5. Choose words for each question, as in the example. One word is left. What is it?

knife	beans	menu	chef	waiter
sorbet	glass	onions	fork	pear
cheese	juice	wine	cup	cream
chicken	orange	beef	fruit salad

1. types of vegetable - beans, ………

2. types of meat - ……….………

3. types of drink - ………..………….

4. dairy products (made from milk) - …………..

5. you use these for drinking - …………….

6. they work in a restaurant - ……………

7. types of dessert - …………….

8. types of fruit - ……………

6. Work in groups. Read the text quickly and find the foods in exercise 1. How many other foods can you find?

Global pizza by Connie Odone. It’s kind of silly to talk about the moment when pizza was “invented”. It gradually evolved over the years, but one thing’s for certain – it’s been round for a very long time. The idea of using pieces of flat, round bread as plates came from the Greeks. They called them “plakuntos” and ate them with various simple toppings such as oil, garlic, onions and herbs. The Romans enjoyed eating something similar and called it “picea”. By about 1000 A.D. in the city of Naples, “picea” had become “pizza” and people were experimenting with more toppings: cheese, ham and finally the tomato, brought to Italy from Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth century. Naples became the pizza capital of the world. In 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita heard about pizza and asked to try it. They invited pizza maker, Raffaele Esposito, to make it for them. He decided to make the pizza like the Italian flag, so he used red tomatoes, white mozzarella cheese, and green basil leaves. The Queen loved it and the new pizza was named “Pizza Margherita” in her honour.

Pizza migrated to America with the Italians at the end of the nineteenth century. The first pizzeria in the United States was opened in 1905 at Spring Street, New York City, by Gennaro Lombardi. But the popularity of pizza really exploded when American soldiers returned from Italy after World War II and raved about “that great Italian dish”. Americans are now the greatest producers of pizza in the world.

Interesting facts:

1. Americans eat 350 slices of pizza per second.

2. There are about 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.

3. October is national pizza month in the United States.

4. The world’s first pizzeria, the Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, which opened in Naples in 1830, is still there.

5. In America, pepperoni is the favourite topping.

6. In Brazil, they like green peas on their pizza.

7. In Australia the favourites are shrimps and pineapple.

8. The English love tuna and sweetcorn.

7. Read the text again and answer the questions.

1. What year was pizza invented?

2. Which came first, picea or plakuntos? How are they different from pizza?

3. Why are Mexico and Peru important in the development of pizza?

4. What do the Italian flag and a Pizza Margherita have in common?

5. When and how did pizza become really popular in the United States?

8. What do you think?

1) Which facts in the text do you find most interesting ? Why ?

2) Why do different countries prefer such different toppings?

3) Do you like pizza? What are your favourite toppings?

Part 3

1. Complete these sentences about food in Britain. Compare your ideas.

1 A typical breakfast is _______________

2 The main meal of the day is__________

3. Dinner is usually eaten between _______ and ___p.m.

4. A lot of office workers have_____ for lunch.

5. The national dish is ______________

6. The national drink is_____________________

7. People eat _______ nearly every day.

8. __________and Indian restaurants are very popular.

2. Now write sentences about your country.

3. Look through the words in the box and do the following tasks:

1) Write the following words in the correct list.

2) Which of these ways of preparing and cooking food can you use with the different food on the first list.

boil, cheese, cucumber, cut, fry, grill, lemon, milk, chop, peel, onions, bake, omelette, roast, grate, stew, potatoes, mushrooms, fish, slice, bread, mix, stir

food / drink	ways of preparing food / drink

4. Read this extract from a website about bananas. Tick the dishes you would like to try.

Things to do with a banana.

I like bananas. I respect bananas. I find bananas interesting. But I don’t love bananas. My wife loves bananas and she eats them every day. So do I, but eating a fresh banana every day has become a bit boring. That’s why I have collected 104 recipes for bananas. Here are some ways you can eat bananas.

You can…..

- peel them, cut them in half and fry them in butter;

- boil them in milk with sugar and coconut;

- grill them with brown sugar on top;

- mix them with rice for a Cuban dish;

- bake them in the oven in their skin;

- fry them in batter to make banana fritters;

- slice them in half and add vanilla ice cream to make a banana- split;

- chop them and eat them raw in fresh fruit salads.

5. Read the list of dishes again and note down words which describe a) different ways of preparing food ( peel, ….)

b) different ways of cooking food (boil, …..)

c) one word meaning not cooked.