VOCABULARY NO. 2: Food

In this session we will review some vocabulary on food, restaurants, kitchen utensils, etc.

Let's start with a complete review of some of the most basic ingredients in our meals. See how many of these you already know!

Vocabulary Food

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HOW FOOD IS COOKED

boiled – cooked in boiling water

steamed – cooked over a saucepan of boiling water

fried / sauteed – cooked in oil in a frying pan

stir-fried – fried fast in hot oil

pan-fried – fried in a frying pan

roasted – cooked in oil in the oven

grilled – cooked under a grill

baked – cooked in the oven

stewed – cooked for a long time on a low heat

casseroled – cooked slowly in juices

TYPES OF FOOD

meat = lamb, pork or beef

poultry = chicken, turkey, goose, duck

game = rabbit, hare, partridge, pheasant

fish = salt water fish / sea fish, fresh water fish

seafood = prawns, shrimps, lobster, scallops, mussels, crab

vegetables= artichoke, lettuce, broccoli, peas, beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, eggplant, zucchini

fruit=apple, pear, banana, pineapple, persimon, orange, apple, grapes, watermelon,

berries= cranberries, strawberries, cranberries, black currant, blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries

Dishes
starter / hors d'oeuvre / appetiser
main course
dessert / pudding

READING

Let's read a little bit about berries and we will discover how good they are for our health.

http://www.berrywiseinc.com/power_of_berries.html

PRACTICE

Let's review vegetables here

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/vegetables_picture.htm

Let's learn more about food here

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/foodquiz1.php

At the restaurant:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/restaurant.htm

More words:

http://www.susancanthony.com/Resources/esl/4vocfoo.html

Listen to the pronunciation of these ones:

http://www.languageguide.org/im/food/eng/

Are you ready for a quiz?

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vc-food-lb.html

Food and drinks. A scrambled game:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/scrambled_letters3.htm

Want to know about some idioms with food expressions?

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/foodidioms.htm

How to use quantifiers for food:

http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz-center/foodcross.htm

LISTENING

Listen to these people and their likes in food:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/61-Food.html

What are your preferences?

Let's now listen to this short extract and try to answer the questions:

http://www.esl-lab.com/snack/snackrd1.htm

A LIST OF QUIZZES ON FOOD

Junk Food
Click here and complete the quiz. You will know if you really like "junk food" or not.

Reading a menu
Can you understand this menu? Click here and complete the test

A Diner
Read more about the meaning of "diner" here

Food Quantifiers
A review of "many", "much", "a few", "a little" ... here

At a restaurant: Check your grammar skills
Check how much you know about food sentences here

Prepositions of Location
Making dinner. A new quiz here

Kitchen vocabulary
A short quiz on your vocabulary skills here

What kind of food is it?
Do you know the meaning of "venison". Check it out here

Cooking pasta
A short exercise with some complicated vocabulary here

Supermarket vocabulary
Learn more vocabulary related to supermarkets here

Verb review
Finally, click here to review the correct use of verb tenses!