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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
Processed food
Food additives
Changing tastes
Eating habits
Consumer choice
Organic/fair-trade products
To be health conscious
Balanced diet
To prepare meals
Convenience food
To skip breakfast/lunch
To snack/eat between meals
Mealtime as a family
occasion
To sit down as a family
To eat out
To live on take-aways
Cause and effect
expressions
To have a huge effect/impact
on
To result in
To lead to
To be the cause of
Thanks to
Weve ended up
Weve got to the point where

1. Introduction: Read the following extract:

Changing attitudes to food

Have
eating
habits
changed in your country
over the years? Are we
better off now with the
choice of food we have
available or do production
methods mean our food is

less healthy? Do families

sit together still or grab
something to eat in front
of the TV? Present your
views at our international
festival to be held on the
Student Union this week.

2. Planning: Start your preparation for this 1-2 minute presentation by

making notes. Think about the following issues:
How food is produced
What we choose to eat
How we spend meal times

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
as an attention-grabbing introduction or an example of a point you want
to make during the presentation.

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.

L i s t e n t o Ar t ur o f r om
It a l y t a l k i n g o n a s i m i l a r
subject. See the
February archives
( I n t e r vi e w 1 4 ) a t :
s p l e n d i d- s p e a k i n g . c o m

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.
A supermarket manager
A chef specialising in local cuisine
A parent
A teenager
A fast food restaurant manager
A nutritionist