IELTS - talking about food and diet

maintain 

occasions 

fantastic 

recipes 

restaurant

from scratch

cooking

dishes

diet 

prepares 

wholesome 

fast food

unhealthy

in the kitchen

nutritious

 

1. What sorts of food do you like eating most? [Why?]

I love my mother's _______ and prefer home-cooked meals. She is a _______ cook, and I adore everything she makes. We frequently order from the Chinese and Indian menus when we eat out. However, I prioritise eating at home because it is nutrient-rich and helps me _________ a healthy weight.

2. Who normally does the cooking in your home?

In my home, my mother ________ the meals, and as I've already mentioned, she's a fantastic cook. My mother is the only person who stays at home and she loves cooking. My older sister Kriti occasionally helps my mum _________. I, on the other hand, am in charge of daily grocery shopping. 

3. Do you watch cookery programmes on TV? [Why/Why not?]

Not much, in my opinion. I rarely watch TV shows and prefer to use my laptop to watch movies. I occasionally watch shows on travelling and cooking. I think I enjoy watching sports or chat shows on television more than I do _______.

4. In general, do you prefer eating out or eating at home? [Why?]

I enjoy eating at home. Food that is made _______ has a higher nutritional value and provides more options. It is less expensive and more hygienic. However, whenever we have a special event to celebrate, we prefer to eat at a _______. My father and I frequently urge my mother to go to a restaurant on special _______ like wedding anniversaries and birthdays because doing so gives her plenty of opportunity to socialise rather than spending it in the kitchen.

5. What do you think of fast food?

Nowadays, everyone prioritises fast food over home-cooked meals, especially youngsters, because the spices in _______ fulfil their taste buds. However, because they were prepared with bad oil, they are ________. It contains a lot of processed preservatives and components, as well as a lot of sugar, salt, and saturated or trans fats. We all understand that fast food is frequently not very _______.

6. Do you have a healthy diet?

I do care about my health, so I make an effort to eat ________ foods like fruits and vegetables. I also plan a balanced ________ that I keep to strictly. I make an effort to eat nutritious things like fruits, vegetables, low-fat, and low-carbohydrate _______. Additionally, avoid fast meals and junk food because they are unhealthy.

IELTS Mindset food

 rather than

though

but

less

even

than

both x 2

Whereas

 

1. They all use chopsticks ____ knives and forks like people in the West.

2. The chopsticks that people use in different countries are quite different _____

3. In China, the chopsticks tend to be made of wood and are round at the end, ____ in Korea they are made of stainless steel and are rough at the end.

4. Wood and plastic are most popular now,  ___ you can find bone, metal and ____ ivory ones.

5. Traditionally, in ___ Japan and Korea, meat plays _____ of an important role ____ in Europe.

6. That said, ___ the Koreans and the Japanese enjoy meat.

practice

Try exercise 0

Exercise 1b

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4a

Question Tags

 Practice

practice 2

Using articles

 Practice

Time conjunctions etc

 Time conjunctions and prepositions (B1-B2)

Time Prepositions

Time prepositions 2

Used to

Used to or would?

Time clauses (more difficult)

Help

in any way

Now I find

need you like

on the ground

not so self-assured

appreciate

in the haze

oh so many ways

feel so insecure

 

I need somebody
(Help) not just anybody
(Help) you know I need someone
(Help)

When I was younger (when I was younger), so much younger than today (I never need)
I never needed anybody's help _____________ (now these days are gone)
But now these days are gone (these days are gone), I'm ____________ (and now I find)
____________ I've changed my mind and opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do ____________ your being 'round
Help me get my feet back ____________
Won't you please, please, help me?

and now my life has changed in _______________
(My independ-) my independence seems to vanish __________
(But every now and then) but every now and then I __________
(I know that I) I know that I just _____________I've never done before

Success and Failure

Lead in


1. If you were to devote your life to three main things - what would they be?

Which of the three mentioned in this book's title would you include in your three devotions?










2. Are you good at handling failure? Is failure something that can devastate you?

Talk about some experiences of failure in different aspects of life:

Academic - are you a 'good student'?

Social life - what is 'being socially successful'? is it being popular?

Romantic life - have you had the misfortune of having your heart broken?

Sports - have you ever failed to make a team, or lost a competition you were hoping to win?

Creativity - do you have artistic aspirations? Do people support you?

Family life - have there been challenges in your family that you can talk about in an English class!?

3. Have you seen the movie Eat Pray Love?

If not, what do you predict it is about?


















Watch the trailer to check your prediction:

Eat Pray Love trailer

Would you go to see this film?

What kind of person might have written the original novel?

Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple — though hard — way to carry on, regardless of outcomes.

Before listening, add the missing sections into the spaces:

A. whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next

B. which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself

C. But it also left me in a really tricky position moving forward as an author trying to figure out how in the world I was ever going to write a book again that would ever please anybody

D. as tiny old tough-talking Italian-American broads.

E. But then I would find my resolve, and always in the same way

F. the difference between bad and good

G. I would have lost my beloved vocation

H. and feeling like I was her again 

I. Actually, I kind of felt bulletproof 
 

1. So, a few years ago I was at JFK Airport about to get on a flight, when I was approached by two women who I do not think would be insulted to hear themselves described ______________
_____________________ 

2. ______________,  because I knew well in advance that all of those people who had adored "Eat, Pray, Love" were going to be incredibly disappointed in whatever I wrote next...

3. But if I had done that, if I had given up writing, ___________________, so I knew that the task was that I had to find some way to gin up the inspiration to write the next book regardless of its inevitable negative outcome. 

4. And it was devastating every single time, and every single time, I had to ask myself if I should just quit while I was behind and give up and spare myself this pain. ________________, by saying, "I'm not going to quit, I'm going home."

5. For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, ___________________. 

6. I found myself identifying over all again with that unpublished young diner waitress who I used to be, thinking about her constantly, _________________, which made no rational sense whatsoever because our lives could have not been more different. 

7. And one of these fates is objectively seen by the world as bad, and the other one is objectively seen by the world as good, but your subconscious is incapable completely of discerning __________________. 

8. And you know what happened with that book? It bombed, and I was fine. _________________, because I knew that I had broken the spell and I had found my way back home to writing for the sheer devotion of it.

9. And if you should someday, somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success, then your job is to fight your way back to that home the only way that it has ever been done, by putting your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence ________________________.

A little bit more of the language:

Up

budge 

disappointment

 trying

 follow

through 

based

praise

sheer 

human

lost

self

 abruptly 

distance

marching ___  to 

book ____ on that movie.

all ____ adolescence, 

____ to unthread 

the chain of ____experience 

the blinding darkness of ____

catapults you just as ____

blinding glare of fame and recognition and ____

the ____ you have been flung from yourself

getting ___out there in the hinterlands of the psyche

remedy for ___-restoration, 

 the dreaded ____ -up to "Eat, Pray, Love."

____devotion 

don't ____ from it

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