- Discussion: is food fuel or a pleasure for you? (p. 4)
. What do you normally eat in a typical day?
. Do you ever cook?
. Do you ever eat unhealthy food?
. Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment?
cut down on = reduce
- Reading: Two interviews with Alice from San Francisco and Jacqueline from the USA (p. 4-5)
Interesting vocabulary: heat up, takeaway, soup, fat, wholemeal, dishes, stew, portions, eat out, honey
- Listening practice: Rumiko Yasuda and her diet (p. 5)
- Grammar 1A (p. 5 and p. 130)
Present Simple and Present Continuous:
Sarah usually goes shopping in the evening vs. Sarha is shopping in Tarragona at the moment.
Action and non-action verbs:
. action verbs: they express actions and can be used in the simple or continuous form
. non-action verbs: they express states or feelings and are usually used in the simple form (f.e. need, believe, love, hate, understand, see) (copy)
- Food quiz (p. 6) and Vocabulary: Food and Restaurants (p. 144)
Useful expressions: takeaway food, ready-cooked meals, home-made food, low-fat food.
- Pronunciation: the sound /u/ (p. 6)
- Video Listening: "The Seven Wonders of Britain"
Useful vocabulary: to have green fingers (tenir bones mans per la jardineria), rosemary (romanÃ), the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
- Oral activity in groups: write a description about a wonder in your place and let the other students guess!
- A poem in the IPA alphabet: guessing what it means in groups of four.
