How To Eat Sushi

Don't even think about putting that pickled ginger on the fish. A Tokyo chef explains how it's done.

Watch:

How to Eat Sushi

True or false?

1. Mr. Yasuda owns his own restaurant.
2. Fish is the most important element of sushi.
3. Wasabi is not a radish.
4. Wasabi is bitter.
5. Good seaweed is tender.
6. The best tuna has no fat.
7. Don’t use chopsticks to eat sushi roll.
8. Never put ginger in soy sauce.
9. Only use a touch of soy sauce.
10. Use chopsticks with pickled ginger.
11. Eat the ginger to cleanse the palate.
12. Shake off the excess soy sauce when dipping a single piece of sushi
13. Shaking reminds us of something unappetizing.
14. It makes no difference whether you eat the sushi at the counter or the table.

Sushi Chess

Eat cheap in Auckland

Task

Go out somewhere for dinner or lunch, takes some photos if possible of the restaurant and the food you're served. Write a review!

Practice here

Notes

Name of cafe/restaurant:

Location:

Type of food: 

Price range: expensive / average / budget

Style of service: relaxed / formal

Specialty dishes:

Business: Crowded / average / quiet

Service: friendly / okay / unfreindly / happy staff / not so happy staff

prompt / average / slow

Ambience: calm / noisy / fun / other

Environment: good lighting / nice tables / nice chairs / nice plates and bowls

Music playing:

Your food: tasty / not so tasty / 

generous / not so generous

well presented / not so well presented

interesting / boring

fresh / not so fresh

hot / not hot enough

satisfying / not satisfying

Your experience: enjoyable / not so enjoyable - reason:________

Any other points? 

Correct the mistakes

1. Why you choose this restaurant? 

2. Where it is?

3. What kind restaurant it is?

4. What was in the menu and what have you chosen?

5. What was the atmosphere in the restaurant ?

4. How was service?

5. How has the food?

6. Do you think you get value for money? Why / why not?

7. Have you recommend this restaurant?

8. How many star of five?

 

 

 

1. Why did you choose this restaurant? 

2. Where is it?

3. What kind of restaurant is it?

4. What was on the menu and what did you choose?

5. What was the atmosphere in the restaurant like?

4. How was the service?

5. How was the food?

6. Do you think you got value for money? Why / why not?

7. Would you recommend this restaurant?

8. How many stars of five?

 

 

A structure to follow

 

1. Why did you choose this restaurant?

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

2. What was on the menu and what did you choose?

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

3. What was the atmosphere in the restaurant like? Lighting, music, decor, staff, other diners, etc?

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

4. How was the service?

 

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

5. How was the food?

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

6. Do you think you got value for money? Why / why not?

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

7. Would you recommend this restaurant?

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

8. How many stars out of five?

 

__________________________

9. Think of a title that sums up your experience.

 

__________________________

 

 

Focus on VIVIDNESS and developing from the topic sentence. Give lots of examples and detail. Make the reader feel like they're IN the restaurant.

You might even mention some smells and tastes!

Restaurant review

Title: _______________________________

 

I/we chose this restaurant because ________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

On the menu they had_____________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

The atmosphere of the restaurant is________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

The service was__________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

The food was_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

I think I/we got / didn’t get value for money because_________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

I’d / wouldn’t recommend this restaurant if you______________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Stars out of 5:_______

Speaking in pairs

What are your  expectations for this place?

The type of food

The quality of food

The variety of food

The type of service

The quality of service

The type of customers (patrons)

The atmosphere

The music

The standard of hygiene

casual dining

generous portions

laid back atmosphere

noisy

family friendly

quick and easy

no nonsense

friendly and approachable

snappy service

wide selection

fresh ingredients

exotic flavours

discerning clientele

 Look at each photo of an Auckland restaurant.

Ponsonby Road

Ponsonby Food Court (recommended: Mekong Vietnamese, Kuta Bali, Kam Pung Malaysian)

Crepes A Go Go (Ponsonby Central - $6-18 for any kind of crepe you can imagine)

Lorne Street

Faro (Korean, generous portions, extremely yummy, fun BBQ-it-yourself)

Vulcan lane

Belgian Beer Bar (good value - shared mussel pot, Belgian fries, and quality beer, beautiful character pub)

High street

Mezze Bar (actually in Durham lane, a place dear to the hearts of many Central Aucklanders)

 

K road

Coco's Cantina (claims itself to be a simple, homestyle, Italian inspired restaurant, but it's really the place to hangout and be seen in Auckland. Super fun, and friendly staff as well - go there for dessert)

 

Sri Pinang (Malaysian - an Auckland institution. These guys go waaay back, but they do it well.)

Mt Albert

Chinoiserie (Asian fusion, hip, healthy and delicious, not so expensive, always fun)

Dominion road

Shaolin Kung Fu Noodle (busy and constantly combusting, slightly scuzzy - in a good, homely way - open late - the lamb noodle soup is famous, the real deal)

Udon Works (Dominion Road - a hospitable, family run business, high standards, excellent value for money)

Kiss Kiss (Dominion road area, Thai fusion, long wait for a table, the most popular restaurant in Auckland, a non-stop party, not expensive, great service)

Wang Wang Pancake

https://tapsi.co.nz/

https://www.gojoethiopianrestaurant.com/

https://www.duckislandicecream.co.nz/

Present simple, Present Continuous

 Present continuous questions

(Present Simple) Watch the video and do the exercises

(Present continuous) Watch the video and do the exercises

Conversation practice

Question forms

There is or there are?

Isabel Allende and the 1973 Chilean Coup

Before watching. Try writing this list of facts as a biographical paragraph:

Sentence 1

Isabel Allende
Acclaimed novelist
award-winning author 
23 books
“The House of the Spirits” 
“Paula” 
“Daughter of Fortune” 

Sentence 2

latest novel: “In the Midst of Winter” 
a love story 
explores the plight of immigrants and refugees 

Sentence 3

books have been translated into 35 languages 
sold over 57 million copies around the world 

Sentence 4

Father’s first cousin: Salvador Allende, Chile’s president 1970 - September 11, 1973
Augusto Pinochet seized power
CIA-backed military coup

Sentence 5

Salvador Allende died in the palace that day

Sentence 6

Allende later fled to Venezuela

Salvador Allende

Soldiers attacking the Presidential Palace, September 11, 1973

Augusto Pinochet

Check how the bio paragraph was written by the news channel

Acclaimed novelist Isabel Allende is an award-winning author who has written 23 books, including “The House of the Spirits,” “Paula” and “Daughter of Fortune.” Her latest novel, “In the Midst of Winter,” is a love story that explores the plight of immigrants and refugees. Her books have been translated into 35 languages, sold over 57 million copies around the world. Her father’s first cousin was Salvador Allende, Chile’s president from 1970 until September 11, 1973, when Augusto Pinochet seized power in a CIA-backed military coup. Salvador Allende died in the palace that day. Isabel Allende would later flee from her native Chile to Venezuela.

Watch:

Isabel Allende

Answer the questions

1. Where was Isabel Born?

2. What does the museum new exhibit include?

3. Where is Allende's new book set?

4. When did Salvador Allende become President of Chile?

5. Why did no one believe Allende when he warned that the CIA was undermining Chile's government?

6. What was Isabel's job at the time?

7. What is Isabel's opinion of the Catholic church?

8. Who was Eduardo Frei?

9. How long did the military stay in power?

10. Who was Pablo Neruda?

11. When did Neruda die?

12. What joke did Salvador Allende used to make about himself?

13. Which party did Neruda belong to?

14. Why did Isabel stand beside the ambassador of Sweden at Neruda's funeral?

Pablo Neruda

The Paper Pianist

Lacking the money to buy a piano, 11-year-old Andrew Garrido created his own paper piano to practise on. It got him through his first five grades with distinction.

Now aged 21, the pianist and musician is in his third year at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has played venues across Europe.

The Paper Pianist

True / False

1. Andrew has been playing the piano for more than ten years.

2. Andrew's mum lost her job.

3. Andrew didn't have access to a computer.

4. After Andrew reached grade five, his mother bought him a real piano.

5. Andrew is not very far into his music course at Guildhall.

6. Andrew thinks a lot of the other students had it much easier than he did.

7. A paper piano is great, because you can't make a mistake.

8. Andrew feels that having learned in such a difficult way, means he's better able to cope with further difficulties in his career.

Discussion

1. Did you learn a musical instrument as a kid? Do you still play?

2. What skills besides musical skills do you get from studying music?

3. If you could play an instrument really, really well, which would it be?

4. What do you think Andrew is like as a person? What qualities does he have?

5. Do you have a burning passion that you would like to fulfil?

Prepositions

My name is Andrew Garrido. I'm an award-winning pianist and musician and fewer ____ 10 years ago I learned how to play the piano ____ pieces of paper. This is my paper piano - the third version that I drew. I started learning to play the piano on paper because my mum had just been made redundant and, lacking funds ____ afford an instrument or piano lessons, I went online and I drew a keyboard. So, I played on the piece of paper guided ____ sounds I was hearing ____ the computer. But after a while I just began to hear those notes ____ my head. I used the paper piano ________ grades 1 and grade 5 _____ which my mum saw my commitment, so she borrowed money from family and friends ____ pay for a keyboard that I could have _____ home. But I still had ____ continue to practice _____ real pianos, so often I would go round ____ local houses who had pianos, and I was allowed ____ practice for an hour or so a week ____ those, and I began a tour ____ practice rooms. I'm now ____ my third _____ four years _____ my current course _____ the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and I'm loving it. I'm __________ many people I think who have come _____ a more affluent background - I think it's fair to say - and it meant when they had the opportunity to study music they started very young, they studied _____ very fine instruments and very fine teachers, and it meant they were best placed to go ____ the opportunities that all of us were going ______... I made a mistake. I made a mistake on the paper piano - it's... you make mistakes! I don't think there's been ever a greater challenge _____ playing on pieces of paper. Looking _____, having done that, I'm quite ready to face any other challenges that come my way now. Never underestimate what you're able to do, and if you think you're _____ the limit of what you're able to do, try harder. You can always give more and you'll be surprised what you're able to achieve when you really search _______ yourself ____ that willpower, ____ that strength to achieve what you really really want to do.

Intermediate Pronunciation in Use

 Intermediate Pronunciation in Use

5 Ways to Listen Better

In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other people and the world around you.

Watch:

5 Ways to Listen Better

Vocab:

 

retain

roughly

extraction

recognise

signal

distinguish

pink noise

to discount

embedded

the flow of time

 

identify, keep, approximately, taking out, message, to think sth is unimportant, the passing of time, deeply part of, notice a difference, random ordinary sounds…

 

Pre-listening:

What is the difference between hearing and listening?

How long can you concentrate on something you’re listening to?

Do you prefer listening to music on speakers or with headphones?

Part 1. 0:00-2.00
Techniques we use to listen (extract meaning from sound):

 

Pattern recognition: example__________________

Differencing: example ______________________

Filters:

___________

___________

___________

___________

___________

___________

According to Julian

Sound can / can’t tell us about spaces

Sound is more closely / less closely related to our experience of time than other senses

The different reasons why we are losing our listening:

1

2

3

4

5

 

Part 2 2.00-

 

What is RASA?

 

R___________

A___________

S___________

A___________

 

What are the 5 ways of becoming a better listener?

 

___________

___________

___________

___________

___________

5 Ways Listening can change your life

Dictation

82 points

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. (18)

We recognise patterns to distinguish noise from signal, and especially our name. (12)

When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. (21)

If you close your eyes right now in this room, you're aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces. (31)

spend

use

define

create

recognize

retain

paying

discount

disappeared

promised

experience

receiving

being

fall short of

invented

take

pay

suggest

have

can

scream

get

becoming

cease

places

 

We are losing our listening. We ______ roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. We ______ just 25 percent of what we hear. Now -- not you, not this talk, but that is generally true.

Let's ________ listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction.

We _______ some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition. (Crowd noises) So in a cocktail party like this, if I say, "David, Sara, pay attention" -- some of you just sat up We _______ patterns to distinguish noise from signal, and especially our name. Differencing is another technique we use. If I left this pink noise on for more than a couple of minutes, (Pink noise) you would literally ______ to hear it. We listen to differences; we _____ sounds that remain the same.

And then there is a whole range of filters. These filters take us from all sound down to what we _______ attention to. Most people are entirely unconscious of these filters. But they actually _______ our reality in a way, because they tell us what we're ______ attention to right now. I'll give you one example of that. Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I ______ her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I _______ on a daily basis.

But it's a great intention to ______ in a relationship.

But that's not all. Sound _______ us in space and in time. If you close your eyes right now in this room, you're aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces; you're aware of how many people are around you, because of the micro-noises you're_______. And sound places us in time as well, because sound always has time embedded in it. In fact, I would ______ that our listening is the main way that we _______ the flow of time from past to future. So, "Sonority is time and meaning" -- a great quote.

I said at the beginning, we're losing our listening. Why did I say that? Well, there are a lot of reasons for this. First of all, we ______ ways of recording -- first writing, then audio recording and now video recording as well. The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply_______ . Secondly, the world is now so noisy, (Noise) with this cacophony going on visually and auditorily, it's just hard to listen; it's tiring to listen. Many people ________ refuge in headphones, but they turn big, public spaces like this, shared soundscapes, into millions of tiny, little personal sound bubbles. In this scenario, nobody's listening to anybody.

We're becoming impatient. We don't want oratory anymore; we want sound bites. And the art of conversation is _______ replaced - dangerously, I think - by personal broadcasting. I don't know how much listening there is in this conversation, which is sadly very common, especially in the UK. We're _______ desensitized. Our media have to _______ at us with these kinds of headlines in order to ________ our attention. And that means it's harder for us to pay attention to the quiet, the subtle, the understated.

This is a serious problem that we're losing our listening. This is not trivial, because listening is our access to understanding. Conscious listening always creates understanding, and only without conscious listening _______ these things happen. A world where we don't listen to each other at all is a very scary place indeed.