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Volume 1 Unit 4 ‘Captivate your Audience’
Splendid Expressions
’Food and Drink’
Unit 14: Eating Habits
Task: Presentation (1-2 minutes)
Topic vocabulary 1. Introduction: Read the following extract:
Processed food
Food additives
Changing tastes
Eating habits
Consumer choice
Changing attitudes to food
Organic/fair-trade products Have eating habits less healthy? Do families
To be health conscious
Balanced diet changed in your country sit together still or grab
To prepare meals over the years? Are we something to eat in front
Convenience food
To skip breakfast/lunch
better off now with the of the TV? Present your
To snack/eat between meals choice of food we have views at our international
Mealtime as a family available or do production festival to be held on the
occasion
To sit down as a family methods mean our food is Student Union this week.
To eat out
To live on take-aways
2. Planning: Start your preparation for this 1-2 minute presentation by
making notes. Think about the following issues:
Cause and effect
How food is produced
expressions
What we choose to eat
To have a huge effect/impact
How we spend meal times
on
To result in
To lead to
3. Task focus: Try to use a short anecdote which relates to your own
experiences of eating habits in your country. The anecdote might serve
To be the cause of
as an attention-grabbing introduction or an example of a point you want
Thanks to
to make during the presentation.
We’ve ended up
We’ve got to the point where
4. Language: Tick any of the vocabulary on the left you want to use.
Task: Role Play (15 minutes)
“Modern-day eating habits result in people suffering culturally and nutritionally
compared to when our parents were younger.”
Work in groups. Each person should take on the role of one of the people
below and prepare points for or against the statement. Use some of the cause
and effect expressions on the left to help make your points.
L i s t e n t o Ar t ur o f r om  A supermarket manager
It a l y t a l k i n g o n a s i m i l a r  A chef specialising in local cuisine
subject. See the
 A parent
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( I n t e r vi e w 1 4 ) a t :  A teenager
s p l e n d i d- s p e a k i n g . c o m  A fast food restaurant manager
 A nutritionist