WORKSHEET
18 Food
A Can you guess which country these dishes come from? Fill in the second
column with the names of countries from the box. Then complete the main
ingredients used in each dish in the right-hand column.
Dish Country Main ingredients
1 sushi cooked rice and raw _ _ _ _
2 gumbo meat, fish and _ _ _ _
3 schnitzel veal covered with b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s
4 moussaka meat, _ _ _ _ _ _ and aubergines
5 chop suey meat and v_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s served with rice
6 Victoria sponge flour, sugar, butter and _ _ _ _
7 pavlova meringue, cream and _ _ _ _ _
8 samosa _ _ _ _ and vegetables
9 ravioli _ _ _ _ _ with meat or cheese
10 paella meat, fish, vegetables and _ _ _ _
China Greece Italy France USA Japan Austria Spain India UK
B Match the fruits 1-8 with their descriptions a-h. Now look at the picture at the
entry fruit.
1 apricot a a fruit with a thick green or dark purple skin that is green inside and has a large seed
in the middle
2 avocado b a small round fruit that is orange or yellow and has a single large seed
3 nectarine c a small round fruit with a rough pink-brown shell outside and sweet white flesh inside
4 cranberry d sweet juicy fruit that has a round base and is thinner near the top
5 lychee e a small red sour fruit
6 coconut f a type of fruit like a peach that has a smooth skin
7 pear g tropical fruit with a thin skin and sweet yellow flesh
8 mango h the large brown seed of a tropical tree, which has a hard shell containing white flesh
that you can eat and a milky liquid that you can drink
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Teacher’s Notes for Worksheet 18:
Food
Objectives: To develop students’ knowledge of vocabulary related to food
Dictionary skills: Finding out information about food in definitions and in the illustrations
Tasks: A Complete the table with information about the origin of food and its
ingredients
B Match the fruit with their descriptions
Procedure
A Students work in pairs and write down where they think each of the foods comes from and fill in
the missing main ingredient from each dish. They then look up the foods in their dictionaries or DVD-
ROMs to check their answers.
Time: 15 minutes
Answers: 1 Japan - fish
2 USA - okra
3 Austria - breadcrumbs
4 Greece - cheese
5 China - vegetables
6 UK - eggs
7 France - fruit
8 India - meat
9 Italy - pasta
10 Spain - rice
As a follow-up activity ask students to find two other students and ask them if they have tried each of
the foods and if so did they like it?
B Students do the matching exercise alone or in pairs. Then in pairs they look at the fruits at the entry
for fruit and tell each other which are their favourite fruits.
Time: 15 minutes
Answers: 1b 2a 3f 4e 5c 6h 7d 8g
Follow-up: Ask students to look at the pictures of vegetables at the entry for vegetable. They can draw
a mind map and write down vegetables which are new to them. Alternatively, they can talk to each
other about vegetables they use to cook their favourite dishes.
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