Speaking about Food

Practice your listening and speaking with the discussion topic below.

  

Podcasts of Creative Commons articles (on Wikipedia):

Mild Gazpacho - Actividades para leer y escuchar de Hotpotatoes - Vocabulary 1, Vocab. 2, Cloze, Quiz (Configurado para Ipad)

Economics of Coffee (Podcast of "Economics of Coffee")
( MP3 - Mar. 1, '11 )

Simplemente escuchar y leer (y busca palabras en el diccionario, y si quereis cooperar y compartir toda vuestra lista de vocabulario mandarmela por correo electrónico a madridteacher@gmail.com o poner la lista en el gadget de Friendconnect en la parte de abajo de esta página y la corregiré y la pondré junto a la actividad). Podeis buscar el título del artículo en Google junto con la palabra "Wikipedia" para ver el texto. (Podcasts by Steven Starry)

Talking about Home Towns:

on vaughantv on Youtube.

English expressions involving food:

by JamesESL on Youtube

What's Your Favourite Cocktail?:

by Hot English Magazine

Talking about Eating Food with Andy

http://www.hotenglishmagazine.com

Fame and Food debate:

by Hot English Magazine

Ethical Eating debate:

by Hot English Magazine

Talking about British Food:

by Hot English Magazine

Cooking and Catering:

by EF PodEnglish

How to make a cup of tea (How to be English):

by: Charlie's Cool Like

Cloverdale: Bar and Restaurant:

About restaurants by Richard Vaughan of Vaughan Systems at: VaughanTV on Youtube.

My friend's restaurant:

Alberto Alonso Verbos Esenciales: Bar and Restaurant - Vaughan Systems at: VaughanTV on Youtube.

Food-related videos on Youtube:

Videos by Jennifer ESL.

Kungzoo on Youtube - She's got lots of other cooking and food-related videos on Youtube.

Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Chocolate Chip Cookies by La Mansion del Inglés on Youtube

Barney's Restaurant:

William Christison's MadridTeacher promo video (About William Christison)

Eating bugs:

We already eat bugs, so why not eat them all the time? It might help save the planet. Also, see: A National Geographic Vido and an Insect Store. Also, do this vocabulary activity: Insect Animals Pictures List and read: Some Edible Species and Entomogaphy on Wikipedia.org.
Edible insects include: (snails) water bug, larva (from a variety of insects including bees, wasps and ants), caterpillars, worms, ants, crickets, centipedes, scorpions, termites, grubs (beetle larva), beetles, grasshoppers, etc. (See Edible Insects on Youtube.) Another interesting related story: Beijing's Penis Emporium (See! There all sorts of yummy alternatives.)

Speaking about the food crisis:

"Famine in the West": Peakfood.co.uk. Also, see Fox video - Fox news is always frightening people, so no surprises in this video.

Speaking about "new" foods:

How to grow your own food with Aquaponics:

Possibly, part of the solution to food crisis: grow your own.

Related activities:

Restaurants in Madrid - I eat out every now and then and I know I’m taking my chances each time. An article and listening for upper-intermediate to advanced students.

Possible questions to discuss:

Food Questions on ITESLJ, Fruits and Vegetables Questions on ITESLJ, Restaurants Questions on ITESLJ, Tipping Questions on ITESLJ.

Related vocabulary activities:

Food Objects - Pictures List, Bakery - Dairy - Pictures List,
Fruit - Pictures List, Vegetables Pictures List, Meat - Poultry - Seafood - Pictures List, Prepared Foods - Pictures List.

Other recources:

Chili con Carne
Ways of Eating
Cooking Verbs
Ways of Cooking
Allrecipes.com
Food on Quotations page (mp3 9.40)

More speaking activities:

Aprender Inglés

General questions, comments, requests, etc?:

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