Year 5 English

Unit 5 FOOD AND HEALTH

Exercise 1: School Food
school lunches around the world
 Exercise 2 Word Web
fruit:
apple

vegetables: snacks:
chips nuts
salad crisps
beans sweets

Food

drinks:
meat: water
chicken fizzy drinks
juice
 Exercise 3

chips meal

chicken cheese
drink eat
 Exercise 4
• Watch or listen. What food do the students
like?
The students like chicken salad, fish and chips,
burgers (with cheese) and vegetable soup.

fish and chips

chicken salad
pasta
many school meals
chicken
Reading:
Exercise 1

What’s their typical day?

What do they have for lunch?

Is it healthy?

Do they ever eat any different foods?

Sumo wrestler

chankonabe
 Exercise 2

isn’t
healthy
eat
afternoons after
 Language Focus
countable and uncountable nouns
Exercise 1

c u c u u

c u c

an egg / eggs a sweet / sweets

a snack / snacks

bread, pasta, water

Exercise 2

rice vegetables
pears
cheese
meat
crisps
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

much

many

much

much

many
Exercise 5
 Vocabulary and Listening
Exercise 1

active
hungry
healthy
fit
tired
Exercise 2

ill X well

active X lazy

hungry X thirsty

healthy X unhealthy

fit X unfit
Exercise 3

1. b 4. c
2. a 5. a
3. b 6. b
Exercise 4

b, h, c b f, g, e, d
 Exercise 5

1. eight or nine hours

2. No, he isn’t. He likes going out and doing sport.
3. He is studying for exams.
4. She runs and swims.
5. healthy foods: pasta, chicken ; unhealthy foods: desserts
and chocolate
 Language Focus
verb + -ing
Exercise 1

-ing
running, sitting, swimming

Exercise 2
Exercise 3

1. Do you like helping at home?

2. Do you like walking or going by bus?
3. Do you like meeting friends or chatting on the internet?
4. Do you like getting up early or late?
5. What games do you like playing?
6. What things do you like doing in your free time?
Exercise 4

Don’t eat snacks.

Don’t wait for dinner.
Don’t go to a doctor now!

Examples in the Health quiz on page 56:

1. Don’t eat.
2. Don’t go to bed late.
3. Don’t go to school.
Exercise 5

Eat Visit

Don’t drink Go

Ask Don’t play

Exercise 6
Exercise 1
Speaking (In a cafe)

heese

hicken
hips

urger

uice
Exercise 2

Exercise 3
two pounds twenty-five one euro fifty cents

three dollars eighty-five seven dollars twenty ninety-nine pence

Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Can
have a cheese sandwich
like salad or chips
Anything
have a cola
That’s £5.50
Writing (A food blog)
Exercise 1

• The idea is from the internet. Her favourite

part of the meal is the dessert.
Exercise 2

great
easy
Delicious
meal
next month

Exercise 3
After that = Next
Exercise 3

After that / Next 2

First 1
Finally 4
After that / Next 3
 sandwich
apple crisps
yoghurt juice
egg
soup
burger chips
fizzy drink
rice chips
fish pizza
pasta salad
1. I’m unfit. I walk to school every day and I play football at the
weekend.
2. Jonny is a couch potato. He’s very lazy.
3. Go and see the doctor. You’re ill.
4. Don’t eat crisps and sweets for lunch. They’re unhealthy.
5. Jamie is usually tired in the mornings. He goes to bed very late.
6. Have you got any juice? I’m thirsty.
 sandwich
yoghurts

cheese

pizza
salad
bread
 some

How much
a lot of
much
some
any

How many
a lot
Don’t eat
Choose
Drink
Don’t buy
Walk
Don’t go
Don’t play
Do
Don’t worry
Be
 help
can I have
Would you like

else
I’ll have
That’s
 tired
five
exercise
fit
healthy
hungry

juice