Episode 18

EPISODE 18
LEVEL A1.2/A2.1

READING COMPREHENSION

 

EATING AND DRINKING

Mary: Let’s have a quick snack (= something small like a Mars bar) for lunch! I’m dying of hunger (= I am so hungry I think I’m going to die)!

John: Well, I don’t know if this is such a good idea. You will be hungry again soon. I need a hearty meal (= big meal)! You know I only eat gourmet food (= high quality food). Did you eat good breakfast?

Mary: You really have a healthy appetite (= you can eat a lot)! Not everybody thinks about healthy food all the time! I think I’ll just have a soft drink (= e.g. cola) and a Mars bar!

John: Suit yourself! I’m going to look for a reasonably priced (= with acceptable price, not very expensive) restaurant and eat some square meal (= with soup, main course and dessert; full meal) there.

 

More contexts for the new words:

• I hope you enjoyed your meal !
  (= I hope you liked your meal)
• If you eat this, you will just spoil your appetite !
  (= if you eat this, you will have problems eating a normal meal)

 

EXERCISE 1

Match the beginnings and endings of expressions.

 

 

1. I’m dying                a) appetite
2. a quick                    b) drink
3. a hearty                  c)  food
4. gourmet                 d) meal
5. a healthy                e) of hunger
6. a soft                       f) priced
7. reasonably            e) snack

 

EXERCISE 2

Complete the questions, then answer them.

1. What is your favorite quick s………………………..?
2. Which reasonably p………………………….. restaurant would you recommend?
3. What gourmet f………………………… do you like?

ENGLISH IN USE 

Let’s look at past simple questions. Our example today is:

Did you eat good breakfast?

As you can see we use „did” to make a question and we use the present form of the verb with it. Here you have some more sentences to look at:

Did you go to work on Sunday?
Did he drink any tea this morning?

It is not correct to say „Did he went to work?”

 

IDIOM CLOSE-UP

 

A/ Would you like to go to a ballet show tomorrow?

B/ Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn’t really MY CUP OF TEA.

 

If something isn’t your cup of tea, it is not the type of thing that you like.

 

 

PHRASAL VERBS CLOSE-UP

 

1. When you EAT OUT, you eat a meal in a restaurant and not at home.

When I lived in Spain, I used to eat out all the time.

We eat out once a week.

 

2. If you order food to TAKE AWAY, you buy prepared food in a shop or restaurant and take it somewhere else to eat.

I had no time to cook, so I ordered some curry to take away.

Will that pizza be in, or would you like a takeaway?

 

 

EXERCISE 3

Rewrite the sentences keeping the same meaning and using the word in CAPITALS.

 

1. On Fridays we usually eat in restaurants.

OUT ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. I don’t like football.

TEA ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Please order some pizza and bring it home.

AWAY ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

 

 

NEWS

 

COFFEE ADDICTS

Doctors are alarmed to witness the rapid growth of a new addiction. In addition to alcoholics, chocoholics and workaholics, we are now facing an alarming spread of coffeeholics. The reasons for addiction to coffee are many, but the most important is probably the fast pace of life that we all have to live in big cities. A cup of coffee in the morning helps you get up. Another one, on your way to work, makes sure you don’t fall asleep at the steering wheel. One more is necessary when you arrive at your office, before you can get down to work. And this is only the beginning. By the end of the day, the average office worker might have had ten cups of coffee!

 

 

GLOSSARY

– addiction – when you can’t stop taking something after you start

– spread – increase, growth

– pace – tempo

– steering wheel – a wheel in a car which you turn to make the car go left or right

– get down to – start

 

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