A Fruit. B Vegetables. C Salad. D Animals (meat), fish and shellfish

Food

A Fruit

B Vegetables

C Salad

A salad is a mixture of uncooked vegeta bles. The main ingredient in a salad is lettuce, but it may also contain tomato, cucumber, and other things.

D Animals (meat), fish and shellfish

animal: cow

meat: beef

calf (= young cow) veal

lamb (= young sheep) lamb

pig pork

N ote: A person who does not eat meat is a vegetarian.

Can you write down a vegetable and fruit:

Vegetable

Fruit

1 beginning with the letter 'p'

2 beginning with the letter 'b'

3 beginning with the letter 'm'

4 beginning with the letter 'c'

5 beginning with the letter 'a'

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Find a word in the right-hand box where the underlined letter(s) are pronounced in the same way as the underlined letter(s) in a word in the left-hand box. Be careful: there are two extra words in the right-hand box which you do not need.

58.3 Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?

1 pork veal salmon beef

2 salmon shrimp oyster lobster

3 lettuce aubergine tomato cucumber

4 peach omon mushroom courgette

5 chicken lamb beef mussels

58.4 Do you eat the skin (= the outside) of these fruits - always, usually, or never? Make three lists.

apples pears oranges

pineapples bananas lemons

cherries peaches melons

grapes mangoes strawberries

S8.5 Using words from the opposite page, complete these sentences about yourself and your country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else who has done this exercise.

1 In my country . . . . . is/are more common than .

2 In my country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is/are more expensive than

3 In my country a mixed salad usually contains . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .

4 In my country we don't grow

5 And we don't often eat ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

6 Personally, I prefer .. . . . .. . . . .... . ... . . . .. . . . . . . to

7 I love . . . . . . . . . .... . but I don't really like

8 My favourite meat is

Cooking and restaurants

iET :A, Ways of cooking food

boil: in water, e.g. carrots

fry: in oil or butter above the heat, e.g. sausages grill: under the heat, e.g. toast or meat

roast: in the oven using oil, e.g. meat bake: in the oven without oil, e.g. cakes

N ote: Food which is not cooked is raw.

Cooking steak

If you have steak you can eat it rare ( = cooked very quickly and still red ); medium-rare

(cooked a bit longer and just red in the middle); medium (cooked a bit more and just pink); or well-done (cooked even longer and not pink at all).

Descri bing food

tasty: has lots of taste: a positive word; -:t- tasteless: a negative word

bland: without a strong taste; neutral in flavour, e.g. boiled rice sweet: lots of sugar; -:t- bitter

salty: lots of salt

hot/spicy: lots of spice, e.g. curry

fresh: recently produced, e.g. fresh bread; recently picked, e.g. fresh fruit tender: easy to cut; a positive word used to describe meat; -:t- tough

fatty: meat with a lot of fat; -:t- lean

fattening: food which makes you put on weight I get fat, e.g. cream, biscuits, etc.

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