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FOOD & DIET (Vocabulary practice)

This post is to learn and practice vocabulary on food and diet. (Previous post Food & Drink)

More adjectives to use with food:

Check how many different kinds of food you can remember:

MASTER CHEF

Showing poster with vocabulary of ways of cooking. Also you can link here to vocabulary for the ingredients: food & drink. and more practice-exercises on food vocabulary at food & diet.
More on cooking:
- WHAT'S COOKING IN THE KITCHEN? from "English with a twist" blog.

For tools and appliances in the kitchen to do these actions click to KITCHENWARE.

GALICIA BIDS TO BECOME THE NEW SCOTLAND FOR BRITAIN

More than 1300 from Galicia in north-west Spain have written to David Cameron offering to stand in for Scotland.

A petition on change.org sets out their position clearly.

The Spaniards reckon they've got the attitude, culture and climate to make them an ideal substitute if Scotland quits the union.

Their petition, addressed to Mr Cameron, says: "We Galicians are aware of the fact that Scotland may become independent in 2014 and that this issue is worrying you. You needn’t think of a solution to this challenge because we have found an innovative proposal that you won’t be able to refuse:

We propose you to accept Galiza as an integral part of the United Kingdom.

This may come as a surprise to you but Galiza is also a Celtic nation in the northwest of Spain. With us on board you won’t miss the following:

Scottish pipes: we have our own.

Celtic of Glasgow: we have Celta Vigo

An amazing landscape, we have that too

Scottish clans, we have plenty of them (caciques are included)

Our people like their drinks as Scots do

We have a vibrant cultural and music scene

In Galiza it also rains a lot

We have a strong identity like Scottish people do.

We are also an Atlantic country

Flags of both countries have similar colours

We also have some stingy people.

Santiago of Compostela is our Edinburgh

With Galicians as part of the UK, you will gain the following:

Hard-working people

Galician people's accent (in English) is easier to understand than the Scottish accent

If you leave us alone, we won’t bother you

Lovely food and drinks (e.g. cozido instead of haggies, licor cafe instead of whisky, etc.)

We speak the most spoken Roman languages of the world: Portuguese (Galician) and Spanish (Galician). We are able to communicate with both Brazil and Mexico using our two languages.

Milder weather than in Scotland

We share a similar sense of humour with British people (“retranca” is the Galician irony)

British economy will improve with our fishing industry, textile (e.g. Zara), cultural tourism (The Way of St James), best beach of the world (Praia de Rodas, Illas Cies ,Vigo).

Our seafood is worldwide famous (mussels, oysters, lobsters, etc.)

Link to the original article @ The Mirror

COUNTABLES & UNCOUNTABLES

The concept of COUNTABLE & UNCOUNTABLE is very important in English. Above you have a chart that distinguishes countable and uncountable food. Uncountable food can become countable by using a container or division that makes them individual, as you can see in the chart below.

The difference between SOME & ANY:

Links to exercise-practice of SOME & ANY:
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4

FOOD & DRINK

Here's a post devoted to vocabulary of food and drink, with different charts organized by categories. Link to post on vocabulary of the ways of cooking. And practice vocabulary exercises on food at food and diet.

1- FAST FOOD.

2- BREAKFAST

3- DINNER

4- DRINKS

5- VEGETABLES

- GREEN FRUIT & VEGETABLES

6- FRUITS

7- NUTS

8- CAKES & DESSERTS