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Special Characters

Conversational Questions

• Let's agree that the best food in the world comes from your own country. Which country produces the second best food?
• Is there any food or drink that you couldn't live without? How often do you eat / drink it?
• What is your favourite food? Can you cook it? How is it prepared?
• What types of foreign food have you tried? What is your favourite?
• What is your favourite type of cheese? Do you like blue cheese?
• What is your favourite fruite / vegetable?
• Do you enjoy seafood? What is your favourite?
• Do you like "rare" steak or do you think it is disgusting?
• What are some typical foods from your home country?
• How many “food scares” can you think of which have occurred in the last two years?
• When you buy food, do you read the label? What information can you find on the label?
• Do you ever take any nutritional supplements? Which ones?

https://teflpedia.com/Food_conversation_questions

Taste and Texture Adjectives

Bitter - Having a strong, often unpleasant taste e.g. coffee, dark chocolate.

Sweet - Usually an enjoyable taste of sugar.

Dry - Not wet.

Moist - A little wet.

Bland - Boring, not interesting.

Spicy - Having strong flavours from spice.

Savoury - Not sweet e.g. bread.

Rich - Rich food has a lot of butter, cream, or eggs in it.

Salty - Tastes of salt.

Tasty - Good flavour and is nice to eat.

Sugary - Tastes of sugar.

Greasy - Containing or covered with fat or oil.

Crunchy - Firm and making a loud noise when it is eaten.

Container Words

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/container.shtml

Present Simple or Present Continuous

Exercises

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex02

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex03

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex04

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex05

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex06

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex07

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex08

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex09

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex10

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex11

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex12

http://www.english-4u.de/pres_prog_ex3.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/pres_prog_ex4.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/pres_prog_ex5.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/pres_prog_ex6.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/pres_prog_ex7.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs2.htm

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-2.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1438

Websites

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm

Tests

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/tests?test1

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/tests?test2

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/tests?test3

Future Tenses Exercises

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/uebungen/zeiten/future.htm

 https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/uebungen/zeiten/future2.htm

 https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future.htm

 https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future2.htm

 https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future3.htm

 https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future4.htm

 https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tense-comparison/future-tenses/exercises

 https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-mix/exercises

Restaurants

• How often do you eat out?
• What's the best thing about eating out?
• Which is more economical in your country, eating out or eating at home?
• What is your favourite restaurant near where you live?
• Do you often order the same food or do you take a risk and try new food?
• What is the best restaurant you have ever eaten at?
• How do you feel about theme restaurants?
• What types of foreign food restaurants have you eaten at?
• What is the typical price for a set meal in your local area?
• What do you usually drink?
• What (besides good food) makes a restaurant great? Criteria?
• Have you ever eaten at a restaurant abroad? What was it like?
• How long would you wait to get served before complaining or leaving a restaurant?
• Which of these is the most important part of the meal: the first course, main course, the dessert or the wine?
• Do you usually leave a tip? How do you calculate it? What do you think of this custom?
• When eating out, do you tend to prefer meat or fish?
• Have you ever worked in a restaurant? If so, describe the experience.
• Do you prefer darker or brighter interiors for restaurants? Why?

Giving your opinion

Agreeing

• Exactly.
• That's true.
• I wouldn't say it better.
• I strongly agree with you.
• You're perfectly right.
• I couldn't agree more.
• That's just what I was thinking.
• I would go along with that.
• I feel the same.
• You're absolutely right.
• No doubt about it.
• That's a good point.

Disagreeing

• No way!
• Absolutely not!
• I'm afraid I disagree.
• I strongly disagree!
• I think you're wrong.
• I think the opposite.
• I have a different opinion about it.
• That's not the way I see it.
• I don't feel the same.
• I doubt that ...

Partly agreeing

• That's not really how I see it.
• I'm not totally convinced by your argument.
• I have some reservations.
• I don't entirely agree with you.
• I see your point but ...
• I kind of agree with you but ...
• I agree with you to an extent, however ...
• I'd suggest that ...
• If you ask my opinion ...
• I am of mixed opinions
• I might be wrong but ...
• What I mean is ...
• I tend to think that ...
• As I see it ...
• I could be wrong but ...

Word Definitions

Task: Define the following items of vocabulary in your on words:

• generation
• relatives
• immediate family
• extended family
• blood relatives
• sibling
• spouse
• stepfamily
• brother-in-law
• great-grandfather
• adopted child
• foster family
• widow
• fiancée
• ancestor

My family

Task: Write a short text about your family of about 250–300 words. Include the following topics:

• all of your family members
• yourself
• your home
• your relatives

Use the Present Simple tense. Revise your text and run a spell check. Print it out.

Sample text:

I have a large family. My father is 57. (fifty-seven) He works as an engineer at a plant. My mother is 55. She works part-time as a nurse. My younger brother is a student of economics. He is going to graduate next year. I also have an older sister. She is married and lives with her family in an apartment house not far from us. They often visit us. Her daughter Lena, my niece, is a very talented girl. She plays the piano and writes interesting poems.

I am married. My wife Olga is a schoolteacher. She teaches mathematics. We have two children, a boy and a girl. My son Victor is six years old, and my daughter Anna is three years old. They go to a kindergarten near our house. My wife picks them up on her way home from work and takes a long walk with them in the park. My mother looks after the children when we work late, and my mother-in-law takes care of them on Saturdays.

We live in a large house with a nice garden. There is enough room for all of us, and I even have my own study in the attic. It is small, but I like it. There is a table with my computer on it, a chair, and a book shelf. I spend a lot of time there working with my papers and studying English.

We have a lot of relatives. My aunt and two uncles live in a small town about 60 kilometers from my hometown. Their children, my cousins, are about my age, and we communicate often. Every year the whole family gets together for Christmas. We prepare a huge Christmas dinner, and there are a lot of presents for everyone.

Tips to revise your text:

Layout

• Include a title that is properly set apart from the text.
• Use line-spacing 1.5.
• Write paragraphs.
• Add a footer with your name, class and date.

Vocabulary

• Don't start your sentences with 'And'.
• Omit repetitions of words (no doubles).
• Vary your verbs (find other verbs than 'have' and 'is'.
• Run a spell check in MS Word.
• Good to know: in my maternal/paternal line, 

Grammar and Spelling

• Use the Present Simple Tense (not the Present Continuous) to describe facts (where you work or live).
• Write short sentences and set a full stop.
• Write the dates correctly: the first of May or May the first.
• Use the genitive: my brother's name.
• Don't capitalise family words: mother, father, uncle.
• Write out number up to ten.

Introductory Questions

• Who of you is an only child?
• Do you like it to be a single child in your family?
• Have you ever wondered how it would be to have a brother or a sister?
• What would be different?
• What do you miss? What do you like about it?
• Do you think that only children behave differently? How?
  

Will Future: Instant decisions / predictions/ offers / suggestions / requests / statements of fact

• The sun will rise at 6.30 tomorrow.
• Lunch break today will be 10 minutes longer than usual.
• In the year 2050 all students will have their own computers in school.
• If you help me, I will help you.
• Do you think she will come soon?
• You won't pass your exams if you don't start working harder.
• I know my parents won't let me go to the party.
• Will it snow for Christmas?
• I know she's sick, but will she be back in school tomorrow?

Going to: Intentions / decisions taken before / plans with uncertainty 

• We're going to buy a new car next month.
• I'm going to work in a bank when I leave school.
• In the new year I'm going to stop eating so much junk.
• He's not going to go to the dance. He's got too much work.
• I'm not going to watch TV until my science project is finished.
• Are you going to play basketball after school?
• What are you going to have for lunch today?

 Present Continuous: Arrangements / fixed plans

• I'm meeting my mother at the airport tomorrow.
• Our grandparents are visiting us this Christmas.
• Sorry, I can't stay after school today; I'm playing tennis with Jun-Sik.
• I'm not returning home for the holidays, so I can come to your party after all!
• Are you doing anything on Sunday morning?

GOING TO OR WILL FUTURE

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/uebungen/zeiten/will_going_to_future.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/uebungen/zeiten/will_going_to_future2.htm
http://www.kico4u.de/english/uebungen/aktiv/goingwill1.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs18.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs19.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs20.htm
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/willgo.htm http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/de/exercise.asp?exid=901
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/de/exercise.asp?exid=897
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/de/exercise.asp?exid=886
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/lang/de/exercise.asp?exid=883

Mixed Future Forms

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-mix/exercises

https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/future-tenses-exercise/

https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future.htm

https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future2.htm

https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future3.htm

https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/future4.htm