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 THE LISTENING TAPESCRIPT
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Isn’t food one of life’s greatest pleasures? Do you know

anyone who doesn’t like food? I don’t. There is so much

delicious food in the world. You could spend a whole

lifetime eating a different dish every day. What’s the

tastiest food in the world? This is a very difficult question

to answer. My taste in food keeps changing. Sometimes

my favourite is a dessert, but then I change my mind and

go for a spicy curry. It’s great that countries have so

many different dishes. Do you think your national dish is

best? Nowadays we have to be careful about what we

eat. Fast food is not good for us. We need to focus more

on healthy food. Maybe we have to be more careful in the

future. Make sure the food you eat is good for you.

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 LISTENING GAP FILL
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Isn’t food ____________________ greatest pleasures? Do you

know anyone who doesn’t like food? I don’t. There

____________________ delicious food in the world. You

____________________ whole lifetime eating a different dish

every day. What’s the tastiest food in the world? This

____________________ difficult question to answer. My taste in

food keeps changing. Sometimes my favourite is a

dessert, but then I ____________________ and go for a spicy

curry. It’s great that countries have so many different

dishes. Do ____________________ national dish is best?

Nowadays we have to be careful ____________________ eat. Fast

food is not good for us. We need ____________________ on

healthy food. Maybe we have to ____________________ in the

future. ____________________ food you eat is good for you.

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 CORRECT THE SPELLING
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Isn’t food one of life’s greatest usarpesel? Do you know

anyone who doesn’t like food? I don’t. There is so much

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to answer. My taste in food keeps cgnghian. Sometimes

my favourite is a tderses, but then I change my mind and

go for a piycs curry. It’s great that countries have so

many different hisesd. Do you think your national dish is

best? Nowadays we have to be careful about what we

eat. Fast food is not good for us. We need to fuocs more

on healthy food. Maybe we have to be more careful in the

ftrueu. Make sure the food you eat is good for you.

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 UNJUMBLE THE WORDS
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Isn’t food pleasures life’s one greatest of? Do you know

anyone who doesn’t like food? I don’t. There is so much

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lifetime different a eating day every dish. What’s the

tastiest food in the world? This is a very difficult question

to answer. in taste My changing keeps food. Sometimes

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go for a spicy curry. It’s great that countries have so

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eat. us food not for Fast is good. We need to focus more

on healthy food. Maybe we have to be more careful in the

future. eat you food the sure Make good is for you.

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 DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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 STUDENT FOOD SURVEY
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Write five GOOD questions about food in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student
must write the questions on his / her own paper.
When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

STUDENT 1 STUDENT 2 STUDENT 3

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Q.1.

Q.2.

Q.3.

Q.4.

Q.5.

 Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found
out. Change partners often.
 Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

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 WRITING
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Write about food for 10 minutes. Show your partner your

paper. Correct each other’s work.

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 HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words

from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or
another search engine) to build up more associations /
collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET INFO: Search the Internet and find more

information about food. Talk about what you discover with your
partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Write a magazine article about food.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give
each other feedback on your articles.

4. FOOD POSTER Make a poster about food. Show it to your

classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your
posters.

5. MY FOOD LESSON: Make your own English lesson on food.

Make sure there is a good mix of things to do. Find some good
online activities. Teach the class / another group when you have
finished.

6. ONLINE SHARING: Use your blog, wiki, Facebook page,

MySpace page, Twitter stream, Del-icio-us / StumbleUpon
account, or any other social media tool to get opinions on food.
Share your findings with the class.

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