My meals

Make a class survey and then report about the following things.

Use these phrases:

Do you mind if I ask you some questions?

How about answering ....?

Excuse me, I’d like to know....

I was wondering whether.......

• the time you have lunch and dinner

• a typical lunch or dinner lasts

• eat bread with your main meal

• eat melon, pasta, fish, steak

• put butter on your bread

• drink tea in the afternoon

• drink tea with your dinner

• like pasta

• eat spaghetti with garlic and tomato sauce when you go out on a romantic date

• eat something for breakfast

• eat something hot for breakfast

• eat soup in summer

• eat salad in winter

• peel an apple before you eat it

• peel vegetables before you cook them

• like meat

• eat meat every day

• like eating in front of the television

• usually eat with the rest of the family

• smoke at the dinner table

• mind if someone else smokes at the dinner table

Exercise 1

Put each of the following words into its correct space in the passage below.

afternoon	breakfast	continental	morning	meals	syrup	second	supper
bacon	chocolate	English	lunch	menu	rolls	juice

Meals

Most people eat three …….. a day — breakfast, ……. and dinner. Some eat a fourth meal, …...... , late at night. …..…. tradition provides an extra light meal served in the late ……….. . Its basic …….... usually includes tea and special tea cakes or cucumber sandwiches.

Meals vary in different countries. …….….. in the United States may include fruit or fruit …......, coffee, toast, and a choice of cereal or …...… and eggs. Many people like pancakes with maple …..... for breakfast. .….…….. Europeans sometimes have an early breakfast of ….... and coffee or hot .….……., and eat a …...…. breakfast later on in the ..……… .

 Speaking

What foods do you eat when you are tired? at a celebration? at home? on a picnic? at a fast-food restaurant? at an expensive restaurant? Fill in the chart.

Occasion	Foods You Eat
At work
At formal party
On your birthday
In hot weather
In cold weather
When you receive foreign guests
When you are as hungry as a hunter
When you are having barbecue

 Reading Read the title of the text. Then make a list of five different drinks and the reasons we have them.