Healthy eating

Listen to this conversation between a mother and a school nurse. She is asking the nurse for advice about her son. 

A restaurant review

Listen and fill in the gaps.

My Favourite Restaurant

Click here to get to the post with the video about a favourite restaurant.

Listen to Akane explaining how to cook "egg spaghetti".

Eating Habits (monologue)

You are what you eat, or so they say. So, do you make sure you eat quality food? Talk about this subject taking into account some of the following points:

·         Do you ever cook?

·         What is your favourite dish?

·         Your usual diet

·         Do you ever eat unhealthy food? How do you feel about it?

·         Do you think we eat differently now than 20 years ago? If so, explain why.

·         Most experts agree that the Mediterranean diet is particularly beneficial. What are its main characteristics?

·         Do you think vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot of meat. Explain.

Mari's Favourite Food

Click here to listen. Do the vocabulary and comprehension quizzes.

Remember to have a look at older posts about the same topic.

Diners Increase Business with Healthy Food

Listen (don't look at the script) and take notes. Then you can listen and read and you can watch the video.

My favourite restaurant

Click here to watch the video (I gave you the handout with the activities in class). Check your answers in 'comments'.

If you want, you can read the script here.

Brazilian Food

Before listening have a look at the vocabulary. Listen to Rob and Grace talking about Brazilian food and take notes. Then listen and read the script.

Food

I. Fast food restaurant. 

Listen and fill in the gaps.

When I need a ­________ ________ ________ (1) , I often drop by a local fast food restaurant and buy a ________ ________. (2) I usually order a cheeseburger, a large order of fries, and a ________ -________ (3) drink. On the cheeseburger, I ask them to put everything on it: ________ (4), lettuce, mustard, ________ (5), pickles, and tomato, but I ask them to hold the mayonnaise. I also order some ________ (6) to wash everything down. If I'm really famished, I might order a ________ ________ (7). I sometimes pick up something for my roommate who eats ________ ________ ________ (8), so I have to order at least three hamburgers. I usually pay with ________ (9), but I sometimes pay for the meal using my debit card. I don't eat fast food too often because it contains a lot of ________ (10), but more and more restaurants are offering ________ ________ (11) like salads and chili, so there's usually something for everyone.

 Then click here to listen, read and check your answers.

II. Pizza 

Listen and answer the questions:

1. How often does he eat pizza?

2. What toppings doesn’t his roommate like?

3. What toppings does he ask for on his roommate’s half?

4. How do they both like the crust?

5. What else do they order apart from the pizza?

6. What happens if you buy two pizzas at the regular price?

7. Do they usually eat pizza leftovers?

Click here to listen, read and check your answers.

Freegans

Click here to see the video about Freegans (watch it two or three times to answer the questions- don't read the script below the video).

Waste

Click here to go to an old post about this topic.

My favourite restaurant

This is the video we did in class.

FOOD

Vocabulary:

1. Click here to learn some basic food vocabulary.
2. Now click here to learn more words (sorry, it has no sound).

Readings:

1. Click here to read and listen to a text about food. Then do the multiple choice activity.
2. Read this article about Spanish Eating Habits.


Listenings:

1. This is a short listening about food with some activities.

2. Watch the video (from 1’15” to 2’39”) and answer the questions (check them in 'comments').


1.   What’s ‘Quick Burger’?
2. What does she order?
3. Why doesn’t Laura order anything?
4.  How long has Karina been a vegetarian?
5.  Who told Laura to start a new diet and why?
6.  What does Laura have for breakfast?
7.  What does Karina do in the mornings? Why?
8. What does Laura have for lunch?
9. Is it hard to be a vegetarian?
10. Why did Karina become a vegetarian?

3. Practise your listening with the four exercises on this website and learn about what British people do on Sundays.

4. Listen to Layla, a French girl, talking about American food and do the exercise.

5. Listen to Buddhi talking about her national cuisine (Sri Lanka).

6. Listen to Adelina talking about food in Spain.

Pepe's Pot

Just for fun!

Pepe's Pot, a cook from Gibraltar with Vanessa on GBC (TV Gibraltar). They both speak 'yanito', a perfect combination of 'andaluz' and English.

FOOD

Do you live to eat or eat to live? Do you have a complicated relationship with food? Listen to this article to find out more about food.

Do the Preparation task first. Then go to Text and listen to the article (don't read the script). Next go to Task and do the activity.

Super Size Me

Watch the video once and try to get the main idea. Then watch it at least two more times and try to answer the questions or complete the sentences below (you need one word in each gap). The answers are in "comments".


1. What has America become?

2. How many people in the USA are overweight or obese?

3. What’s the fattest state in America?

4. The man on the video remembers his mother...

5. Today American families ____________ _____________ all the time and they are paying for it, not only with their _____________ but also with their _____________.

6. _____________ is now second only to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America, with more than _____________ deaths per year associated with related illnesses.

7. In 2002 a few Americans decided to _____________ these companies, making them responsible for their obesity and health problems.

8. Each day _____________ in _____________ Americans visits a fast food restaurant, and it’s happening on a _____________ _____________.

9. McDonalds feeds more than _____________ million people worldwide every day. More than the entire population of _____________.

10. McDonalds are _____________, even in _____________.

11. Why did the lawyers for McDonalds call their suers ‘frivolous’?

12. The judges said that if lawyers could prove that eating McDonalds’ products for every meal every day is _____________ _____________, they may be able to state a claim.
13. What’s the man in the video going to do? Why?