What tickles your taste buds?
- your stomach rumbles – you get a sudden message from your stomach
- let your dinner go down – let your body digest dinner
- devour – eat
- rustle up – quickly cook
- comfort eating – something tasty and full of unhealthy ingredients
- insomnia – sleepless nights
- Pictures in a book or magazine or online don’t do it for me, but moving visuals do.
- My hunger pangs strike when I’m between activities.
- I’m sure most people would agree that smells like this have the uncanny ability to communicate directly with our stomachs, completely bypassing the brain.
- They’ve researched the smells that trigger food responses in us, and they purposely release them in certain aisles to encourage us to buy.
ACTIVE READING | Identifying paraphrases
- You can use reporting verbs to introduce paraphrased opinions and information, e.g., criticise, blame, verify, etc.
- Some people don’t know when to stop eating and he says that this is completely their own fault.
- Paraphrase: He criticises people who lack self-control over their eating.
- The paraphrase may use synonyms: He thinks that … – He is of the opinion that …
- The paraphrase may be shorter and combine information from more than one sentence.