1 In pairs, ask and answer the questions.
1 Where do you have breakfast?
2 What do you usually eat for breakfast?
3 Is your typical breakfast healthy?
2 Check you understand the food and drink words in the box. In pairs, add more words to the box.
| cream croissant cucumber doughnut grapes honey jam lemon melon milkshake muffin mushrooms olives pancake porridge roll salmon salt sugar watermelon yoghurt |
3 Read the text. In pairs, match people 1–3 with photos A–C.
Today is World Food Day, so we’re taking a look at
BREAKFASTS AROUND THE WORLD
What do people in different countries eat for breakfast? How much fruit? How many eggs? Are there any olives? Is there any cheese?
1 Alia from Gaborone, Botswana
My favourite breakfast is bogobe. There aren’t many things that are so delicious. It’s porridge with some milk, a little sugar and a few pieces of melon. We eat a lot of fruit in Botswana, especially watermelons. In my family, we all drink bush tea for breakfast. It comes from the Rooibos plant and it’s a lovely red colour. It’s very good for you. You can’t drink too much bush tea. I don’t put any milk in my tea but you can if you like.
2 Laila from Madrid, Spain
For breakfast, we have lots of toasted bread with tomatoes and herbs or a potato omelette. It's called 'tortilla espanola'. Our breakfast is usually quite simple. A lot of people eat breakfast in cafés or pastry shops. At weekends, I like to have some churros, which are fried sweet pastries. I dip them in a thick, delicious hot chocolate.
3 Samer from Zarqa, Jordan
During the week, I usually eat a bowl of hot ful, which is boiled fava beans with lemon juice, olive oil and chillis. I have this with some bread. But at weekends my family and I get together and have a larger breakfast. We have a couple of types of savoury pastries and breads. We eat these with hummus, some olives and a bit of yoghurt. Sometimes I eat too much food and I feel really full afterwards!
4 PRONUNCIATION Look at the underlined syllables and add the food
items from the box to the table below. Listen and check.
| butter carrots egg honey jam lemon lentils melon muffin mushroom nuts pancake |
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/ʌ/ |
/e/ |
/a/ |
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muffin, butter … |
melon, egg |
pancake, carrots … |
5 SPEAKING Check you understand the adjectives from the box. Then in pairs, use them to talk about food and drink that you like/don’t like/love/can’t stand/prefer.
| bitter/sweet crunchy/smooth delicious/disgusting fizzy/still fresh/dry hard/soft heavy/light mild/spicy |
Students’ own answers
Workbook
1 ★ Choose the word which does NOT fi t in each sentence.
1 I always put on my bread.
a jam b melon c honey
2 No, I don’t want any – I don't like fi sh.
a salmon b lentils c tuna
3 I’d like something filling like a .
a muffin b doughnut c cucumber
4 We need some fruit. Can you buy some ?
a beans b lemons c grapes
5 You will need and eggs to make a cake.
a lentils b sugar c butter
2 ★ Complete the mini-conversations with the words from the box.
| butter cream muffin pancake |
Issa A cheese sandwich, please.
Hani White bread, brown bread or a 1 roll?
Sana Do you want a 2 muffin?
Rola No, thanks. I don’t like cakes.
Dana Do you want 3 cream in your coffee?
Suha No, thanks. I can’t eat anything made from milk.
Sami What do you want on your 4 pancake?
Ziad Lemon and sugar, please.
Fadi Do you want some 5 butter on your toast? Ali No, thanks. I prefer jam.
3 ★ Match adjectives 1–8 with their opposites a–h.
1 c mild a light
2 h crunchy b soft
3 d fresh c spicy
4 g fizzy d dry
5 f delicious e sweet
6 e bitter f disgusting
7 b hard g still
8 a heavy h smooth
4 ★★ Complete the sentences with the adjectives from Exercise 3.
1 The food was delicious, but a bit heavy – there was too much cream and cheese.
2 This dish is delicious. Can you give me the recipe?
3 I didn’t put any hot spices into the curry, so it’s quite mild.
4 The bread is fresh – I made it this morning.
5 Don’t put the butter in the fridge. It gets very hard in there.
6 I only drink still water. I don’t like the bubbles in fizzy drinks.
7 Do you prefer smooth or crunchy peanut butter?
5 ★★ Complete the text with the words from the box. There are three extra words.
| beans bitter croissant crunchy grapes lemons mushrooms porridge salt suga |
| For breakfast, I always have a 1 croissant. It’s a popular French breakfast food and it’s delicious I have that with a cup of coffee. I don’t put any milk or 2 sugar in my coffee. I like the 3 bitter taste of black coffee. For lunch, I often make an omelette. I sometimes put cheese or tomatoes in it but, in September, I go into the forest to find 4 mushrooms. They’re delicious, but you have to be careful because some are very dangerous. I usually put a little sea 5 salt on my omelette. My favourite vegetables are 6 beans – long green ones or small white ones. My favourite fruit are 7 grapes - I like both the green and the red ones |
