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This document contains a student's vocabulary and grammar exercises from their English class. It includes: 1) A reading comprehension section about staple crops around the world and a discussion of foods like potatoes, wheat, and lentils. 2) Exercises to practice using the simple present and present continuous tenses to describe cooking habits and meals, like "My mother and I cook a meal together" and "Right now, my mother and I are making enchiladas." 3) A goal to describe a favorite food, where the student discusses traveling to Greece and trying delicious foods like seafood and tzatziki.

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Vocabulary: Read Part of Travel Blog

This document contains a student's vocabulary and grammar exercises from their English class. It includes: 1) A reading comprehension section about staple crops around the world and a discussion of foods like potatoes, wheat, and lentils. 2) Exercises to practice using the simple present and present continuous tenses to describe cooking habits and meals, like "My mother and I cook a meal together" and "Right now, my mother and I are making enchiladas." 3) A goal to describe a favorite food, where the student discusses traveling to Greece and trying delicious foods like seafood and tzatziki.

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ENGLISH III -120-021 Alexander Féliz

ELIZA GUERRERO 3-14-4559

1-Vocabulary
A Read part of travel blog.
This is my first no Turkley. It’ a wonderful place! The people are friendly and the meals are delicious.
Farmers hare grow many different crops, including many kinds of fruit. The also grow a lot of wheat, and
the bread in Turkey is really good. Of course, the geography and climate in different parts of turkey affect
the kind of food farmers can produce in each region. In Central Anatolia, the land is almost flat, and the
weather is usually warm and dry. It’s A good place to grow crops and to raise animals such as cattle and
sheep High up in the mounstains of eastern Turkey. Farmers also keep animals since the can’t grow crops.
Today I’m visiting the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southern Turkey. The weather here is hot and
humud, but the fish and seafood are exceilent!

B Write the words in blue next to the correct meaning.


1. __FARMER___ people who produce food
2. ___REGION___ an area of a country or of the world
3. ___CROPS___ plants grown for food
4. ___MOUNTAINS___ very high parts of the land
5. ___HUMID___ describes air with a lot of water in it
6. ___COAST___ land near the ocean
7. ____FLAT___ describes land without mountains
8. _GEOGRAPHY____ features of a place, such as rivers
9. ____MEALS_____ breakfast, lunch, and dinner
10. CLIMATE normal weather in a certain place

Grammar: Simple present vs present continuous tense


Simple presents tense Present continuous tense
I’m eating rice
I eat nice Every She’s cooking fish
She cooks fish day They’re breaking bread now
The bake bread We’re having mangos for
We have fruit for breakfast breakfast

*Use the simple present tense to talk about habits and things thal are generally true
*Use the present continuous tense to talk about actions and events that are happening now
A 2-Complete each sentence with the simple present or present continuous form of the verb
in parentheses.
1. My mother and I___Cook___ a meat together every afternoon. (cook)
2. In Mexico, most people___eat_____ a big meat in the afternoon. (eat)
3. Right now, my mother and I____are making____ a dish called enchiladas. (make)
4. I Reafly like enchiladas. Sometimes I___have___ them for breakfast(have)
5. Now my mother____Is telling__the whole family to come to the table(tell)
6. We____Enjoy_____at least one meat together every day (enjoy)

A 3-Language Expansion: Staple food crops.

What do you know about staple food crops? Circle T for true or F for false.
1. Potatoes are originally from South America F F
2. India is one of the world’s largest producers of wheat F F
3. Lentils are a kind of legume. V
4. Soy sauce is made from soybeans V
5. Yucca grows in (Under) the ground. V
6. China is the world’s largest consumer of rice. V

B Discuss the questions with a partner.


1. In what parts of the world do people eat these staple foods?
Camin mexico, wheat in erirrea and Ethiopia oat in the world
_________________________________________________
2. What other staple foods do you know about?
I Know the wheat, corn and lentils._____________________

3. What staple foods do you usually eat?


I Usually eat rice, beans, chicken and salad.______________
_________________________________________________

People eat a lot of soybeans in Right, or they eat foods made from
Asian countries. soybeans, like tofu and miso.
A GOAL 4: Describe a Favorite Food

A 4-Complete the conversation. Use the simple past tense of the verbs in parentheses

Mery: Tell me about yourself, Pedro.


Padre: Well, I love to travel, last yeat I __traveled__ (travel) to Greece.
Mary: Wow! You __went___ (go) to Greece?
Pedro: Yes, and I __met_____ (meet) my friend Vasilyn and his family there. They ___Shown___ (show) me
around Athens and introduce_
(Introduce) me to many new foods.
That sounds like fun.
It was I _____ate______ (eat) seafood and tamb, and I ____tried___
(try) a dish made from rice and grape leaves it ____was___ (be)
Delicious!

B Complete these sentences about the past. Use your own information.

1. Yesterday, I ate __seafood and vegetables__________


2. Last week, I went ____to the universty_______________
3. On the first day of this class, I learned _the irregular verbs__
4. Last month _____I Stayed at home__________________
5. In 2012, _______I Started ta work_______________________
6. Ten years ago, ____I Was in the school_________________

5- Reading

A Read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph. How is the reading organized?

A. By importance, from least


Important

B. Over time, from earliest to latest


C. Comparison and contrast, showing
Similarities and differences

B Read the whole article and complete each Sentence.

1. People thousands of years ago made


Flat bread on hot Rocks_of their__
Campfise.__
2. Native American People ate tomatoes
Before European people.
3. Cooks in __Naples_ put
Tomatoes on flat bread
4. ___Italians____ brought pizza to the
United States.
5. People eat lamb and tofu on pizza in
__India_________

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