Unit 1 - Food in English-speaking countries

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What’s your favourite dish?

Do you prefer sweet or salty?

What’s your favourite dessert?

What’s a food you hate?

What’s a food you’ve never tried but want to?

Can you relate to one of these statements?

I usually eat like a bird.

I can often eat like a horse.

I have a healthy appetite.

I sometimes pick at my food.

Are you a picky eater?

Spam is ingeblikt gekookt varkensvlees dat door de firma Hormel Foods Corporation op de markt is gebracht. Er zijn verschillende varianten, maar de standaardversie wordt gemaakt van de volgende ingrediënten: gehakt varkensvlees van de schouder met toegevoegde ham, zout, water, suiker en natriumnitriet om de kleur te behouden

the lining of a cow’s or pig’s stomach, eaten as food

Read your result out loud. 

🥇 You are not a picky eater

🌶️You're adventurous!

🍝 You're a balanced foodie.

🥦You're slightly picky.

🍞  You are a picky eater!

Typical foods in English-speaking countries

p. 5

p. 10

p. 6

2. How much do you know about typical foods from English-speaking countries?

a. Do you recognize one of the dishes?

b. Read the short descriptions and add the name of the dish to the corresponding picture.

4. Discuss with a partner.

a) Which foods sound absolutely disgusting?

b) Which foods don’t sound too bad?

c) Have you ever tried one of these foods? What were they like?

Final task

You will research, prepare, and present one of the traditional dishes from an English-speaking country. The goal is to improve your descriptive skills, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and fluency while sharing interesting cultural knowledge.

Choose a dish and do research. Find out

- What the dish is (more detailed than the description on p. 7-9).

- The ingredients used (with details about quantities, characteristics, and roles in the dish).

- Any cultural or historical significance (Why is it popular? When is it usually eaten?)

Make a presentation and prepare to do it.

Check the rubric in the Bookwidget.