Practice exercises
Watching a video
You are going to watch a video of making a chicken and pork pie. This video describes how to make a dish and it uses a lot of cooking verbs.
- At first read the text with blanks and try to understand it
- Then watch the video and fill in the blanks with the suitable cooking verbs. You can stop the video and start it over again.
- After that check the vocabulary of dishes.
- Finally read the text once more and find the ingredients in their order of appearance.
Now practice your vocabulary of things you use when working at the restaurant:
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Reading
Find the answers for the following questions:
- How have knives been used in addition to eating?
- Why did King Louis XIV decide that all the knifes were illegal?
- When and how did the forks come to Europe?
- What did the English think about using forks in 17-th century?
- What did the prehistoric people used instead of spoons?
- Name some common materials spoons have been made of?
Finally do some more vocabulary exercises to be sure that you know the vocabulary connected with dishes, cooking verbs and tastes.
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Lear the vocabulary with QUIZLET
Here you can find a Quizlet exercise that gives you lots of possibilities to learn vocabulary.
When you click on QUIZLET you will reach a flashcard page of DISHES where you can train your listening, spelling, writing and memory. You can even print out the flashcards to better your ways of learning.
- You can change the look of the flashcard by clicking on "Both sides" or "English first" on the right top corner of the flashcard.
- You can move between flashcards with arrows - on the left and right sides of the flashcard.
- You can hear the spelling when you click on the audio sign in front of every word on the list