Cover of the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Practical English 5 for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Complete the menu with Main courses, Desserts, or Starters.
  2. What do the highlighted words mean? How do you pronounce them? Watch or listen and check.

Answer

a)

  1. Starters
  2. Main courses
  3. Desserts

b)

  • courses /ˈkɔːsɪz/ = separate parts of a meal
  • soup /suːp/ = liquid food that you make by cooking things like vegetables or meat in water
  • grilled /ɡrɪld/ = cooked on metal bars under or over heat
  • home-made /ˌhəʊm ˈmeɪd/ = made in your house, not bought in a shop or made in a factory
  • sauce /sɔːs/ = a thick liquid that you eat on or with other food
  • fresh /freʃ/ = made or picked not long ago