Our English blog: 1.Food and restaurants

This topic may involve:

-reading, listening, speaking and writing about eating habits in your country and your own eating habits

-reading, listening, speaking and writing about a healthy lifestyle, healthy food, dieting, mood food, exotic dishes, etc.

-studying vocabulary related to the previous subtopics and the following grammar: present simple and continuous and quantifiers

Prepare and deliver a monologue about food and eating. Describe your eating habits and how you feel about dieting.

FOOD/COOKING MONOLOGUES

Make an oral exposition about eating habits in your country. Talk about the kind of food you eat and what you like and don’t like.
Make an oral exposition about what you understand by “a healthy lifestyle”? Talk about the good and bad habits which affect people’s health nowadays.
Prepare and deliver a monologue about healthy food. Talk about the importance of food for health and about the healthy food you eat.
Prepare and deliver a monologue about food and eating. Describe your eating habits and how you feel about dieting.
Talk about your diet. Do you think you have a balanced diet? How do you feel about trying exotic dishes? What is your favourite restaurant?
Talk about your lifestyle. Do you think it’s possible to have a healthy lifestyle in today’s world? What is your attitude to smoking? Is physical activity an important part of a healthy lifestyle?

Regarding the possible FOOD/COOKING INTERACTIONS for this topic. Por ejemplo: Eating out or at home?
Práctica aquí (hay un listening/reading):
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine-articles/food

- Repaso de incontables:
a piece of toast, some toast: How many pieces of toast would you like with your breakfast?
a piece of news: Another good piece of news that....
some advice: here is some advice from experts

- Expresiones y prhasal verbs:
At ease: a gusto
Going out for a drink
Eat out: comer fuera
Cut down: reducir
Cut out: eliminar

- Vocabulario:
cookery book: libro de cocina

crockery: vajilla

cutlery: cubiertos

napkin: servilletas

entertaining: recibir visitas (nombre; como adj. "ameno"). They haven't done much entertaining since their baby was born.

a tea break

dinner = evening meal
at supper: en la cena
English breakfast is very faty
side dish: acompañamiento. (aside, adv.: a un lado. I put some money aside for a holiday. Side,, sust.:cara Turn the paper over other side) )

snack. tentempié, bocadillo

starter
main course: plato principal
dessert /dísert/

jar of jam: tarro de mermelada. Pero si es de naranja: mermelade
bowl of cereal

Fruit /frut/ es incontable (frutas) It's good to eat a lot of fruit
fig: higo

berry: baya, fruta del bosque
raspberry: frambuesa

cherry, cherries: cereza

grapefruit: pomelo

pineapple: piña

Pie: pastel, tarta, empanada

Scone: panecillo

Bread roll: panecillo

Baked beans: frijoles, alubias cocidas

Chowder: sopa de pescado

Lettuce /létis/:
radish: rábano
cabbage/cábich/: col

Fish and chips
EGGS:
Scrambled eggs (revueltos)

A fried egg
A boiled egg (huevo cocido):
Soft- boiled egg = pasado por agua,
Hard boiled egg = duro, Egg cup (recipiente para el huevo pasado por agua)