English at Leisure

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English at Leisure
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Unit 3 Eating Drinking
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Focal Points

• Speaking skills
• Listening skills
• Reading skills
• Writing skills
• Vocabulary

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Speaking skills

• Order food in a restaurant
• Describe the ingredients
• Describe dishes
• Describe the process of cooking
• Express preferences

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How to suggest?

• Lets have a drink sometime.
• Why dont you come round for dinner?
• We could go to that new restaurant!

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How to invite?How to offer?

• Would you like to have lunch with
  
• me one day?
• I could make you a sandwich if you are hungry.
• How about one more piece of cake?

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Listening skills

• 1. The functions of the conversations
• 2. Catch the names of the food
• 3. Learn some useful expressions about food
• 4. Give suggestions on food
• 5. Identify the main ingredients, taste, how its
  eating served

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Reading skills

• Kitchen Love (p101)
• Interest In food (p105)
• Bilingual Menus
• Methods of Cooking
• Discover London and The Tradition of the British
  Pub(p126)

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Writing skills

• Writing about an Eating Experience
• In the brief description, use the expressions in
  the unit to describe the atmosphere of the
  restaurant

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Vocabulary

• A gourmet
• Agree with
• Vegetarian
• Be full/stuffed

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• Have a light palate, have a sweet tooth, have
  good/poor table manners
• The ways of cooking, prepare the food
• Stimulating and spicy
• Awful, tasteless,tough, fatty, greasy,stale,
  burnt, fishy

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• Bitter, crisp creamy, hard, juicy, minty,
  mouth-watering, palatable, flaky, sticky, salty,
  strong, tender,
• Aroma, colour, taste, shape/appearance
• Chop, cube, dice, mince, peel, score, shred,
  slice,

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• Cut .into slices, core, drain, pick, shell/pod,
  snap, soak, strip,
• Stir/beat,blend,crush,,knead,roll, sprinkle,
  stuff
• Bake, grill,smoke
• Pickle, preserve,
• Cooked, canned, raw, lean,
• Bony, freshwater,

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• Leafty, out-of season seasonal
• All-year-round, acid, distilled, mineral, fizzy,
  iced, mild, invigorating,refresh,
• table,wholesome, tonic, nutritious,
• Mellow, newly-gathered,unripe, wormy,
• Black, weak, savory, pure, instant, steaming,
  selected
• fragrant

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Assignment

• 1. Write a composition on the topic
• A Visit to a Restaurant
• 2. Review the whole unit
• 3. Prepare unit 4