Mindset For IELTS (Exam Skills p68)

Mindset For IELTS (Exam Skills p68)

Exam Skills: FOOD TV education or entertainment?

What if one night you turn on the TV and all you see is a food show? How would it make you feel?

Do you think that food shows offer education or entertainment?

VOCABULARY

Read the meaning and choose the word it describes.

Multiple Choice

not simple, not artless, not naive, advanced or complex

• sophisticated

• crude

Multiple Choice

the style of cooking that is characteristic of that place

• menu

• cuisine

Multiple Choice

to prints copies in a newspaper, magazine, or official document.

• disseminate

• publish

Multiple Choice

a quality in something that makes you laugh, for example in a situation, in someone's words or actions, or in a book or film.

• humour

• rumour

Multiple Choice

the way you are feeling at a particular time

• atmosphere

• temper

Multiple Choice

language that is offensive and contains swear words or rude words.

• foul

• flattery

Multiple Choice

popular or approved of at a particular time.

• fashionable

• degradable

Multiple Choice

behaving in an unkind and unpleasant way.

• rusty

• nasty

Multiple Choice

defeated and not being able to take further part in the competition.

• eliminate

• qualify

Vocabulary

• sophisticated

• cuisine

• publish

• humour

• temper

• foul

• fashionable, nasty, eliminate

FOOD TV: education or entertainment?

Practice: Read the article about Food TV. Which paragraphs contain the following information? Choose the correct letter.

You may use any letters more than once.

Multiple Choice

The cooking show that affects people most

• Paragraph F

• Paragraph B

• Paragraph C

• Paragraph D

Multiple Choice

A TV chef who was first famous as an author

• Paragraph F

• Paragraph B

• Paragraph C

• Paragraph D

Multiple Choice

The number of food shows on TV

• Paragraph A

• Paragraph G

• Paragraph E

• Paragraph B

Multiple Choice

The role of cookery shows for enjoyment rather than learning

• Paragraph D

• Paragraph F

• Paragraph E

• Paragraph G

Multiple Choice

Why children should be taught to cook at school

• Paragraph D

• Paragraph E

• Paragraph F

• Paragraph G

Multiple Choice

Research about the amount of time people cook

• Paragraph A

• Paragraph C

• Paragraph D

• Paragraph F

Multiple Choice

Examples of famous cookery partners

• Paragraph A

• Paragraph B

• Paragraph C

• Paragraph D

Read the following statements. Choose the correct chef who is described by them.

You may use any letters more than once.

Multiple Select

changed the style of cooking in some of their programs

• Mary Berry

• Jamie Oliver

• The Hairy Bikers

• Gordon Ramsay

• Julia Child

Multiple Select

One of the first TV chefs

• TWo Fat Ladies

• Mary Berry

• Jamie Oliver

• Julia Child

• Gordon Ramsay

Multiple Select

helped to get children eating healthy food

• Two Fat Ladies

• Mary Berry

• The Hairy Bikers

• Julia Child

• Jamie Oliver

Multiple Select

The kinder of two judges

• Mary Berry

• Julia Child

• Gordon Ramsay

• The Hairy Bikers

• Jamie Oliver

Multiple Select

Cooked food that was not very good for you

• Jamie Oliver

• Gordon Ramsay

• Mary Berry

• The Hairy Bikers

• Two Fat Ladies

Multiple Select

Is very rude to the kitchen workers

• Mary Berry

• Gordon Ramsay

• Two Fat Ladies

• The Hairy Bikers

• Jamie Oliver

Multiple Select

Showed people that cooking foreign dishes need not be difficult

• Jamie Oliver

• The Hairy Bikers

• Two Fat Ladies

• Julia Child

• Gordon Ramsay