Lesson 01 Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Topic: “Do you eat a lot of
red meat?
Goal: Comprehend the
use of English skills and
communicate their
agreeing and disagreeing
Thematic Content:
Present simple and
continuous, action and
non-action verbs
Start: Students answer the question: What can you see on the board?
Eating in…
and out
1. VOCABULARY food and cooking
a. Look at some quotes about
food from pinterest.
Complete the gaps with a
word or phrase from the list.
cake - cookie - fruit -
salad - onions - pasta
- pear - tomato
b. Which quote do you like best?
Compare with a partner.
c. Vocabulary bank Food and cooking. p. 152
1. Match the words and photos.
d. Look at some common adjectives to describe food. What kind of food do we often use them
with?
e. Listen to six conversations. Write the food phrase you hear for each adjective in d. (1.5)
1. Raw beetroot
2. ..
3. ..
4. ..
5. ..
6. ..
2. PRONUNCIATION short and long vowel sounds
a. Look at the eight sound pictures. What are the words and sounds? What part of the symbol
tells you that a sound is long?
b. Match a phrase to each sound. Then listen and check. (1.6)
2. PRONUNCIATION short and long vowel sounds
a. Look at the eight sound pictures. What are the words and sounds? What part of the symbol
tells you that a sound is long?
b. Match a phrase to each sound. Then listen and check. (1.6)
3. LISTENING & SPEAKING
a. Read the your food profile
questionnaire. What do
you think the bold words
and phrases mean?
b. Listen to six people each answering one
question from Your food profile. Match
each speaker to the question he or she
is answering. (1.7)
c. Listen again and write their answers.
4. READING
a. Talk to a partner. What time do you usually…?
…get up? …have lunch?
…have breakfast? …have a coffee?
…do exercise? …have dinner?
…go to bed?
b. Read the article once. Do you or your patner do any of the things in a at the
times the article recommends?
c. Read the article again. Answer the questions with a partner.
1. Why is it important to have breakfast every day when you’re a teenager?
2. What effect does caffeine have on us if we drink it between 2.00 and 5.00
p.m.?
3. What’s the difference between having steak and chips for lunch and having it
for dinner?
4. Why should an early evening meal be ‘delicious’?
5. What’s the best physical activity to do a) early in the morning, b) in the
afternoon?
6. Why does the body produce melatonin?
d. Search the text and find six parts of the body. Which do we a) have one of, b) two of, c) more
than two of?
1. he…..
2. st…
3. li……
4. br…
5. mu…
6. lu…
e. Answer the questions with a partner.
1. Do you believe all the information in this article? Why (not)?
Give examples from your own experience.
2. Would you consider changing any of your habits based on this information?
5. LISTENING
a. Read the text about Marianna. Then look at the five photos and extracts from an interview with her.
With a partner, say how you think she finishes each sentence.
b. Listen to Part 1 of an interview with Marianna and check your answers to a.
(1.8)
c. Now listen to Part 2 and answer the questions. (1.9)
1. What three things did Marianna do before becoming a chef in London?
2. What was her first connection with the restaurant Moro? Why did she
go back to it later?
3. What happened seven years later?
4. How is her rtestaurant, Morito, different from Moro?
5. How often does she go back to Crete? What happens when she has
lunch with her old friends there?
d. What about you? Answer the questions with a partner. (1.9)
1. What was your favourite food when you were a child?
2. What kind of things did you mother or father cook? Do you still eat
them?
3. Do you have a favourite restaurant? What do you like most about it –
the food, the atmosphere, the service, or the Price?
6. GRAMMAR Present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs
a. Look at the three sentences from the interview. Cicle the correct verb form.
1. you don’t need / aren’t needing anything except lemon and olive
oil when fish and seafood is really fresh.
2. This week, for example, I make / I’m making ‘ntakos’, a Cretan salad…
3. I go / I’m going to Crete maybe four or five times a year.
b. Listen and check. With a partner, say why you think she uses each form. (1.10)
c. Grammar bank 1A. p.132
Presnt simple and continuous
d. Do the exercises.
e. Make questions to ask your partner with the present simple or continuous. Ask for more
information.
6. SPEAKING
a. Read statements 1-6 and
decide if you agree or disagree.
Think of reasons and examples.
b. in pairs or groups, discuss each
statement for at least two minutes.
Say if you agree with the statements
or not, and why. Use the language
from the Agreeing and disagreeing box.
Thanks for your attention!!
Now do your practice…
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