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The document contains information about different types of foods including fruits, vegetables, salads, and meats. It lists various examples of each food type and provides some additional details. For example, it notes that a salad usually contains lettuce as well as other ingredients like tomato and cucumber. It also specifies that common salad dressings contain oil and vinegar. The document aims to teach English vocabulary related to different foods.

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Food

The document contains information about different types of foods including fruits, vegetables, salads, and meats. It lists various examples of each food type and provides some additional details. For example, it notes that a salad usually contains lettuce as well as other ingredients like tomato and cucumber. It also specifies that common salad dressings contain oil and vinegar. The document aims to teach English vocabulary related to different foods.

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24 Food

A Fruit
pineapple peach strawberry bunch of grapes olives

pear melon lemon coconut

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B Vegetables
beans peas onion garlic carrot mushrooms

aubergine courgette pepper cabbage broccoli spinach

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.

lettuce tomato cucumber oil vinegar

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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.


salmon prawns mussels crab

54 English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate


Exercises

24.1 Write down one vegetable and fruit beginning with these letters.
vegetable fruit
1 the letter p peas
2 the letter g
3 the letter m
4 the letter s
5 the letter o
24.2 Find a word from each box where the underlined letters are pronounced the same.

carrot 1 onion tomato melon 1


lettuce prawn pork chicken
aubergine salmon lamb mushroom

24.3 Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?
1 pork veal salmon beef salmon is a fish, the others are meat
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
24.4 Do you usually eat the skin (the outside) of these fruits? (Answer Yes, Sometimes or No.)
pineapple No peaches
melon pears
grapes lemon

24.5 Answer the questions.


1 What do we call the meat from a cow, lamb, calf, and a pig? beef , ,
, .
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.

24.6 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 .

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