🍲 Food and Eating Out
🍎 Essential Vocabulary
- Allergic to – having a bad reaction to certain food.
- Vegetarian / Vegan / Teetotaler – different dietary preferences or restrictions.
- Cut down on / Cut out – reduce or eliminate from your diet.
- Preservatives – substances added to food to keep it from spoiling.
- Wholesome – healthy and nutritious.
- Overcooked / Undercooked – improperly prepared food.
- Reservation – booking a table in advance.
- Bill / Check – the printed statement of what you owe.
- Service charge – added payment for the wait staff’s service.
🧐 Test Your Knowledge
1. Formal to informal conversion (6 pts)
“Patrons are requested to refrain from smoking in the dining area. If they wish to smoke, they should retire to the bar.”
- (a) Customers
- (b) are asked
- (c) not to
- (d) restaurant
- (e) want
- (f) go
2. Spot the mistakes (4 pts)
Mistakes: high in cholesterol, fry them
Correction: Should be low in cholesterol, and best way is to steam or grill.
3. Synonym Search (10 pts)
- (a) goodness
- (b) ingredients
- (c) rich / high in
- (d) minimum
- (e) retain
- (f) wholesome
- (g) preparing
- (h) free from
- (i) artificial
- (j) way / method
4. Vocabulary from anagrams (3 pts)
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Teetotaler
5. Prepositions / Particles (8 pts)
- (a) allergic to
- (b) keen on / fond of
- (c) cut down on, cut out
- (d) give up
- (e) gone off
- (f) What’s for lunch? / drink with it?
6. Error correction (5 pts)
- free range eggs (not ranger)
- organic fruit (not organism)
- additives (not additions)
- genetic modification
- fast food (not fat)
7. Anagram unscramble (14 pts)
- recommend
- reservation
- service
- waiting
- portions
- undercooked
- rare
- well-done
- burnt
- check
- overcharged
- service charge
- tip
