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In gapped-text activities, when you have to complete gaps, remember … Check every sentence in each gap. Don’t ignore one because you have already selected it. Reading exam tip
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In speaking exams, when you have to give personal information, remember … Listen to the question carefully and make sure the information you give answers the question.
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3 Look at these topics. Make notes on all the different things you could talk about for each one. • your home style, size, what it looks like • the town or city where you live • your favourite food • where you enjoy eating 4 speaking Work with a partner and take turns to talk about the topics in 3. Give reasons for your answers.
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answer the questions. 1 Do you think food in restaurants is very different from food you eat at home? Why/Why not? 2 Which do you prefer? Why? 2 Read the blog about a restaurant dish. Then, complete the blog with sentences A–H. There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.
1 Starting point What facts do you remember from the Culture speaking exchange text about eating in Australian schools on page 44? Check your ideas by looking back at the text. How similar or different is the information for your school? Project task Students at an Australian school want to know about school food in your country. Use your own knowledge and experience to explain all about it. Search the Internet for extra information or statistics. Prepare one of these: A a poster C a video message B a presentation D an information leaflet. Research areas • where students eat lunch on school days – at home, in a school canteen, in their classrooms, in the street … 2 speaking • the time that students eat lunch • what a typical lunch is – a big meal, a snack, a packed lunch, fast food … Give details. • the price of lunch and how you pay for it • places at or near school where you can buy food or snacks during the day. What you can buy and if it is healthy food only. your country School food in
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Don’t only research information online. Look also for useful images or graphics that you can use to clarify or illustrate the information in your project. For example, an image of typical dishes or food that only exist in your country would help to make the dish clear to somebody from another country. Academic skills On any assignment, it’s important to manage your time carefully. Find out when you have to finish the project and how much time you have. Then decide how long each different stage (e.g. research, writing, checking) will take. All team members need to know when to finish their part. Lor m ipsum Collaboration When you work in a team, it’s important to respect and respond to other people’s ideas. Useful language Good idea! That’s a good point! I like that idea. That’s nice. (And maybe we could also …) That could work well. (But perhaps we also need to …) Intercultural awareness Do you think the food that teenagers like is similar in different countries or not? What could explain the similarities or differences? 4 Project time Do the project. Then present it to the class. 5 Evaluation Give each project a mark from 1 to 5 (5 = very good) for these categories. Content Design Presentation Language speaking
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Have you ever gone to a restaurant and wanted to try and make the same food at home? I really like cooking a lot and sometimes I cook for our family. Last week, we went to a new restaurant and we had a really delicious dish that is famous in Italy. (1) It was so good I wanted to try to make it at home but I had never made it before. I asked the waiter for the recipe but he said it was a secret! (2) I made some notes under the table on my phone. I knew the sauce had a lot of tomato in it and I think the meatballs were made with lamb. But I couldn’t work out how they had cooked it. When I got home, I searched online for some recipes and made my best guess about how the dish was made. (3) Then I made the meatballs and I also fried them, but they looked very greasy so I took them out of the pan quickly. I mixed the meatballs and the tomatoes together and let it cook for quite a long time. My mum said we could eat it for dinner so we had it with spaghetti and it was really nice. But mum suggested we try to make it without meat because we are going to try to eat less meat in my family. (4) So I started thinking how I could make meat- free ‘meatballs’! I found a recipe called malai kofta which used potatoes and cheese to make the balls. I started to make this and I added my own ideas. I decided to put some spinach in and then I baked the vegetable balls in the oven so they were less fattening. (5) All my family loved the new dish so now I think I have a better recipe than the restaurant we went to – and it’s healthier!
A I don’t think I will be making it again! B So I ate it very slowly and tried to taste all the different ingredients. C They were really delicious! D I don’t think I put enough salt in it. E I decided to use some carrots and onions so I fried these first in some olive oil. F We have eaten it every day since then! G It was spaghetti with meatballs. H We think eating more vegetables will be less fattening and better for our health and for the environment!
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