W06 - Int 1

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.

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. __________________________