Useful Vocabulary
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Fruit | Vegetables | Meat and Fish | Other Food
Build Up
| Masculine | Feminine | Young | |
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Bull | Cow | Calf |
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Ram | Sheep | Lamb |
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Boar | Sow | Piglet |
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Cockerel | Hen | Chicken |
| Commonly Eaten Types of Fish |
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| Salmon |
| Cod |
| Plaice |
| Haddock |
| Trout |
| Types of Steak |
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| Fillet |
| Rump |
| Sirloin |
| T-Bone |
| Stewing |
| Things to do with eggs | |
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egg |
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boiled egg |
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scrambled egg |
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fried egg |
Naturally Speaking
Uncountable Nouns
A lot of food is made up of uncountable nouns, to make them countable you need to put them in another form.
For example:-
"A ...... of ......".="A piece of fruit."
Here is a list of some of the uncountable nouns in this quarter's vocabulary and some ways to make them countable.
| asparagus | A bunch of asparagus. |
| beef | A slice of beef. |
| bread | A slice of bread. |
| broccoli | A piece of broccoli. |
| butter | A pat of butter. |
| corn | An ear of corn. |
| fruit | A piece of fruit. |
| garlic | A bulb of garlic. |
| honey | A pot of honey. |
| jam | A jar of jam. |
| lamb | A leg of lamb. |
| pepper | A pot of pepper. |
| pork | A joint of pork. |
| rice | A grain of rice. |
| salt | A pinch of salt. |
| spaghetti | A strand of spaghetti. |
| sugar | A cube of sugar. |
Dialogue
| It's Friday afternoon and John's friend Mark is coming for tea tomorrow. | |
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| Mrs S: | John, is Mark coming for tea tomorrow? |
| John: | Yes mum, I told you yesterday! |
| Mrs S: | Oh did you? Sorry, I must have forgotten. |
| John: | What are we having? |
| Mrs S: | I don't know yet, I was just writing out the shopping list. What sort of things does he like? |
| John: | Anything, just about. I know he hates pasta though, he never eats school dinner if it's pasta. |
| Mrs S: | OK, what about pizza. |
| John: | Yeah, pizza would be great, not too much salad though please mum. |
| Mrs S: | How about a fruit salad for pudding instead? |
| John: | With ice cream? |
| Mrs S: | Yes, ok. |
| John: | Great, I can't wait! |
| Entertaining at Home - It's Saturday and John's friend Mark has just arrived. | |
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| John: | Hi Mark! |
| Mark | Hi John, how's it going? |
| John: | Fine, and you? |
| Mark | Oh you know. |
| John: | Yeah, tell me about it. |
| Mrs S: | Hello Mark, how are you. |
| Mark: | Very well thank you Mrs Smith. |
| John | Mum, can we go and play in my room? |
| Mrs S: | Yes, after tea. We're having pizza tonight Mark, is that alright? |
| Mark: | Yes Mrs Smith that should be fine, but I am a vegetarian. |
| Mrs S: | Oh John, you didn't tell me! |
| John | Sorry mum, I didn't know. |
| Mrs S: | Well it's just as well I bought mushroom pizza as well then, isn't it? |
| Mark: | I'm sorry if it's any trouble Mrs Smith. |
| Mrs S: | Don't worry Mark, it's not your fault, we can eat the salami pizza and you can have the mushroom one. Why don't you both go and play upstairs, tea will be a little bit longer than expected! |
| John: | This way Mark. |
Games and Tests for this Vocabulary Unit
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Crossword
Dictation and Spelling Test
Hangman
Match It - Fruit
Match It - Vegetables
Memory - Fruit 1 / Fruit 2 / Fruit 3
Memory - Vegetables 1
Reading and Comprehension
Rumble - in association with Eating
Video - Let's enjoy cooking! (May take a while to load)
Word search - Fruit
Word search - Vegetables
Word Search - Mix