SPEAKING
PART 1
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What are your favourite foods?
I don’t really have any favourite foods, although I am fond of spicy
dishes. Anything with a bit of heat in, really. So I like Mexican, Indian
and South-East Asian dishes more than, say, European or North American
dishes. However, what I like eating also often depends on things like my
mood, the weather, where I am and who I’m with. So on a cold day, I
prefer things like soup and casseroles, and on hot days I’d rather have
something like a salad. If I’m away from home and feeling homesick, I’ll
go for comfort foods. The sort of thing my mother would cook. And if I go
out with friends in the evening, I enjoy meals where everyone shares and
gets to try a little bit of everything, like in a Spanish tapas bar.
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How have your tastes in food changed over the years?
I think that most people’s tastes in food change as they get older, don’t
they? When I was younger, I preferred sweet things like chocolate and ice
cream. Then as I got older I developed a preference for more savoury
foods. I went through a sort of process in my mid- and late-teens of trying
as many different things as possible, and if I didn’t like them at first, I
would try them again and try to develop a taste for them. The first time I
tried olives, for example, I thought they were disgusting, but now they’re
one of my favourite things. Also, as I said, I really like spicy foods, but
that wasn’t always the case. When I was young, savoury foods had to be
quite bland, otherwise I just wouldn’t touch them.
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Are there any foods that you dislike or cannot eat?
There are some vegetables I really dislike, although I’ve tried many times
to get to like them. No matter how hard I’ve tried, I still find broccoli and
courgettes utterly disgusting. Courgettes especially. And there are some
things I wouldn’t eat because I don’t like the idea of them. Things like
snails, for example. The very thought of eating a snail makes me feel ill.
There aren’t any foods I can’t eat because of allergies or intolerances,
although I’ve got a friend who can’t eat seafood and another who can’t
eat wheat. You hear a lot about food allergies and intolerances these
days, don’t you? But I wonder if some people say they have these because
it’s almost fashionable to say you have a particular food allergy or
intolerance.
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Do you think that you have a healthy diet?
I like to think that I eat healthily. I certainly have a reasonably well-
balanced diet, and I try to eat lots of things like fresh fruit and
vegetables. It’s not always easy, of course. I’m very busy most of the time,
and when I get home in the evening the last thing I want to do is prepare
and cook vegetables and meat. It’s often much easier to put a frozen pizza
in the oven or a ready-made meal in the microwave. And of course it’s
even easier to pick up a burger or pizza from a fast-food restaurant and
take that home to eat. So I guess there are times when perhaps I don’t eat
as healthily as I should. On the whole, however, I reckon that my diet is
quite good.
PART 2
Describe a dish that is popular in your country.
You should say:
what the dish is called
what it contains and how it’s made
where and when you usually eat this dish
and explain why it is so popular
My country is famous for its food, and especially for what people now call
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