Food facts
or
food fiction?
READING
1 What food and drink in the picture can you name?
2 Make sentences that are true for you. Compare your ideas in class.
3 Look at the photos. Ask your teacher for the words you don’t know. Then answer the questions.
Can you think of a food that ...
- comes from another country?
- has got a lot of vitamins?
- is very healthy?
- is unusual?
- is good for your hair and skin?
4 Read and listen to the article.
Food Facts or Food Fiction?
In Japan, square watermelons are very popular. People often buy them as presents. But these special fruits are of course very expensive. Round watermelons do not cost so much.
People all over the world love bananas. Food experts say that bananas contain a chemical that helps the body to produce serotonin. It’s sometimes called the body’s own ‘happiness hormone’.
People in Iceland love eating unusual ice creams. There is pizza ice cream, sausage ice cream and even fish and chips ice cream, and they are all very popular. People eat them with a lot of ketchup. But you don’t find any lemon or mango ice creams there. Icelanders just don’t like them.
Honey is very healthy. It has got lots of vitamins. Some people say that honey makes us beautiful. They think it’s good for the hair and the skin. Honey is also very special because it is the only food we eat that never goes off. We can eat 3,000- or 4,000-year-old honey!
The avocado is a fruit, not a vegetable. It comes from Central and South America originally, but now it also grows in other hot countries. Many people like avocados as a starter before their main meal. But how many people eat it as a dessert? Well, in Brazil, people eat avocado with ice cream and milk.
People in West Africa use a ‘potato-clock’ to tell the time. Every morning, they put exactly 7.5 kilos of potatoes in the clock. It looks like a big pot. They put it on the fire. They know that it takes two hours to cook the potatoes.
Everybody knows that fruit has got sugar in it. But how much sugar is there in a lemon? A lot. More than there is in a strawberry!
Match the parts of the sentences.
5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Three of the ‘food facts’ in Exercise 4 are not true. Which ones do you think they are?
THINK VALUES
Food and health
1 Complete the five conversations. Choose the correct answer.
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Compare your answers. Do the people care about healthy food?
VOCABULARY
Food and drink
1 Write the names of the food under the pictures. Listen and check.
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions to find out three things your partner likes and doesn’t like.
GRAMMAR
Countable and uncountable nouns
1 Read the sentences. Then circle the correct words in the rule.
1 Can I have a cucumber?
2 I don’t like rice.
3 I don’t like avocados.
2 Look at the photos from Exercise 1. Which are countable and which are uncountable?
GRAMMAR
a/an, some, any
3 Complete the sentences with a/an, some and any. Then choose the correct words in the rule.
4 Complete the sentences with a/an, some and any.
GRAMMAR
(how) much/many, a lot of / lots of
5 Look at the examples. Complete the rule.
6 Choose the correct words.
Match the questions with the answers.
