VARIETY´s the spice of LIFE´s.... a BURGER´s

Living to eat or Eating to live? Is food your best medicine? Are you a foodie?
 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