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1A Reading Intermediate
Description Students read about food memories and focus on True / False sentences
Lesson link Use this activity after exercise 5
Time 10 minutes
Extra material Print out and photocopy the Food memories worksheet for each student
Instructions
a Copy the worksheet for each student in the class.
Ask SS to read the interview with a food writer,
Jessica Greene. When SS have finished reading, ask
them to focus on the True / False sentences. If a
sentence is false, SS must say why. Feed back as
a class.
b As a follow-up, the interview questions can be used
as the basis of a pairwork activity. SS ask and
answer the questions in pairs or small groups to
describe their own food memories. You could also
ask SS to interview each other and then write an
interview like the one in the article.
Answers
1 False. She still likes them.
2 False. She ate omelettes.
3 True
4 True
5 False. The prices didn’t appear on the menu.
6 False. They are both on the same plate.
7 True
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1A Reading Intermediate
Jessica Greene is a journalist who writes about food for magazines in the UK and
the USA. In this interview, she describes her own personal food favourites.
Food memories
What was your favourite food when you were that I am writing for pays the bill. Once the bill was
a child? over £1000. But the most expensive meal that I paid
That’s easy. I loved strawberries. My mother had a for myself was in Paris. It all happened by chance. I
garden and she grew strawberries herself. Every was with a friend and we were looking for
summer we had strawberries and cream at somewhere to have lunch so we went into a hotel.
lunchtime. I loved them then and I still do. The prices didn’t appear in their menu and we ate a
lot of food. When the bill came, we were astonished.
Was there any food that you hated when you It