pineapple banana apple orange lemon plum* 0 pear raspberry strawberry O & peach You normally peel oranges and bananas (= remove the skin) before you eat them. B Vegetables ^. ^ ^ ^ potato green beans peas onion garlic carrot mushrooms aubergine ^0 courgette red pepper cabbage broccoli leeks celery cauliflower I peeled the potatoes and chopped the carrots. (= cut into small pieces) C Salad A salad is usually a mixture of uncooked vegetables. In Britain it often contains lettuce, but may also contain tomato, cucumber, and other things. We often put salad dressing (usually a mixture of oil and vinegar, or oil and lemon juice) on salad. lettuce tomato cucumber vinegar oil D Meat (animals), fish and seafood animal: cow calf (= young cow) lamb (= young sheep) pig chicken meat: beef veal lamb pork chicken 63.1 Exercises Write down at least one 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' pofafo, peas 63.2 Match words in the two boxes where the underlined letters are pronounced the same. Example banana melon 63.3 lettuce onion tomato melon orange banana pork chicken aubergine salmon calf lamb raspberry prawn broccoli mushroom Which is the odd one out in each group , and why? 1 pork veal salmon beef 6a 2 lettuce leek tomato cucumber 3 peach onion mu shroom courgette 4 chicken lamb beef crab 5 grape cherry aubergine melon •Salomon is a {ish, iUt ofke/s a/e. rv\eaf. 63.4 Do you eat the skin (= the outside) of these fruits always, sometimes or never} Make three lists. apple strawberries orange pear banana cherries melon pineapple peach grapes 63.5 What do we call: 1 the meat from a cow? 2 the meat from a calf? 3 the meat from a pig? 4 the main vegetable in a green salad? 5 the two things we often put on salad? Oil and or 63.6 Using words from the opposite page, complete these sentences about yourself and your country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else. 1 In my country.........................................is/are more common than.............................................................. 2 In my country.........................................is/are more expensive than............................................................ 3 In my country a mixed salad usually contains........................................................... 4 In my country we don't grow........................................................... 5 And we don't often eat........................................................... 6 Personally, I prefer.........................................to......................................... English Vocabulary in Use (pre-intermediate & intermediate) 129 NOTE Food which is not cooked is raw. B Cooking and restaurants Ways of cooking food boil: in water, e.g. potatoes or rice fry: in oil or butter above the heat, e.g. sausages grill: under the heat, e.g. toast or meat roast: in the oven using oil, e.g. meat bake: in the oven without oil, e.g. cakes How would you like your steak? roast/bake Rare (= cooked quickly and red inside); medium-rare (= cooked longer but still red in the middle); medium (= cooked more and pink); or well-done. (= cooked longer and not pink) What does it taste like? Taste the sauce (= try a bit to see if it's good) and add salt if necessary. You can really taste the garlic in this. It's very tasty. (= lots of flavour; a positive word) Describing food and drink salty: lots of salt hot/spicy: lots of spices, e.g. curry, chilli sweet: lots of sugar (opp bitter, e.g. very strong coffee, or sour, e.g. lemons) fresh: recently produced or picked, e.g. fresh bread, fresh fruit fattening: food which makes you put on weight/get fat, e.g. cream, cakes, etc. healthy: good for your health/fitness, e.g. salad or fruit chilled (= very cold), e.g. white wine is usually chilled still: describes water without gas; sparkling is water with gas (also called fizzy water) E A typical menu salt and pepper mZtof^n in a Me — napkins «"•" r----- , toothpicks 64. 64.2 64.4 Exercises Do you often eat the following food in your country? If so, do you eat it in the same way? Example In Britain, vJt ofrim <&k fish' b-Jc ncf usually raw {fsk'. raw fish fried eggs roast beef roast peppers grilled cheese fried rice baked potatoes raw spinach boiled eggs baked bananas Look at the menu on the opposite page again, and answer these questions. 1 Which starter doesn't contain vegetables? drilled, spiaj p