Food: fuel or

pleasure?
Objectives:
G Learn about present simple and present
continuous.
V Food and restaurants.
P // y /u:/
 FOREIGN
RESTAURANTS
What kind of food/dishes do you
associate with these countries?
The United States
China
France

Italy Japan

Mexico
 Fuel or pleasure?
Is food a pleasure for you?
What do you usually eat in a typical day?
Do you ever cook?
Do you ever eat unhealthy food? How do you feel
about it?
Are you trying to cut down on anything at the
moment?
Are peoples diets in your country getting better or
worse?
 Lets read!
The United States Alice Freeman is a lawyer from San Francisco

A. I think people are trying to improve their diets, but they are doing
it the wrong way by following diets like the Atkins diet. Personally,
I dont think its very healthy to cut out entire groups of food like
carbohydrates.
B. Not very often. I dont have the time or talent to cook full meals.
I usually heat up a frozen meal or order a takeaway.
C. Sometimes I get fast food for lunch. I have to admit that I love
French fries. I feel terrible about it afterwards, but I dont do it
very often.
D. I usually have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. For lunch I
eat at a restaurant near my office. I prefer Japanese or Indian
food. I usually eat rice with fish and vegetables, soup or sushi. I
dont eat meat but I eat a lot of fish. In the evening I just have
something light at home.
E. I am trying to cut down on the amount of fat I eat. I am also
trying to eat more wholemeal bread.
F. Not really. I enjoy certain kinds of food, but most meals are just
fuel to keep me going through the day.
 France
Lets read Jacqueline Fabre is an IT consultant from Lyons
A. Yes, I cook every evening for my family. I often make soup or
traditional French dishes like boeuf bourguignon, which is a kind of
beef and red wine stew, and then we have cheese and salad. It may
seem a lot but we dont eat big portions. Whats important for me is
quality, not quantity.
B. Yes, Im trying to eat less chocolate.
C. I think peoples diets are getting worse and worse. Its quite strange
because we have a lot of information now about how bad fast food is
for you. Im afraid its a problem in a lot of European countries.
D. Not at home. I think most of the food I cook is healthy, but
occasionally when I eat out I have something unhealthy, but it doesnt
worry me.
E. Yes, definitely! For me good meals with the family make me happy!
F. Im quite traditional and I have three main meals a day. For breakfast,
I like hot chocolate, and bread and butter with honey or jam. For lunch,
I often eat in a restaurant with my colleagues. I usually have vegetables
and meat or fish, but I love pasta and rice too. In the afternoon, I have
fruit with biscuits or a piece of chocolate. In the evening, I have a
 Who
often eats in restaurants?
eats quite a lot of sweet things?
eats ready-prepared food?
cooks big meals at home?
enjoys eating?
feels bad when she eats unhealthily?
is trying to eat less of something?
prefers having good food to having a lot of food?
is negative about eating habits in her country?
 Vocabulary!
Exercise d, page 5!

Which of the two women

do you think has the
healthiest diet? Why? Ask each other the
questions from exercise
1b!
Delicious!
 Lets listen!
We are going to listen to Rumiko talking about food.
http://www.inter-lingua-nyelviskola.hu/angol-hanganyag/

Do you think food for her is fuel or pleasure?

 Now answer
What does she usually have in the morning?
Where does she usually have lunch and dinner?
Why doesnt she often cook?
Does she eat or drink anything unhealthy?
Is she cutting down on anything at the moment?
Why?
Whats happening to the Japanese diet at the
moment?
Does she think this is a completely bad thing?
Choose the correct option.
I dont usually have/Im not having breakfast at work.

I used to go to fast food restaurants, but now I prefer/ I

am preferring eating something
Lets do 1A andhealthier.
1B in the
Grammar Bank!
I think Japanese people get/ are getting fatter.

I like/ Im liking the fact that there are more different

kinds of food and restaurants now.
 VOCABULARY!
Can you think of?
1. One RED fruit, one YELLOW food and one GREEN fruit.
2. Two things that a strict vegetarian doesnt eat.
3. Three kinds of food which are made from milk.
4. Four things that people have for breakfast.
5. Five things people eat between meals.
6. Six vegetables that you can put in a salad.
7. Seven things which are usually in a table in a
restaurant.
 VOCABULARY!
Lets go to our Vocabulary Bank!

Exercise c, page 6.
 Pronunciation!
// /u:/

Butcher Cook Food Fruit Good Juice

Mousse Soup Spoon Sugar
 DIFFICULT WORDS!
Some words are difficult to pronounce because
1. They have a silent syllable or letter, e.g.
vegetables.
2. Some letters are pronounced in an unusual way,
e.g. steak.
3. You arent sure where the stress is, e.g.
dessert.
Lets practise with phonetics!
/naf/ Listen and repeat!
/bskt/
- The first course on the menu is lettuce
/smn/ soup.
/ssz/ - What vegetables would you like with your
steak?
/lets/ - Do you want yoghurt or chocolate mousse
for dessert?
/g/ - I take two spoonfuls of sugar in my coffee.
/jgt/ - Sausages and biscuits arent very good for
you.
/menju:/ - Would you like a fruit juice?

/dat/
 Lets listen!
Have you ever tried English food?
What did you think of it?

Lets do exercises b, c
and d, page 7!
 Lets speak!
For
example It I I agree
depen disagre
ds e

Women worry more about their diet than men. I dont

think
Young people today eat less healthily than ten years its

ago. true

Men cook as a hobby, women cook because they have

to. I think
Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot its
true!
of meat.
You can often eat better in cheap restaurants than
in expensive ones.
Every country thinks that their cooking is the best.