Vocabulary exercises

Exercise 1. Complete the following chart using the words from your active vocabulary and compare it with your group-mates’.

Meat & Poultry	……………………………
Fish & Seafood	……………………………
Dairy Products	……………………………
Bread & Confectionery & Pastry	…………………………………………….
Dry Groceries	……………………………
Vegetables & Fruits	……………………………
Sweets	… … … … … … … … …

Exercise 2. Look at the words below. Group the words under these headings:

• things to eat

• things to put on the table

• things to cook with

• things to drink

cheeseboard	serviette	pomegranate
puff	gin&tonic	spatula
cherries	pasta	liqueur
walnuts	melon	horse radish
salt cellar	turkey	chips
teaspoon	wok	soup tureen
sandwich	decanter	saucer
mincer	cake server	spit

Exercise 3. Work in pairs and check your answers. Think of some more words you can add to each group. Discuss what you’d do with each of them. Use the words from exercise 2 to discuss:

Use the following examples as a model.

Exercise 4. What food can be eaten:

dried / frozen / tinned / boiled / fried / roasted / stewed / stuffed / scrambled / poached?

Exercise 5. What’s the opposite of …?

dry wine -… soft drinks - … dark beer - …

cooked food - … raw meat - … black coffee -…

white bread - … tinned fish - … hard-boiled eggs - …

clear soup - … sour cream - … strong tea - …

Exercise 6. Some meat is given a different name from the animal it comes from. What animals do the following meats come from?

1. pork (e) veal

2. beef (f) mutton

3. bacon (g) ham

4. venison (h) lamb

Exercise 7. Match each action on the left with the appropriate noun on the right.

1. You drink soup with a) a teapot

2. You cut up food with b) a potato peeler

3. You put your knife and fork on c) a rolling-pin

4. You get juice out of lemon with d) a whisk

5. You make tea in e) a sugar bowl

6. You cook food quickly by steam f) a knife

under high pressure in g) a spoon

7. You make dough flat by h) a lemon squeezer

8. You peel potatoes with i) a pressure cooker

9. You beat eggs into a stiff light mass with j) a plate

10)You keep sugar in

Exercise 8. Fill in the blanks using the appropriate utensils in the box below.

kettle frying pan baking tin grill pan

saucepan cake-tin coffee pot teapot

1. Put the vegetables in a large ______ full of water, add a little salt, and boil them for ten minutes.

2. Bob poured a little oil into a ______ and put it on the gas until it was hot.

3. Sally had prepared the cake very carefully and had put the mixture in a round _____.

4. Those are large potatoes. I know they’ve been cooking for 20 minutes, but I think we should put the _______ back on the cooker and let them simmer for another ten minutes on a low flame.

5. Jack poured some water in the electric ______ to make himself some tea.