
Ленинский пр-т, 32а
Vocabulary: Describing food
Listening: Vending machines
Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives
Reading: Hungry adventures
Writing skills: A restaurant review
Grammar
Comparatives and superlatives
Comparison
Extremes
Vocabulary
Describing food
How can we describe… ?
Opposites: adjectives to describe taste and texture
Cooking terms
add |
to put something with something else |
Add the eggs to the cream. |
chop |
to cut something into small pieces |
Chop an onion finely. |
fry |
to cook something in hot oil or fat |
Fry the onions in a little butter. |
heat up |
to make something become hot or warm |
I'll just heat up some soup. |
mash |
to crush food until it is soft |
Mash the potatoes. |
mix |
to combine together to make one substance |
Put the chocolate, butter, and egg in a bowl and mix them all together. |
serve |
to give someone food or drink, especially guests or customers in a restaurant or bar |
Serve the cake with whipped cream. |
squeeze |
to press a lemon/orange, etc to get juice from it |
Squeeze the juice of one lemon. |
stir |
to mix food or liquid by moving a spoon round and round in it |
Stir the mixture until it is smooth. |
Writing skills: A restaurant review
How can we describe… ?
Positive and negative language; adverbs
We can use adverbs to make adjectives and phrases stronger or weaker:
stronger |
weaker |
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absolutely completely extremely |
really terribly |
a bit fairly not really not very |
rather reasonably quite |