Food
1. What time and what do you usually eat?
2. What type of food do you usually eat?
3. What is your favourite food?
4. What are the best dishes your mother and father cook?
5. Which dishes or foods do you hate? And why?
6. What don’t you usually prefer to eat?
7. Tell us about your favourite restaurants and dishes in Istanbul.
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EXAMPLE ANSWERS: Food
1. I have breakfast at about 12.00, and I have dinner before 6 pm
2. At breakfast, I eat a lot. At dinner, I never eat bread. I usually eat healthy food
3. My favourite food is kokoreç
4. My mother cooks sura. It is a traditional Balıkesir kebab
5. I hate kapuska. Because we ate kapuska almost every day during military service.
6. I never eat eggs. I have a phobia
7. My favourite restaurants in Istanbul are Mahir Restaurant in Pangaltı, İzmir İşi in Karaköy and Kardeşler Kebap in Şehremini. My favourite dishes in Mahir are lahmacun and içli köfte. In Kardeşler, we usually eat döner kebab
Watch the video above and discuss what you learned from it during your Spoken Cafe session
There’s a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. Black sapote, which grows in Central and South America, tastes like chocolate and sweet custard. Pick the fruit, cut it in half, dip a spoon in it and have the sensation of tasting good chocolate. It tastes like chocolate pudding but with fewer calories, 45 for 100 grams (compared to 530 calories for 100 grams of chocolate). It is popular in Central America, and it is found mainly in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Guatemala. Another advantage? This chocolate pudding fruit is rich in vitamins A and C. In Central America, a kilo of black sapotes costs around 2 euros.
READ/SPEAK
Tell us about your favourite fruit and why you like it. What’s your favourite dessert and where in your city can we eat it?
Used to say that two things are completely different, and it is not sensible to compare them:
“You’re comparing apples with oranges. They are two very different jobs, with very different types of stress.”
LEARN THE IDIOM AND SPEAK
Can you compare your father and mother? What are their resemblances and differences?