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Idioms about food (Part One) Perhaps because we love so many types of food, we use them to express thoughts and feelings in a figurative way too. How many of the idioms below do you know? See if you can use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

Idioms apple of my eye bad egg bread and butter

bring home the bacon put all eggs in one basket

have your cake and eat it too

cool as a cucumber cream of the crop cry over spilled milk

not my cup of tea butter (someone) up spill the beans

Questions 1. No matter what happens during competitions, Leslie never panics and remains

________________.

2. I know you are disappointed at losing, but you should look forward to the next challenge and not _________________.

3. Things nowadays are very expensive and both parents have to work to _________________.

4. We heard loud laughter from the next classroom and when our friend came over during recess, we got him to _____________ and explain what was so funny.

5. Of all my pets, Lucy the kitten is my absolute favorite. You could say she is the __________________.

6. My siblings enjoy hiking but to me it’s very tiring and _____________.

7. Do you know how Leonard becomes the teacher’s pet? He knows exactly how to _____________, making the teacher happy.

8. If you want to improve your grades, you need to work harder and play less – you can’t __________________.

9. Being able to choose fresh ingredients from the market is the _____________ of being a good cook – you can’t make tasty dishes with stale food.

10. Mr. Lau reminded us that students from our school were known to be well-behaved and he did not want to hear about anyone being a _________________.

Exercise 1

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A Hunger Game J

Have you ever felt so hungry you could eat twice as much as you normally do for dinner? How about when you were only slightly hungry and just one cookie would have made you full? Can you arrange the vocabulary in the box in the correct order, from least hungry to most hungry?

Vocabulary bloated craving full

could eat a whale starving hungry

stuffed famished peckish

satisfied

Exercise 3

MOST HUNGRY

LEAST HUNGRY

1. ___________

2. ___________ 3. ___________

4. ___________ 5. ___________

6. ___________

7. ___________

8. ___________ 9. ___________

10. ___________

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Tingle my senses - Sight

One reason why food is so amazing is that it appeals to our five senses – sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing – sometimes all at once! Let’s take a look at how we can create amazing descriptions of food this way, starting with sight. Look at the clues, related to visual descriptions of food, and fill out the crossword below.

Across 1. The white lines of fat you see on raw meat

3. When butter is heated up and forms a layer on toast

7. A multi-coloured fruit bowl looks like this thing in the sky

8. Smooth strings of noodles can be described this way

10. Bloody meat

11. When steam forms this large cloud that moves upward and outward

Exercise 6

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Down

1. When you scoop up ice cream and it forms this nice round ball shape

2. You check to see if a fish's eyes look this way to tell if it's fresh

4. Sometimes the fruits and vegetables have these water droplets on them that look like morning …

5. When the coffee is so black you can't see through it

6. Another way of saying the meat is tender and juicy

9. You know the fruit is ready to eat when it changes colour and becomes this

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Tingle my senses – Hearing We hear many amazing sounds in a kitchen as food is prepared and eaten. Match the items below with the words that best describe the sounds they make. Some sounds can be used for more than one item!

Exercise Ten A. chime

B. clang

C. clink

D. hiss

E. sizzle

F. splash

G. whirr

List of items: (1) kettle, (2) tap and sink, (3) mug, (4) spatula and pot, (5) frying pan, (6) hood, (7) oven, (8) blender, (9) ice cube, (10) glass

Exercise 10

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Exercise One

1. cool as a cucumber

2. cry over spilled milk

3. bring home the bacon

4. spill the beans

5. apple of my eye

6. not my cup of tea

7. butter him / her up

8. have your cake and eat it too

9. bread and butter

10. bad egg

Exercise Three 1. bloated

2. stuffed

3. full

4. satisfied

5. peckish

6. hungry

7. craving

8. famished

9. starving

10. could eat a whale

Answers

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Exercise Six

Across 1. streaks

3. melted

7. rainbow

8. silky

10. rare

11. billowing

Down

1. sphere

2. gleaming

4. dew

5. opaque

6. succulent

9. ripe

Exercise Ten A. chime (7) oven

B. clang (4) spatula and pot

C. clink (3) mug, (9) ice cube , (10) glass

D. hiss (1) kettle

E. sizzle (5) frying pan

F. splash (2) tap and sink

G. whirr (6) hood, (8) blender