Takeaway Too Many Cooks English > Level B1.

1 Pre-intermediate

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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! • Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

Let's get busy in the kitchen.

Learning Outcome Can Do Statements

Describe routines and regular activities • I can talk about quantities and amounts.
in a wider range of social contexts. • I can describe how to prepare food.
• I can express what is necessary.
Ask your partner:
• Do you ever help to cook at home?
• How many people have you cooked
for?

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Let’s Explore!

Peter and Sally also like to cook. Are they helping Vanessa?

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

Peter: OK, these onions are chopped. Is that enough?

Vanessa: Oh, thanks, Peter, but that's a bit too much.
Peter: Alright, I will have to put some aside. Should I just sauté them in the pan?
Vanessa: Oh, I've got to stir-fry the chicken, but you go ahead and use the saucepan.
Sally: How much chicken do you need?
Vanessa: Oh, with that many people, we're going to need more than a pound.
Sally: Do I stir in the 4 ounces of cream now?
Vanessa: No, that's got to go in later after the chicken is cooked.
Peter: Do I sauté the red peppers too?
Vanessa: OK, you know what? I really appreciate all your help, but there are just too
many cooks in this small kitchen. How about just chilling in the living
room?
Peter: Alright. It's way more tasty when you cook it anyway.
Sally: We can set the table.
Vanessa: Sounds great. I need to finish combining all the ingredients.

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Let’s practice!

Do you need half a pound* or half a kilo?

* In the U.S., the measuring system is different from metric. One kilogram is about 2 pounds.

Instructions: Match the quantities to the amount of food.

AMOUNT OF FOOD: QUANTITIES:

- Peter, that's too much onion - Measure about 500g.

- Vanessa needs a pound of chicken - It's more than enough.

- do I stir the 4 ounces of cream now? - We don't need more.

- That's enough of red peppers - Half a measuring cup.

Let’s practice!

Peter and Sally are helping Vanessa. Do they know how to cook?

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with the words from the box to correctly complete the sentences.

1. I will put aside a piece of cake for my sister.

2. I've stir-fry the chicken. Word bank

• need to
3. We're more than a pound of chicken. • going to need
• got to
• need to
4. The cream's go in later after the chicken is cooked. • got to

5. I finish combining all the ingredients.

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Extension Activity
Plan a meal together with your partner.
Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.
a) Decide with your partner on a meal you
both know how to make.
b) Write a dialogue of 12 lines on how to
prepare the meal.
c) Write the quantities of the ingredients
you need.
d) Write the steps on how to prepare the
meal.
e) Practice the dialogue together. Does it
make sense?
Target Words
• to put aside (verb): to save or keep to•
be used at a later time
e.g. Peter will put aside the extra
onions to be used at another time.
• red pepper (noun): a sweet bell • to combine (verb): to put together or to mix
shaped pepper
e.g. The red peppers also need to be
sauteed before they're added to the • ingredient (noun): one of the necessary food
curry.
• tasty (adjective): describing food that
tastes good
e.g. Peter thinks Vanessa's cooking is
always very tasty.
English > Level B1.1 Pre-intermediate
Self-Assessment Yes No
I write a dialogue on how to
prepare a meal.
I express quantity on the
ingredients we need for a
meal.
I write the step on how to
make a meal.
I make sure the directions
make sense.
to set the table (expression): to set the place
for each person at the dinner table with a fork,
knife, glass, etc.
e.g. I can't cook, so I will help set the table.
e.g. The last step in making the curry is to
combine all the ingredients together.
items or spice in making one dish
e.g. All of the ingredients have to be prepared
right for the dish to taste good.
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Takeaway Too Many Cooks English > Level B1.1 Pre-intermediate

Learning Points

Too much or too many?

You use "too much" or "too many" to say that there is something in excess or to express
that you don't like the situation.
Use "too much" with uncountable nouns.
Use "too many" with countable nouns.

Examples:

Too much Too many

Be careful! That salt is a bit too There are just too many cooks in this small
much. kitchen.
You have drunk too much wine! There are too many ounces of cream!
You are cooking too much chicken. More than 3 chicken legs is too many.

Examples:
• We need a pound of chicken for 4 people.
• Can you take the carton of cream out of the fridge?

You need to do it!

“Have got to” is used to express necessity.

“Have got to” has irregular forms in the past and future. Look at the chart below.

Present Past Future

I've got to start the I had to start the I will have to start the
vindaloo sauce. vindaloo sauce. vindaloo sauce.

I've got to put some I had to put some I will have to put some
onions aside. onions aside. onions aside.

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