Each team makes a list of arguments for or against eating meat. Now you are ready to debate on these issues. Go ahead!

Vocabulary

add

V

to mix one food with another while cooking

• Cream the butter and sugar, then add the eggs.

• The fresh chillies add a spicy flavour to the sauce.

additive

n

a substance, especially a chemical, that is added to something such as food, to preserve it, give it colour, improve it etc. • This product contains no artificial additives.

agree

V

not to agree with you (if a type of food does not agree with you, it makes you feel ill)

• / never touch alcohol. It doesn 't agree with me.

appetiser BrE appetizer AmE

n

a small dish at the beginning of a meal

Syn: starter, hors d'oeuvre Fr

bite

n

the act of cutting or crushing something with your teeth to give smb a bite to have/ take a bite of (= bite a small piece from a larger piece of food)

to grab a bite

• Let's grab a bite at the airport

spoken: a small meal

bite

V

to cut or crush something with your teeth

• Be careful! My dog bites.

• Do you bite your fingernails?

bite off more than you can chew (= to try to do more than you are able to do)

breakfast

n

the meal you have in the morning have smth for breakfast

• We had coffee and toast for breakfast.

have breakfast

• George was having his breakfast when the phone rang.

brunch

n

a meal eaten in the late morning, as a combination of breakfast and lunch

cake

n

a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, sugar and eggs

a birthday cake

be a piece of cake spoken (= to be very easy)

• -- How do you do that? - It's apiece of cake. Watch!

sell like hot cakes spoken (= to sell very quickly and in large amounts)

change

n

for a change

• Let's go out to a restaurant for a change.

course

n

one of the separate parts of a meal

a three-course meal

a five-course meal

a two-course dinner

the first/ second/ main/meat course

cuisine

n

Fr 1. a particular style of cooking

French cuisine

vegetarian cuisine

2. the food cooked in a particular restaurant or hotel

especially when it is very good

• Enjoy the delicious cuisine created by our awgrd-winning chef.

cut

v

1. to divide something into two or more pieces using a sharp tool such as a knife

to cut smth in half/ in two

to cut smth into quarters/ pieces/ four

to cut smth fine

• Do you want me to cut the cake?

2. to use a knife to remove a piece from the main part of smth

• / cut another slice of bread.

3. to make smth into a particular shape by using a sharp tool such as a knife to cut smth into chunks/ rings

• Cut the carrots into small cubes.

to cut down on (= to reduce the amount of smth that you eat, buy, use etc.)

• / 've cut down on the amount of meat I eat.

delicious

adj

very pleasant to taste or smell

• This cake is absolutely delicious.

dessert

n

Syn: appetising, delightful, tasty sweet food served after the main part of a meal

• There's ice-cream for dessert.

Syn: afters (n) BrE informal

the part of a meal that comes after the main dish

diet

n

the kind of food that smb eats each day

• It is important to have a balanced, healthy diet

to keep to a diet

to follow a diet

to prescribe a diet

a vegetarian diet

a salt-free diet

a balanced diet

a special diet

a starvation diet

a low-fat/ high-fibre/ low-salt/ low-c:;lofie etc. diet

a diet of smth

• They exist on a diet offish. to go/ be on a diet

• Helen always seems to be on a diet.

digestion

n

1. the process of digesting food

2. your ability to digest food easily a good/ poor etc. digestion

• / 've always had a poor digestion.

dinner

n

1. the main meal of the day, eaten in the middle of the day or the evening

• Would you like to come over for dinner on Friday?

• We're having fish for dinner tonight. have dinner

• Why don't you come and have dinner with us?

Sunday/ Christmas/ Thanksgiving dinner school dinner (= a meal provided at school in the middle of the day)

2. a formal occasion when an evening meal is eaten, often to celebrate something

• They 're giving a dinner in honour of her retirement. to go out for dinner

• We went out for dinner at the Ritz. dinner party

• We 're having a dinner party on Tuesday, would you like to come?

dish

n

1. a flat round container with not very high sides, from which food is served on the table

a serving dish/ a vegetable dish

2. the dishes; all the plates, cups, bowls etc.; that have been used to eat a meal and need to be washed

do/ wash the dishes

3. food cooked or prepared in a particular way as a meal

Syn: speciality BrE, specialty AmE

fat-free dish

low-fat dish

French/ Moroccan/ American etc. dish

• Paella is one of my favourite Spanish dishes.

side dish (= extra food subsidiary to main dish)

dish up

v

to put food for a meal into dishes, ready to be eaten

• Could you dish up the vegetables? They're there, on the sideboard.

drink

n

1. an amount of liquid that you drink

• Can I have a drink of water, please?

soft drink (= a non-alcoholic drink)

• They sell ice-cream and soft drinks.

2. alcohol, or a glass or bottle of alcohol

• There was lots of food and drink left over from the party.

a stiff/hard drink (= very strong alcohol)

• After that news I need a stiff drink.

to go out for a drink BrE (= go to a pub)

to take to drink (= start drinking a lot of alcohol regularly)

to stand smb a drink (= buy someone a drink, especially

because they do not have enough money)

a drink problem (= difficulty in limiting the amount of

alcohol you drink so that it effects your life)

3. drinks (plural) BrE a social occasion when you have alcoholic drinks and sometimes food

• Don't forget we 're invited to the Jones' for drinks on Sunday.

drink

v

1. to take liquid into your mouth and swallow it

• / don't need a glass, I '11 drink from the bottle.

2. to drink alcohol, especially regularly or too much

• He's been drinking heavily since his wife died.

don't/ doesn't drink (= never drink alcohol)

• Whisky? - No thanks, I don't drink.

to drink and drive (= driving after you have drunk too much alcohol)

• People who drink and drive make me very angry.

to drink like a fish (= regularly drink a lot of ajcohol)

to drink heavily (= regularly drink too much)

• His uncle drank heavily and had problems with his liver.

to drink oneself unconscious/ silly etc. (= drink so much alcohol that you become unconscious)

to drink oneself to death (= drink so much alcohol that you become dead)

• If he goes on this way he’ll drink himself to death.

to drink someone under the table (= drink more alcohol than someone else but not be as ill as them)

3. What are you drinking? spoken (used to offer to buy smb a drink, especially in a pub)

eat

v

1. to put food in your mouth and swallow it

• Vegetarians don't eat meat.

something to eat (= some food)

• Would you like smth to eat?

eat like a bird (= eat very little)

eat like a horse (= eat a lot)

eat right AmE (= eat food that keeps you healthy)

I couldn't eat another thing spoken (= I am full)

I could eat a horse spoken (= used to say you are very hungry)

2. to have a meal

• We usually eat at seven.

to eat out (= have a meal in a restaurant)

eat up spoken (to eat all of smth)

• Come on, eat it up.

eater

n

a big/ a poor/ a light/ a fussy/ a hearty eater

• I've never been a big eater.

fast

n

a period of time when a person eats little or no food, especially for religious reasons

go on a fast

break a fast

fast

v

eat little or no food for a fixed period of time, especially for religious reasons

to fast on bread and water

fat

adj

having a lot of flesh on your body, especially too much flesh

• You’ll get fat if you eat all that chocolate.

fattening/ low-fat/ fat-free food

fat

n

1. an oily substance contained in certain foods

• Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.

2. an oily substance taken from animals or plants and used in cooking

• Skin off all the fat, then add the vegetables.

food

n

1. things that people and animals eat, such as vegetables or meat

• The food's great and it's not that expensive.

2. a particular type of food

junk food/ healthy food/ fatty food

• All he ever eats is junk food.

• Try to cut down on sweet and fatty foods.

dog food/ pet food/ baby food

be off your food (= feel ill and not want to eat anything)

decent/ tinned/ nutritious/ nourishing/ frozen/ plain/

gourmet food

high-fibre food

low-calorie food

fattening food (= food that makes you fat)

low-fat food

fat-free food

• Grilled fish tastes better and is less fattening than fried fish.

3. the type of food that is typical of France, Japan etc.

• I've never tried Korean food - what's it like?

4. food for thought (= smth that makes you think carefully)

• The teacher's advice certainly gave me food for thought.

garnish

n

smth that you add to food to decorate it

garnish

v

to add smth to food in order to decorate it

garnish smth with

• Garnish each dish with a slice of lemon.

help oneself

v

take something that you want, such as food, without asking

(to smth)

permission

• Please, help yourself to more, there's plenty of everything.

helping

n

the amount of food that someone gives you or that you take

a huge helping'of potatoes

hunger

n

Syn: malnutrition, famine

1. lack of food, especially for a long period of time, that can cause illness or death

• Thousands of people are dying from hunger every day.

2. the feeling that you need to eat

• Babies often cry from hunger.

hunger pangs (= sudden feelings of being hungry)

die of hunger

hungry

adj

Syn: starving, peckish

1. wanting to eat something

• There's tons of food. I hope you 're all hungry.

to get hungry

• If you get hungry between meals, have a piece of fruit.

2. ill or weak as a result of not having enough to eat for a long time

• We can't justify wasting food when half the world is hungry.

3. go hungry (= to not to have enough to eat)

• Thousands of families go hungry every day in this country.

hungry as a hunter

leftover

n

food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal

• Give the leftovers to the dog.

lunch

n

a meal eaten in the middle of the day

at lunch

• Anna said smth at lunch about leaving.

have lunch

• When do you usually have lunch?

have some lunch

• I'm starved. Let's have some lunch.

have smth for lunch

• All I had for lunch was a salad sandwich.

take smb out to lunch

• He decided to take her out to lunch.

go to lunch

• Rory went to lunch in a small Italian restaurant.

business/working lunch (= when you discuss business and eat)

packed lunch BrE/ bag lunch AmE (= food, usually sandwiches, that you take with you to work, school etc.)

lunch-box

lunch break - lunch hour

lunch

v

1. to eat lunch

2. to buy someone lunch

meal

n

Syn: snack, take away BrE/ take out AmE, picnic, barbecue

1. an occasion when you eat food, for example breakfast or lunch

• What time are you having your meal?

• Dinner is the main meal of the day for most people.

to go (out) for a meal

• After the movie we went for a meal in a Chinese restaurant.

to take/ ask smb out for a meal

• Why don 't you ask her out for a meal?

a light/ substantial meal

a square meal (= a good satisfying meal)

mealtime

• The only time I see them is at mealtimes.

a main meal (= the biggest meal of the day)

• We usually have our main meal in the middle of the day.

a five-course meal

2. the food that you eat on a particular occasion

• Michael cooked us a lovely French meal.

menu

n

a list of all the kinds of food that are available for a meal, especially in a restaurant

• Is there any fish on the menu?

• Could we have the menu, please?

nourish

v

to give a person or other living thing the food they need in order to live, grow, and stay healthy

a well nourished baby

party

n

an occasion when people meet together to enjoy themselves by eating, drinking, dancing etc.

• Let's have a party here before we move out.

to give/ throw a party

a party dress/ clothes/ hat (= worn at a party)

a party game/ trick (= played or done at a party)

a party animal informal (= someone who enjoys parties)

a party house/ school AmE informal (= a place that often has noisy parties)

a black-tie party

a cocktail party

a birthday party

pig out

v

informal to eat a lot of food

• We pigged out on pizza and beer.

prefer

v

to like smb or smth more than smb or smth else

to prefer smb/ smth to smb/ smth

• I much prefer tea to coffee.

to prefer to do smth

• Many people living in cities would actually prefer to live in the country.

to prefer doing smth

• She prefers travelling by train.

preserve

v

to store food for a long time after treating it so that it will not decay

preserved fruit/ jam

rare

n

meat that is rare has only been cooked for a short time and is still red

• I like my steak rare.

recipe

n

a set of instructions for cooking a particular type of food

a recipe for smth

a recipe book

to follow a recipe

serve

v

1. to give someone food or drink as part of a meal

• What kind of wine should we serve?

serve smth with smth

• Serve the dish with rice and a green salad.

serve smb

• Why aren 't you out there serving the guests?

serve smth hot/ cold etc.

serve breakfast/ lunch/ dinner

serving spoon/ dish

2. serve two/ three/ four etc. (= if food serves two, three

etc. people, there is enough for that number of people)

• One large fish should serve two to three people.

smell

n

something that you notice by using your nose

• The wine has light, lemony smell.

smell of

• I opened the window to get rid of the smell of fried meat.

• Pooh' What a smell! (An unpleasant smell)

• Have a smell of this cheese; does it seem all right?

smell

v

1. to have a particular smell

smell nice/ good/ spicy

• That soup smells delicious!

2. to notice or recognise a particular smell

I could smell that the milk wasn 't fresh.

snack

n

1. a small amount of food that is eaten between main meals or instead of a meal

• I only had time to grab a quick snack.

snack food (= food, such as peanuts or popcorn that is intended to be eaten as a snack)

2. snacks (pl) small things to eat that are provided at a party, meeting etc.

snack bar

supper

n

a meal taken at the end of the,day, especially an evening meal less formal and substantial than dinner

• After supper we watched a video. have supper

•I had my supper and went to bed.

table

n

1. a piece of furniture with a flat top supported by legs

a kitchen table

to book a table (= ask a restaurant to keep a table available for you)

to lay the table BrE/ to set the table AmE (= put knives, forks etc. on a table before a meal)

to clear the table (= take all the empty plates, dishes etc. off a table after eating)

at table BrE formal (= sitting around a table having a meal) coffee table

high table (= the table where the most important people at

a formal occasion sit)

taste

n

1. the special feeling that is produced by a particular food or drink when you put it in your mouth

• Sugar has a sweet taste.

strong/ bitter/ nasty/ watery taste

2. to one's taste

to have (good) taste

to have bad/ no taste

to have a taste for

• I've always had a taste for jazz.

to have no taste for

taste

v

1. to have a particular kind of taste

to taste delicious/ sweet/ fresh etc.

• This wine tastes too acidic.

to taste like

• What does pumpkin taste like?

sweet-tasting/ strong-tasting etc.

2. to put a small amount of food or drink into your mouth

to see what it is like

3. to experience the taste of food or drink

• I can hardly taste what I 'm eating because of my cold.

tasteless

adj

food or drink that is tasteless is unpleasant because it has no particular taste

• The vegetables were tasteless and soggy.

tea

n

1. a) a hot brown drink made by pouring boiling water onto the dried leaves from a particular bush

• Do you take milk and sugar in your tea?

b) BrE a cup of tea

• Three teas and a coffee, please.

2. mint/ camomile etc. tea (= a hot drink made by pouring boiling water into the leaves or flowers of a particular plant, sometimes used as a medicine)

3. BrE a) a very small cake or biscuits, eaten in the afternoon with a cup of tea;

b) a large meal that is eaten early in the evening in some parts of Britain

high tea (= a meal taken between lunch and supper if a dinner is not taken in the evening (usually a more substantial meal than after tea as taken by people who have dinner in the evening))

tea and sympathy BrE (= kindness and attention that you give someone when they are upset)

(not) for all the tea in China informal (= used to say that you would refuse to do something, whatever happened)

• I wouldn 't do his job, not for all the tea in China.

not my cup of tea

a storm in a teacup

thirst

n

1. the feeling of wanting or needing drink

to quench one's thirst (= get rid of one's thirst by drinking something)

to work up a thirst (= do work or exercise that makes you thirsty)

raging thirst (= an extremely strong thirst)

2. the state of not having enough to drink

• Half of the animals have died of thirst.

3. a thirst for knowledge/ excitement/ power etc.

thirsty

adj

1. needing to drink or feeling that you want a drink

• Can I have a glass of water, I 'm really thirsty.

thirsty work (= work that makes you want a drink)

2. thirsty for knowledge/ power

toast

n

1. (U) bread that has been heated so that it is brown on both sides

• We had toast for breakfast.

two pieces of toast

as warm as toast

2. (C) an occasion when you ask people to all drink something in order to thank someone, wish someone luck etc.

to propose a toast

treat

n

treat smb to smth

weight

n

how heavy and especially how fat smb is

• A lot of teenage girls are obsessed about their weight.

to put on/ gain weight

to lose weight

to watch one's weight

to have a weight problem

to be overweight

weigh

v

to have a particular weight

• How much do you weigh?

baker's, bakery

shopper/customer

butcher's

store detective

confectioner's/confectionery

street vendor

convenience store (AmE)

corner shop (BrE)

cart/trolley/wire basket

dairy

cash desk/check-out

delicatessen

cash register (AmE)/ till (BrE)

fishmonger's

counter

grocer's grocery

shopping bag/carrier bag

greengrocer's

shopping list

market

off licence (BrE) liquor store (AmE)

cash

shop (BrE) store (AmE)

change

shopping centre (AmE)

small change

(shopping) mall (AmE)

cheap

shopping precinct (BrE)

choice

superstore (BrE)

cost

supermarket (AmE)

the cost of living

self-service shop

expensive

tobacconist's

expiry date

price/ reasonable price

buyer

pricy (pricey)

cashier

receipt

consumer

salesman

offer

saleswoman

sell

shop assistant (BrE)

spend money

shopkeeper (BrE)

stock up

storekeeper (AmE)

suggest

bargain have money on/about oneself

buy pay

choose queue (up) (BrE)/ line (up) (AmE)

drop into a shop