2 | Lesson 1
 Objectives
2. Listen to two friends
on a food tour react to
trying new food
1. Learn new vocabulary
for describing the 3. Learn how to politely
taste and texture of refuse an offer to try
food that represents some food that you
your country don't want to eat

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 Meet and greet

Answer your teacher’s questions.

Ask other students about themselves.

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 What countries do these dishes represent?

Use
Have you ever tasted them? 1. It must be from(...)
How would you describe the taste? 2. It could/might/
may be from (...)

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 Match each flavour adjective
with its meaning

1. mild A. heavy and dense because of

the oil, butter, eggs, or cream

2. sour B. strong taste, not salty or

sweet eg. beer
3. spicy
C. hot and fiery
4. rich D. containing a lot of salt

5. salty E. sharp taste, not sweet eg.

lemon
6. bitter F. not very strong

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 Match the images and the food textures
flaky crunchy crispy sticky creamy chewy

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.
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 Floating market food tour
Sonia and Ava are going on a floating market
food tour in Thailand.

They’re going to try 3 dishes.

Have you ever been on a food tour?

If so, where did you go?

What food did you try?
What do you think of the experience?

If not, would you like to go on a food tour? Why (not)?

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 What flavour and texture do these dishes have?

1. 2. 3.

Speculation
These are the dishes that Sonia and Ava are going to try.
I suppose…
I expect …
Speculate about the flavour and texture.
I guess that…
I imagine that…
I’d say…
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 Dish 1: Thai Style Fried Noodles

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Are
It’s the number 1 tourist recommendation so
I’m expecting something awesome.
Sonia

I’ve tried something similar before and I guess

it’ll be delish.
Ready to taste it?
Ava

1. Do they use formal or informal language? How do you know?

2. What are their expectations?
3. Listen to Sonia and Ava talking about the dish. How does the actual experience
compare to their expectations?
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 Dish 2: Spicy Shrimp Soup

erts?
dess
order
y to
read
you
Are
It looks amazing but the spicy in the name is
really putting me off.
Sonia

Yeah, I know what you mean. I kinda avoid

spicy food too. Anyway, let’s dig in, shall we?

Ava

1. What examples of informal language can you find?

2. What are their expectations?
3. Listen to Sonia and Ava talking about the dish. How does the actual experience
compare to their expectations?
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 Dish 3: Durian fruit with sweet sticky rice.(4 min)
(5 min)

ts?
desser
order
to
ready
you
Are
This is the riskiest choice of all especially
because of the fruit. Did you know Durian fruit
is believed to be the stinkiest food on earth?
Sonia

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read
you
Are
And a serving for you…

seller This looks interesting, but I don't have room for

any more. Thank you.
Ava

1. Ava politely refuses to have the food. A) True B) False

2. What are Sonia’s expectations?
3. Listen to Sonia and Ava talking about the dish. How does the actual experience
compare to their expectations?
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 Listen again. What adjectives do they use to describe
the dishes.

Thai style fried Durian fruit with

Spicy shrimp soup sweet sticky rice.
noodles

1. ________ peas 5. ________kick 9. It smells ________!

2. ________ chicken 6. Coconut cream makes
3. ________ touch it ________.
4. ________ soup 7. ________ prawns
8. The whole thing is
________ .
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10. The yellow flesh is
________ .
11. The rice is ________
and ________ .
 What about you?

Thai style fried Durian fruit with

Spicy shrimp soup sweet sticky rice.
noodles

Which of these dishes would you like to try?

Which of them would you politely refuse to have?

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 Complete the sentences with the correct informal word

yummy 1. I really love the crispy peas and the chicken feels ________ flaky.

raves 2. I ________ have more!

kinda 3. A perfect sour touch that goes fantastically with the mild curry soup. Really ________!

yucky 4. Oh my god!. Now I understand why everybody ________ about it.

5. The rice is sweet and sticky but it’s not enough to cancel out
wanna the ________ taste of the fruit.

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 Role play
Offer your classmate a strange dish from
your country. Describe quickly what it is
and how it tastes. Your classmates have to
refuse politely.

Refusing politely

It sounds tasty, but I don't eat ...

This looks delicious, but I don't have room for This looks interesting
any more. (compliment), but I don't
I would love to try it, but I'm allergic to .... have room for any more. Ava
(a reason).

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 Remember
2.
Vocabulary to talk
1. about taste and
texture:
mild/sour/bitter/spicy
rich/salty/chewy/
flaky/crunchy/crispy,
creamy/sticky
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To politely refuse say
something nice and then
give a reason:
This looks delicious, but I
don't have room for any
more.
Informal language to
react to food:
3.
Oh my god!/Wow!/
it’s yummy!/It’s yucky!/
it’s kinda flaky/
everybody raves
about it
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 Additional Materials

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 Have you ever politely
refused to…
● eat something? (Why? Where? What food
was it?)
● help somebody?(Why? Where? Who was
it?)
● go somewhere? (why? Where?)

What can you say to politely refuse to help

somebody or to go somewhere?

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 A food tour of your local
city. (5 min)
You've been asked to take a visiting friend on a
food tour of your local city - which 3 places
would you take them to and what dishes
should they try?

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 What taste and texture can you expect from these
dishes?

Pizza Salad

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 What taste and texture can you expect from these
dishes?

Ribs Cheesecake

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 Let’s reflect! (2 min)
Today I’ve learnt
1. ___________
2. ___________

I found it difficult to ________.

I liked how I _______.

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 Answer key
P.4 P.9
1. Chocolate-chip cookies: US; 2.Sushi: 1. informal; examples of informal
Japan; 3.Tacos: Mexico language awesome, delish, omitting
the full question structure in “ready
to taste it?
P.5 2. They expect something delicious.
1.F 2.E 3.C 4. A 5. D 6. B 3. It’s as good as they expected.

P.6 P.10
1. chewy 2. crunchy 3. creamy 1. kinda, dig in, put off (phrasal
4. flaky 5. sticky 6. crispy verbs are typical in conversational
speech)
2. They expect something very
spicy and they’re afraid they won’t
like it.

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 Answer key
P.10 (continued) P.12
3. They love it, it’s much better than they 1. crunchy 2. flaky
expected and not very spicy after all. 3. sour 4. mild
5. Spicy 6. creamy
P.11 7. fresh 8. aromatic
1. True. She says a nice thing about the 9. gross 10. bitter
food and then gives an explanation. 11. sweet and sticky
2. She knows it’s a risky choice and that
the fruit is stinky. P.14
3. She confirms it was a new and 1. kinda 2. wanna 3. yummy
unusual experience. 4. raves 5. yucky

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