Transcript 17. Food

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Do you have a favourite bar or cafe? If so, where is it? Why do you like it the
most?
What is the cheapest food you can buy?
What is the strangest thing you have eaten? Describe it.
What is the most impressive experience you have ever had in a restaurant?
Food of which country do you prefer? Describe some meals.
What is the Slovak national meal? How do you prepare it?
Does a typical American meal exist? What do you think it would be?
If you were living abroad, what food would you miss the most?
Which restaurant in this city would you recommend and why?
How do waiters treat customers in your country? What do you think of their
standard of service?
Do you think that losing weight is a matter of diet or lifestyle in general? How can
you tell?
What do you eat when you feel sad? How does food change your mood? Give
example.
What eating habits do you dislike? What have your parents told you about table
manners?
What is your attitude towards fast food restaurants?
Which food did you dislike as a child, but you like now?
Content
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Eating habits in Slovakia, Great Britain, and the
USA
Menu
Catering facilities
Table manners
Eating disorders
Healthy principles
Food proverbs
Food idioms
Eating habits in Britain
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breakfast - a cup of coffee or tea with
milk, cereals - cornflakes with milk, fried
bacon, eggs or sausages.
elevenses later in the morning.
brunch - is eaten for breakfast and lunch.
lunch - usually fairly light, consisting of a
warm dish and a dessert, or just ham and
cheese sandwiches and some fruit.
teatime - at around four o’clock in the
afternoon. The meal consists of thin slices
of bread and butter with cheese, fish, ham,
some vegetables, cakes and several cups of
strong tea with milk.
dinner, the main meal, is served at around 7 pm. The meal consists of soup, fried fish
and chips or meat with vegetables.
The English cookery is famous for meat puddings and meat pies, which are usually
served at dinner. As a dessert they can have a fruit salad, a pie, jelly, custard or ice
cream.
Later in the evening more tea, cocoa, milk, sandwiches, cold meat or biscuits may be
eaten as supper.
Eating habits in the USA
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The United States is a country with
many different ethnic groups with
different eating habits. Many popular
dishes are of foreign origin and were
brought to America by Italian,
Mexican, Greek, Turkish, Chinese and
other people.
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The breakfast usually consists of
juice or coffee, eggs, toast, fruit and
cereals. Pancakes and muffins are
popular ,too.
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Lunch often consists of a BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato) sandwich,
hamburgers of various types, hot dogs or pizza.
Many people in the U.S. have dinner between 5 and 7 o’clock. It is often
the biggest meal of the day.
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Compare eating habits in
Britain and Slovakia.
What´s different?
Eating habits in Slovakia
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The Slovak midday meal is the main meal of the day. We can
have it at work, at school (canteen) cafeterias or in a restaurant.
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It´s usually a 3 course meal – soups (bouillon, clear and thick
soups) main meal and a dessert.
Traditional Slovak food: pasta with bryndza (a kind of cottage
cheese), dumplings, roast pork and sauerkraut, goulash…
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Slovak cousine – few years ago our food wasn´t very healthy.
We used to eat a lot of fat food – like bacon, a lot of meat,
dumplings, etc. These days people tend to eat more vegetables
and fruit, many became vegetarians.
Look at the pictures and describe the fast food. What ingredients make good ham/cheese
burgers?
Use one of the pictures to name the most common fruit and vegetables. Which of these do
you like the most?
Courses and Dishes – a Typical Menu
Dinner
Starters
Prawn cocktail
Chilled melon
Garlic mushrooms
Main courses
Soup
Vegetable soup
Leek and potato
Tomato with coriander
Cream of mushroom
Chicken bouillon
Fish soup
Meat
Desserts
Pork chop
Lamb casserole
Grilled chicken breast
Top sirloin steak
Barbecued back ribs
Chocolate fudge cake
Ice cream (various)
Hot apple strudel pie
Fruit sorbet
Cheesecake
Fish
Beverages
Grilled trout
Cod in cheese sauce
Fried carp
Fish fingers´n´chips
soft drinks
mineral water, juice
coffee, tea
alcoholic beverages
draught beer (light/dark)
wine
brandy, gin, vodka
Think of different places where
people can eat.
Catering Facilities and other Places to
Eat and Drink
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snack-bar, cafeteria, salad bar
fast food restaurant, buffet
take-away services
drive in/ drive through
coffee shop (mostly in hotels, AM.)
café, sidewalk café
steakhouse
wine cellar, pub
pizza parlour
patisserie, tearoom
Some meals, especially pizza, can also be
ordered to be delivered home.
What can you tell about
table manners?
Are they the same in
every country?
„Good table manners“
differences in various parts of the world
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British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss business
matters during the meal
The Japanese prefer not to work while eating
The Germans like to talk business before dinner
The French like to eat first and talk afterwards
Italian are always late for dinner when you invite them, the
Americans tend to come 15 min.earlier, British 15 min.later
In most countries people eat with knife and fork, in China they
use chopsticks, and in parts of India and the Middle East people
use their fingers and bread to pick up the food
Most Americans are one-handed eaters, they prefer to drink
something during the meals, mostly the plain water, they eat
slower – they talk during the meal
Slovak people don´t talk while eating, we use fork and knife
mostly, we drink water after the meal
How it shouldn´t be...
Food pyramid
Eating disorders
How do they develop?
How Eating Disorders Develop
You are born with them
You learn them from people around you – you want to be a model
You were overweight and bullied in childhood
You have other problems such as unhappiness at home or school,
Someone you know dying, or a mixture of these and other things
People with bulimia
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make themselves SICK to get rid of what they've
eaten
can find it easy to HIDE their eating problems
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do serious DAMAGE to the teeth,
heart, kidneys and muscles when they
eat and vomit
People with anorexia
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AVOID eating
LOSE a lot of weight
They often feel fat, even when they are very
thin
TAKE laxative tablets
GO to the toilet more often
DO too much exercise
BECOME very weak
CAN DIE without special help
Binge Eating
Some of the most common symptoms
are:
 Eating large amounts of food, even when
not physically hungry. Eating more rapidly
than usual.
 Eating until uncomfortably full.
 Eating alone out of embarrassment at the
quantity of food being eaten.
 Feelings of disgust, depression, or guilt
after eating
Complications of Binge Eating disorder
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The most common diseases include diabetes, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol levels, gallbladder disease, heart disease, and
some forms of cancer.
How to find help?
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Don´t keep it secret
Accept that you have a
problem
Talk to a friend and family
or
call counsellor ChildLine
for free on 0800 1111
Healthy principles
What and how to eat to be
healthy and fit?
Healthy principles
There are 3 principles of how to eat to
be healthy and slim:
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Water principle – about 70% of the
human body consists of water.. If there
is lack of water in our body we feel tired
and we want to eat. So it is sometimes
enough to drink and the body is
satisfied. It is best to drink fruit juices,
clean water, plant tea, mineral water,
and the water contained in fruit and
vegetables.
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Fruit eating principle – we should eat fruit half an hour before meals.
We don´t feel so hungry and we eat less then. Fruit is the best food for
loosing weight and cleaning body.
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Food combination principle – the theory of separated food is very
popular.
Some more tips
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we should eat slowly, 5 portions of fruit and veg a
day
start a day with a glass of water,
do not eat after 7 p.m, eat only fruit till
noon.
do not keep sweets at home, drink
a lot of water
We should eat meat with vegetables,
or potatoes with vegetables, but not
meat and potatoes.
Do some sports
Do things you enjoy
Have a wide network of friends
Comment on the Food proverbs
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The way to the man´s heart goes through his stomach.
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Man does not live by bread alone.
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One man´s meat is another man´s poison.
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You are what you eat.
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A smiling face is half the meal.
Food Idioms and Sayings
Match the phrases from the column A with the phrases from the column B
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"An apple a day keeps the
doctor away.„
"A piece of cake."
"To sell like hot cakes.„
"A big cheese„
"As cool as a cucumber.„
"Cry over spilt milk.„
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"Have a finger in every pie.„
"Cup of tea."
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To cry or complain about
something that has already
happened.
An important person, a leader
(usually about business).
To be involved in lots of
different things.
To remain calm under
pressure.
Eating fruit is good/healthy for
you.
Something one enjoys ordoes
well.
To sell quickly or rapidly.
To find something easy to do.
Task for You to do at home.
Describe your favourite food.
Include the ingredients and the
preparation of the meal.
Thank you for your attention.
Mgr. Ľuboslava Vašková