Family meals provide important benefits for children's health and development. Sitting down to dinner together three or more times a week is associated with children being less likely to be overweight or develop eating disorders, consuming less junk food, and eating more healthy foods. Additionally, regular family dinners improve communication, strengthen relationships, help children do better in school, and provide better adjustment during the teen years and beyond. They also reduce the risk of teenage girls using drugs by 50%. Making family meals a priority and keeping conversation positive at the table are simple ways to reap these benefits.

1. Sit Down Meal

2. Eating together as a family is
more important today than in
the past because there are
more competing distractions,
more choices of activities
outside the home, and a
constant bombardment of
information from modern
technology.
http://www.familydinnervideo.com

3. “Family dinners improve physical and mental health”
According to a study published recently in
Pediatrics, sitting down to a family dinner
together three or more times per week resulted in
kids being 12 percent less likely to be overweight;
there was also a 20 percent reduced chance of
their developing eating disorders. More benefits?
A 20 percent reduction in the odds of a child’s
consuming junk food and a 24 percent increased
chance family members will eat healthy food.
http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/6-ways-to-get-dinner-on-the-table-
faster

4. In an article from families.com by Teresa McEntire,
“Why Families Should Eat Together,she writes :
eat together benefit in a variety of ways:
Eating together helps families achieve better
communication and build stronger relationships,
children do better in school and are better adjusted as
teens and adults,
and the entire family enjoys better nutrition. Eating
together provides opportunities for communication.”

5. Sitting down to regular meals reduces the chance of teenage drug use
in girls
Teenage girls whose families eat meals together regularly have a 50
percent lower chance of using alcohol, tobacco or marijuana than girls
from families who did not regularly spend such time together, according
to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota
Medical School and published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/024990.html#ixzz2C7oDtNhb

6. Four simple steps
Make it a top priority to
eat together.
Keep the conversation at
the table positive.
Turn off the TV.
Make the meals special by
cooking each one’s
favorite food from time to
time.

7. Consecuences

8. Ideomatic Expressions
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In english, there are many ideomatic
expressions, or figures of speech, related to
food. The expressions feature words related
to food or eating, but are commonly used in
other contexts.

9. Examples
 It puts bread on her table (= It helps
her make a living.)
 It´s a bit hard for people to
swallow. (= People could
not believe it.)

10. Phrasal verbs
What is a phrasal verb?
A phrasal verb is a verb combined with a preposition. The preposition can add
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extra meaning to the verb or give it more emphasis.
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Could you switch off the light, please?I had an ice-cream to cool down.
Some, prepositions change the meaning of different verbs in a similar way. The
preposition away, for example, can mean away from here, or it can mean
intensively. This means that it can be combined with any verb of activity.
I didn't hear the telephone because I was working away.I've been typing away all
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morning.
Phrasal verbs are a really important part of the English language, especially for
spoken English.
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