Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Food for thought for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Put the words from the box into the correct place in the word map.
  2. What is the difference between the pairs / groups of words below?
  3. Work in pairs and add at least two more words to each group in the word map.

Answer

a)

  • Food → beef, peach, cabbage, parsley
  • Ways of cooking → bake, scramble, fry, roast, boil, grill
  • Kitchen equipment → saucepan, oven, cooker, frying pan, wooden spoon, plate
  • Taste → sweet, bitter, salty, sour, savoury

b)

  1. a cook = a person who cooks; a cooker = the machine you use for cooking
  2. a vegetable = a food like carrot, potato; a vegetarian = a person who does not eat meat
  3. a recipe = instructions about how to cook something; a dish = the thing you make (e.g. beef stroganoff)
  4. rare = cooked only a little (usually for meat, especially steak); raw = not cooked at all
  5. to stir = to mix slowly; to beat = to mix quickly
  6. to slice = to cut into thin pieces; to chop = to cut into small squares; to grate = to use a grater to make very small pieces of food

c)

  • Food → chicken, apple
  • Ways of cooking → simmer, peel
  • Kitchen equipment → casserole dish, baking tray
  • Taste → dry, moist