Inglés Pilar Santamaría



Unit 6 1

A vegetables: cabbage cauliflower broccoli spinach cucumber courgettes (Am. Eng: zucchini) aubergines (Am. Eng: egg plants) leeks

meat: beef, lamb, pork, veal, turkey, chicken, kidneys

fish: cod, tuna, hake, sardine, trout, salmon, sole

seafood: clams, prawns, shrimps, crab, lobster, squid , mussels, oysters

herbs: parsley , thyme, oregano, rosemary

spices: curry cinnamon ginger nutmeg

B Flavours and tastes - adjectives and some opposites (--=)

sweet / bitter [sharp/unpleasant] - sour [e.g. unripe fruit|

hot, spicy [e.g. curry] * mild bland [rather negative]

salty [a lot of salt] sugary [a lot of sugar] sickly [too much sugar]

savoury [pleasant, slightly salty or with herbs]

tasty [has a good taste/flavour] * tasteless [no flavour at all]

C General appearance, presentation and quality

These chips are terribly greasy, [too much oil/fat)

This meat is over-cooked/overdone / under-cooked/underdone.

British cooking can be very stodgy, [heavy, hard to digest]

Mm, this chicken's done to a turn, [just perfect, not overdone]

These pistachio nuts are terribly more-ish. [informal; you want to eat more]

**********Exercises*********

1Say the Spanish word for these vegetables

aubergine leek cucumber spinach carrot potato cauliflower bean

green/red pepper courgette sweetcorn lettuce onion rice pea celery cabbage garlic radish shallot turnip asparagus chicken pea

2 Use the taste and flavour words to describe the following.

Indian curry a cup of tea with five spoonfuls of sugar sea water

pizza strong black coffee with no sugar an unripe apple

3 Sort these dishes out under the headings starters, main courses or desserts.

chicken casserole coffee gateau fresh fruit salad sorbet Irish stew pate and toast prawn cocktail rump steak chocolate fudge cake grilled trout shrimps in garlic

4. How do you like the following foods prepared? Use words from the box and look up others if necessary. What do you like to put on the foods from the list in the box?

a leg of lamb eggs potatoes cheese sausages a fillet of cod rice prawns mushrooms leg of chicken hamburguer lemon sorbet

|salt pepper vinegar mustard brown sauce ketchup salad-dressing oil mayonnaise |

|lemon juice sugar |

5 A) Which are fish and which are usually called seafood? Underline the word

prawns sardines squid oysters tuna mussels hake crab trout lobster cod sole clam

B) What do we call the meat of these animals?

calf cow sheep pig

C) Describe the fruits in terms of flavours and taste:

peach plum grapefruit grape nectarine cherry strawberry

raspberry melon lime kiwi-fruit mango watermelon tangerine

Unit 6 Food 2

FOOD, FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE WORDS GIVEN

6)

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|On a diet, fruit, egg, honey, sweetener, locust(YOU DON’T EAT LOCUSTS),pea, cauliflower, cabbage ,oil, grapefruit, calories |

If you have to control what you eat you are........................................

A............................is similar to a grasshopper, it destroys crops (cosechas)

If you are constipated (estreñido) you have to eat lots of .......................

This vegetable is small ,green and round................................................

Yolk(yema) and white(clara) are part of it..............................................

When you cook this two vegetables, the kitchen smells bad.............................

This delicious sweet food is produced by bees, Winnie the Pooh loves it

...........................

If you are on a diet you mustn´t use too much ........................to fry, you mustn´t take lots of sugar and you should take ..................................instead

This fruit looks like an orange but it is very sour(amargo).................................

The food you eat gives you energy ,It is measured in......................................

7)

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|Cholesterol, tomato, onion, preservatives, oysters, spinach ,apple, |

|dates, garlic, pumpkin |

You add them when you want the food to last longer...................................

....................................Is bad for your heart

An.......................a day keeps the doctor away

.............................are long, sweet fruits from the palm trees

this red juicy vegetable is American and you eat in salads or fried

........................................

...........................Have two shells they are more or less flat, and are

eaten raw, yuk

This vegetable makes you cry when you cut it.................................

This vegetable is typical of the Mediterranean diet. It has a strong and lasting smell ,it is supposed to frighten vampires....................................................

Popeye used to eat a lot of them They are supposed to have a lot of iron

..................................

Jack´o Lanterns are made with this vegetable..........................................

8)

3

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|Paprika, jam, romero(Spanish word), kiwi ,butter ,bill, menu,saffron,marmalade |

|To book ,make up your mind |

What is the meaning of rosemary?.............................................................

If you grind(moler) dry red pepper you get.........................................

This red product dyes(teñir) the food if you mash it and mix it with water, paella is yellow because of it.........................................................

This almost round fruit is brown but it is green inside. It comes from New Zealand It looks like an animal called Kiwi.................................................

If you boil pieces of fruit and sugar you get.......................................or

..............................................................................................................

You get it from milk, it´s greasy and you can spread it on bread......................

This restaurant is always crowded I think we should ..............................a

table.

When you want to pay what you have eaten in a restaurant you ask for

the.............................

You have to .......................................................when you have to decide.

The ...............is a list of dishes you can eat in a restaurant.

9)

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|Octopus, cider, fish finger, mussel, wine, squid, mixed grill ,stuffed turkey, dessert, grapes ,stew, rice, bake, boil ,fry, |

|roast. |

This animal has got eight arms....................................

This animal has got ink.................................

This animal has two black shells and it is orange when it is cooked..................

If you ask for a ....................................................in a restaurant, they´ll serve you a platter with varied grilled meat or fish

Long pieces of fried fish .......................................................

You get this liquid from apples........................................................

You get this liquid from grapes........................................................

On Thanksgiving Day, American people usually have.............................

.................and corn on the cob.

If you mix vegetables and meat and boil it you get a.................................

Paella is made with ...................................................

On New Year’s Day you eat 12.....................................................

The last course of a meal is ......................................................

If you use hot oil to cook something you are..........................ing it

If you use hot water to cook something you are..........................ing it

If you use the oven to cook something you are..............................-ing or

.............................ing.

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