1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. What types of food do people waste most?
bananas bread cheese eggs meat milk potatoes tomatoes
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2 3.7 Listen to an expert and check your answers to Exercise 1.
Answers:
bread, milk, potatoes
3 Decide if the underlined nouns are countable (C) or uncountable (U).
Then study the Grammar box and check your answers.
1 We all waste too much food. U
2 Not many people try to change this.
3 We don’t just waste a little bread.
4 That’s a lot of chips!
5 Stop buying too many things.
6 We haven’t got much milk.
Answers:
2 C 3 U 4 C 5 C 6 U
4 Choose the correct words to complete the poster. Stop food waste SHOP SMART!
- Don’t buy too ¹much / many food when you shop. Make a list.
- Shop more often and only buy a ²few / little milk and bread, and a ³few / little fresh vegetables.
STORE SMART!
- Don’t keep too ⁴much / many tins in the cupboard and check use-by dates.
EAT SMART!
- Don’t put ⁵a lot of / much things on your plate at one time. You can always have some more.
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1 much 2 little 3 few 4 many 5 a lot of
5 Think of your kitchen at home and write sentences about what there is to eat and drink. Then, in pairs, compare your answers.
1 There’s a lot of …
2 There isn’t much …
3 There are too many …
4 There are only a few …
5 There’s a little …
6 There aren’t many …
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6 REFLECT | Society In pairs, ask and answer the questions.
1 Do you waste a lot of food? What do you waste and why?
2 What do you do with the leftovers?
3 Do you ever give food to the poor or people who need it?
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LESSON 4B GRAMMAR
1 ★ Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
- I’ve got a lot of / many pasta.
- There isn’t many / much sugar.
- There is a little / few milk. I think we can have a cup of coffee.
- There are too many / much potatoes. We’ve got five for each person!
- There are a little / few tomatoes, so we can make a salad.
Answers:
1 a lot of 2 much 3 little 4 many 5 few
2 ★★ Complete the dialogue with the words from the box.
FEW / LITTLE / LOT / MANY / MUCH/ MUCH /OF
Ziad: So, doctor. What do you think?
Doctor: I think you eat too ¹many sweets and too ²………..chocolate.
Ziad: I always have a ³…………….carrots for lunch.
Doctor: Very good, but you also eat a ⁴ ………….of bread and meat and you don’t drink ⁵ ……..water.
Ziad: I drink a ⁶……………. A glass a day.
Doctor: You need four glasses of water a day. So, eat a lot ⁷…………. fruit and vegetables and no sweets or chocolates. Come back and see me in a month.
Ziad: OK, thank you.
Answers:
2 much 3 few 4 lot 5 much 6 little 7 of
3 ★★★USE OF ENGLISH Complete the text with one word in each gap.
Not many of my friends have a hot lunch at school. Most of us have sandwiches. A ¹few people have biscuits or crisps for lunch, but not ²many. Most people want to be healthy, so a ³________ of my friends bring things like a small yoghurt and an apple to school. Sometimes, we put our lunch on the table and we take a ⁴________ food from each person. I usually have two ⁵________ bread, so one friend takes one of my sandwiches. It's a great idea and we never waste any food well ⁶________ much anyway.
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2 many 3 lot 4 little 5 much 6 not
4 Describe lunchtime at your school. Is there a canteen?
What kind of food can you get there?
What do you and your friends eat and drink?
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