DAY 5: Food and eating + countable/uncountables B2

FOOD AND EATING

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Vocabulary

Adjectives

What’s the difference between Sour and Bitter? 1. Take a drink of vinegar: This would be sour or so considered to be. 2. Take a bite of real pure dark chocolate: This would be considered bitter 1.A Grannysmith green cooking apple would be sour. Other sour foods are lemon, oranges. beer, spoilt milk 2.Coffee without sugar or cream would be bitter. Other bitter foods are unsweetened cocoa, marmalade, beer, olives

Adjectives

• tinned meatballs
• ready-made dish
• delicious /nice taste
• it's nice/ it's disgusting
• fizzy drinks
• healthy/unhealthy food
• fatty food

• fresh fish
• frozen lasagne
• low-fat /high fat cheese
• raw fish
• spicy chicken
• takeaway pizza

Verbs:

• to eat out
• to eat sensibly
• to cut down on sugar
• to cut out sugar
• to be on a diet
• to lose weight
• to put on weight
• to order food
• to take vitamins
• to take food supplements
• to try new food
• to contain vitamins and minerals
• to have a balanced diet

• (food that is high/low in) carbohydrates "carbs"
• (rich/high - low/poor in) proteins
• (high in ) sugar
• eating habits (change?)
• a nutritionist
• fats

Nouns

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Being fit and healthy

What do you do to stay fit and healthy? What do you have to include in your diet/habits?

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EATING OUT IS NEVER A HEALTHY OPTION

Do you agree?

Which one do you prefer prefer and why?

1. Is there any food or drink that you couldn't live without? How often do you drink/eat it? 2. Is there any food that you dislike? Which is it? 3. What was your favourite food when you were a child? 4. Do you eat healthily? Explain 5. Do you ever have... ready-made food? takeaway food? 6. Do you prefer to eat at restaurants or at home? 7. What's the best restaurant you have been to? 8. Is a vegetarian diet better than a diet that includes meat? Why? 9. What kind of diet would you recommend to a friend? 10. Eating habits have changed a lot in Spain . Do you agree? 11. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" Do you agree with this proverb?

Speaking:

weather, advice, newspaper, accommodation, luggage, staff, difference, furniture, scenery, worksheet, rubbish, behaviour, health, cotton, vegetables,politics, journey, grape, work, homework, news, clothes, money

COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE?

So, how can we make an uncountable noun countable? That’s easy! Very often, we can use “a piece of…” before the uncountable nouns. We can say: A piece of ffruit/cake/cheese/baggage/furniture/news/rubbish/research… etc But English wouldn’t be considered one of the richest languages if you could just use “ a piece of” with every uncountable noun, would it? So here’s a quiz where you will learn some other partitive structures used with uncountable nouns.

countable or uncountable?