Food

Food

Pictures

Look at the pictures and compare the different places where people can have meals. Talk about customers, atmosphere, services, food and price.

In the pictures I can see different places where people can have meals .

Picture 1: (žiaci v školskej jedálni)

In the first picture I can see girls in the school canteen. They have there lunch everyday. For lunch they usually have meat, potatoes and salad. It´s quite cheap because it´s for students.

Picture 2: (rodinná oslava v reštaurácii)

In the second picture I can see a family event. They celebrate birthday of their father. They are in a restaurant. The waiters serve them the menu: soup, main course, dessert. They drink wine. Everything is expensive because it´s an expensive restaurant.

Picture 3: (tučné deti sa napchávajú vo fast foode)

In the third picture I can see fat boys. They are eating fast food: hamburgers, chips and drinking Cola. They are at Mc Donald´s. The fast food is unhealthy and expensive. Nowadays there are many children who are fat. It´s not good. They should eat fruits and vegetable and do sports.

2.

Talk about your eating habits during the week and during the weekend.

People normaly eat three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I usually skip my breakfast during the week because I don´t have time. Then I have a small snack at shool – bagette, yoghurt or some cookies. I have lunch in our school canteen. It´s cheap and quite good. We can choose from two dishes. One is some meat (pork, beef, poultry) and side dish(rice, potatoes) and one is something sweet or vegetarian food. I have dinner at about 7 o´clock at home. We don´t cook our dinner. We usually have bread, ham, vegetable or sausages or ham and eggs. I drink a lot of water but sometimes I drink fizzy drinks or cola. I don´t drink coffee and alcohol.

My eating habits are different during the weekend. I have breakfast – bread, butter and jam, or cereals with milk and a cup of tea. Then I help my mum to cook lunch. For dinner we sometimes have take away food like pizza or some Chinese food.

Do you eat in a school canteen? If not why?

(Ak áno – povieš to čo si už povedal.)Ak nie:

I don´t eat in our school canteen. I have lunch at home everyday. I cook it myself. I usually have spaghetti with tomato sauce or pasta with cheese sauce. Sometimes I have just vegetable salad. I like tomatoes, green pepper, carrot, onion, garlic, lettuce, cucumber and other kinds of vegetable.

Compare American, British and Slovak eating habits.

Slovaks usually have bread or roll with jam for breakfast, or scrambled eggs or sausages. Lunch is the main meal of the day. We have soup and main course, sometimes dessert. Many children and working people have lunch in canteens. Most families prepare dinner at home but many people like take-away food. Many Slovaks like popular national cuisines like Italian (pizza, pasta), Hungarian (goulash), Mexican, Greek, Chinese.

The English have traditional English breakfast, but just at weekends. It consists of: fried bacon and eggs or sausages with fried tomatoes. They drink a cup of tea with milk or coffee. In Britain lunch is a light meal. It´s usually sandwich, some fruit or ice cream, or some kinds of fast food. The main meal of the day is dinner. All the members of the family are at home. But they usually use precooked food. They heat it in a microwave.

Americans have for breakfast cereals with milk and typical American pancakes or muffins. For lunch – the same as British. Dinner is the main meal of the day. Many Americans like eating out – at snack bars, restaurants and hotels.

What do you think of being on a slimming diet?

I have never been on a slimming diet. I don´t need it. It´s not healthy. It´s dangerous especially for young girls. They want to be slim like their idols – models and singers. So they don´t eat and have problems like anorexy and bullimia. It´s better to eat vegetables and fruits, small portions of meat and do sports. (a vymenujem nejaké športy).

Describe a typical Slovak dish and drinks.

A typical Slovak dish is Bryndzové halušky – gnocchi with sheep cheese and žinčica-sheep sour milk. Typical Slovak drinks are alcoholic drinks like plum brandy, apple brandy, pear brandy. From non alcoholic – soft drinks – it´s Kofola.

Give a recipe of a Slovak dish.

I like cooking scrambled eggs. You need: 2 eggs, oil, onion, salt, pepper. Then you need a pan and wooden spoon. I chop onion, put it on the pan with oil. Then I beat eggs on the pan I stir it with the wooden spoon, I add salt and pepper. I serve it with bread or rolls and some vegetables.

Simulation

Many people from all over the world suffer from obesity,. They eat a lot, do not move , just sit and watch TV. Suggest activities you would recommend them in order to change their way of life.

I think that people should do more sports. E.g. going to the gym, do aerobics, pilates, jumping, go running, play ball games with friends, go cycling, swimming, hiking. They should eat healthy food like fruits and vegetables, dairy products, drink water not fizzy drinks, shouldn´t eat junk food – e.g. fast food, pizza, hamburgers, chips etc.