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UNIT 12
Pumpkin doesn’t go on pizza, Dad!

SNAPSHOT

What do you know about food?

Name the ingredients in the
pictures.

FLOUR SALT OL I V E OI L

EGGPLANT TOMATOES GARLIC

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CH _ _ _ E B _ _ CK P_P_ _ R P _ _ PK _ _

SPEAKING

Practice the following conversation in pairs.

Father Time to eat!
Daughter Coming. Oh, I’m starving.
Father Oh, yuck! What is that?
Daughter Ah, don’t complain!
Father But, what is it?
Daughter It’s pizza. I just followed an old family recipe here, and…
Father Let me see that recipe book.
Daughter Oh, Dad! You are missing a page!
Father Oh, uh, well, uh… well, I couldn’t find the second page of the
recipe but don’t worry. Let me try a piece first. Oh yeah… It’s
delicious.
Daughter Yeah, right. Why are you making that face? Let me try it, Dad. Uh,
Dad. You added too much salt. And what’s that?
Father Oh, well, that’s just a part of my own adaptation. I added some
pumpkin.
Daughter Pumpkin doesn’t go on pizza, Dad!
Father Well, okay. So, what do we do now?
Daughter How about instant noodles?

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Exercise 1
Answer the following questions.

1. Who cooked dinner?

His father

2. What did the girl notice about her father’s cooking?

his father added a lot of salt

3. Did her father like his own pizza?

No

4. How did the girl know that her father did not like the pizza?
His father’s face when trying

5. What did they end up eating for dinner?

Instant noodles

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READING

Homemade Pizza

Have you ever wondered how to make good pizza? Read this following
homemade pizza recipe.

Ingredients

For the crust 1 teaspoon yeast

4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup olive
oil
For the topping 1 whole large
eggplant salt
1/2 kilo tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 kilo fresh mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
olive oil
ground black pepper

Instructions

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To make the crust 1. Combine the flour, salt, yeast, water and olive
oil in a bowl.
2. Mix until just combined into a ball. This is the

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dough.
3. Rub another bowl with a drop of olive oil.
4. Put the dough into this second bowl then cover
the bowl tightly and place in the fridge until you
need it.

To make the topping 1. Preheat the oven.

2. Cut up the garlic very small.
3. Slice the tomatoes in half lengthwise and toss
in a bowl with the garlic.
4. Slice the eggplant thinly, add a few drops of oil
and a pinch of salt. Place on a tray and bake
the pieces of eggplant for just a few minutes in
the oven.
5. Remove pan from oven and add
the tomato/garlic mixture.
6. Bake for 2 to 3 minutes, then remove and
set aside. This is the topping.
7. Slice the mozzarella cheese very thinly.

Put it together 1. Put a drop of olive oil on 2 large baking

trays and spread it using finger or a small
piece of paper.
2. Remove half the pizza dough from the bowl.
3. Stretch the pizza dough into a large rectangle
in each tray, pressing with fingers. The dough
will be very thin.
4. Lay the mozzarella cheese slices over the
dough.
5. Spread the tomato/eggplant mix all over
the surface of the cheese.
6. Sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese if you
like.
7. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until crust is
light brown and the cheese is bubbly.
8. Remove from pan and slice.
9. Serve immediately!

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Exercise 2
Put number 1-10 following the steps of making pizza above.

(3) (9)

(1) (10)

(6) (7)

(2) (5)

(8) (4)

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VOCABULARY

Dry or Liquid Ingredients Measuring Fluids

a pinch = less than 1/8 tsp. 2 cups = 1 pint
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon 4 cups = 2 pints
4 tablespoons = 1/4 cup 2 pints = 1 quart
5 1/3 tbsp. = 1/3 cup 4 quarts = 1 gallon
16 tablespoons = 1 cup
Weights Fluid Ounces
= 8 oz. (about 1/4
1/2 pound 2 tablespoons = 1 fluid ounce
kilo)
= 16 oz. (about 1/2
1 pound 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces
kilo)
Metric: 1 pint = 16 fluid ounces
1 liter = 1 quart plus 1/4 cup 1 quart = 32 fluid ounces

Exercise 3
Study the table and write the answer of the following questions.

2 cups = 1 pint 4 quarts = 1 gallon

2 tablespoons = 1 ounce fluid 2 pints = 1 quart

ounces = 1
8 ounces = 1 cup 16
pound cups = 1
16 tablespoons = 1 cup 4 quart quart = 1

liter
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon 1

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GRAMMAR FOCUS

Quantifier
A quantifier is used before a noun.
It indicates the amount or quantity
Definitions of the noun. Quantifiers are used
for both countable and uncountable
nouns.
1. There are some apples on the
table.
2. Rania has plenty of cheese in her
refrigerator.
3. How much sugar do you
need for your coffee?
4. He only uses a little salt when he
Examples
cooks.
5. Put a few mushrooms in the
sauce.
6. She drinks a lot of tea every day.
7. I have a couple of friends
coming over for dinner tonight.

Exercise 4
Have you ever watched the movie “Imagine That” starring by Eddie
Murphy? In the movie, he and his daughter made pancakes. Now, fill
in each blank with one of the following quantifiers in the box,
describing what they did in the movie.

a cup of a couple of a lot of a little plenty of

Large
plenty of plenty of plenty of a lot of
number of

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To make the pancakes, Eddie and his daughter poured a cup of flour, and a
couple of eggs into a bowl.

They left a lot of flour all over the kitchen table.

They melted a little butter and fried a plenty of pancakes.

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She poured large number of chocolate syrup, plenty of hot sauce,

Plenty of ketchup, and plenty of mustard on the pancakes.

Finally, she charged him a lot of money for the pancakes.

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