V food and restaurants P. /x/ and /w, understanding phonetics Food: fuel or pleasure? 1 READING & SPEAKING a What kind of food or dishes do you PT ries for jour associate with these countries? 2 What do you normally eat in a typical day? The United States China France 3 Do you ever cook? Italy Japan Mexico 4 Do you ever eat ‘unhealthy’ food? How do you fect about it? : 5 Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment? Db Read the interviews with Alice and Jacqueline. | ge people's diets in your country getting better or worse? Match the questions with their answers bios Cee ee ‘AL think people ate trying to improve their diets, but they are doing it the wrong way by following diets like the Atkins diet. Personally, | don’t think it's very healthy to cut out entire groups of foods like carbohydrate. BL Not very often. | don’t have the time or talent to cook fll meals. usally heat up a frozen meal or order a takeaway. C_| Sometimes | get fast food for lunch. | have to admit that love French fries. eel terrible about it afterwards, bt | don’t doit very often. DC usually have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch leat ata festaurant near my office. | prefer Japanese or Indian food. | usually eat rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. | don’t eat meat, but | eat alot of fish. Inthe evening, just have something light at home. | 1am trying to cut down on the amount of fatt eat. rm also trying to eat more wholemeal bread F Not really | enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the day. AJ Yes, 1 cook every evening for my family. | often make soup or traditional French dishes like ‘boeuf bourguignon’, which is a kind of beef and red wine and then we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don't eat | 8 ‘What's important for me is quality, not quantity. 1B {1 Yes, I'm trying to eat less chocolate. | CL I think people's diets are getting worse and worse. It’s quite strange because we have a lot of information now about how bad fast food is for you. I'm afraid it’s a problem in a lot of European countries. | 1D Not at home. | think most of the food 1 cook is healthy, but occasionally when | eat out | have something unhealthy, but it doesn’t worry me. Yes, definitely. For me good meals with the family make me happy! F(_11'm quite traditional and 1 have three main meals a day. For breakfast, 1 like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, 1 often cat in 2 restaurant with my colleagues. | usually have vegetables and meat or fish but | love pasta and rice too. In the afternoon, | have fruit with biscuits or 4 piece of chocolate. In the evening, | have a proper meal with my family. Adopted trom the British press€ Read the interviews again and answer the questions below. Write A (Alice), J Jacqueline), or B (both of them). restaurants 2 eats quite a lot of sweet things +3 eats ready-prepared food — 4 cooks big meals at home _ 5 enjoys eating — || 6 feels bad when she eats unhealthily 7 is trying to eat less of something 8 prefers having good food to having a lot of food 9 is negative about eating habits in her country | | 4 Match the [highlight@@ words or phrases with the definitions. to have a meal in a restaurant, not at home 2 a sweet food made by bees, which people often eat on bread 3 the quantity you eat of a kind of food during « meal ae _— to make cold food hot food you buy from a restaurant 10 ¢at at home 1 —__ 6 food from animals or plants used for cooking, ¢.g. ofl, butter, ete. 7 food prepared in a particular way, eg, sushi, lasagne, etc made from brown flour a liquid food, often made of vegetables, eg. tomatoes, onions 10 ‘meat cooked for a long time in liquid, usually with vegetables ¢ Which of the two women do you think has the healthier diet? Why? £ Now interview cach other with the questions from 1b. How similar are your eating habits? 1 todo please for youd > Lies eit ove eating 2 GRAMMAR present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs a GAP Listen to Rumiko answering questions 2-6 from the interviews. Do you think food for her is fuel or pleasure? Why? b Listen again and answer the questions. 1 What does she usually have in the morning? 2 Where does she usually have Tunch and dinner? 3 Why doesn’t she often cook? 4 Does she eat or drink anything unhealthy? 5 Is she cutting down on anything at the moment? Why (not)? 6 What's happening to the Japanese diet at the moment? , 7 Does she think this isa completely bad thing? ¢ Look at some of the things Rumiko said. Circle the correct form. Then compare with a partner and say why the other form is wrong. 1 don't usually have | T't wot having breakfast at work. 2 Lused to go to fast food restaurants, but now I prefer / Lam preferring eating something healthier. 3 Tam drinking | I drink a lot of cotfce every day. 4 I think Japanese people get / are getting fatter. 5 I like | Pm liking the fact that there are more different kinds of food and restaurants now. d_ © p.130 Grammar Bank 1A. Read the rules and do the exercises. € Make questions to ask your partner with the present simple or continuous. Ask for more information, ‘What / usually have for breakfast? ‘How many cups of coffee / drink a day? ‘Where / usually have lunch? How often / eat out a week? / prefer eating at home or eating out? 1 need to buy any food today? 1 you hungry? / want something to eat? 1 take any vitamins or food supplements at the moment? / try to cat healthily at the moment? Cm3 VOCABULARY food and restaurants a Do the quiz.in pairs. bm ‘Can you think THREE kinds of food which are made from milk FOUR things people have for breakfast FIVE things people eat between meals SIX vegetables you can put in a salad SEVEN things which are usuelly on a table na restaurant b © _p.144 Vocabulary Bank Food and restaurants. € Askand answer the questions below with a partner. 2 What's your favoutite.. a fruit b vegetable d home-made dish ‘3 What food do you like eatin, ‘a when the weather's very co b when you're feeling a bit d ¢ for Sunday lunch 4 i en id a e Restaurants 5 What's your favourite...? : 2 kind of restaurant (French, Italian, etc) fe b restaurant dish ¢ takeaway food 6 How important are these things to you in a restaurant? Number 1=4 (1 = the most important) si the food! } the service | the atmosphere —] the price LI] 7 How do you prefer these things to be cooked? (grilled, boiled, etc) chicken fish eggs potatoes 8 if you eat steak, how do you like it cooked? (fare, medium, well done) 4 PRONUNCIATION. /u/ and /u/, understanding phonetics Look at the sound pictures. How do you pronounce them? b Put the words in the correct column. butcher cook food fmuit good juice mousse soup spoon sugar ¢ ©4? Listen and check. © p.157 Sound Bank. Look at the typical spellings for /u/ and us. € Look at the information box. How do phonetic symbols in a dictionary help you pronounce words correctly? A Pronouncing difficult words | Some words are difficult to pronounce because | 1 they have a ‘silent syllable of letter, e.g. vegetables Pvedstablz! 2 some letters are pronounced in an unusual way eg, steak /sterk/ 3 you aren't sure where the stress is, eg. desert ddiz's:t/ £ 13% Look at some more food words which are difficult to pronounce. Use the phonetics to practise saying them correctly. Then listen and check. 1 knife inal! Discuit Moxsktt/ salmon —_/'seman/ 2 sausages —_'sosidguz/ lettuce Pets! sugar /Soga! 3 yoghurt —jogat! menu /'menju:! diet Pdr! g 2 Listen and repeat the sentences 1 The first course on the menu is lettuce soup. 2 What vegetables would you like with your steak? 3 Do you want yoghurt or chocolate mousse for dessert? 4 I take two spoonfuls of sugar in my coffee. 5 Sausages and biscuits aren't very good for you. 6 Would you like a fruit juice?5 LISTENING a Have you ever tried English food? What did you think of it? b G4 Kevin Poulter, an English chef, has just opened a restaurant in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Listen to an interview. with him and number the photos 1-5 in the order he mentions them. ¢ Listen again and answer the questions, 1 Why did he decide to open restaurant in Chile? 2 Why did he call it Frederick's? 3 Why were Chilean people surprised when he opened his restaurant? 4 What English dishes does he serve in his restaurant? Are they popular? 5 Where does he recommend tourists eat in England? Why? 6 How many women work in his 4 kitchen? Why does he think there are so few women in restaurant kitchens? 7 What English food does he miss most? Do you think an English restaurant would be a success if it opened in your town? Why (not)? What food from your country would you miss most if you went to live abroad? 6 SPEAKING a Work in groups of three A, B, and C. First read sentences 1-6 and decide (individually) whether you agree or disagree. Think about examples you can use to suppart your point of view. 1 Women wony more about their diet than men. 2 Young people today eat less healthily than ten years ago. 3 Men cook as @ hobby, women cook because they have to. 4 Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot of meat. 5 You can often eat better in cheap restaurants than in expensive ones. 6 Every country thinks that their cooking is the best. Now A say what you think about sentence J. B and C listen and then agree or disagree with A. Then B say what you think about sentence 2, etc. Try to use the expressions in Useful language. Useful language Forcxample > tones 2 ! dont gee 2 — 1 don't think it’ se hint depend >1A a Correct the mistakes in the highlighted phrases. Ouch! Yourstand on my foot! Nowre standing ‘They have always breakfast in bed on 2 Sunday morning. She can't come to the phone now. Shé has a shower We are needing an answer from you before Wednesday. I'm studitiga lot now because I have exams next week. She don't eat meat at al. ‘They always are late, Do you go aut tonight? He never replys to my emails! A Are you going to the park this afternoon? B I don't know. I's depending on the weather. Grammar BANK b_ Write questions in the present continuous or present simple. ‘A What are you eating? (you / eat) BA cheese sandwich. 1 A Where _ lunch today? (you / have) B At home, My mums making pasta 2A What 2 (he / do) B He's an accountant, 3A this weekend? (you / go away) B No, we'te staying here. 4A to eat out tonight? (you / want) B Yes, that would be nice. Where shall we go? 5 A What ? (she f cook) B I don't know, but it smells good. 1B ‘a Combine the two sentences. Use the verb in bold in the past continuous or past perfect. Sarah had a siesta from 3.00 to 5.00, Peter picked up the tickets a Peter picked up the tickets when Sarah was having a siesta, ‘They watched TV from 7.00 until 9.00, I arrived at 7.30, When I arrived, they wv. He left the office at 7.00. She phoned him at 8.00. ‘When she phoned him, he —_ the office, b Complete with the past simple, past continuous, or past perfect. We didn’t realize. that we had been. there before. (not realize, be) . 4.00, 1 AHow 2 (the accident / happen) BHe __- back from Manchester when he a tree. (drive, hit) 21 cooking the meal when they — me to say they couldn't come. 3 T studied for the exam the night before. The exam didn't go well. “The exam didn’t go well although I thenightbefore. When heea tome nay aes 4 He cycled to work this morning. In the middle of hisjourney, he > shovel ong. tebe re eo) ot ae A 4 arrived too late. The concert ____.__ and When he — to work this morning, he hadan accident.“ ay ftiends home (ih, go) 5 He only had five lessons. He passed his driving test. pees pe oboe ‘When he passed his driving test, he (only) fivelessons. he on his mobile. (lose, talk) 1c a Circle the correct form. Tick (W) the sentence if both are possible. (mi not going) I won't go to work tomorrow because its Saturday. 1 P'm going to study | I'll study English here next year. 2 A Shall we / Will we eat out tonight? B Good idea. 3 We'll go/ We're going to Brazil next week. I can’t wait. 4 What are you going to wear / are you wearing to the party? 5 Do you think i¢ will rain / it’ going to rain tomorrow? 6A Thisisheavy, B I'll help/ I help you. 7 Tm meeting /T meeta friend this evening. 8 Tm really sorry. [promise I won't do/ I'm not going to do it agai © They're getting / They're going to get married in May. ELD muttizom — wwnoup.comyeli/englshfle/intermediate Complete B’s replies with a correct future form, A Sorry, Ann’s not i B OK, .I'll call back. later. (call back) 1A There's no milk. B Don't worry, I 2A Can we meet on Tuesday? some, (get) B Sorry, Lcan't. I - to Brighton on ‘Tuesday. (go) 3 A Can we have pizza for lunch? B No, we chicken. I've already put it in the oven. (have) 4 A Is that the phone? B Yes, but don't get up. __ it. (answer) aa 5 A Jane's put on a lot of weight! B She's pregnant. She — — a baby in ‘August. (have)PONTO men CUT LGy 1 Food @ Put two food wards in each column, Use your dictionary to help you. beans duck lettuce /"tetis! meat | fish / peaches prawns /pro:nz/ salmon /'seman/ sausages ‘sosidgiz/ strawberries /stro:bariz/ vegetables b Add three more words to each column. 2 Food adjectives Complete the adjective column with a word from the box. fresh frozen home-made low-fat raw /ro) spicy 5 si/ sweet takeaway Adjective 1 Hove my mum's cooking food is always the best. 2 Indian food like curty is very 3 Sushi is made with fish = 4 Food which is kept very cold is 5 food is food you buy at a restaurant and take home to eat. 6 People on a diet often try to eat food. 7 These eggs are . Ebought them today. 8 This tca's very You've put too much sugar in it! —= 3 Restaurants and cooking a Match the words and pictures. knife inst! pl /nscvel one fork r Coe desserts /dt'zaits/ Piet spoon : a plate ee aces glass ee ae main courses ‘mein ko:siz/ Cry Rae dad napkin (serviette) ae salt and pepper starters b Match the words and pictures. boiled rice [I roast chicken baked potatoes gilled sausages fried eggs steamed vegetables Ops Can you remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner. 144 | MultiROM www.oup.com/elt/englishfile/intermediate