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1 Photocopiable activity
Food, glorious food
1 Here are some of the things we think about when we decide about our meals. Talk with your
partner about how these considerations affect your choices in what you eat.

pleasant associations

variety flavour

How do these things

affect your choices in
what you eat?

nutritional value/health ease of preparation/

benefits availability

2 Now decide which consideration is the most important to determine your own meal choices.

Further discussion
• What is your favourite dish? Why do you like it? What do you like about it?

• What makes a meal memorable? What else is important apart from the food being served?

• Think back to the meals you have had in the last 24 hours. For each of the considerations in
the task above, give each meal a mark out of 5. How highly did the meals score? Were they
‘good’ meals or ‘not so good’? Explain why you gave each mark.

• ‘Live to eat. Don’t just eat to live.’ How would you interpret this quotation? How far do you
agree with it?

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Teaching notes
Activity
Pairwork: speaking

Aim
To discuss diets and meals; to practise Advanced exam Speaking tasks (Parts 3 and 4)

Vocabulary
Eating and drinking

Preparation
Make one copy of the worksheet for each pair.

Time
10–15 minutes

Lesson link
Unit 13, page 170

Procedure
• Photocopy and hand out worksheets to students in pairs.

• Students follow the format of the Part 3 task from the Advanced Speaking exam. They spend up to two
minutes talking about the question and the five qualities, then another minute or so on the follow-up
question.

• Finally, ask two pairs to form groups of four, and discuss the questions from the Further discussion
task together.

• Walk around and monitor the activity.

• Get each group to report back on the most interesting points of their discussions, and invite comments
from the rest of the class. Wrap up by asking how important students think food is in our lives, and why.