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1. Eat, Drink, and be Merry

Eat, Drink, and be Merry !

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  • What did you eat and drink yesterday ? Make a list.
  • Compare your list with the members of your family. Who had the healthiest diet ?

      For breakfast, I had a cup of coffee, some cereal, and…….

How to Live to be 120 ?

Expressions of quantity

  • Read about Claus and Elvira Bonrich. Contextualize any hard vocabulary.
    • What is their extraordinary ambition ?
    • What are their jobs ?
    • What kind of food do they eat ? Do they cook any of their food ?

An Extraordinary Ambition

Claus Bonrich (33) and his wife Elvira (28) are a successful young couple. Claus is a software programmer and Elvira works in a health food shop. In many ways their life is quite ordinary, but they have an extraordinary ambition. They want to live until they are 120. And they believe they can do this by following an American health plan called  the‘Calorie Restriction Diet’. Claus and Elvira eat a lot of raw food, but they don’t fry , grill, or roast anything, and there are many things they don’t eat at all.

  • Look at the nouns in the boxes. Which can you coun ? Which can’t you count ? Label the nouns countable and uncountable.

 

 

 

Apples   grapes   carrots   prawns   vegetables

calories

Meat   fish   orrange juice   coffee   tea   fruit   brocoli   alcohol

 

  • Work with a partner.  Read and complete the questions  and answers about the diet with the nouns from exercise 2.
    •  Q ‘Do you eat any meat ?
    • A No we don’t eat any ……at all, but we eat some…….
    • Q How much ……….do you eat ?
    • A We eat a little white……., but we love shellfish, so we eat a lot of…….
    • Q Do you eat much …….. ?
    • A Oh, yes, we eat a lot of frsh…….,……….and, everything.
    • Q And do you eat many….. ?
    • Q Don’t you cook any vegetables at all ?
    • A We cook some. Sometimes we steam a few…..and a little……
    • Q And what do you drink ?
    • A Well we don’t drink any ……..or…….., and naturally there’s no …….in our diet, but we do drink a lot of ……….
    • Q How many …….do you have every day ?
    • A About 1,500.
    • A That’s about 1000fewer than most people.
    • Listen and check. Pactice the questions and answers with your partner. Pay attention to patterns of stress and intonation and question formation.
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