Unit 2

UNIT 2
HEALTHY
EATING
Eating healthy, count and non-count nouns, simple past and present
progressive, cooking verbs, ingredients and food.
M.Sc. Heber F. Aldazosa Ruiz / Master in Teaching English as a Foreign Language TEFL / TESOL.
GRAMMAR SIMPLE PAST.
 The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is
used to talk about a completed action in a time before
now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in
English. The time of the action can be in the recent past
or the distant past and action duration is not important.
 John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
 My father died last year.
 He lived in Fiji in 1976.
 We crossed the Channel yesterday.
SIMPLE PAST FORMATION
Affirmative
Subject + verb + ed
I skipped.
Negative
Subject + did not + infinitive without to
They didn't go.
Interrogative
Did + subject + infinitive without to
Did she arrive?
Interrogative negative
Did not + subject + infinitive without to
Didn't you play?
DESCRIBE THE FOLLOWING PICTURES
Remember to emphasize on :
What are they doing?
Who are they?
Where are they?
Any other details you can mention?
CONTEXT?
 Answer the following questions in groups.
 What does eating healthy mean to you?
 What ingredients do you usually use in your meals?
 What is the most important meal of the day and why?
 Do you know cooking? Yes, no, and why?
 Do you prefer organic or non-organic food?
 How expensive or cheap is going to the market here in
Bolivia?
 Do you prefer drinking water or soda?
 What do you prefer sweet or salty food? Why?
WATCH THE VIDEO
POST-LISTENING ACTIVITIES.
 What is the video´s main idea?
 According to the video what does nutrition mean?
 Which foods make a good diet?
 What does a healthy diet mean?
 How many food groups we have, and what are they?
 What about avoiding sugar?
 What does eating healthy help your body ?
LISTENING 2
 Answer the questions:
 How many people are eating in that restaurant?
 What did they drink?
 Can you describe the special of the day?
 What do they order? Explain it in detail.
 How did they pay?
 Did they eat dessert?
 Was the waiter kind and polite with them?
READING. HTTPS://WWW.BEACHBODYONDEMAND.COM/BLOG/FEELING-SICK-EATING-
HEALTHIER
 After reading the article answer the questions.

 Why you sometimes feel sick when you eat healthier?
 Why shouldn't you give up your eating habits when going on a
diet?
 Why water is important? Why not to avoid drinking it?
 What does fiber help your body? What for?
 Why can´t you eliminate any food category?
 Can you find 6 words related to eating healthy and provide
their definition in context?
 Is sugar important in your diet? What for?
READING 2
POST-READING
 Answer the following questions.
 Why do you nee to eat enough food?
 How many portions of fruit and vegetables
do you need each day?
 Name three carbohidrates.
 Why do we need calcium?
 Why is the food pyramid helpful?
 Can you describe and name some ingredients
to eat healthy?
SPEAKING_ EATING HEALTHY
 Read the following idioms:
 A lemon is something that you buy which turns out to have problems - it is defective / it doesn't work
well.
 'That second-hand car I bought was a real lemon. It broke down a week after I bought it.'
 A piece of cake : When something is a piece of cake it is very easy to do.
 'I was worried about taking the test, but it was a piece of cake. I got 100%.'
 Bread and butter: Things which are bread and butter are the basic things you need to survive e.g.
food and shelter. It is also used to describe the job or activity that provides you with the money you
need to live.
 'Teaching is my bread and butter.'
 Bring home the bacon: Like the idiom above, this also means to earn money to live.
 'I'm looking for a job. I need to do something to bring home the bacon.'
 Cheap as chips: When something is as cheap as chips it is very cheap.
 'I didn't pay much for these shoes. In fact, they were as cheap as chips.'
MORE IDIOMS
 Cry over spilt milk: When we cry over spilt milk we are upset, sad or complaining over something bad
that happened in the past. It is usually used in this phrase: 'There's no use crying over spilt milk.'
 'Stop complaining about your lost pen - there's no use crying over spilt milk.'
 Cup of tea: This expression is used in the negative: 'It's not my cup of tea'. It means something is not to
your interests or tastes. Basically, you don't like it.
 'Rap music is not my cup of tea; I prefer rock.'
 Finger in every pie: When someone has a finger in every pie they are involved in many activities and
have a lot of influence or power. It usually has a negative meaning.
 'He's very controlling - he has a finger in every pie.'
 Have one's own cake and eat it: To want more than someone can handle or deserves; to try to have two
incompatible things: you can not eat the cake and still have it.
 'She doesn't want to work hard, but she wants a pay rise. You can't have your cake and eat it!'
 Take with a pinch of salt: To take something with a pinch of salt means that you should not completely
believe what you are told. Someone is telling you something which may not be true or it is exaggerated.
 'Take everything you read in that newspaper with a pinch of salt.'
VOCABULARY_ ACTIVITY
 Situation 1.
 Some of your best friends are visiting you this weekend,
they really like eating Japanese food. But, you don´t know
how to prepare it. Write a conversation in which you ask a
Japanese friend how to prepare it.
 Situation 2.
 Your family organize a party, they ask you and your
brothers to cook something special. Write a conversation in
which you talk about the ingredients, the food you are
preparing and the steps to follow when cooking it.
 For both situation you will have to use the idioms learned
before and the list words.
GRAMMAR. COUNT AND NON-COUNT
A LOT OF VS LOTS OF
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
EXERCISE 5

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