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Unit 6.1: Talking about Food

• Talking about the look, smell and taste of food

• The cake looks delicious.

• The food smells good.

• It smells like heaven in the kitchen.

• The curry is really tasty.

• My wife's home-made cookies are yummy.  (informal) (yummy = delicious)

• My mother's apple pie is out of this world. (= excellent, very delicious)

• The steak looks over-cooked.

• The soup is a bit too salty.

• The meat is tough and dry.

• The taste of this dish is a bit bland.

• The steak tastes like a piece of leather.  (= hard and tasteless)

• The food in the new Italian restaurant is second to none.  (= the very best)

• The food in that restaurant is really disgusting.  (= not delicious)

• Saying you are hungry

• I'm hungry.

• I'm starved. (= very hungry)

• I'm famished. (= very hungry)

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• I'm peckish.  (= a little bit hungry)

• At the dinner table

• Please pass me the salt.

• Could you pass the pepper please?

• Could I have some milk please?

• Could I have seconds, please?

• Is there any more of this?

• What's for dessert?  (Informal)

Exercises - Click on the links below:

• Matching Exercise

• Crossword Puzzle

 

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