Saturday, April 10, 2010

VOCABULARY NO. 5: A Quiz: Food

Write down as many words as you can guess from looking at the pictures.


You can now check how many you got correct:


REVIEW

Let's now review some vocabulary on food, restaurants, kitchen utensils, etc.

How food is cooked
boiled – cooked in boiling water

steamed – cooked over a saucepan of boiling water

fried / sauteed – cooked in oil in a frying pan

stir-fried – fried fast in hot oil

pan-fried – fried in a frying pan

roasted – cooked in oil in the oven

grilled – cooked under a grill

baked – cooked in the oven

stewed – cooked for a long time on a low heat

casseroled – cooked slowly in juices

Types of food
meat = lamb, pork or beef

poultry = chicken, turkey, goose, duck

game = rabbit, hare, partridge, pheasant

fish = salt water fish / sea fish, fresh water fish

seafood = prawns, shrimps, lobster, scallops, mussels, crab

vegetables= artichoke, lettuce, broccoli, peas, beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, eggplant, zucchini

fruit=apple, pear, banana, pineapple, persimon, orange, apple, grapes, watermelon,

berries= cranberries, strawberries, cranberries, black currant, blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries

Dishes
starter / hors d'oeuvre / appetiser
main course
dessert / pudding

READING
Let's read a little bit about berries and we will discover how good they are for our health.


PRACTICE
Let's review vegetables here
Let's learn more about food here
At the restaurant:
More words:
Listen to the pronunciation of these ones:
Are you ready for a quiz?
Food and drinks. A scrambled game:
Want to know about some idioms with food expressions?
How to use quantifiers for food:

LISTENING
Listen to these people and their likes in food:
What are your preferences?

Let's now listen to this short extract and try to answer the questions:
http://www.esl-lab.com/snack/snackrd1.htm

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