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10 Food and drink

A Everyday food
Would you like some bread?
I love sushi because I love rice.
Pasta is good for you, but don’t eat too much!
I always put salt on my chips, but not pepper.
My sister never eats meat or fish. She’s vegetarian.
Do you take sugar in tea or coffee?

Common mistakes
Can I have some bread? [NOT Can I have a bread?]

B Fast food
I eat hamburgers, hot dogs and pizzas when I don’t
have much time.
Fish and chips is popular in Britain, Australia and
New Zealand.

C Fruit /fruːt/ and vegetables /ˈvedʒtəbəlz/


Vegetables are good for you. Fruit is also good for you. (singular, uncountable)
Vegetables

carrots beans potatoes tomatoes peas onions /ˈʌnjənz / garlic mushrooms


Fruit apple

pineapple
/ˈpaɪnæpl/
orange banana pear
/ˈɒrɪndʒ/ grapes strawberries
/peə/ /ˈstrɔːbrɪz/ Common mistakes
I love fruit [NOT I love fruits].

D Drinks

mineral
water
tea coffee milk fruit juice beer wine

Tip
Go to a supermarket. How many different kinds of food or drink have English names on them?
Try to learn some of them.

26 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary


Exercises
10.1 Complete the sentences. Use words from the opposite page.
1 Rice is popular in Japan.
2 and are very popular in Italy.
3 Chips are made from
4 Many British people eat
5 Hamburgers are made from
6 A is a sausage inside a piece of bread.
10.2 Put these words into two lists: fruit and vegetables.

beans pineapple grapes onions apple carrot garlic pear mushrooms

fruit vegetables
beans

10.3 Write the names of these fruit and vegetables.

1 banana 3 5

2 4 6

10.4 Here are the names of some drinks with the letters mixed up. What are they?
1 eta tea 4 fecofe
2 rebe 5 rituf eciju
3 klim 6 nilemar retaw
10.5 Choose a, b or c.
1 Vegetarians do not eat a) vegetables b) meat c) fast food.
2 Garlic is a kind of a) fruit b) fast food c) vegetable.
3 You put a) salt b) beer c) sugar in coffee.
4 Which is correct a) pinapple b) pineapple c) pieapple?
5 The first sound in onion is the same as the sound in a) fun b) orange c) man.
6 A pear is a) a drink b) a vegetable c) a fruit.

10.6 What are your four favourite foods? And your three favourite drinks? Are they good for you?
Use a dictionary to help you.

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 27

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