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C GOAL Describe Favorite Dishes
Language Expansion: Types of Food
A Look at the Healthy Eating Pyramid from Australia. In pairs, choose the correct phrase from the box to complete each sentence below.
| a. fish, beans, and nuts d. milk, yogurt, and cheese b. spinach, tomatoes, and carrots e. pasta, bread, and rice c. pineapples and grapes f. pizza and canned foods |
1. Vegetables that are high in vitamins include ___b__.
2. Foods high in protein include meat, _____________.
3. Many people eat grains at every meal. Grains include _____________.
4. Many fruits are sweet. Fruits that have a lot of sugar in them include _____________.
5. Dairy foods come from animals such as cows. _____________ are all dairy.
6. Don't eat too much salt. Salty foods include _____________.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid from Australia
B Follow the instructions in pairs.
1. List 10 of your favorite things to eat and drink.
2. Talk about the nutrition in each item on your list. Use some of the bold words from A.
3. Plan a healthy meal. Explain your plan to another pair of students.
Pasta is delicious. Do you think it's healthy?
It has some protein and vitamins, but I don't think you should eat a lot of pasta.
We choose peach yogurt as the dairy food. It has some sugar in it, but it's also high in protein.
WORD FOCUS
With the simple past, we often use:
yesterday / the day before yesterday
days / weeks / months / years ago
last week/month/ year
Grammar (See Grammar Reference pp. 146-147)
| The Simple Past |
| Use the simple past to talk about completed past actions or situations. | Dad cooked some noodles yesterday. Our class was interesting last week. |
| Many verbs are regular in the simple past. They have an -ed ending. | ask - asked cook-cooked learn - learned need-needed |
| Some verbs are irregular in the simple past. | choose - chose eat - ate give - gave go - went |
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C Complete the conversation. Use the simple past of the verbs.
Mary: Tell me about yourself, Pedro.
Pedro: Well, I love to travel. Last year, I (1) _________ (travel) to Greece.
Mary: Wow! You (2) _________ (go) to Greece.
Pedro: Yes, and I (3) _________ (meet) my friend, Vasily, and his family there. They (4) _________ (show) me around Athens and (5) _________ (introduce) me to many new foods. We (6) _________ (eat) a lot!
Mary: That sounds like fun.
Pedro: It was. I (7) _________ (eat) seafood and lamb, and I (8) _________(try) a new dish.
D Complete each sentence so that it is true for you. Use the simple past and words from the box. Then, share your sentences with a partner.
| dairy dish grain(s) meal protein salt special sugar vegetable(s) vitamins |
1. (eat) Yesterday, I __________________________________________________________________________.
2. (like) When I was a child, I ________________________________________________________________.
3. (prepare) Last week, I _____________________________________________________________________.
4. (buy) The last time I went to the grocery store, __________________________________________.
5. (order) The last time I went to a restaurant, ______________________________________________.
Conversation (Optional)
E 🎧4 Close your book and listen to the conversation. What is Albert eating? What is it made from?
Albert: You should try this! My aunt made it.
Mary: Mmm... Delicious! What is it?
Albert: It's called couscous. It's made from wheat.
Mary: And what's this on top of the couscous?
Albert: Mostly vegetables and some kind of sauce.
Mary: How did your aunt learn to cook it?
Albert: Her great-uncle married a woman from North Africa. That's where couscous is from. They always ate it on special occasions.
Mary: What an interesting family history!
Albert: Yeah, and a great family recipe.
F Practice the conversation. Tell your partner about foods from other parts of the world.
REAL LANGUAGE
When you share food with someone, you can say:
You should try this!
Would you like to try it?
Do you want a bite?
✔️GOAL CHECK
Describe Favorite Dishes
You want to share a photo of your favorite dish on a social media website. In pairs, discuss what you should include in the post.
Why did you eat the dish?
Who ate the dish?
Who prepared the dish?
How did the dish taste?
What ingredients were in the dish?
Your idea: _____________________________
"My whole family ate my grandmother's spaghetti." Do you think I should write that?
