Урок 11. Eating habits
Предмет: Английский язык, 8 класс

8 класс. Урок 11
Eating Habits

In this lesson

you will learn about ways of cooking.
you will talk about your food likes and dislikes.
you will learn how to order food.
you will learn about countable and uncountable nouns.

Ключевые слова: eating habits, food measures, food preparation verbs, food idioms, singular- / (plural-) only nouns.

Речевой материал: flour, herb, ingredient, means, measurement, order, rare, well done, overcharged, serve, sparkling, still, a bar/ pinch / teaspoon / loaf /slice / litre of, add, slice, peel, pour, chop, grate, beat, melt, fold, sprinkle, one’s cup of tea, a piece of cake, spill the beans, (take everything) with a pinch of salt, crying over spilt milk, be a bad egg, be as nutty as a fruitcake, be in the soup.

Основное содержание урока

It’s Tom, you remember. And these are Kelly, Maria, Nathan and Ali. They are Tom’s classmates too, like Ben or Mary. They all like different kinds of food. Let’ see what their eating habits are. Nathan often has a cup of tea with two teaspoonfuls of sugar and a slice of cake for breakfast. He has mashed potatoes with fried fish for lunch. In the evening his mother makes pasta with cheese. She usually sprinkles some mixed herbs on the top. Kelly usually has two fried eggs, a slice of cheese on a slice of brown bread and a glass of milk for breakfast. At lunchtime she enjoys a piece of well-done steak with a green salad. She usually adds a pinch of salt in it. She often has dinner in the nearest café. She orders steamed vegetables with an omelette and grilled chicken. In the morning, Maria’s mother makes some sandwiches with ham.

Then she pours hot tea into a funny cup for her daughter. Maria has her breakfast with great pleasure. Maria doesn’t like to overcharge for her meals, so she doesn’t buy anything in the shop; she has her lunch in the school canteen. She has some soup with a slice of white bread for lunch. It’s enough for her as the portions are always huge here. In the evening she tries not to eat much. She just drinks still water and eats some fruit. Ali likes meat pretty much. Meat is his cup of tea. So he has it almost every day. He likes his steak medium or well done. But he doesn’t care for rare meat. He always drinks a glass of sparkling water while having a meal. Do you want to know some more information about Tom’s friends? Well, Nathan sometimes can be a bad egg. Because of it he sometimes is in the soup. So you should take what he say with a pinch of salt. Kelly is a really clever student. Even the most difficult test is just a piece of cake for her.

But she can’t keep her friends’ secrets. She is always spilling the beans about other people. That’s why her classmates try not to tell her their secrets. Look! Maria has just broken down her mobile phone. She is crying. But it’s no use crying over spilt milk. The bell is ringing. The lesson is starting. Miss Green, their teacher says that Ali is the winner of the class cooking contest. He made their traditional dish, shaurma.

Do you know how to prepare such a dish? Ali says it’s easy.

You need:

1 lavash
150 g chicken
100 g cheese
1 sweet pepper
1 cucumber
1 small onion
50 g mayonnaise
a pinch of salt and mustard
a pinch of hot pepper
some dill
some butter (for frying)

First, fry the chicken.

Secondly, slice the pepper and cucumber. Peel the onion and chop it up.

Grate the cheese.

Mix the mayonnaise, dill, hot pepper and mustard and spread it on the lavash.

Then, put the vegetables, cheese and meat on it too.

Fold it over.

Melt some butter on the frying pan and fry from both sides.

Serve it hot.

Now it’s grammar time! Let’s learn plural-only and singular-only nouns. In English there are some words that are used only in the plural.

First, they are some kinds of instruments and tools: scissors, pliers, scales.

Second, some items of clothing, such as shorts, trousers, jeans.

Finally, some other words, such as goods, means or stairs, you must remember.

Look at Tom. His new jeans are too big for him.

The scissors Kate bought yesterday are really sharp.

These are some words that are used only in the singular: news, money, information, furniture, advice, equipment, food, luggage, billiards. The school subjects Maths or Physics are used in the singular as well. Collective nouns such as police and family are used with singular verb, when they denote a thing as a whole. But sometimes a plural verb is used when it denotes a number of people or its elements.

Look! Tom’s family is friendly.

Look! Kelly’s family are arguing with each other.

Тренировочные упражнения

Complete the sentences.

• pinch • bars • loaf • teaspoonfuls • slice • sprinkle

I’ve eaten two _________ of white chocolate so far.
How many ____________ of sugar do you take in your coffee?
Can I have a ____________ of that cake?
A __________ of white bread, please.
Please add a __________ of salt into my salad.
_____________some salt, please.

Translate word combinations.

melt butter
beat eggs
grate cheese
slice a cake
chop onions
pour tea
peel a banana

Complete the sentences.

pouring, ml, serve, fry, pinch

Classic omelette

Ingredients:

2 eggs

125 _________milk

a __________of salt

some oil

Stir up eggs in a bowl _____________ milk into it little by little.
Add some salt.
Pour some oil on a frying pan and accurately turn the pan so that the oil will spread all over the surface.
Make it hot and pour the egg-and-milk blend. Spread it evenly over the pan.
___________ the omelette for 4-5 minutes.
____________it hot.

Choose the correct item.

I’d like some ________ bread, please.
brown
boiled
black
A glass of ___________ water, please.
sprinkle
sparkling
rare
I usually have some ______________eggs for breakfast.
steamed
scrambled
white
I like my meat ____________.
well done
still
sparkling
I prefer __________ water.
steamed
boiled
still

Complete the sentences.

• hungry • overcharged • full • eat • portions • huge

The portions are really ____________ here.
I was really ___________when we finished.
When we left the restaurant, I was still _____________.
They serve quite small _____________.
The seller ______________ our grandma.
I usually ____________ out on Sundays.

Complete the sentences with is or are.

Where [is / are] my scissors?
The trousers [is /are] to small.
Maths [is/ are] favourite subject.
The news [is/ are] really good.
Dominoes [is/ are] the board game I like most.

Use the idioms to complete the sentences.

my cup of tea
spill the beans
crying over spilt milk
a bad egg
with a pinch of salt
in the soup

Thanks for inviting me, but pop music is not ______________.
Please keep my secret, don’t ______________about it.
It’s a shame you failed the exam, but it’s no use __________________.
Your classmate Jack is ___________, so take everything he says _____________.
His mum knows the truth. It means he is ________________now.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capital letters.

The most popular Russian soup, which is well-known all over the world, is borshch. (1) ____________, borshch is (2) _______________from hard meat or bone broth. Borshch is always cooked with beet-root, which gives it a saturated red colour. There are also (3) __________ vegetables such as cabbage, onions, (4) __________ and potatoes in borshch. It is usually (5) __________ hot with sour cream and rye bread.

(1) TRADITION

(2) COOK

(3) CHOP

(4) CARROT

(5) SERVE

Контрольные задания

Вариант 1

Complete the sentences.

• chopped • pinch • well done • grate • slice • bars • litres • peel

If you add a _________ of salt, it’ll be better.
Can you __________ the bananas, please?
Have you ___________the onions?
She drinks two ________________ of water every day.
Two ____________ of chocolate is too much if you want to lose some weight.
_______________the cake into small pieces.
_______________the cheese for the pasta.
I like my steak ________________.

Choose the right word.

The furniture [is / are] rather old.
There [is / are] some money on the shelf.
Their progress in English [was / were] fantastic!
I don’t want your [advice / advices].
Physics [is / are] my favourite subject.
My hare [isn’t / aren’t] very long.
The stairs [are / is] on the left.

Your luggage [is / are] really heavy.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capital letters.

English pudding

For many people in Britain, pudding is used as a synonym of dessert. (1) _________, it’s a kind of a cake, (2) __________up with fruit, ginger or prunes. Pudding is usually eaten (3) ________ with custard.

The word pudding was derived from the French word boudin that means a certain type of sausage in France. Originally, puddings were boiled or (4) _____________ in a sheep’s stomach, the same way as sausage.

The original meaning of pudding as a kind of sausage is still found in Scotland, where you can try so called black and white

(5) ________.

(1) BASIC

(2) SPICE

(3) HEAT

(4) STEAM

(5) PUDDING

Вариант 2

Complete the sentences.

• full • sparkling • grated • fried • teaspoonfuls • loaf • ingredients • slice

I put two _______________ of sugar in my coffee.
Have you _______________ the carrots?
I’d like to drink a glass of ______________water.
I’ve forgotten to buy a _____________of brown bread.
You should add another ________________ of ham to the dish.
I don’t like boiled eggs, I prefer them _______________.
My mum uses only fresh __________________ in her cooking.
The portions were huge, so I was really _______ when we finished our meal.

Choose the correct word.

Billiard [is/ are] my brother’s favourite game.
[These / This] shorts are too shabby.
The food [was / were] delicious.
Knowledge [is / are] power.
The scales [are / is] on the floor. Look!
Seventy pounds [is / are] too much to pay for jeans.
This equipment [is / are] still in a good condition.
The goods [were / was] damaged.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capital letters.

Italian Pizza

Pizza Margherita may have set the standard, but there (1) ____________ several regional styles of pizza made in Italy today.

For example, a traditional Neapolitan pizza Marinara that has oregano, anchovies and lots of garlic, or Pizza Capriccios that contains a lot of mushrooms, prosciutto, artichoke hearts,

(2) _______ and a half of a (3) __________ egg!

Pizzas from Sicily have a plenty of green olives, seafood, hard-boiled eggs and (4) ________.

Different kinds of pizza have different (5) ______. Anyway, all these varieties are really delicious and they are all worth trying.

(1) BE

(2) OLIVE

(3) BOIL

(4) PEA

(5) INGREDIENT