Lesson Goals 🎯

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Talk about food and drinks
• Describe amounts using vocabulary like some, a lot of, and not much
• Ask and answer questions about meals and drinks

Exercise 1: Warm-Up – Meals of the Day

Listen and repeat:

• dessert
• breakfast
• dinner
• lunch
• afternoon tea
• morning tea

Practice: Put the items on the list in order of when they happen throughout the day.

Exercise 2: Vocabulary Practice – Food & Drinks

Listen and repeat:

• soft drink
• alcohol
• coffee
• fish
• sugar
• rice
• pasta
• water
• red meat
• fruit

Practice: Tell your tutor which items are drinks and which are foods.
Example:
• Soda is a drink
• Pasta is a food

Exercise 3: More Vocabulary – Amounts

Listen and repeat:

• not any → There isn’t any water
• not much → There is not much water
• some → There is some water
• a lot of → There is a lot of water

Practice: Look at pictures and tell your tutor what you see.
Example: “not much”

Exercise 4: Dialogue Practice

Read aloud and answer the questions:

Teacher: What do you usually eat for dinner, Zach?
Zach: I usually eat a lot of pasta.

Teacher: What do you drink?
Zach: I usually drink soft drinks or water.

Teacher: Do you drink much alcohol?
Zach: No, I don’t drink any alcohol. How about you? What do you eat for dinner?

Teacher: I usually eat red meat.
Zach: Do you drink much alcohol?
Teacher: No, not much.
Zach: What do you usually eat for dessert?
Teacher: I don’t eat any sugar. So I don’t eat dessert.

Check Your Understanding:
• What does Zach usually eat for dinner?
• Does Zach drink much alcohol?
• What does Zach’s teacher eat for dessert?

Exercise 5: Matching Practice

Say the correct answer aloud:

• What do you usually eat for lunch? → I usually eat a lot of rice
• Do you drink much coffee? → Yes, I drink a lot of coffee
• How much red meat do you eat? → I don’t eat much red meat
• How much sugar do you eat? → I don’t eat sugar
• Do you drink much alcohol? → Yes, I do
• What do you eat for morning tea? → I usually eat fruit

Exercise 6: Fill in the Blanks

Read aloud and complete the sentences. You will be Arisa:

Teacher: What do you usually eat for lunch, Arisa?
Arisa: I usually (1) a lot of fruit.

Teacher: What do you drink?
Arisa: I usually (2) some coffee.

Teacher: Do you drink much soda?
Arisa: No, I don’t drink (3) soft drinks. I don’t really (4) it. How about you? What (5) you usually eat for lunch?

Teacher: I don’t eat much lunch. Just some rice.
Arisa: What do (6) drink?
Teacher: I drink a lot of coffee and a lot of soda.

Answer Bank: drink, do, like, you, much, eat

Exercise 7: Sentence Ordering

Put the words into the correct order:

• usually you do eat breakfast for What?
• of a lot usually eat fruit I
• dessert What do you for eat?
• alcohol I any don’t drink
• much rice you eat do How?
• sugar Do you much eat?
• Do you much coffee drink?
• sugar much eat don’t I

Corrections

• What do you usually eat for breakfast?
• I usually eat a lot of fruit
• What do you eat for dessert?
• I don’t drink any alcohol
• How much rice do you eat?
• How much sugar do you eat?
• How much coffee do you drink?
• I don’t eat much sugar

Exercise 8: Your Turn to Ask

Ask your tutor:

• What do you usually eat for breakfast?
• What do you usually eat for lunch?
• What do you usually eat for dinner?
• How much coffee do you drink?
• How much red meat do you eat?
• How much soft drinks do you drink?
• How much alcohol do you drink?

Exercise 9: Your Turn to Answer

Answer using the language you have learned in this lesson. Talk about yourself:

• What do you usually eat for breakfast?
• What do you usually eat for lunch?
• What do you usually eat for dinner?
• How much alcohol do you drink?
• How much sugar do you eat?
• How much fish do you eat?
• How much rice do you eat?