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Topic 1.
FOOD AND EATING
1. Sort out the words below into the corresponding columns of the table..
1. a chocolate bar 10. Lunch 19. ice-cream
2. breakfast 11. Irish stew 20. fried fish
3. soup 12. afternoon tea 21. spaghetti
4. fruit juice 13. Ukrainian borsch 22. butter
5. rice 14. milk 23. cherry dumplings
6. dinner 15. canned fish 24. supper
7. a sandwich 16. bread 25. cheese
8. a beefsteak 17. coffee
9. a vegetable salad 18. omelette
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2. Match the words and phrases given below with their equivalents or definitions.
| 1. nutritious food 2. convenience food 3. junk food 4. a snack 5. minerals 6. takeaway food 7. fibre 8. fast food 9. protein food 10. an essential diet 11. a dish 12. a diet 13. a course 14. a meal | a) food that is not good for a healthy diet; b) food cooked in a restaurant but eaten at home; c) food that is good for health; d) hot food that is served very quickly in special restaurants and often taken away to be eaten in the street; e) one of the substances found in meat, eggs, fish and some vegetables; i) food that people buy frozen or in a box, that can be prepared and cooked very quickly and easily; g) food that is extremely important for health; h) a limited variety or amount of food people eat for medical reasons; i) an occasion when people sit down to eat food; j) food prepared in a particular v/ay as a meal; k) any of the separate parts of a meal; 1) a small meal or amount of food usually eaten in a hurry; m) the part of plants that you eat but cannot digest which helps food move quickly through the body; n) a natural substance that is present in some food products. |
Topic 2
BRITISH TASTY FAVOURITES
Before you read
1. You are going to read an article about the food people in Britain eat most often. Before reading the article, do the crossword below by filling in the right word from the box. Tne last one is done for you.
| cream | turkey | salmon | strawberry | flour | haddock | scone |
| batter | cuisine | marmalade | liver | parsnip | gravy | cod |
| cranberry | hake | snake | oven | pudding | carrot | toast |
| brussels sprouts sprouts |
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2. Read the article and match the statements below with the dishes described.
British Tasty Favorites
Fish and Chips is perhaps the most famous of English foods, No matter where you live (unless it's in the middle of the country) there will be a traditional fish and chip shop within easy walking distance. The fish is usually cod, but there is also haddock salmon and hake to choose from. The fish is first covered in batter, which is a mixture of flour, eggs and milk and then deep fried in a large vat of oil. When the batter turns a golden brown, the fish is ready. Then it is wrapped with the chips in paper, ready for you to take home, or just eat on a bench in the park and enjoy it right from the paper.
Cream Tea To have a cream tea is a very popular afternoon tradition among the English, and most tourists love it. There are teashops all over the country. When you order your cream tea, you will get a pot of English tea, some scones, which are soft flat cakes made of flour eggs, sour milk and sugar, some butter, and large dishes of strawberry jam and thick cream. Once your teacup is full, you cut open your scone, put lots of butter on each half, then add strawberry jam and finish it off with a large portion of cream on top.
Jellied Eels, Mash and Licor. This is a traditional lunch mostly served in cafes in the East End of London. The eels, which look like snakes, are a popular fish. They are first boiled in pieces and, when they are cooked, placed in large containers of a transparent, tasteless jelly and kept hot. Mash is made up of boiled potatoes which are beaten to a paste. The licor is a thick green sauce made from peas. This is a meal for the adventurous.
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding, Sunday lunch in England is synonymous with roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. A large piece of beef goes into the oven to cook slowly on Sunday morning. The mixture for the pudding (eggs, flour, rnilk and salt) is beaten rapidly and left to stand for a couple of hours. Half an hour before the meat is ready the mixture goes into a toy and into the oven. It should rise to look like golden cakes. Add roast potatoes, green vegetables and carrots and you have the perfect Sunday lunch.
English Breakfast. Though English people often have a cooked breakfast consisting of fried eggs and bacon at home, especially at the weekend, there are also lots of small cafes in England which serve breakfast. For a reasonable price you are served a huge plate of fried bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms and bread. On the side there is toast and marmalade, and, of course, a cup of tea.
The Indian Meal. Indian cuisine has become so popular in England that it is now an essential part of the English diet. There are restaurants and take-aways wherever you go. On the menu you can find a variety of curry dishes including the vindaloo, which is so hot it makes your eyes water and causes you to sweat. Other dishes include korma, which is made with yoghurt and is very mild, and the tasty bhuna, served with nan bread.
Haggis. This is a dish of ancient Scottish origin. It usually consists of the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep which is finely ground and mixed with onions, salt and pepper. The ingredients are then placed in the stomach bag of the sheep (which has been washed and turned inside out), with care being taken to leave room for the mixture to expand in the bag. The bag is then sewn up and boiled for three hours. The Haggis is such an essential part of Scottish cuisine that the great poet, Robert Burns, wrote a poem entitled To a Haggis!
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English Christmas Dinner. The traditional Christmas dinner is held at lunchtime on 25th December. Most people eat roast turkey with cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, carrots and gravy. This is followed by a rich Christmas fruit pudding with cream, and fruit pies. Usually, there is so much food that the rest of it is eaten cold the next day.
Statements:
1. This meal is very fattening and dangerous for people on a diet.
2. This dish is usually eaten outdoors.
3. Both dishes in this lunch are cooked in the oven.
4. This dish is usually eaten in a particular area of London.
5. This dish is eaten without crockery and cutlery.
6. This afternoon meal includes a hot drink.
7. This meal is traditionally more substantial in England that on the Continent.
8. All the ingredients of this fish dish are boiled.
9. The ingredients of this dish come from a domestic animal that gives wool.
10. These dishes were imported to Britain by immigrants.
11. It is a festive meal.
12. This meal usually includes fried bread and citrus jam.
13. This dish consists of a bird cooked in an oven and a sauce made from red berries.
14. This dish was poetized.
15. You have to be very careful not to burn your mouth with spices when you are eating one of these dishes.
3. Fill in the gaps in the sentences given below with one of the words from the box.
| stirred | pouring | sliced | sprinkled | swallow | spread | smells |
| bite | chew | stuffed | chef | nibble | cook | cooker |
| flavour | chief | spicy | taste | spilt | hot | stink |
1. A person who cooks food in restaurants and cafes is called a.......... A person who is responsible for the work of all the people who cook in a particular restaurant or a cafe is called a. The object where food is cooked is called a......... Don't confuse the name of a person who works in restaurants and cafes with the name which is used to call somebody who leads a group of people.
2. When you eat something you haven't eaten before you first _________a little to see if you like it. Then when you've decided you do like it, you off a bigger piece. Next you ______it carefully. Then you _____ it, and have more if you like it.
3. Yesterday Idecided to cook some special dinner. First I ________bell peppers with rice and minced meat. Then I made a sauce, put it on the fire and ________ it continuously until it had thickened. After that I------------ biscuits thickly with soft cheese. Lastly I ____________tomatoes thinly and _____________them with salt. The dinner was really very tasty!
4. Would you mind ________me a cup of tea, please? - Sorry, I have _______some on the table. - It's all right.
5. My sister is very sensitive to________. She can't bear the __________________________of old fish. She also doesn't like the ________of goat's cheese - she finds the ________too strong. She only eats plain food:________dishes upset her stomach. She never eats chilli sauce because it is too________________________ for her.
Topic 3
VEGETARIANS
Before you read
1. You are going to read a newspaper article about people who never eat meat. Before reading the text, answer the questions given below,
1. Have you ever heard of vegetarians? What is your opinion about people who do not eat meat?
2. Every day the number of vegetarians'grows up. Why do you think it happens?
3. Have you ever tried to live without meat? If yes, how did you feel?
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4. If you are a vegetarian what are the reasons for your choice of a diet?
5. Do you think vegetarianism is a natural or unnatural diet?
2. Read the text given below and decide which answer A, B,C orD best fits each space.
Vegetarians don't eat___(1) meat, fish or poultry, and they avoid foods with animal products in them. Some people___(2) red meat but they include chicken and fish in their diet. These are often people___(3) recognize the health benefitsof a vegetarian diet________ (4) up meat completely. This halfway position is sometimes_________(5) by people who are making the change from a completely vegetarian diet. Vegans go one step further___(6) other vegetarians, avoiding all foods of animal origin, such as dairy produce, eggs and. Honey.Vegetarians are___(7) in number. An estimated seven percent of British people are now vegetarian, and there are a great many ___ (8) who only eat meat occasionally. In the last few years, food manufacturers___(9) expanded their vegetarian ranges, and it has become a lot easier to choose an animal-free diet. Many restaurants also now offer a wide ______(10)of vegetarian dish. People might choose a vegetarian diet (11) moral or health reasons, or both. Some vegetarians simply dontlike the idia of eating other cfeatures, and they may dislike the conditions in ________(12) many animals are kept before being killed for food. Others may have become vegetarians because of the health benefits.
| l. aA. | A. some | B. | any | C. much | D. | many |
| 2. A. | A. avoid | B. | prefer | C. enjoy | D. | eat |
| 3. A. | A. what | B. | which | C. who | D. | |
| 4, A. | A. give | B. | take | C. put | D. | get |
| 5. A. | A, occupied | B. | found | C. got | D. | taken |
| 6. A. | A. then | B. | than | C. that | D. | ahead |
| 7, A. | A. raising | B. | rising | C. growing | D. | increasing |
| 8. A. | A. other | B. | another | C. others | D. | anothers |
| 9. A. | A. are | B. | has | Chad | D, | have |
| 10. A. | A, diversion | B. | diversification | C. variant | D. | variety |
| 11. A. | A. for | B. | because | C. due | D. | despite |
| 12. A. | A. what | B. | which | C, that | D. | those |
Topic 4
FRUITARIANS
Before you read
I. You are going to read a magazine article about a very unusual diet
Fill in the vowels in the names of fruit and berries given below and say if you like or dislike them.
| 1. an _ppl 2. a ch _it__ 3. a str __wb __rr__ 4. a p___r 5. a pl_m | 6. a r_spb_rr_ 7. a g___s_b_rr_ 8. a k_w 9. a p_m_gr_n_t_ 10. a b_n_n_ |
2. Scan the text given below and fill in the table after it.
Would you Like to Become a Fruitarian!
In many countries, the number of vegetarians, people who cut out meat and fish from their diets, is growing. Susie Miller has gone a few stages further; she's a fruitarian a diet not recommended for most people!
This is what she tells about her diet. 'I have my breakfast at about eight o'clock. Yesterday this consisted of two apples, an orange and four tomatoes; I like a big breakfast. I don't drink anything during the day such as tea or water as I find I get all the fluid I need from my diet. After breakfast I take the children to school and then go to the gym until eleven. I work out every day. After this morning's session I had a snack of a couple of apples and a small bunch of seedless grapes.
I then went home and did some work. I run an organization called Fresh Network, which is a support and information network on the raw food lifestyle, and every three months we produce a newsletter. The organization provides information on the benefits of raw food for health.
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I quite often take lunch upstairs with me to eat while I'm working. Yesterday I had about 12 tomatoes, half a lettuce and then a couple of apples and orange. Some people think I have an incredibly boring diet but this isn't the case. Because I only eat raw food, this heightens my senses and so I find my diet wonderfully exciting.
I make sure my children have freedom of choice about what they eat. I certainly don't force them to eat raw food but just teach them about the goodness of it. If they feel like cooked food, I'll prepare them a vegetarian meal.
I don't like to eat food too late; it doesn't seem to agree with me. I usually have a final snack at about eight in the evening of a couple of apples, and that's it.
I'm very unusual for a raw food eater as I don't eat nuts, seeds etc. My body is extremely sensitive and I find I no longer need those things. I've been a fruitarian for about three and a half years and don't miss anything. People think I have a strong willpower. But it's not really anything to do with that. Generally speaking, I don't have to stop myself eating other things, I just don't want to.
In the winter I might have a bit of steamed vegetable once or twice a week and I usually eat more at that time of the year than in the summer. Occasionally I get longings - a strong desire for something else. Last winter, for example, I had a few baked potatoes but my body felt so strange after eating them I haven't wanted them since.
It's not that you can't eat certain things, you just find the diet to suit you. There are in fact no rules - everyone works out their own. And I've found a regime that I'm comfortable with. But it's my regime and I don't recommend it for anybody else.
3. Fill in the table with the food and drinks Susie Miller mentioned.
| Vegetables | Fruit | Drinks |
4. Choose the best explanation of the underlined phrases taken from the text
1. Susie Miller has gone a few stages further.
a) Susie has chosen a very rare diet.
b) Susie's food preferences make her unique.
c) Susie's diet is stricter than that of most vegetarians,
2.I run an organization called Fresh Network...
a) Susie is the head of the organization,
b) Susie is a member of the organization,
c) Susie is an employee at the organization.
3. Because I only eat raw food, this heightens my senses...
a) Susie becomes more sensible,
b) Susie becomes more sensitive,
c) Susie becomes elated.
4. If they feel like cooked food, I'll prepare them a vegetarian meal
a) If it is necessary for them to eat cooked food,...
b) If they are not against cooked food,...
c) If they want to have cooked food,,..
5. I don't like to eat food too late; it doesn't seem to agree with me.
a) It's against Susie's principles,
b) She doesn't feel well after it.
c) It is against the rules of the diet.
5. Express your opinion on the following questions.
1. What do you think of Susie's diet?
2. Do you think she has and will have many followers?
3. Would most doctors approve of Susie's diet? Why? Why not?
4. What are advantages and disadvantages of her diet?
5. Do you think people who want to follow Susie's diet need a strong willpower? Why? Why not?
6. Why do you think Susie does not recommend her regime to other people?
7. Do you think Susie's children when they grow up would thank her for making them vegetarians? Why? Why not?
6. Imagine that you have decided to follow Susie and become a fruitarian. Make up a menu of your
favorite fruit for a week Try to make it varied so that you don't become bored with the fruit you eat
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Topic 5.
OUR DIET
- Sort out the food in the box below according to the tastes headings given in the table. You may put one word more than in two columns.
| lemon juice | bananas | beer | vinegar | ice cream | peanuts |
| chocolate | honey | yoghurt | curry | onion | olives |
| tomatoes | peaches | melons | apples | butter | sausage |
| fancy cakes | grapefruit | crisps | cheese | leek | garlic |
| black coffee | gooseberry | oil | red pepper | mustard | fried fish |
| Spicy | Bitter | Salty | Sweet | Sour | Greasy | Creamy |
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2. Read the text about the most important mineral in our diet and decide if the statements below are true or false.
Salt and our Diet
Life depends on it as much as on water or oxygen. Human beings and animals need salt for the proper functioning of their bodies. But it is strange to think that a mineral as cheap and commonplace as this has played such an exotic and dramatic role in history. Salt sparked off wars in 250 BC; it caused North American Indians to hand over land and furs to European settlers; and in Tibet, Ethiopia and Rome it was so highly valued that it became a form of money.
People were not aware of just how much they needed salt until they discovered that it had a very practical use. If meat or fish could be kept in a barrel of salt, or brine, the food could be stored for months without it going bad. So salt became very valuable, and demand began to exceed supply. For Julius Caesar, the news that there was salt in Britain provided a good reason for invading the country. And Roman soldiers were even paid in salt, so it is the origin of the word salary.
It is hardly a great surprise, then, to find that salt like gold acquired magical properties, and stories and superstitions grew up around it. Primitive people put it on the head of an animal that was about to be sacrificed to the gods; babies in medieval Europe were washed in salt water and children made to wear little bags of the stuff around their necks to keep them from harm, Even today, in many countries, the accidental spilling of salt still makes people throw a pinch of the spilt.
Statements:
1. Salt was one of the causes of wars and division of territories.
2. Salt was used as a means of paying for goods,
3. People have always valued salt.
4. People used salt for preservation of meat and fish.
5. Each country is rich in salt.
6. Salt was used as an award in military actions.
7. All superstitions connected with salt show that it brings bad luck.
3. Answer the following 11 questions by ticking the corresponding column and find out if you are keeping to a healthy diet. Tell your partner how healthy your diet is.
