There´s plenty of toxic food just as there are toxic people, toxic emotions, toxic loves, anxiety, anguish, anger, envy, fear, shame, depression, frustration, mourning, crying, blame, jealousy,etc.. (Bernardo Stamateas)
As a result of the typical summer laziness we are going to deal with such a superficial topic as one of our students´favourite foods: HAMBURGERS. (Once with a group of different ability students we learnt how to make cocktails from Bloody Mary to Caipirinha or San Francisco and some of these students ended up in the catering business).
By way of definition, a hamburger is a sandwich or sliced bread roll inside which you may find anything from ground meat to all kinds of vegetables as it may be served with anything from raw onions,chilli, ketchup,mustard, tomato, cheese, lettuce, mayonnaise,etc..
(This is such an important element in our students´culture that whenever we take them out on a school trip they are disppointed if they cannot find a McDonald´s, a Burger King´s or a similar burger place).
See if you can tell what the following burger types contain:
vegan burger
soy burger
classic burger
baconburger
barbecueburger
beefburger
cheeseburger
chickenburger
Chineseburger
Thai burger
clamburger
double-burger
eggburger
fish
glutenburger
garlicburger
horsemeatburger
lamburger
liver-sausage-burger
porkburger
rabbitburger
tomatoburger
Greek burger
California burger
Carolina burger
Curry burger
Hawaii burger
Naan burger
Pastrami burger
Rice burger
Steak burger
Teriyaki burger
Broccoli burger
Veggie burger
Taco burger
Anchovy pizza burger
Cajun burger
Tex-Mex
Gorgonzola burger
Fajita beef burger
Pesto burger
Brie burger
Nerja burger
1) Check 35 unique burger recipes, 60 top burger recipes and 100 different kinds of burger.
2) Create your own burger; What ingredients would a Frigiliana burger contain? and a Rio de la Miel burger? a Torrox burger? What would make it unique?
3) Write a list of your favourite pizza varieties:
4) What about types of pasta? How many varieties can you remember?
5) And sandwiches which are your favourite ones?
6) Types of rice?
7) Name as many fruits and vegetables as you can...
8) What about sausages: How many different types can you think of?
9) Name at least ten meat dishes.
10) Name ten fish dishes.
11) What is "ceviche"? What is "chayote"?
12) Do you watch TV cookery programmes such as Masterchef, Top Chef,etc..?
13) How many different types of sugar or salt do you know?
14) Would you like to try a Japanese Fugu or a Vietnamese Pho?
Some ideas from The Joy of Lex by Gyles Brandreth & Variety , a workbook for intermediate readers, by Jan Bell, Roy Boardman and Tony Buckby