III. Exercises

1. To learn long lists of words, it is sometimes helpful to divide them up into groups. Try dividing these vegetable names into groups, in any way you like, e.g. 'vegetables which grow underground' (potatoes, carrots etc.). If possible, compare your answers with someone else's. There are some words:

aubergine leek cucumber spinach carrot potato cauliflower

green/red pepper courgette sweetcorn lettuce onion rice pea

cabbage garlic radish bean shallot turnip asparagus beetroot celery

2. Use the taste and flavour words opposite to describe the following.

1 Indian curry 5 a cup of tea with five spoonfuls of sugar

2 pizza 6 strong black coffee with no sugar

3 sea water 7 factory-made white bread

4 an unripe apple

3. Sort these dishes out under the headings starters, main courses or desserts.

chicken casserole coffee gateau fresh fruit salad sorbet Irish stew pate and toast prawn cocktail rump steak chocolate fudge cake grilled trout shrimps in garlic

4. What might you say to the person/people with you in a restaurant if...

your chips had too much oil/fat on them?

your dish had obviously been cooked too much/too long?

your piece of meat was absolutely perfectly cooked?

your dish seemed to have no flavour at all?

5. How do you like the following foods prepared? Use words from the opposite and look up others if necessary. What do you like to put on the foods from the list in the box?

a leg of chicken eggs potatoes cheese

sausages a fillet of cod prawns mushrooms

6. 1) Which are fish and which are usually called seafood?

prawns sardines squid oysters mackerel mussels hake crab

plaice trout lobster cod sole whiting

2) What do we call the meat of these animals?

calf deer sheep (two names) pig (three names)

3) Which of these fruit grow in your country/region? Are there others not listed here?

peaches plums grapefruit grapes nectarines star-fruit blackcurrants

raspberries melons lime kiwi-fruit mango

(English Vocabulary in Use, p. 87)