Food and Health

Food and Health

Vocabulary and expressions

Food and Health Handout (p.3-9)

What is the purpose of this unit?

• to learn vocabulary and expressions to talk about food

• to use this knowledge to talk and write about food in an academic setting

• to establish meaningful relationships between culture, literature, language, and food.

Vocabulary

noun, adjectives and related expressions

Poll

How much do you know about food the US and the UK?

• A lot. I´m a real foodie!

• I have learned a little bit about their food by watching movies and TV series.

• Not much.

• I have no clue about their eating habits

Multiple Choice

This is a traditional food in the US. Today we can eat this dish all around the world. What are the ingredients that make up the US flag?

• Sausage – bread - mustard

• Mayonnaise– bread - mustard

• Mayonnaise - bread - sausage

Multiple Choice

This was one of Queen Elizabeth II's favourite dishes. She loved to eat it at tea time! The UK flag is made of ..

• blueberry pie

• scone, cream cheese and marmalade

• cookies, cream cheese and marmalade

Open Ended

What dishes are typical of Argentinian cuisine?

Open Ended

Do we follow a healthy diet?

FOOD

​What type of word is it?

How can you use this word? Can you use it in the plural form? Which words can collocate with this word?

​Handout p. 5-6

​The Food Pyramid

• Why is it important that we learn about the food pyramid?

• What type of information does it contain?

• Do you consider the information in the food pyramid when you do your shopping?

​

Poll

Checking understanding: According to the food pyramid, what type of foods should we eat the most?

• sweets

• cream, yoghurt

• rice, cereal, bread

• meat

The food pyramid

​Summarize the main ideas of the text using key vocabulary.

calories - protein -rich in - servings - fiber - sparingly - replace -(little) nutritional value - fats and oils - provide - food groups - healthful.

You may start using the following sentence: The food pyramid provides people with valuable nutritional information.

Some text here about the topic of discussion

The Food Pyramid: grammar

How does this expository text present its suggestions? What type of verbs predominate the most to tell the reader what they should eat? Why/ Why not? Consider this information when writing your paragraphs.

The Pyramid calls for eating a variety of foods to get the nutrients you need and, at the same time, the right amount of calories to maintain or improve your weight. The Food Pyramid emphasizes foods from the five major food groups shown in the three lower sections. Each of these food groups provides some, but not all, of the nutrients you need. Foods in one group cannot replace those in another. No food group is more important than the others – for good health, you need them all. 

​Food: learning about nouns

​Let's see how knowledgable you are regarding nouns!

​​When you went through your material for this class, did you pay attention to the type of nouns we use to talk about food?

(Handout p. 8)​

​Are you ready for a challenge?

Multiple Select

How much bread do you need? Select all possible options.

• I need two breads.

• I need bread.

• I need a loaf of bread.

Multiple Choice

Do you want to drink some water?

• Yes, please. I could have some water.

• Yes, please. I could drink two waters.

• Yes, please. I could drink many water.

Multiple Choice

How many oranges do we need to buy?

• Maybe we should get four oranges.

• Maybe we should get less oranges.

• Maybe we should get much oranges.

How well did you do it?

​I hope this short exercise made you aware of the fact that you need to work with a dictionary checking whether nouns are countable and uncountable. This will have an impact on the choice of articles and quantifiers that you will make when writing about the topic Food and Health. (Handout p. 8)​

In the near future, as you study N​ouns: quantifiers and articles (Access) practice writing sentences to talk about your eating habits using key vocabulary from this unit, specific quantifiers and appropriate articles! How about writing sentences for the following words: meat, chocolate, coffee, fruit and cookie?

​Be ready to share your sentences in class! August 30th

​At home, think about different dishes and describe them. If there are ingredients that you do not know, look for them in the dictionary.

​Argentine Cuisine

​

​Using the vocabulary learned in p. 6. Can you describe any Argentinian dish that you eat?

Vocabulary

Adjectives (p. 8)

Multiple Select

Crackers and fried chicken are crunchy/ crispy. Which UK food can be described as CRUNCHY/CRISPY?

• mince pie

• Sunday roast

• fish and chips

Open Ended

There are cultures that love spicy food. This type of food can make you feel hot! Patatas bravas are an example of spicy food. Can you name other examples of SPICY food?

​Use these adjectives to describe these foods.

Open Ended

Remember that during this semester we are reading the short story: The Truth about Pyecraft.

Pyecraft loves eating butter teacakes. Which ingredients are likely to be present in a teacake recipe?

Idioms

How much do you know about idioms?

p. 8-9​

Multiple Choice

Learning to drive was .... for John. If only learning English were that simple!

• a piece of cake

• a cake

• a piece of pie

• a cookie!

Multiple Choice

That text offers ..

• food for writing

• food for thought

• food for speaking

• food for thinking

Multiple Choice

Waking up at 5am is not really..

• my cup of coffee!

• my cup of tea!

• the apple of my eye!

Multiple Choice

Gym equipment was .... at the beginning of the pandemic.

• selling like hot bread

• going like cookies.

• selling like hot cakes.

Multiple Choice

How come that you are always...? Can you teach me to relax?

• as cool as a cucumber

• as cool as ice

• as cool as ice cream

Homework

• Review nouns, adjectives and quantifiers.

• Review vocabulary