The next video will show you an English breakfast recipe, following the same steps,  could you describe how to prepare your favorite meal ?  

Please write down and post your recipe 

How To Cook A Traditional Full English Breakfast 

Quantifiers

cooking ! learning how to talk about quantities

In this video you will hear a dialogue; a couple is cooking dinner . Pay attention to the words that they use to talk about quantities.

After that, access to the next link in which you will find a chart explaining how to use: much, many, a lot of, plenty of, some, any, read the examples and complete the exercise.

exercise

COOKING VOCABULARY, Match these cooking verbs to their definitions or pictures.

Here is an extra video so you can practice the pronunciation of the verbs used for cooking , listen carefully and repeat .

Click on the next link and you will find additional verbs having the opportunity to listen to their pronunciation… It will be very useful!  "cooking verbs" 

News !!!! Reading Activity

BBC Learning English – Words in the News

Compulsory cooking classes – 23 January 2008

© BBC Learning English 2008;  http://www.bbclearningenglish.com/

English teenagers are to receive compulsory cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to

encourage healthy eating to combat the country's spiralling obesity rate. It's feared that

basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost as parents turn to pre-prepared

convenience foods. Jon Devitt reports.

Cooking was once regarded as an integral part of education in England - even if it was

mainly aimed at girls. In recent decades cooking has progressively become a peripheral

activity in schools. In many cases the schools themselves have given up cooking meals in

kitchens on the premises. But the rising level of obesity, has led to a rethink about the

food that children are given and the skills they should be taught. Ed Balls is the minister in

charge of schools.

"What I want is for young people to be taught how to do basic, simple recipes like a

tomato sauce, a bolognaise, a simple curry, a stir-fry - which they can use then at home

and in their later life, experiment with, discover the joy of food, having got the basics

under control."

The new lessons are due to start in September but some schools without kitchens will be

given longer to adapt. There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers with the right

skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than practical cooking. Also

the compulsory lessons for hands on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term.

But the well known cookery writer , Pru Leith, believes it will be worth it.

"If we'd done this thirty years ago we might not have the crisis we've got now about

obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to

cook, not just so that they'll be healthy, but because it's a life skill which is a real pleasure

and we deny children that pleasure."

The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity in Britain

which is amongst the highest in Europe, and according to government figures half of all

Britons will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not halted.

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