General English Lower Intermediate Level
Lesson 5

Food

Food

1. Watch the video about food


Expressions to work on

I love eating out

In London, there are lots of different restaurants: Indian, Thai, and Italian

It has fantastic Syrian food

What is your favorite kind of food?

My favorite food is Chinese food

I like Italian food, probably Italian

Japanese and Asian Food – is what I like most

I like sushi, because it is quite healthy

Quite a lot of sushi restaurants

My favorite kind of food is potatoes and chicken

I am a vegetarian, I like vegetables

Make you feel good

I love roast potatoes

Made of rice and beans

Puddings, sweets, creams, cakes

I don’t really have a favorite place to eat, because I’d rather eat at home, I enjoy cooking as well

My favorite restaurants are small ones, where you can see the chef preparing the meal, there aren’t many people there, it is a nice atmosphere there

There is a little bar, where I live, the reason why I like it, is because it looks like it is somebody’s living room

Where I go every month, every two months

There is a really lovely restaurant; It is close to where I work

There are really nice desserts

Activity 1

Meet 'Mr Christmas'

My Christmas'
Christmas starts early for Mr Christmas

Take a look at this list of some of the things British people do at Christmas:

  • Watch the Queen's speech on TV
  • Decorate a Christmas tree
  • Eat turkey
  • Eat mince pies
  • Wrap presents
  • Write Christmas cards

Watch the video and complete the activity


Session Vocabulary
  • turkey
    a large bird like a chicken, kept for its meat
  • gravy
    a thick meat sauce served with meat and vegetables
  • broccoli
    a vegetable with a green stem and a green or purple head
  • stuffing balls
    balls of stuffing: food that is cut into small pieces and put inside meat or vegetables
  • every single day
    a stronger way of saying 'every day'
To do

So that's 'Mr Christmas'. Did you guess correctly? Do the activity to check your guesses, and practise some of this unit's vocabulary.

What does Mr Christmas do?
  • eat turkey
  • eat gravy
  • eat chicken
  • eat beef
  • eat roast potatoes
  • eat carrots
  • watch the King's Speech
  • write himself a Christmas card
  • drink beer
  • eat broccoli
  • get sick and tired (feel bored of) celebrating Christmas
  • wrap himself a present
Mr Christmas does... Mr Christmas doesn't...

Activity 2

The doctor's advice

To eat or not to eat

Vocabulary help
  • overweight
    fat; heavier than you should be
  • fatty
    containing a lot of fat

So Andy's doctor's advice was : She told him that he needs to make some changes to his diet.

Homework

1. Learn the topic vocabulary

2. Mr Christmas said he never gets sick and tired of his celebrations.

Sick and tired is a phrase, which means 'annoyed and bored'. Phrases like this with two nouns joined by and are very common - and useful - in English. They are called binomials. You can see more examples of binomials here.

To do

3. Learn more about these phrases in 6 Minute Vocabulary


Session Vocabulary
  • aches and pains
    general body pains that aren’t serious
  • cheap and cheerful
    simple, basic and often inexpensive
  • short and sweet
    quick and simple
  • black and blue
    sore and bruised
  • quick and dirty
    short, simple and basic
  • bit by bit
    gradually; a small amount at a time