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 |
/ʌ/ |
/e/ |
/a/ |
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 |