Lifestyles
Unit 2 · All Sorts of Lifestyles. Read the lesson, choose what you want to practise, then do a set of 10 exercises.
1 Vocabulary
- Body: knee · finger · elbow · toe · hand
- Problems: I fell over and hurt my knee. · I cut my finger, it's really sore. · I think it's broken. · Did I break my toe? · I burned my hand.
- To get better: go to the pharmacy, buy some medicine, put on a bandage, wash with soap and water.
- In the kitchen: pepper · salt · cereal · bread · pizza · jam · olives · eggs · strawberries · milk · spoon · fork · knife
2 Grammar: zero and first conditional
We use if to express a condition.
| Zero conditional | First conditional |
|---|---|
| General consequence / fact if + present, present | Specific consequence / future if + present, will + verb |
| We feel better if we rest well. If we don't rest well, we get better slowly. | You will need to rest if it's broken. If you don't go to the hospital, you won't get an X-ray. |
No will after if: If you go to sleep late, you will be tired. · will not = won't
3 Grammar: a little / a few
- a few + things you can count (a small number): a few olives, a few strawberries, a few bananas, a few eggs
- a little + things you can't count (a small quantity): a little cereal, a little milk, a little jam, a little salt
I went to the supermarket, and I bought a few olives, a little milk, and a few pieces of cake.
4 Story, interview and reading
- Cooking with Mr. Tibbles: Josh makes pancakes with his assistant chef, Mr. Tibbles, a talking cat. Mom screams, Aiden pushes her with his elbow: she falls over and hurts her knee, and a knife falls on Aiden's toe. Josh thinks they should call a doctor.
- Doctor Garcia is a nutritionist. Healthy people eat a varied diet and exercise.
- Our Food Adventure: the writer and Max the dog tasted lots of food around the world. Some dishes were really tasty; some were not cooked well.
5 Food around the world · word families
| Country | Sample dish |
|---|---|
| Morocco | couscous (wheat, meat, seafood, lemon, a little honey) |
| Italy | Ragu alla Bolognese |
| France | pot-au-feu |
| China | Peking Duck |
| Japan | sushi |
| Mexico | Mole Chicken |
| India | khichdi |
39 countries eat rice as a main ingredient; 27 eat bread. Norway eats more pizza than any other country. 40% of food in the US is thrown away.
Word families: taste → tasted, tasty · cook → cooking, cooked · vegetable → vegetation, vegetarian · write → writing, writer · wait → waiting, waiter, waited · help → helped, helping, helpful
What do you want to practise?