Partitives

Count/Non-Count Nouns
Imperatives
Buying food, describing food, eating in a restaurant, recipes
 Vocabulary Preview

1. a can of soup 6. a loaf of white bread 11. a pint of ice cream

2. a jar of jam 7. two loaves of whole 12. a quart of orange juice
3. a bottle of ketchup wheat bread 13. a gallon of milk
4. a box of cereal 8. a bunch of bananas 14. a pound of meat
5. a bag of flour 9. a head of lettuce 15. a half pound of cheese
10. a dozen eggs half a pound of cheese
Do We Need Anything from the Supermarket?

A can of soup A head of lettuce

A jar of jam A dozen eggs
A bottle of ketchup A pt. Of ice cream
A box of cereal A qt. Of orange juice
A bag of flour A gal. Of milk
A loaf of white bread A lb. Of meat
2 loaves of whole ½ lb. Of cheese
Wheat bread
A bunch of bananas
2 bunches of carrots
A. Do we need anything from the supermarket?
B. Yes. We need a loaf of bread.
A. A loaf of bread?
B. Yes.
A. Anything else?
B. No. Just a loaf of bread.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
How Much Does a Head of Lettuce Cost?
1 cent $.01 $1.00 one dollar
25 cents $.25 $10.00 ten dollars

A. How much does a head of lettuce cost?

B. A dollar ninety-five. ($1.95) 1. 2.
A. A dollar ninety-five?! That's a lot of money!
B. You're right. Lettuce is very expensive this week.
3. 4.

A. How much does a pound of apples cost?

B. Two eighty-nine. ($2.89) 5. 6.
A. Two eighty-nine?! That's a lot of money!
B. You're right. Apples are very expensive this week.
7.
Nothing to Eat for Dinner Joan is at the supermarket. Using
these models, create dialogs based
Joan got home late from work today, and she was very on the story.
hungry. When she opened the refrigerator, she was
upset. There was nothing to eat for dinner. Joan sat down A. Excuse me. I'm looking for a
head of lettuce.
and made a shopping list. She needed a head of lettuce, a
B. Sorry. There isn't any more
bunch of carrots, a quart of milk, a dozen eggs, two
lettuce.
pounds of chicken, and a loaf of bread. A. There isn't?
B. No, there isn't. Sorry.
Joan rushed out of the house and drove to the
supermarket. When she got there, she was very A. Excuse me. I'm looking for a
disappointed. There wasn't any lettuce. There weren't bunch of carrots.
any carrots. There wasn't any milk. There weren't any B. Sorry. There aren't any more
eggs. There weren't any tomatoes. There wasn't any carrots.
A. There aren't?
chicken, and there wasn't any bread.
B. No, there aren't. Sorry.
Joan was tired and upset. In fact, she was so tired and
upset that she lost her appetite, drove home, didn't have
dinner, and went to bed.
 What would you like?
A. What would you like for dessert?
B. I can't decide. What do you recommend?
A. I recommend our chocolate ice cream. Everybody says
it's delicious.
B. Okay. Please give me a dish of chocolate ice cream.

A. What would you like for breakfast?

B. I can't decide. What do you recommend?
A. I recommend our scrambled eggs. Everybody says
they're out of this world.
B. Okay. Please give me an order of scrambled eggs.
*delicious/very good/excellent/wonderful/fantastic/magnificent/out of this world

1. for lunch? 2. for breakfast? 3. for dessert? 4. to drink?

A bowl of chicken soup an order of pancakes a piece of apple pie a glass of milk

5. for dessert? 6. to drink? 7. for dessert?

A bowl of strawberries a cup of hot chocolate a dish of vanilla ice cream
How to Say It!
Making a recommendation about food

A. What do you recommend for breakfast?

B. I recommend/suggest the pancakes.

*breakfast/lunch/dinner/dessert

Practice conversations with other students.

Ask for and make recommendations.

Listening
Listen and choose what the people are talking about.

1. a) chicken B) milk 5. A) eggs B) meat

2. A) oranges B) flour 6. A) cereal B) bananas
3. A) cookies B) bread 7. A) cake B) soup
4. A) potatoes B) lettuce 8. A) onions B) soda
Stanley's Favorite Recipes
Are you going to have a party soon? Do you want to cook something special? Stanley the
chef recommends this recipe for vegetable stew. Everybody says it's fantastic!

1. Put a little butter into a saucepan. 2. Chop up a few onions. 3. Cut up a few potatoes.

4. Pour in a little water. 5. Slice a few carrots. 6. Add a little salt. 7. Chop up a few mushrooms.

8. Slice a few tomatoes. 9. Add a little pepper. 10. Cook for three hours.
At the Continental Restaurant
Yesterday was Sherman and Dorothy Johnson's thirty-fifth wedding
anniversary. They went to the Continental Restaurant for dinner. This
restaurant is very special place for Sherman and Dorothy because they
went there on their first date thirty-six years ago.

Sherman and Dorothy sat at a quiet romantic table in the corner. They
looked at the menu, and then they ordered dinner. For an appetizer,
Dorothy ordered a glass of tomato juice. For the main course, Dorothy
ordered baked chicken with rice, and Sherman ordered broiled fish with
potatoes. For dessert, Dorothy ordered a piece of apple pie, and Sherman
ordered a bowl of strawberries.

Sherman and Dorothy enjoyed their dinner very much. The soup was
delicious, and the tomato juice was fresh. The chicken was wonderful, and
the rice was tasty. The fish was fantastic, and the potatoes were excellent.
The apple pie was magnificent, and the strawberries were out of this
world.

Sherman and Dorothy had a wonderful evening at the Continental

Restaurant. It was a very special anniversary.
 Role Play
Sherman and Dorothy are ordering dinner from Now, the waiter or waitress is asking about the
their waiter or waitress. Using these lines to begin, dinner. Using this model, continue your role play
work in groups of three and create a role play based based on all the foods in the story.
on the story.
A. How (is/are) the _________?
A. Would you like to order now? B. (It's/They're) _____________.
B. Yes. For an appetizer, I'd like _____________. A. I'm glad you like (it/them). And how (is/are)
C. And I'd like _____________. the ____________?
C. (It's/They're) __________.
A. I'm glad you like (it/them).

Pronunciation - Of Before Consonants and Vowels

Listen. Then say it. Say it. Then listen.

A bowl of soup A glass of milk

A head of lettuce A jar of jam
A piece of apple pie A pound of oranges
A bag of onions A dish of ice cream
 Side by
Side Gazette
Food Shopping
Everybody eats, and everybody shops for food.

In the past, people shopped for fruits, vegetables, bread, and meat at small food stores and
at open markets. Before there were refrigerators, it was difficult to keep food fresh for a
long time, so people shopped almost every day.

Life today is very different from the past. Refrigerators keep food fresh so people don't
have to shop every day. People also have very busy lives. They have time to shop for food
only once or twice a week.

People shop for food in different kinds of places – in small gocery stores, at large
supermarkets, and sometimes at enormous wholesale stores that sell food and other items
at very low prices. Some people even shop on the internet. They order food online, and the
company delivers it to their home. And in many places around the world, people still shop
in little food stores and at open markets. There are certainly many different ways to shop
for food these days!
 Global Exchange
Fact File Glen25: Hi, Maria. How are you today? I
just had breakfast. I had a glass of
One Day's Food
orange juice, a bowl of cereal, and a
muffin. At 12 noon I'm going to have
Eggs: The world's hens produce more than 2 billion eggs a day – enough
lunch. For lunch I usually have a
eggs to make omelet the size of the island of Cyprus!
sandwich and a glass of milk. Our
family's big meal of the day is dinner.
Chocolate: The world produces 8,818 tons of cocoa beans every day –
We usually eat at about 6 p.m. We
enough to make 700 million chocolate bars.
usually have meat, chicken, or fish, rice
or potatoes, and vegetables. How about
Rice: The world produces 1.6 million tons of rice every day - an amount
you? When do you usually eat? What do
the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid!
you have? What's your big meal of the
day?
Listening MariaV: Hi Glen. It's the middle of the
Attention, Food Shoppers! afternoon here. Our family just had our
big meal of the day. Today we had meat,
__ 1. cereal a. $2.75 potatoes, and vegetables. For breakfast I
usually have a roll and a cup of hot
__ 2. bread b. $ .40
chocolate. We don't have a big dinner in
__ 3. orange juice c. $3.25 the evening. We usually have a snack
__ 4. ice cream d. $3.49 early in the evening and a light supper
__ 5. bananas e. $1.79 at about 9:30.