Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! - Past Worksheet

Eat, drink, and be merry! Expressing quantity © something/no one... © Articles © A piece of... Can you come for dinner? Sy STARTER HOW TO LIVE TO BE 120! 1 What did you eat and drink yesterday? Make a list. Expressions of quantity 2 Compare your list with the class. Who had the healthiest die...

Eat, drink, and be merry! Expressing quantity © something/no one... © Articles © A piece of... Can you come for dinner? Sy STARTER HOW TO LIVE TO BE 120! 1 What did you eat and drink yesterday? Make a list. Expressions of quantity 2 Compare your list with the class. Who had the healthiest diet? For breakfast | had a cup of coffee, some cereal, and ... 1 Read about Claus and Elvira Bonrich. 1 What is their extraordinary ambition? 2 What are their jobs? 3 What kind of food do they eat? Do they cook any of their food? PLLA Claus Bonrich (33) and his wife Elvira (28) are a successful young couple. Claus is a software programmer and Elvira works in a health food shop. In many ways their life is quite ordinary, but they have an extraordinary ambition. They want to live until they are 120. And they believe they can do this by following an American health plan called the ‘Calorie Restriction Diet’ Claus and Elvira eat a lot of raw food. They steam some food but they don't fry, grill, or roast anything, and there are many things they don't eat at all. ame T ans to live to be 120! 2 Look at the nouns in the boxes. Which group can ount? Which can't t? Label th GRAMMAR SPOT ee ee Countable and table. aiainarcnapemiiiet apples grapes carrots vegetables meat prawns fish orange juice calories 1 A coffee tea B How much...? fruit broccoli Look at the expressions of quantity in A, B, and C. Which group go with plural, countable nouns? Which go with uncountables? Which go with both? not much alcohol a little Cc | Howmany...? not many | some/any not any/no afew alot of/lots of Find examples in the interview in exercise 3. 2 Much and many are not usually used in positive statements. When do we use them? Correct the sentences. There are many books in my bag. X There's mueh homework tonight. X 3 Look at these sentences. Which is a request? Is there any orange juice? Can | have some orange juice? > 3 Work with a partner. Read and complete the questions and answers about the diet with the nouns from exercise 2. 1 Q Do y you eat any te __meat__? A No, we don't eat any eat some at all, but we ; 2 Q How much 5 Work in small groups. Do you think the Bonrichs eat and drink the things in the box? Discuss with your partner and complete the lists. cereal tomatoes do you eat? A Weeat alittle white ___—_, but we love shellfish so we eat a lot of 3 Q A Grammar Reference 4.1 p139 bread —_ peppers milk olive oil pasta sugar apple juice potatoes tap Water Do you eat much 2 Oh, yes, we eat a lot of fresh cheese nuts butter rice bananas mangoes __biscuits chips crisps wine mineral water Pavan think they eatany cereal? = Yes, think l so. Maybe / just a little, not much. and___—_—s, everything. 4 Q A 5 Q A And do you eat many 2 Yes, of course, we eat lots of raw Dont you cook any vegetables at all? We cook some. Sometimes we steam a few eee of cores | atcalittie ens | 6 Q And what do you drink? A Well, we don't drink any and naturally there’s no but we do drink a lot of 7 Q How many or ; | in our diet, : | | do you have every day? 4 Listen and check. Practise the questions and answers with your partner. | V4 A About 1,500. A That's about 1,000 fewer than most people. | Vi ne Compare your list with the class. 6 Ga ‘®ae Listen and find out if your ideas were correct. . 7 What do you think of the diet? Will the Bonrichs live to be 120? Why/Why not? Unit4 + Eat, drink, and be merry! 31 PRACTICE THE SECRET TO A LONG Articles — a/an, the Discussing grammar Work with a partner. Complete the sentences. 1 some any 1 Have they got children? 2 We dont need olive oil. Do you know anybody who lived to be a great age? How old were they? Why do you think they lived so long? Read and listen to the text. Answer the questions. 1 How long did the grandfather live? LY cake? W 5 Can I have 1 2 3 Can you lend me money. 4 Is there petrol in the car? 1 Have you got 2 We don't need 3 Is there 4 traffic in your town? I don't know 5 How How many children did he have? Why did everybody love him? When did he stop work? What was his secret to a long life? students in this class. afew alot of Ihave very close friends. Two or three. He has money. He’s a millionaire. ‘Do you take sugar in coffee?’ Just . Half a spoonful’ [ll be ready in minutes. She speaks good Spanish, but only Russian. something/someone/somewhere ... 4 Complete the lines with the correct word. some any every re no thing one/body where 1 “Did you meet nice at the party?’ “Yes. I met who knows you!’ 2 ‘Ouch! There’s___—_—siin my eye!’ ‘Let me look. No, I can't see ; 3 ‘Let’s go hot for our holidays. ‘But we can’t go that’s too expensive: 4 “Where are my glasses. I can’t find them “What are they on the top of your head?’ 5 ‘It was a great party. loved it? ‘They did. wanted to go home: 6 ‘Did you get nice in the sales?’ ‘No, . I couldn't find I liked? Listen and check. Practise them with a partner. 5 Where did he live? What kind of shop did he have? time have you got? 3 alittle 1 2 3 4 5 homework? eggs. Just half a dozen. WB many NW 2 much LIFE Listen. There is a word missing in each sentence. Call out what it is. Say the complete sentence. Do you know ... famous? 32 Unit4 + Eat, drink, and be merry! My grandfather lived until he was 101 years old. He was a shopkeeper. He had a fish and chip shop in an old village near a big, industrial town in the north of England. He had a son and a daughter. The daughter is my mother. The family lived above the shop. In those days, fish and chips was the most popular dish in the whole country. My grandfather made the best fish and chips in the area. People came to the village by bus especially to get them. Everybody loved my grandfather because he was such a happy and contented man. He worked hard, but once a week he closed the shop and went to have lunch (not fish and chips!) with friends in the local pub. He didn’t retire until he was 78 years old. He said that the secret to a long life was a glass of whisky before going to bed and lots of fish and chips. PRACTICE Articles 1 Reading aloud Find examples of the definite article (the) and the indefinite article (a/an) in the text. 2 What ... ... ... 1 Join the lines about the grandfather with the, a, an, or no article. do you notice about these phrases? came by bus. went to have lunch. before going to bed. 3 Read the rules in Grammar Reference 4.2 p139. Find some examples of these rules in the text. My grandfather was shopkeeper. He lived in north of England. He had a fish and chip shop in old village. His family lived above He made Some people came by rT ae the shop. ; ee best fish and chips in the area. bus to the shop. He closed the shop once week. He went to have lunch with friends. He liked to have little whisky before bed. Listen and check. Read the lines aloud to a partner. Discussing grammar Work with a partner. 2 Complete the sentences with a/an, the or no article. 1 He has | P | _ ; _ 3 He always has cheese sandwiches for 4 All family stayed at Grand Hotel. | | ot lunch. 5 few people came by taxi to 6 It was such wonderful party. We had party. best time ever. 7 I don't go out to work. I work at home on my computer. 8 I do all my shopping on Internet. What great way to shop! Check it 3 Find one mistake in each sentence and correct it. l DCrHA OT SW bY : +. boy and girl. boy is 22 and girl is 17. 2 His sonis engineer and his daughter is student. He's postman, so he has breakfast at 4.00 a.m. The love is more important than money. I come to school by the bike. I’m reading one good book at the moment. “Where are the children?’ ‘In a kitchen? I live in centre of town, near the hospital. My parents bought the lovely house in the country. I don't eat the bread because I don't like it. Unit4 + Eat, drink, and be merry! 33 READING AND LISTENING Unusual places to eat 1 Are there lots of places to eat and drink in your town? What are they? Where did people in your country eat and drink hundreds of years ago? place to eat! 2 Read the introduction. Look at the pictures Dinner in the Sky and the Fact Files. What’s unusual about the three restaurants? 3 Work in three groups. Group A Read about Dinner in the Sky. Group B_ Read about Ithaa Undersea Restaurant. Group C_ Read about s Baggers Restaurant. Answer the questions about your restaurant. 1 Where is the restaurant? 2 In what ways is it unusual? 3 When did it open? 4 What's on the menu? Is it good? 5 How expensive is it? ™ ® ™ 6 Are there any problems? 4 Find a partner from the other two groups and compare the restaurants. Listening 5 Listen to people who visited the restaurants. Answer these questions after each person. ¢ Which restaurant did they visit? Who with? ¢ What was good about it? ¢ What wasn't so good? ¢ What do they say about the other guests? Alexander Hans Dinner in the Sky is for people a little go out a crane people 50m up in the air atable 9m x5m diners hang from acrane who want more than ® there isn't a loo excitement when they to eat. They sit at a huge table which hangs from fifty metres in the air. It’s not a good idea for who are afraid of heights or for those who don’t have much money. It costs £10,000. The twenty-two diners wear seat belts and relax and enjoy the views while the chefs prepare the finest food in front of them. The restaurant opened in Belgium in 2006, but now has branches in Paris, Dubai, Florida, and Las Vegas. Lucy David Ghysels, the Belgian organizer says, ‘We realized that people were bored with going to the same old restaurants. They wanted to try something different. The sky’s the limit with us!’ The crane is checked carefully before every sitting. The table is 9m x 5m and weighs six tonnes. In the centre there is a sunken platform for the chef and two waiters. The food is delicious, but most guests don’t feel like eating until after a few drinks! Then they also get the courage to look down at the ground where tiny people What do you think? ¢ Which do you think is the most unusual restaurant? Which would you like to visit? Why? Do you eat out? How often? What's your favourite resturant? Do you know any unusual restaurants? Tell the class. 34 Unit4 «+ Eat, drink, and be merry! are looking up in amazement and waving. Dinner in the Sky is very exciting and the food is good, but there are problems. For example, even in quiet weather conversation is difficult because of the wind. Guests shout to each other across the table. Also, the loo. You can’t go to the loo until the table descends again. Difficult for some! But later, back on earth, after a visit to the loo, the guests have a great experience to talk about. For hundreds of years when journeys, there were only a Nowadays, streets are lined snack bars, but some people Mur Undersea tired travellers stopped on their few places to eat and drink. with restaurants, cafés, and want something more unusual. Ascehcomenboadh an n FACT FILE Xe @ 5m under the sea @ a huge glass ceiling ® language and the guests are like pearls in a glass oyster. It's not cheap — about £160 for dinner — and there aren't many seats, only a dozen, so it’s not easy to get a reservation even if you’ve got enough money. However, it is easy to get to. You don’t need to be a swimmer or a scuba diver, but you do have to wear formal clothes. You simply descend to the restaurant down some spiral stairs. The manager, Carlton Schieck says, ‘We have used aquarium technology to put diners face-to-face with the fish. Our guests are speechless at the colour and beauty of the underwater world. They can enjoy the views and the fine food and not get their feet wet.’ The views are spectacular. In the crystal-blue sea, a few metres from your head, there are sharks, sting rays, turtles, and thousands of tropical fish looking at you as you eat. There is also a fabulous coral garden to add to the colour. The experience is both romantic and magical — and you can guess what’s on the menu! The restaurant opened in 2004 and cost over £3 million to build. In April 2010 it also became a hotel. If you want more excitement and would like to sleep underwater with the fish, you can do this for just £7,500 a night! However, an underwater building can’t last forever. It is thought that it will have a life of about twenty years. no waiters ® food lands from above ™ email as you eat ® eat now, pay later ® no tips @ diners wear formal clothes Welcome to the Maldives and @ they eat face-tothe first underwater restaurant face with sharks in the world. The Ithaa Undersea ~ Restaurant on Rangali Island sits five metres below the Indian Ocean. Ithaa means ‘pearl’ in the Maldivian ath Germany likes to call itself The Land of Ideas and ‘s Baggers Restaurant in Nuremberg is certainly an amazing idea. It’s a restaurant with no waiters to serve you. You do everything for yourself with touch-screen TVs and computers. It opened in 2007 and is the first automated restaurant in the world. When you arrive you pick up an ‘s Baggers credit card and go to sit at a big, round table with three or four computer screens. You put your card into the computer and order your meal by touching the pictures on the screen. You don’ t see the chefs. They are in the kitchen high above you. They’re real men, not machines (at least not yet). The food is all freshly cooked and when it is ready it is put in a pot and sent down a spiral tube where it lands on the table in front of you. This gives a new meaning to fast food! The TVs are connected to the Internet, so if you get bored while waiting, you can send and receive emails and text messages. A businessman called Michael Mack had the idea for 's Baggers. He decided that waiters were unnecessary and too expensive. ‘You don’t need waiters to run to and from customers taking orders to the kitchen and back.’ Mack is planning to open more restaurants and now has the patent for the idea. The meals are not too expensive And if you want you can pay by the month. And something else is, of course, no need to leave a — about €8 (£6) a portion. direct debit at the end of that saves money — there tip! ENING VOCABULARY AND LIST A piece of... Match amounts in A 1 Work in small groups. ny can you make? with nouns in B. How ma B A apples \ bananas \ beer \ \ , a piece bread cake \ chewing gum \ ae Coke \ a akilo a litre of j a packet spl | a slice a bunch / / / / | \ flowers / ee jeans milk — Fe petrol sunglasses socks wine sions. How Listen and repeat the expres country? 2 things in your much are some of these bread costs about £1.00. | think a large loaf of white 3 Listen to six conversations. tion taking place? 1 Where is the conversa Choose from these places. e anewsagents « anofflicence ° 4 clothesshop ° acafe ° 4 chemist’s ¢ asupermarket want to buy? 2 What does the customer prices do you hear? 3 What numbers and/or Write them down. at is each line about? Wh es? lin se the s say o 4 Wh change1 ‘No problem. I’ve got blue?’ 2 ‘Have you got any in only two slices left: 3 ‘I’m afraid there are a day: 4 ‘Take these three times ’ 5 ‘Have you got any ID? aisle, over there: 6 ‘They're on the first check. Work with a and in aga ten Lis E GL 5 se one of rn to page 123 and choo partner. Tu it by heart and then the conversations. Learn act it to the class. PP p108 WRITING Writing an email be merry! 36 Unit4 + Eat, drink, and EVERYDAY ENGLISH Can you come for dinner? 1 What is happening in the picture? What are the people eating and drinking? 2 Match a question in A with a response in B. A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 B Would you like some more rice? Could you pass the salt, please? Can | have some water, please? Please, just help yourselves to the dessert. Would anybody like some more ice cream? How would you like your coffee? This is delicious! Would you mind giving me the recipe? Do you want some help with the washing-up? LA ____ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ a b ¢ d e f g h Black, no sugar. Have you got any decaf? No, not at all. | got it online. I'll give you the website. Do you want still or sparkling? No, thanks. But could | have another piece of bread? Yes, of course. Do you want the pepper, too? No, but I'd love some more fruit. Is there any left? No, of course not. You're our guests! We will. It looks fantastic. Did you make it yourself? Listen and check. What is the next line? Practise the conversations with a partner. 3 Complete the requests with Can/Could I ...? or Can/Could you ...? ] 2 have some apple juice, please? tell me where Market Street is, please? 3 see the menu, please? 4 5 lend me £20, [ No, not at all. ls 20 enough? } please? bith vase tes ted 7 help me with my homework, please? 8 give me a lift to the station, please? eilensel Listen and check. Practise saying them. 5 Request things from your teacher and other members of the class. Practise the requests with a partner. Give an answer for each request. Can | have some apple juice, please? } Listen and compare. Can | borrow your ...? ( Sorry, we ... } NI IK Si@ dane Would you mind + -ing’ Would you mind lending me £20? } use your iPad for a few minutes, please? 4 4 Make 5-8 in exercise 3 more polite using Yes, of course. Would you like ...? ; ould you lend me your ...? li Would you mind helping me with ...? Unit4 + Eat, drink, and be merry! 37