Week 06 - Intermediate 1 – Junk Food
I)
Vocabulary :
food
How
often do you eat the following food? Which of these do you think are ‘junk food’?
Eggs sausages peanut butter pizza French
fries
Hamburgers
ice cream chocolate donuts cookies
Strawberry
yogurt potato chips noodles hot dogs
II)
Reading :
1) Read
the book review : Eating the Elvis Presley Way
There are more than 400 books
about Elvis Presley. There are books about his music, his films, his life, his
death, his religion – and his food. There is the Presley Family Cookbook, The
Elvis Presley Cookbook, Elvis’ Favorite Recipes, and now Eating the Elvis
Presley Way. What makes this book different? To begin with, this is not a
cookbook. You can find recipes here, but this book is the story of Elvis’ life.
It is the story of the food that he ate and the people who cooked it for him. And
an extremely interesting life it was, too.
The food in the first two or
three chapters is quite normal – baby food, boring school dinners, army meals
when he was doing his military service, that sort of thing. But later, when
Elvis was rich and famous, it is a very different story. With all the money in
the world, Elvis chose to eat like a child. Elvis got up late and his first
meal of the day was breakfast at five o’clock in the afternoon: bacon and eggs,
or sausage and eggs. After that, it was snacks: pizza and hot dogs, hamburgers
and fries, chocolate and cakes – all day and every day. Elvis even had a fridge
in his bedroom for his favorite snacks.
As the years passed, Elvis’ eating
problems became really serious. One day, when Elvis was going to the White
House to meet the President, he was feeling a bit hungry and ate 250g of
chocolate and then 12 donuts in his taxi. Another time, he ordered a large ice
cream for breakfast. He ate it quickly, ordered a second, a third, a fourth and
a fifth before asleep again. Elvis’ last meal before he died was four scoops of
ice cream with six chocolate cookies.
Elvis was an extremely unhappy
man. His food and the drugs that he took made him feel good, but killed him in
the end. It’s a fairly sad story, but a fascinating one, too.
2)
Say if the sentences are True or False. Correct
the false sentences
1.
This is the first book about Elvis Presley and
food.
2.
It is different from the other books about Elvis
and food.
3.
His eating problems started when he was a child.
4.
He had breakfast early in the morning.
5.
He ate a lot of junk food.
6.
He had food in his bedroom.
7.
The President gave him a large box of
chocolates.
8.
Elvis didn’t like ice cream very much.
3)
Complete the definitions with an adjective from
the review
1.
When someone is _________, a lot of people know
their name.
2.
A _________ story, place or person is very interesting.
3.
Your ______________ thing or person is the one
that you like best.
4.
You feel _______________ when you want to eat.
5.
When you are unhappy, you feel ________________.
6.
When you have a _____________ problem, you are
very worried about it.
4)
What else do you know about Elvis Presley? Why do
you think that Elvis had eating problems?
III)
Grammar :
modifiers
1) We
can make an adjective stronger or weaker with a modifier. We put this before
the adjective.
Weak:
a bit + adj
Medium:
quite/ fairly + adj
Strong:
very/ really/ extremely + adj
2)
Put the modifiers in the correct place in the
sentences
1.
Burger Paradise is always busy. (very)
2.
I like The New York Donut Shop but the service
is slow. (a bit)
3.
I think that the chicken burgers at The Alabama
Chicken are good. (really)
4.
The fats food shops on Main Square are
expensive. (fairly)
5.
The hot dogs at The Happy Sandwich are nice.
(quite)
6.
The Magic Hamburger in my town is popular. (extremely)
IV)
Listening :
1)
Listen to part of a radio interview about food
in Italy.
Choose the best title for the programme.
Choose the best title for the programme.
1.
How to make Bolognese sauce
2.
Fast food in Italy
3.
Slow food in Bologna
4.
Tagliatelle or spaghetti
2) Read
the passage below and underline the incorrect information
The radio presenter is in Rome,
an Italian city where people eat Spaghetti Bolognese. Spaghetti is a speciality
of Bologna. Bolognese sauce from supermarkets is made from many different
ingredients. It is very similar to Ragu sauce. Ragu is quicker to prepare.
‘Slow food’ is a movement that
started in France in 1997. It has members in about twenty countries and they
are interested in making food more enjoyable and more traditional.
3)
Do you agree with Maura that good food is
slow food? Why or why not?
V)
Grammar :
Comparatives
We use
the comparative form to compare two things or people
Adjective
|
Comparative
|
|
Short adjective: add er
Adjectives ending in a consonant or e
Adjectives ending in a single vowel+ a single
consonant
Adjectives ending in y
|
slow
nice
big
easy |
slower
nicer
bigger
easier |
Irregular adjectives
|
Good
Bad
Far
|
Better
Worse
Further
|
Long adjectives: add more/ the most
|
traditional
|
More traditional
|
VI)
Homework :
Correct the mistakes in
the sentences
1.
I like traditionaler cooking recipes.
___________________________________
2.
Juice is healthyer for you than beer.
__________________________________
3.
Chinese food is more interesting English.
______________________________
4.
Bologna is hoter than London.
_______________________________________
5.
A real sauce is gooder than a sauce in a
bottle.__________________________
6.
The Spanish often eat more later than the Dutch.
________________________
7. Pizzas
are more cheaper than steak and chips. __________________________
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