English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate » Unit 24: Food

Word List
  • aubergine
  • beans
  • beef
  • bitter
  • broccoli
  • bunch
  • cabbage
  • calf
  • carrot
  • coconut
  • courgette
  • crab
  • cucumber
  • flavour
  • garlic
  • grapes
  • hen
  • lamb
  • lemon
  • lettuce
  • melon
  • mushroom
  • mussels
  • oil [on food]
  • olives
  • onion
  • peach
  • pear
  • peas
  • pineapple
  • pork
  • prawns
  • red pepper
  • salad
  • salad dressing
  • salmon
  • spinach
  • strawberry
  • tomato
  • veal
  • vegetarian
  • vinegar
Exercises

24.1 ‣ Write down one vegetable and fruit beginning with these letters.

  1. the letter p (vegetable), _____ (fruit)
  2. the letter g _____ (vegetable), _____ (fruit)
  3. the letter m _____ (vegetable), _____ (fruit)
  4. the letter s _____ (vegetable), _____ (fruit)
  5. the letter o _____ (vegetable), _____ (fruit)

24.2 ‣ Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?

  1. pork   veal   salmon   beef
  2. lettuce   cabbage   tomato   cucumber
    _____
  3. pork   lamb   beef   crab
    _____
  4. peach   onion   pepper   courgette
    _____
  5. crab   broccoli   mussels   prawn
    _____
  6. carrots   chicken   beans   aubergine
    _____

24.3 ‣ Answer the questions.

  1. What do we call the meat from a cow, lamb, calf, and a pig? , _____, _____, _____.
  2. What’s the main ingredient in a green salad? _____.
  3. What are the two most common things we put in salad dressing? _____ and _____.
  4. What do we usually call someone who doesn’t eat meat? _____
  5. What do we call a number of grapes that grow together? A _____ of grapes.

24.4 ‣

Over to you

Using words from the opposite page, complete these sentences about yourself and your country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else.

  1. .....is/are more common than..... .
    _____
  2. .....is/are more expensive than..... .
    _____
  3. A mixed salad usually has ....., ....., ....., ..... .
    _____
  4. We don’t often grow..... .
    _____
  5. We don’t often eat..... .
    _____
  6. ..... is/are my favourite..... .
    _____
Answer Key
A ‣ Fruit

B ‣ Vegetables

C ‣ Salad

A salad is usually a mixture of uncooked ingredients. In Britain it mainly has lettuce, as well as tomato, cucumber, onion, and other things. We often put salad dressing (usually oil and vinegar, or perhaps oil and lemon) on salad.

D ‣ Meat, fish and seafood

Animal: cow, calf [young cow], lamb [young sheep], pig, chicken/hen
Meat: beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken

A person who does not eat meat is a vegetarian.

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