COOKING

How often do you cook?

How good are you at cooking?

Warming-up
questions What are some things that you can
cook?

What dish or food are you best at

cooking?
 ◦ Who is the best cook in your family?

◦ Are cooking shows popular in your

country?
Questions for
warming-up ◦ What is the hardest thing to cook?

◦ What is the most popular dish in your

country?
Cooking
verbs
Cooking
utensils
Booking a table
•I booked a table for two for…(7 pm)
•It’s under the name of…
•A table for two please
•May we sit at this table?
Ordering
◦ Could you bring us the menu, please?
◦ What’s on the menu?
◦ Do you have a set menu?
◦ Is this served with..(salad)?
◦ Does this have any…(seafood) in it?
◦ What do you recommend?
◦ Could you bring us the salt/pepper/ketchup/vinegar, please?
◦ I’ll have the soup as a starter.
◦ I’ll have the steak for the main course.
◦ I’ll have it rare/ medium rare/ medium/ well done, please.
 Getting the bill and paying
◦ Could I have the bill, please?
◦ Can we have the bill please?
◦ Could we get the bill?
◦ Could we pay please?
◦ Do you accept credit cards?
◦ Can we have separate checks?
◦ We’re going to split the bill.
Watch the video “What is a calorie?”
◦ https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-a-calorie-emma-bryce

◦ Sugar effect
◦ https://www.ted.com/talks/nicole_avena_how_sugar_affects_the_brain?language=en#t-287902
Vocabulary: sugar
◦ Gooey – soft and sticky; a gooey chocolate dessert
◦ Velvety – having a smooth, soft appearance, feel, or taste;
Merlot, with its soft, velvety plum flavor, is one of the world’s most popular red wines.
◦ To crave (dessert) - to want greatly
◦ Taste buds – an end organs to sense tasts
◦ To fork off – to separate into different routes
◦ Umami –as a meaty flavor and is particularly strong in aged or fermented products, like cheese and wine
◦ Reward system – a system that brings satisfaction
◦ Dopamine – a special
◦ To spike – to increase
◦ To evolve – to develop
◦ To be hooked on sugary foods – to be addicted to…
◦ To kickstart a domino effect - to begin