The English Cafe: Food

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7 February 2018

A Healthy Lifestyle

Read the text.
Then choose the correct word from the list and fill in the gaps.

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5 April 2016

Dialogue: At the restaurant

Here is a link with a dialogue "Ordering a meal at a restaurant".
Read and study it carefully, then scroll down to practise a similar dialogue.
Click here!

1 February 2012

Matching Exercise 1 : Click on the correct picture.
Matching Exercise 2: Click here.

Let's revise Vegetable. Click here.
Let's revise Meat and Fish. Click here.
Let's revise Fruit. Click here.

What's the English word for...? Click here.

22 February 2010

Lunch and Dinner in Britain

LUNCH

What is a typical British lunch?

Many children at school and adults at work will have a 'packed lunch'. This typically consists of a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. The 'packed lunch' is kept in a plastic container.

Sandwiches are also known as a 'butty' or 'sarnie' in some parts of the UK.

My favourite sandwich is prawn and mayonnaise. I also love tuna and mayonnaise and ham and pickle sandwiches.

See a sample menu of food served in pubs

Sample menu of food served for School Dinners

DINNER

The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'.

What is a traditional British Dinner?

A typical British meal for dinner is "meat and two veg". We put hot brown gravy, (traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat, but more often today from a packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes.

What is a typical British Dinner like today?

The traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, apart from on Sundays. A recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta dishes are now favoured as the 'British Dinner'.

Vegetables grown in England, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are still very popular.

The Sunday Roast Dinner

Sunday lunch time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast.

Roast Lamb

Traditionally it consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular.

image Roast lamb

Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce. Gravy is poured over the meat.

Source: woodlands-junior-school-kent

Film: Supersize me

Photo: kodoom.com

Why are Americans so fat?
Two words: fast food.

What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for one month?
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just that and goes on the most dangerous journey of his life.

For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three times a day; he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked.
Spurlock travels across the country interviewing people who eat fast food and experts on fast food. Spurlock's fast food diet changes him mentally and physically and the film might probably make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac.

Experiment of the Movie

He must fully eat three McDonald's meals per day
He must try every item on the McDonald's menu at least once over the course of the 30 days
He must only eat items on the menu. This includes bottled water. Any and all outside consumption of food is not allowed.
He must eat a McDonald's salad every tenth meal
He must "Super Size" his meal whenever, and only when, the option is offered to him.
He must only walk 5,000 steps per day.
Here are a few facts from the movie's website:

Results

Morgan Spurlock spent about five months in losing 20 pounds and another nine months to return to his original weight.
He discusses at the end about the lack of healthy food among U.S. schools, and the fast food chains are luring the kids away from the healthy food. McDonald's kid-friendly advertising schemes are very successful, and mentions the dark side of the fast food industries. He says, "The bottom line, they're a business, no matter what they say, and by selling you unhealthy food, they make millions, and no company wants to stop doing that."

Facts from the film's website

Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
In 1972, Americans spent $3 billion a year on fast food - today they spend more than $110 billion
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain
French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese
Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar

15 February 2010

Food - Talking about Likes and Dislikes

Watch the video and learn the dialogue.

Food - Vocabulary

The words below are some of the most important used when talking about food.
Copy and paste ---> Word file ---> German meaning ---> Print ---> Words book

Condition
fresh
off
past its sell-by date
raw
ripe
rotten
tough
undercooked
unripe
overcooked

Verbs
bake
boil
cook
fry
grill
heat
microwave
poach
roast
steam
stew

Quantities
bar
liter
loaf
lump
piece
pint
portion
slice
spoonful

Taste
bitter
bland
creamy
crisp
crunchy
hot
mild
salty
savory
sickly
sour
spicy
stodgy
sweet
tasteless

Types
barbecue
buffet
four-course meal
picnic
snack

Eating and Drinking
bite
chew
swallow
sip

Preparing Drinks
add
fill
mix
pour
shake
stir

Other Words
crumbs
fast food
(non)-fattening
helping
pastry
slimming
sticky

1 February 2010

English Breakfast

What is a typical English Breakfast?

Most people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Nowadays, however, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee.

Many people, especially children, in England will eat a bowl of cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc.

In the winter many people will eat "porridge" or boiled oats.

What is the traditional English Breakfast?

Traditional English breakfast

The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always served in hotels and guest houses around Britain.

The traditional English breakfast is called the 'Full English' and sometimes referred to as 'The Full English Fry-up'.

woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk

Wordle - Healthy Eating

You can create Wordles yourself here.

Klick on image to enlarge.

20 January 2010

Activities

Photo: thehealthcareblog.com

How healthy are you?
Click here to do the quiz.

Food gives us energy and makes us grow. Food keeps us healthy - and it's best if we eat a balanced diet. But what is a balanced diet?
Do this quiz and find out!

How much do you know about food?
Try a quiz!

Practise the names of fruit and vegetables with a matching activity.
Paint the words the right colours.

Find ten food words in the puzzle and practise food vocabulary.

oup.com
britishcouncil.org