Join another pair. Compare your answers. Then discuss these questions.

• What is your least in each category of the chart?
• What food brings back your best memories?

3. Circle the words below that you don’t know and ask your group to explain them. Use a dictionary to look up any that none of you knows. Then add two more items to each list.

• Ways of preparing food: peel, slice, stir, beat, whip, marinate, …
• Ways of cooking: fry, dee-fry, broil, grill, bake, steam, melt, roast, …
• Equipment: frying pan, skillet, roasting pan, pot, oven, burner, steamer, …

Cook up a quick-fix gourmet treat for one

Chicken joints are a blessing for the single cook, especially as chicken shops are open late and can be used in an emergency. Serve grilled chicken with steamed vegetables, a salad and jacket potatoes (done in the microwave) or creamy mashed potatoes.

1-2 chicken joints

l ¹/₂ tablespoons flour, seasoned with salt and pepper

¹/₂ teaspoon ground paprika

I5g butter, melted

2 teaspoons lemon juice

Watercress or parsley to garnish

Wash and wipe joints with paper towels. Dust lightly with seasoned flour and paprika.

Heat grill and lightly oil grilling rack, place chicken skin side down, brush with melted butter and grill 5 minutes. Turn chicken over, brush with more butter and continue to grill 20-25 minutes or until tender. Transfer to heated serving plate Add lemon juice and any remaining butter to pan juices, pour over chicken and garnish with watercress or parsley.

gourmet ['guə mei] гурман

To grill запекать на решетке

Joint часть туши

Blessing блаженство

Emergency [i'mə: dʒ nsi] крайняя необходимость

Steamed сваренный на пару

Jacket potatoes картофель в мундире

Mashed potatoes картофельное пюре

Flower ['flauə ] мука

To season приправлять

Groun d молотый

Melted растопленный

Watercress кресс-салат

Parsley петрушка

To Garnish гарнировать

PUZZLE

Which of these people are the healthiest? Put them in order. Explain the reasons for your decision.

Jim. Job: computer programmer (sits at a desk all day)

Exercise: playing football for one and a half hours every Saturday afternoon

Smoking/drinking: drinks forty cans of beer a week

Diet: eats a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables

Diana. Job: manager in advertising (has a lot of stress)

Exercise: plays squash every lunchtime

Smoking/drinking: drinks half a bottle of wine per day

Diet: fast food: sandwiches, beefburgers or pizza

Nigel. Job: works in a shoe shop (standing all day, walking around the shop)

Exercise: none

Smoking/drinking: drinks ten cans of beer a week

Diet: has beefburgers or chips at lunch, salad in the evening

Anne. Job: air stewardess (on her feet most of the day, but quite often can't sleep at night - in strange hotels around the world)

Exercise: three hours jogging every week

Smoking/drinking: drinks half a bottle of wine per week

Diet: not too bad, but eats quite a lot of rich, spicy foods when staying abroad; loves cake and eats two bars of chocolate per week.