This blog has been designed to share interesting materials with my secondary EFL students (14-17) but you are welcome if you also find it useful to improve your English.

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Showing posts with label topic. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Speaking topics about food and nutrition

  • Do you like cooking? Is the food you cook at home better than convenience foods?
  • Which healthy food do you like? 
  • Which unhealthy food do you like?
  • Do you think that you eat a “balanced diet”? What is a “balanced diet”?
  • What does the “Mediterranean diet” include? What does it NOT include?
  • What advice would you give somebody who wants to have a good, balanced diet?
  • Do you take any action to consume less salt, fat or sugar? Do you think people should reduce their salt, fat or sugar intake?
  • Do you think that a vegetarian diet could be healthy? In what ways do you think it might be good and in what ways bad?
  • What is "junk food"? Why is it called "junk"? Is there a difference between junk food and fast food? If so, what is it?
  • If you had to chose between junk food and your heath? Which would you go for ? Why is it so tasty/popular?
  • How does advertising influence the way we eat?
  • If you have a garden do you grow your own fruit or vegetables? Which ones?
  • How much difference is there between things grown at home and those bought at the supermarket?
  • How has food, eating and drinking culture changed in the last decades?
  • Why have cooking TV programmes become so popular?

Monday, 16 April 2018

How to write an email





MORE:
ACTIVITY:
In this activity you are going to write an email to a friend telling him/her what people have told you since your last email. These are some of the things you have been told:
  • Your mother told you: "Don't arrive so late any more."
  • Your best friend said: "I want to travel to Madrid next week end."
  • The school director asked: "Are you going to go on a school trip with primary students?"
  • Your teacher said: "You have to study these contents this week."
Of course you can add more information in your email but include some of the ideas above.
Remember to include some of the following connectors:
  • first,
  • then /later (on) / next / after that
  • because / so
  • however / although
  • in spite of / despite
  • in my opinion
  • finally