The Roadmap Report

A2 Unit 1: Street food Corresponds with Lessons 1A, 1B & 1C

BEFORE YOU WATCH A

1 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.

1 What is your favourite food? What is your least favourite?
2 What is a traditional food from your country?
3 Do you like trying food from other countries?

2 a Work in pairs. Look at photos A–E. Which countries are these

foods from?
pide

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b Read the article and check your ideas.

B
Top
street foods in London
Robert Mackenzie | Wed 19 May 2020

What’s your favourite food? Italian? Japanese? At Camden

Market in London you can buy food from all over the world.
Here are our top five foods to try! nasi goreng

1
Tacos are a famous Mexican food and there are lots of different C
types. They are meat or vegetables inside a very thin type of bread
called a tortilla. Our favourite are the black bean and cheese tacos!

2 Pide are our favourite Turkish food. They are a type of thin
bread with meat or cheese on top – a Turkish pizza, yum!

3
Arancini are from Sicily in Italy. They are small balls of rice with
meat or vegetables inside them. There are lots of different types
of arancini but all of them are delicious! tacos

4
Nasi goreng is a traditional food from Indonesia. It is rice with D
vegetables and meat. It often has a fried egg on top and spicy
sauce. It’s very good!

5 Fish and chips aren’t very healthy, but they are a British
tradition. The fish and chips at Camden Market are really great!

3 Read the article again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? fish and chips
1 At Camden Market you can buy lots of different types of food.
2 Tacos are meat or vegetables inside pasta. E
3 Pide are a type of rice.
4 There is more than one type of arancini.
5 Nasi goreng often has cheese on top.
6 Fish and chips are quite unhealthy.

4 a In the video, the reporter visits an international food market in

London. Which types of food do you think you can buy there?

b Watch the video and check your ideas.

arancini

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 The Roadmap Report
A2 Unit 1: Street food Corresponds with Lessons 1A, 1B & 1C

9 a Work in pairs. Choose the correct alternatives.

WHILE YOU WATCH
1 Almost nine million/ten million people live in London.

5 Watch the video again and tick (✓) the countries and 2 Jordan Stone is the manager/owner of the market.
nationalities you hear mentioned. 3 Esme says there is a food/flag for almost every country
in the world.
Argentinian Italy
4 The Brazilian wraps have steak and cheese/chicken
Belgium Japanese
in them.
Brazilian Norway
5 The man who sells gyozas is from Italy/Japan.
Colombia Spanish
6 At the end of the video, Jordan’s got a French
Ethiopian Turkey
sandwich/cake called canelé.
France Wales
7 Maltby Street Market is open every weekend/every day.
8 Esme says that Maltby Street Market is a good example
6 Watch the video from 01:14–02:32. Which country
of how international/multicultural London is.
does each food come from?
1 Spicy beef b Watch the whole video and check your answers.
2 Nachos
3 Steak or chicken wraps
4 Gyozas
AFTER YOU WATCH

7 a Complete the extracts from the video with this, 10 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
these or those. 1 Which food in the video do you like? Which do you dislike?
1 Esme: I’m good. What’s ? 2 Are there food markets like this in your country?
Stallholder: Spicy beef. Would you like to try? 3 Do you like visiting food markets?
2 Esme: What are ?
Stallholder: are nachos. 11 a Think of your top five favourite foods from around
3 Esme: smells great. What is it? the world. Make notes about their names, where
Stallholder: It’s Brazilian wraps. they are from and what they are.
4 Esme: is amazing! b Work in small groups. Discuss your lists and decide
Stallholder: Thank you very much. are which five foods to include in a class food festival.
gyozas, from Japan.
A: What about Spanakopita?
B: What’s that?
b Watch the video from 01:14–02:32 to check your
A: It’s a traditional food from Greece. I really like it.
answers.
c Present your ideas to the class.
8 Watch the video from 02:33–03:06 and complete the
profiles.

SPEAKER 1 SPEAKER 3
Country Country

Food Food

SPEAKER 2 SPEAKER 4
Country Country

Food Food

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