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VOCABULARY Adjectives related to food, partitives, verbs related to eating, food items extended, idioms
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- Vocabulary: adjectives related to food, partitives
- I can use adjectives and partitive expressions to talk about food.
LESSON 1A VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING
A food stylist makes food look good
Listen to a food stylist talking about her job and answer the questions.
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?
Adjectives to describe food
Tender or soggy? Words to praise and complain about food
2 velvety
3 scalding ___
4 soggy
5 gristly ___
6 mouldy
7 stodgy ___
8 succulent
9 gooey ___
Which of these words praise food, and which complain about it?
3 Decide whether the adjectives in the box have negative (N) or positive (P) connotations. Then complete the customer comments with the correct adjectives.
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 _ chips my sister had – dripping with oil!
4 They served the fish 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 finished off the meal with a peach.
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A food artist: the same words again
4 4.2 Listen to a food artist talking about his job. Complete the sentences with 1–4 words in each gap.
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.
ACTIVE VOCABULARY | Partitives
Partitives: how to count what you can't count
- It is possible to use some partitives with different nouns, e.g., a piece of advice / fruit, but there are often specific nouns that collocate with specific partitives, e.g., a fit 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.
1 a clove of ___
2 a dab of ___
3 a drop of ___
4 a dusting of ___
5 a handful of ___
6 a heel of ___
7 a scoop of ___
8 a segment of ___
9 a slice of ___
10 a spoonful of ___
11 a sprig of ___
12 a sprinkle of ___
Now choose the right partitive for each sentence.
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 finished 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.
Now talk about food in your own culture.
