Reading: Traditional English food

Activity 6. Divide these words into meat, fish, and vegetables.

carrot liver beet cauliflower spinach radish salmon onion mutton pork catfish

meat	fish	vegetables
		carrot

Activity 7. Match the names with the pictures.

garlic kiwi fruit grapes melon broccoli leeks pear mushrooms strawberries pineapple

Activity 8. Can you write down a vegetable and fruit:

Vegetable Fruit

1. 
   beginning with the letter “p” _______________ _____________
   
2. 
   beginning with the letter “b” _______________ _____________
   
3. 
   beginning with the letter “m” _______________ _____________
   
4. 
   beginning with the letter “c” _______________ _____________
   
5. 
   beginning with the letter “a” _______________ _____________
   

Activity 9. Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?

1. 
   pork veal salmon beef
   
2. 
   salmon shrimp oyster lobster
   
3. 
   lettuce aubergine tomato cucumber
   
4. 
   peach onion mushroom courgette
   
5. 
   chicken lamb beef mussels
   

Activity 10. Here are the names of some drinks with the letters mixed up. What are they?

1. 
   kiml
   
2. 
   odas
   
3. 
   uciej
   
4. 
   eta
   
5. 
   efecof
   
6. 
   moatot ceuji
   
7. 
   tirfu huncp
   
8. 
   tobteld tarew
   
9. 
   labreh eta
   
10. 
    ereb
    

Activity 11. Fruit puzzle. Write the correct letters in the spaces provided and you will find the names of nine tasty fruit.






Activity 12. Speaking

Proverbs about food

  There are a lot of English proverbs connected with food.Try to match English proverbs to their equivalents in your mother tongue.

•Tastes differ.

•An apple a day keeps thedoctor away.

•The appetite comes witheating.

•Every vegetable has itsseason.

•After dinner sit a while,after supper walk a mile.

•Too much butter won’tspoil the porridge.

Activity 13.

RIDDLES. There are some riddles try to guess them.

• 
  It is a fruit. It is red or yellow, sometimes green. It is very tasty. Children like to eat it very much. (an apple) 
  
• 
  It is white. It is oval. It is good to eat for breakfast. It comes from a hen. (an egg) 
  
• 
  It's a drink. In Russia people usually drink it hot, but in some countries people drink it cold (tea).
  
• 
  It is a drink. It is white. Children like to drink it. It comes from a cow. (milk) 
  
• 
  It's green and you have it in salad (cucumber).
  
• 
  Monkeys like the yellow fruit (banana).
  
• 
  Apples, bananas, plums are ... (fruits).