Optimise B1, Unit 6 - Vocabulary, Food

Most modern families have a ​ (a)   which can cook a meal in a few minutes. Just set the timer and 'ping', it's ready. But how did cooking begin? It's possible that early humans used to ​ (b)   meat because they had smelt the flavour of cooked meat when an animal was burnt in a fire and decided to taste it. Maybe they preferred the taste. Later they put meat on sticks to cook. We still do this today when we have a ​ (c)   . When pots were invented humans would not only ​ (d)   water, but cook food in the heated water.

• microwave
• roast
• barbecue
• boil
• fry
• sweet
• sour
• spicy

When oil was put in the pot humans could ​ (a)   food. By the 4th century the Chinese had described five basic tastes: ​ (b)   based around sugar; ​ (c)   for example lemons or milk that has gone off; briny, from the sea; ​ (d)   or hot, like chillies; and bitter, the taste that most people don't like, although coffee in the morning is very popular.

• fry
• sweet
• sour
• spicy
• boil
• barbecue
• roast
• microwave

Dad! Your tea is cold! Shall I warm it up in the ​ (a)   ?

• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• boil
• roast
• fry
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

Could you put some water in a saucepan, please? I need to ​ (a)   the vegetables.

• boil
• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• roast
• fry
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

My uncle Graham likes to ​ (a)   a chicken on Sunday. He leaves it in the oven for four hours!

• roast
• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• boil
• fry
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

Could you ​ (a)   my egg a bit more please, but don't let it touch the mushrooms or the sausages!

• fry
• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• boil
• roast
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

You didn't have to ​ (a)   a cake Julie, I bought two yesterday.

• bake
• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• boil
• roast
• fry
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

Can you put my cheese sandwich under the ​ (a)   ? I like my bread toasted.

• grill
• microwave
• barbecue
• sweet
• boil
• roast
• fry
• bake
• spicy
• juicy

Ugh! This tea is too ​ (a)   . You know don't like sugar in my drinks.

• sweet
• microwave
• barbecue
• boil
• roast
• fry
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy

Anna has invited us to a ​ (a)   this weekend. We should buy some sausages and burgers.

• barbecue
• microwave
• sweet
• boil
• roast
• fry
• bake
• grill
• spicy
• juicy