Exercise 6. Match the following English idioms with their dictionary meanings. Make up sentences with each idiom.
Exercise 5. Using the vocabulary under consideration, complete the sentences about yourself and your country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else.
Exercise 3. Write down at least one vegetable and fruit.
Exercise 2. Unscramble the following words.
Exercise1. Prove that the proverbs and quotes have sense. Give examples from your own experience.
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? (AuthorUnknown)
2. Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend. (Zenna Schaffer).
3. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)
4. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. (Jim Davis)
5. High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? (Annita Manning)
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. (Channing Pollock)
6. Appetite comes with eating.
7. The belly has no ears.
8. Eat, drink and be merry.
1.rinetange __________________
2.rryche __________________
3.ppleainpe __________________
4.eesech __________________
5.garsu __________________
6.gareniv __________________
7.rylece __________________
8.lio __________________
9.mondal __________________
10.reeb __________________
11.uijec __________________
12.tailocck __________________
13.rryberanc __________________
14.last __________________
15.geg __________________
16.neiw __________________
17.rrmawo __________________
18.niono __________________
19.berucucm __________________
20.kadov_________________
| Letter | Vegetable | Fruit |
1. beginning with the letter P
| Potato, peas …………………………………………… ………………………………………….. ………………………………………….. ………………………………………….. | ……………………………………… …………………………………….. …………………………………….. ……………………………………… ……………………………………… |
Exercise 4. Which word is the odd one out in each group, and why?
1. Pork, veal, salmon, beef. Salmon is a fish, the others are meat.
2. Lettuce, leek, tomato, cucumber. ……………………………………………
3. Peach, onion, mushroom, apple. ……………………………………………
4. Chicken, lamb, beef, crab. ……………………………………………
5. Grape, cherry, aubergine, melon. ……………………………………………
- In my country ………………………..is/are more common than ………………………………….
- In my country ………………………..is/are more expensive than ………………………………..
- In my country a mixed salad usually contains ……………………………………………………..
- In my country we don’t grow …………………………………………………………………………
- And we don’t often eat ……………………………………………………………………………….
- Personally, I prefer ……………………………………………………………………………………
| 1.bread and butter 2.fussy eater 3.eat smb. out of house and home 4.eat like a horse 5.eat smb.’s bread 6.square meal 7.wine and dine smb. 8.eat like a bird | a)eat a lot of someone’s supply of food; b)eat very little; c)live on somebody; d)a good satisfying meal; e)entertain with a meal and wine; f)someone who its only particular things; g)eat large amounts of food; h)the work that provides one’s main source of income. |
Exercise 7. THE FOOD GAME. Hidden in the sentences below are names of food items. You cannot find them by looking at the sentences, for they are not there by spelling; they are there by pronunciation. The food may be within a single word or may go across word boundaries.
Example: He begs to be excused from the rehearsal. (eggs)
1.She had a cough even today.
2.Don't tell me mama laid the table so early.
3.He chased Robert off even after he paid his debt.
4.Happy's room is so messy. I can't find a thing.
5.Keep that old sabre. Eddie will take it to the museum.
6."Why don't you spy still?" she wanted to know.
7."Be an angel, leave it finished, with you," he said.
8."That bangle is of 24 carat gold," he said.
9."Sue, please go away," he said.
10."But Ernest is not coming on this trip," she said.
11.Don't bake condensed milk sweets.
12."Tap Elmo on the shoulder and wake him up," she said.
13.Please meet me tomorrow.
14.Kay came to meet me on Wednesday.
15.The donkey brays inside the shed.
16.He walked on the sand, which was so hot he burned his feet.
17.Richie's so good, he helps me daily.
18.Don't buy that saw. Say Jess will get a new one.
19.He's been staying here for six months now.
20.I hope he'll be true to you.
The keys: coffee, marmalade, toffee, peas, bread, spice, jelly, carrot, soup, butter, bacon, apple, meat, cake, raisin, sandwich, cheese, sausage, beans, beet.