W07 - Int 1

Week 07 – Intermediate 1 – Coffee Break

I)            Reading :

1)   Read the article : Coffee Break

1.   Can you imagine getting up in the morning without a coffee for breakfast? What is a good meal without a coffee at the end of it? Coffee is probably the world’s favourite drink, but most of us never give it a second thought. How much do you know about coffee?

2.   The Turks gave us the word coffee and the Italians gave us espresso and cappuccino, but Finland is the biggest coffee-drinking country in the world. Coffee originally came from Ethiopia, but Brazil and Colombia are now the most important coffee-producing countries.

3.   There are more than 100 different varieties of coffee bean and Jamaican Blue Mountain is said to have the best taste. However, the most expensive coffee in the world (at $660/kilo) is Kopi Luwak. An Indonesian cat called Paradoxurus is especially fond of coffee beans and Kopi Luwak is made from its droppings!

4.   We all know coffee addicts – people who can do nothing in the morning until their second or third cup of coffee. the most famous coffee addicts in the world were probably the French writers Balzac (40 cups a day) and Voltaire (more than 50 cups a day). Beethoven was also a coffee lover – he always counted 60 beans for each cup of coffee that he made.

5.   The most fashionable coffee bars in the US serve ‘coffee art’. Artists in California draw leaves, hearts and other designs in your coffee.

2)   Explain the connection between coffee and the countries below:

1.   Brazil

2.   Finland

3.   France

4.   Indonesia

5.   Jamaica

6.   The United States

7.   Turkey

3)   Find words in the article that match the definitions

1.   At the beginning:_________________

2.   Kinds, sorts: ____________________

3.   The fruit of the coffee plant: __________________

4.   People who cannot stop taking a drug: __________________

II)         Grammar : superlatives

1)   We use the superlative form to compare more than two things or people

	Adjective	superlative
Short adjective: add est Adjectives ending in a consonant or e Adjectives ending in a single vowel+ a single consonant Adjectives ending in y	Cheap Large Hot happy	The cheapest The largest The hottest The happiest
Irregular adjectives	Good Bad Far	The best The worst The furthest
Long adjectives: add more/ the most	expensive	The most expensive

2)   Find six examples of superlatives in the article about coffee

3)   Complete the sentences in the quiz. Put the adjectives in brackets into the superlative form

Amazing Food Facts

1.   ________________________ (expensive) meal in the world was in Bangkok in 2007. For their food and drink, the 15 diners paid

a.   £75,000           b. £100,000             c.£150,000

2.   _______________ (good) caviar in the world comes from

a.   The Caspian Sea    b. Lake Titicaca in Bolivia     c. the Eastern Mediterranean

3.   _______________ (large) restaurant in the world is in Syria. It seats

a.   2,500          b. 4,000            c. 6,000 people

4.   _______________ (big) donut in the world was made in 2007. It was

a.   3m             b. 6m                 c. 10 m in diameter

5.   _______________ (long) hot dog in the world was made in Japan. It measured

a.   8m              b. 25m               c. 600m

6.   _______________ (popular) fast food in Britain is

a.   Hamburgers      b. pizzas            c. sandwiches

7.   _______________ (heavy) tomato in the world weighed

a.   3.5 kg             b. 5kg                c. 8kg

8.   Scientists think that ___________________ (old) soup in the world was made from

a.   Crocodiles             b. dinosaurs             c. hippopotamuses

III)       Reading :

1)   Read the information about Starbucks

Starbucks started as a small coffee shop in Seattle. In the 1990s, the company grew and it now serves coffee to more than 11 million customers around the world every week. With more than 17,000 stores in about 50 countries around the world, Starbucks has become the most famous coffee shop in the world.

2)   Discuss the questions

a.   How many of the following can you find near where you live?

Burger King           Dominos Pizza                 Häagen Dazs              McDonalds

Kentucky Fried Chicken                      Starbucks

b.   What other big food chains do you know?

c.    What do you like eating or drinking in these places?

IV)        Homework :

1)   Complete the sentences with superlatives of the words in brackets

1.   Sugar, salt and pepper are ___________________ (common) ingredients we put in our food.

2.   Salt is _______________________ (old) these ingredients; the Chinese used 40 varieties of salt 5,000 years ago.

3.   Salt is _________________________ (important), because human beings cannot live without salt. Salt has caused many wars.

4.   Pepper comes in ______________________ (large) number of varieties: black pepper is one hundreds of kinds of pepper.

5.   Sugar is _________________________ (addictive). That’s why there’s a lot of sugar in junk food – so you want more!

6.   Sugar is _________________________ (unhealthy) if you eat too much of it. It’s bad for your heart and your teeth.

2)   Correct one mistake in each sentence

1.   The strongest – or hotest – type of pepper is the Habanero

2.   Tellicherry and Lampong are said to be the bestest varieties of black pepper.

3.   India is the most large pepper-producing country in the world.

4.   Thailand is biggest pepper-eating country in the world.

5.   Jalapeno chili peppers are the famousest peppers.

6.   The most high number of hot peppers eaten in one minute is eight.