Unit 11

Food

Number 1

Look at the menu

Listen to the people ordering a meal and write down their order.

Write only the number for each dish.

Waitress:Are you,are you ready to order yet?

Harold:Yes,I think so,

Darling?

Jan:Erm vegetable soup for me please.

Waitress:Right.

Harold:Yes,I think I'll have the same.

Waitress:Ok.Two vegetable soups.

William:I'll have pate please.

Waitress:And one pate.And then.to follow?

Jan:Er,steak with jacket potato and salad please.

Can I have the steak well done please?

Waitress:Certainly.

Harold:I'll have the plaice.I think,with potalo crips.

Waitress:One plaice,right.

William:And I'll have the cheese omelet with salad.

Waitress:Right.

Number 2

Three people are telling their landladies what they can't eat.

Write down the food they say.

Landlady:How are you settling in now,Margo?

Margo:Oh,fine thanks.

Landlady:Erm,I've come up actually to ask about,er,cooking really.

Is there anything special that you,

you can't eat ,that I shouldn't make for you while you're here?

Margo:Erm,I don't eat any sweet things,like cakes,erm,biscuits,not chocolate,

and I don't drink any milk.

Landlady:All right then.I'll make a note of that.

Landlady:Ok,Mr,Rice,I think that's about all.

Erm,oh,I would like to know,is there anything you can't eat?

Mr.Rice:Erm.let's think.I can't eat fish,fish and ges I don't like,and...Landlady:Uh huh...

Mr.Rice:I don't eat cheese at all,and I never drink,er,alcohol at all.

Landlady:Oh,well that's a great help.Thank you.

Landlady:You'll be having meals with us.

Is there andy type of food that you don't like that I can't cook for you?

Mick:Erm not really.The only thing is,I'm not very keen on fish.

Landlady:Not very keen on fish?

Landlady:Oh,well that's not too much of a problem.

Mick:Erm nothing else.Oh,tea.I don't like never drink tea.

Landlay:Never drink tea?

Mick:Are you usually coffee?

Landlady:Oh,we usually have tea all the time.

Mick:Oh dear.

Landlady:Erm,I'll make you something else.

Number 3

Listen to the tape and mark whethere these statements are ture or false.

Bart:Do you always eat at home,Robin?

Robin:Oh good heavens,no!

If I get a chance I go out to a restaurant

and-er-very often to an Indian restaurant,

because I like curries,as I said.

Mary:Yes,I do too

Robin:Very good value.

Mary:Robin and I quite often go out together an have a cutty.

Do you like to eat curry,Carolyn?

Carolyn:Oh no. I never eatcurry.I enjoy Chinese much...much more.

Mary:Oh yes,we eat Chinese here too,sometimes,don't we?

Robin:Sometimes do that,yes...

Robin:And-er-sometimes Greek food as well,

because there's a great range of restaurants in London.

Bart:Yeah,you're very lucky here,though,

hecause,er,in the States,er,it's very difficult to find,

er,ethnic restaurants,so I never eat Greek food or,er,curries...No..

Mary:Oh,really?You don't...

you don't have Greek restaurants in town where you come from?

Bart:Only in the cities,

,but not...never in the-um-towns outside the cities.

Mary:Oh I see,you live too far out in the country.

Bart:Yeah...yeah...

Robin:I suppose you uaually eat hamburgers and hot dogs and that sort of thing?

Bart:Ah,vety often,yes-er-most of the time.

Number 4

Listen to Margaret and Mike telling you how they cook or make two dishes

and write down the ingredinents.

Margaret:Well,fish of all.You select th fruit that you want,

and then you wash it vety carefully.

Erm,then go about peeling it.

Start off with,say,teh apples,erm,peeling them.

washing them thoroughly,chopping them up into shapes.

Peeling the ba...bananas,chopping them up,

putting a little bit of lemon juice so that they don't go brown.

Erm,taking the grapes,washing them,cutting them up.

Erm,pears,you could do the same thing for them.

Putting them all together,sprinking them liberally with sugar,

er,a little bit more lemon juice,putting them into a bowl,

and there you have a fruit salad.

I think I'll make,erm,shepherd's pie which is farly cheap and simple.

Erm,I make it by frying-chopping garlic and onions,and frying in oil,

erm,then adding the minced beef or lamb,browning this.

Then I put cooked meat into the bottom of a casserole or a pie dish and cover with mashed potato.

At that stage,you can sprinkle cheese on the top.

And the whole thing goes in the oven to cook for about half an hour to brown it.