Tag Archives: Food & Drink

Optional Activity #6. The access to drinking water

I. How many people in the world do you think don’t have access to safe water? II. How many people in the world do you think don’t have access to a toilet? III. Watch the beginning of this video to … Continue reading

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The Tea Song

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Super Jam

SuperJam [Activities]

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A healthy lifestyle?

By Andrea Garcia 1. Diet I think I have quite a healthy diet. I eat a lot of chicken, soup, lamb,… I don’t eat too many crisps. I probably eat candy and drink too much cocacola. I probably  don’t eat … Continue reading

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Food for Thought

Watch this video and do the activities on the worksheet. Teacher’s answers here. [Thanks to Carmen Cazorla for sharing the video]

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The Tea Song

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Findus beef meals made from horsemeat

[By Mercè Vidiella & Irene Zambrano] Watch this Reuters video on the horsemeat scandal and the activities on this worksheet: ListeningComp.Horsemeat. Follow-up activities: 1- Do you know the meaning of the English expression “to close the stable door  after the … Continue reading

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Graham Hill: Why I’m a Weekday Vegetarian

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Should the Government Limit the Size of Sugary Drinks?

Read the following post published on The New York Times Learning Network blog. 1. Find a synonym for ‘sugary drink’ in the article. 2. Make a list of the verbs used with ‘obesity’, as in ‘to combat obesity’. Make sure … Continue reading

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Optional activity: ‘At Long Last, Booze Comes to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom’ (TIME Magazine)

Read the following text and do the activities below. Send them to me (mxorto@xtec.cat) before September, 26. I. Find an explanation /synonym for the word booze in the text. II. Make sentences using the following words /expressions in the text. … Continue reading

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Typical food by Laia Martínez

My name’s Laia. I’m from Barcelona in Catalonia. There’s lots of great Catalan and Spanish food that you can try. For breakfast, you should have some coffee with milk or milk with cocoa powder, accompanied by toasts, honey, butter, cereals … Continue reading

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Typical food by Marc Galé

My name’s Marc. I’m from Cornellà in Spain. There’s a lot of great Spanish food that you can try. For breakfast, you should have some hot chocolate with “churros”. It’s very cheap and you can find it in a lot … Continue reading

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Typical food by Aaron Barrios

My name’s Aaron. I’m from Catalonia in Spain. There is a lot of great food in Catalonia. For breakfast, you should have some bread with tomato. This is a traditional breakfast that consists of rubbed tomato on the bread and … Continue reading

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Typical food by Marta Espinosa

Hi, my name is Marta. I’m from Catalunya in Spain. There’s lots of great food that you can try. For breakfast you should have some bread whit tomato. It’s a typical food. You can eat it with ham or with … Continue reading

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Typical food by Andrea Garcia

My name’s Andrea. I’m from Cornellà in Spain. There’s lots of great Spanish food that you can try. For breakfast, you should some slices of bread with rubbed tomato. You should also try milk and “colacao”. It tastes like chocolate. … Continue reading

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