V food and restaurants P. /o/ and /tv/, understanding phonetics 1 READING & SPEAKING a What kind of food or dishes do you associate with these countries? The United States China Italy Japan Mexico France b Read the interviews with Alice and Match the questions with their answers. CO ee 1 Is food a pleasure for you? 2 What do you normally eat ina typical day? 3 Do you ever cook? 4 Do you ever eat ‘unhealthy’ food? How do you feel about it? 5 Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment? {6 Are people's diets in your country geting better or worse? ‘Alice Freeman is a lawyer from San Francisco ‘AI think people are 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 carbohydrates. BC |Not very often. | don’t have the time or talent to cook full meals. | usually a frozen meal or order a “Sometimes | get fastfood for lunch. | have to admit that I love French fries. Heel terrible about it afterwards, but | don’t do it very often. J: usually have a bowl of cereal or toat for breakfast. For lunch | eat at 2 restaurant near my office. | preter Japanese or Indian food. 1 usually eat rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. | don’t eat meat, but I eat alot of fish. In the evening, {just have something light at home (| Lam trying to cut down on the amount of fat eat. m also trying to eat more bread FC Not really. | enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just fuel to keep me going through the day. A Yes, | cook every evening for my family | often make soup or traditional French dishes like “boeuf bourguignon’, which isa kind of beef and red wine BA ander ‘we have cheese and salad. It may seem a lot but we don't eat big What's important for me is quality, not quantity. BJ Yes, 'm trying to eat less chocolate, CT I think people's 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. D Not at home. | think most of the food 1 cook is healthy, but occasionally | when eat aut Ihave something unhealthy, but t doesn't worry me. ely. For me good meals with the family make me happy! F "| 1'm quite traditional and | have three main meals a day. For breakfast, | like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch, | often cat in a restaurant with my colleagues. | usually have vegetables and meat or fish but I love pasta and rice too. In the afternoon, I have fruit with biscuits or 2 piece of chocolate. In the evening, I have a proper meal with my family.€ Read the interviews again and answer the questions below. Write A (Alice), J Jacqueline), or B (both of them). | Who..? 1 often eats in restaurants —— 2 eats quite a lot of sweet things le 3 eats ready-prepared food = 4 cooks big meals at home = | 5 enjoys eating c 6 feels bad when she eats unhealthily 7 is trying to eat less of something = __ 8 prefers having good food to having allot of food —— 9 is negative about eating habits in her country — dd Match the ighilight@d words or phrases with the definitior to havea meal in a restaurant, not at home co 2 a sweet food made by bees, which people often eat on bread 3 the quantity you eat of a dof food during a meal 4 to make cold food hot food you buy froma restaurant to eat at home 6 food from animals or plants used for cooking, e.g. oil, butter, ete. 7 _— food prepared in a particular way, eg. sushi, lasagne, ete, made from brown flour ‘liquid food, often made of vegetables, e.g. 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 each other with the questions from 1b. How similar are your eating habits? 1s fod a pleasure for you? > Ces, definitly | Nove eating. re 2 GRAMMAR present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs a GLP 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 lunch 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 is a completly 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 Idon’s usually have / I'm not having breakfast at work. 2 Lused to go to fast food restaurants, but now I prefer/ Tam preferring eating something healthier. 3 Lam drinking / I drink a lot of coffee every day. 4 I think Japanese people get / are getting fatter. 5 like | I'm 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 coffe / 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? / you hungry? / want something to eat? / take any vitamins or food supplements at the moment? / try to eat healthily at the moment?1A __ present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs present simple: I live, he works, etc. present continuous: action and non-action verbs. bes verb +-ing ‘A Who are you waiting for? B U'm waiting for a friend [A What are you cooking tonight? | B P’mmaking pasta. A Great! I really like pasta ‘They work ina bank. Where do you live? He doesn’t wear glasses. She usually has cereal fr breakfast | |) A What are you doing afer I'm never late for work, aa B I'm going to the café. + Use the present simple for things + Verbs which describe actions, e.g. make, cook, can be used in the present simple or continuous. + Verbs which describe states or feelings (not + Usethe present continuous |” actions), eq, ike cnerrally Sescuon orton | ~ Gaietsraieayae™ | sec wat sma F : actions in progress atthe . + Remember the spelling rues, eg. | Quonsimprogres at ‘Common non-action verbs are agree, be, ¢ 1g oF for Soe one future arrangements eke ie cemteee aed eat + Use ASI (auxiliary, subject, + Remember the spelling realize, recognize, seem, suppose. infinitive) Quist (question rules, e.g. living, studying, _ - = word, auiliary, subject, infinitive) | gering’ A. A few verbs have an action and a non-action Jobela ges wat Word omen ‘meaning, The most common is have. questions. i ; . Thave a big flat. = possession (non-action) Put adverbs of frequency, eg. Teast tate meyiitin hart lunch, usualy, before the main verb and Ta aaa after be. = IB past tenses past simple: worked, stopped, went, had, etc. | past perfect: had + past using narrative tenses together "They got married last year. ” Teese | When John arrived, they had dinner. ‘What time did you wake up this morning? When they turned on. (fist John arrived, then they had 1 diet have time to-do nny homework the TV, the match had dinner) z ; finished. ‘When John arrived, they were having Use the past simple for finished past actions. | | 1 felt nervous because 1 dinner. past continuous: was/ were + verb +-ing SEs CSE {Shen foes aries they went the = * Use the past perfect wher eae ‘A What were you doing at six o'clock lastnight?) | “ ou are talking about the | | When John arrived, they had had dinner TV. It was a cold night past and you want to talk (they had dinner before John arrived). about an earlier past eee EG ‘+ Use the past continuous to describe an action | action. ne in progress at a specific time in the past. TC future forms be going to + infinitive present continuous: be +verb+-ing | _wll/ shall+ infinitive future plans and intentions | future arrangements Tthave the steak. (instant decision) ‘My sister’s going to adopt a child, ‘We're getting married in October. I won't tell anybody where you are, ‘Are you going to buy a new car? They're meeting at 10.00. oe can T'm not going to go to New York She's leaving on Frida carry that bag for you. (o aie See era oe Shall [help you with your homework? : + You can usually use present (offer) Lereioee continuous or going to for future Shall we eat out tonight? (suggestion) T think they're going to win, (They're plans / arrangements. You'll love the fim! (prediction) playing very well) ~ going shows that you have EE nee t's going to rain. (The sky is very davk.)| | __ made a decision, + Use will / won't (NOT the present We're going to get married in the simple) for instant decisions, promises, + Use going to NOT will/ won'twhen you | summer. offers, and suggestions. have already decided to do something. | — Present continuous emphasizes that | > Use shall (NOT will) with Iand we for * With the verb go you can leave out the | you have made the arrangements, offers and suggestions when they are infinitive, We're geiting married on July 12th | questions. ‘Tm not going (10 go) to New York. (e.g. we've booked the church). + Use will or going to for predictions.