Unit 4: Food and Drinks

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Unit 4: Food & Drinks

Vocabulary and grammar

At home

What is your favourite dish of all time?

Which verbs related to cooking do you know?

Vocabulary: cooking utensils

Take a quick look at these words before you answer the following questions.

• sieve
• masher
• rolling pin
• spatula
• skewer
• whisk
• grater
• kettle
• frying pan
• saucepan

1. masher
2. sieve
3. frying pan
4. rolling pin

"A broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift material."

1. spatula
2. skewer
3. saucepan
4. whisk

1. whisk
2. saucepan
3. grater
4. skewer

Vocabulary: kitchen appliances

• fridge (refridgerator)
• blender
• microwave
• toaster
• juicer
• vacuum cleaner

At the supermarket

Which fruits and vegetables
do you know?

Vocabulary

Take a quick look at these words before you answer the following questions.

• aisle
• basket
• checkout
• trolley
• shopping list
• conveyor belt
• a queue
• counter
• receipt

The place in the store where the customer pays.

1. basket
2. aisle
3. checkout
4. counter

A continuous moving band of rubber used for transporting your goods.

1. conveyor belt
2. trolley
3. a queue
4. receipt

A printed statement showing that something has been paid for.

1. aisle
2. shopping list
3. receipt
4. basket

A large metal basket on wheels used for transporting supermarket purchases.

1. a basket
2. a queue
3. a counter
4. a trolley

• aisle
• basket 
• checkout 
• trolley 
• shopping list 
• conveyor belt 
• a queue 
• counter 
• receipt

Containers

Put the items in the correct containers!

a loaf
a box of
a can of
a packet of
a bottle of
a carton of

bread

Earl Grey tea bags

coke

biscuits

sparkling water

orange juice

• a bottle of
• a tin of
• a packet of
• a jar of
• a tub of
• a box of

• a tube of
• a teaspoonful of
• a loaf of
• a carton of
• a can of
• a roll of

a tin of ...

Adjectives and adverbs

What is (1) an ADJECTIVE and what is (2) an ADVERB?

1. Gives more info about a noun/pronoun.
2. Describes a verb, adjective or another adverb.

The students of the fifth year speak English well.
'WELL' is an....

1. adjective
2. adverb

Miss Van Geel is a boring teacher
'BORING' is an....

1. adjective
2. adverb

The class is never enthusiastic about the lesson ups.
'ENTHUSIASTIC' is an...

1. adjective
2. adverb

Part 1: Adjectives

Give some examples of adjectives.

Where do you normally place adjectives?

1. Before the noun
2. After the noun

Comparative and superlative adjectives

1. short adjectives
2. long adjectives
3. irregular forms

1. Short adjectives

With 1 syllable OR with 2 syllables ending in -er, -el, -ow, -y.

1. FRESH - fresher - freshest
2. TENDER - tenderer - tenderest

BUT

• ending in a short vowel + consonant
  ➜ consonant is doubled! (hot - hotter - hottest)
• ending in consonant + y
  ➜  y changes into I (gritty - grittier - grittiest)

Give the comparative and superlative form of BIG.

2. Long adjectives

• with 2 syllables (not ending in -er, -el, -ow, -y)
  ➜ SMOKED - more smoked - most smoked
• with more than 2 syllables
  ➜ EXPENSIVE - more expensive - most expensive

Give the comparative and superlative form of INTERESTING.

3. Irregular forms

• GOOD- better - best 
• BAD - worse - worst
• MUCH/MANY - more - most
• LITTLE - less - least
• FAR - farther/further - farthest/furthest
• OLD - older/elder - oldest/eldest

Part 2: Adverbs

All adverbs end in -ly

1. YES
2. NO

Adverbs

1. General rule
2.  Irregular form
3. Adjective = adverb
4. Change in meaning

1. General rule

= adding -LY to the adjective
e.g. real ➜ really
e.g. normal ➜ normally

Notes on the general rule

• adjectives ending in ‘e’: 'e' is not dropped
  e.g. nice ➜ nicely BUT true ➜ truly
• adjectives ending in ‘le’ preceded by a consonant:
  e becomes y
  e.g. simple ➜ simply
  BUT whole ➜ wholly & fragile ➜ fragilely 

Notes on the general rule

• adjectives ending in ‘ic’: +ally
  e.g. aromatic ➜ aromatically

• adjectives ending in ‘y’: y  becomes i
  e.g. greasy ➜ greasily

Make an adverb of ENTHUSIASTIC.

2. Irregular form

• good ➜ well

3. Adjective does not change

high, low, long, cheap, straight, right, deep, near, fast, far, hard, early, much, little, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, deadly

4. Change in meaning

Some adjectives change in meaning when they become adverbs!

• near (= close) ➜ nearly = almost
• hard (= difficult) ➜ hardly = barely
• late (= not early) ➜ lately = recently