1 4.1 Listen to a food stylist talking about her job and answer the questions.
1 What personality traits and skills does a food stylist need?
2 Why is a food stylist necessary?
3 What tools of her trade does she mention?
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1 patience, flair, imagination and craft
2 to make something pale and limp look shiny and succulent
3 a blowtorch, paintbrush, wood varnish and cocktail sticks
2 4.1 Listen again and match the food from the recording with the adjectives that describe it.
1 tender
2 velvety
3 scalding
4 soggy
5 gristly
6 mouldy
7 stodgy
8 succulent
9 gooey
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1 beef 2 sauce 3 soup 4 cabbage 5 meat 6 cheese 7 pudding 8 chicken 9 cake
3 Decide whether the adjectives in the box have negative (N) or positive (P) connotations. Then complete the customer comments with the correct adjectives.
| □ chewy □ fluffy □ greasy □ mouldy □ scalding □ soggy □ stodgy □ tempting □ tender □ velvety |
1 I was expecting the steak to be.......................,but instead, it was tough and very....................
2 I couldn’t drink the tea immediately – it was...............................and burnt my tongue!
3 The mashed potatoes were light and.............................-better than the.........................
4 They served the fi sh with a smooth and............................sauce.
5 The kunafa looked lovely, but it was too heavy and..........................for me.
6 The croutons should have been light and crisp, but they’d been in the soup too long and were all......................!
7 I sent back my cheese board because the cheese was.........................!
8 The baklava looked........................,but I’d eaten a lot and I just fi nished off the meal with a peach.
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Negative: chewy, greasy, mouldy, scalding, soggy, stodgy
Positive: fluff y, tempting, tender, velvety
1 tender, chewy 2 scalding 3 fluff y, greasy 4 velvety 5 stodgy 6 soggy 7 mouldy 8 tempting
4 4.2 Listen to a food artist talking about his job. Complete the sentences with 1–4 words in each gap.
1 The job of a food artist is considered......................by many.
2 The speaker was impressed when he saw a cake that resembled a....................
3 Some food art is..........................as its main purpose is to be displayed.
4 The speaker suggests that people can look up.........................on the Internet.
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1 (to be) odd 2 country cottage 3 not (to be) eaten 4 examples/images of food
ACTIVE VOCABULARY|Partitives
Partitive expressions allow us to quantify things, usually uncountable ones, e.g., information is uncountable, but if we use a piece of with information, then we can count it (one piece of information, two pieces of information, etc.)
It is possible to use some partitives with diff erent nouns, e.g., a piece of advice / fruit, but there are often specifi c nouns that collocate with specifi c partitives, e.g., a fi t of anger, a clove of garlic.
Partitives
5 4.3 Study Active Vocabulary. Then listen and complete the partitives with the nouns to make collocations from the recording.
1a clove of
2a dab of
3a drop of
4a dusting of
5a handful of
6a heel of
7a scoop of
8a segment of
9a slice of
10 a spoonful of
11 a sprig of
12 a sprinkle of
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1 garlic 2 glue 3 oil 4 icing sugar 5 peas 6 bread 7 ice cream 8 fruit 9 lemon 10 tomato sauce 11 herbs 12 grated chocolate
6 Choose the correct partitives to complete the sentences.
1 Always add a pinch / drop of salt to beaten eggs.
2 I had two handfuls / scoops of vanilla ice cream with a sprig / sprinkle of grated chocolate and it was delicious.
3 We used to dip segments / slabs of oranges into sugar as a snack when we were children.
4 She fi nished off the cake with a dab / dusting of icing sugar.
5 I like a scoop / heel of bread with my soup.
6 There was a pinch / dab of chocolate sauce on her nose after she’d made the cake.
7 The only green vegetable my dad will eat is a handful / sprig of peas now and again.
8 We should all eat five portions / cloves of fruit and vegetables every day.
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1 pinch 2 scoops, sprinkle 3 segments 4 dusting 5 heel 6 dab 7 handful 8 portions
7 SPEAKING If you could choose to have a job related to food, what would it be and why? Think about: food stylist, food artist, chef, chocolate taster.
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8 REFLECT |Culture In pairs, discuss the questions.
1 Is the local food and cuisine in your country more popular than the cuisine of other cultures? Say why.
2 What is your regional cuisine famous for? Describe the food using the words and phrases from this lesson.
3 Why are traditional foods important to a culture?
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