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.
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