‫We're now looking at essential language for the really common topic of food.
‫This could easily come up in any, if not multiple sections of your child's test.
‫And there is a lot of topic, specific vocabulary you could learn for food.
‫But we're just going to learn eight pieces of language that I think are particularly quite interesting,
‫easy to use and could come up in the test.
‫So let's move on.
‫Here is our list will begin with savory ready meal.
‫Fusi.
‫Appetite.
‫Starving.
‫Cuisine.
‫Dine out.
‫And lastly, sweet tooth, so some really good pieces of vocabulary and phrases that you should learn
‫for your alt test.
‫Let's begin looking at examples for Savery.
‫Now, savory really is the complete opposite of sweet.
‫It is often compared to a salty or meaty type taste.
‫I prefer savory foods as they are sometimes not spicy or to adventurous.
‫In most parts of the United Kingdom, savory foods are very popular.
‫Here we have read e-mail, and these are very popular kinds of fast food, which are usually microwaved,
‫of course, there are issues with plastic wrapping from these kinds of meals, and they are sometimes
‫not quite as healthy as we would want.
‫Here are two examples.
‫My friends say, is that ready meals are usually full of dangerous preservatives, preservatives are
‫types of chemicals that keep our food safe to eat for a longer period of time.
‫A ready meal is a kind of convenient fast food, and I'm sure many of you know that phrase fast food,
‫but that applies to anything from microwave meals to takeaway food such as McDonald's and those types
‫of foods.
‫Here we have Fosi Fosi means that this person isn't easily pleased.
‫My baby daughter is such a fussy eater and 18 times can be pretty stressful.
‫As a child, I was quite fussy with my food, although now I'll eat most things, and that's also a
‫phrase a fussy eater.
‫Are you a fussy eater?
‫Are you not a fussy eater?
‫Will you eat anything?
‫And now we have appetite, often appetite means how much you want to eat.
‫Are you really hungry?
‫Have you got an appetite or do you not really have an appetite for food?
‫Do you not like eating too much?
‫One great thing about regular exercise is that it builds a healthy appetite and here is a collocation
‫healthy appetite, a good, healthy, big appetite.
‫After watching that horror film, I definitely lost my appetite, another common phrase, it's like
‫an idiomatic expression.
‫You haven't lost it, but you don't have an appetite to eat.
‫Often after seeing something that is not nice, like a horror film or something like that, you lose
‫your appetite.
‫You don't want to eat a very native sounding expression.
‫And here we have starving.
‫Now, it's not the most polite thing to say when you are hungry due to the connotations that it has
‫because you aren't actually starving.
‫You are just hungry.
‫But it's a very negative expression.
‫I must admit, I was absolutely starving and would have eaten anything.
‫My brother was starving, hungry, so I bought us both at pizza.
‫Here we have cuisine.
‫Cuisine is a type of food often linked to a country or continent or even a place, for example, French
‫cuisine, Italian cuisine.
‫Let's take a look at some examples.
‫Most Canadian people enjoy eating French cuisine as much as American food.
‫Thai cuisine can be challenging for some Western people, but is definitely delicious.
‫And here we have the expression dying out, if you are dining out, it means you're going to a restaurant
‫or a place where you can buy and eat food.
‫As I work until late in the evening, I don't get too many chances to dine out.
‫Furthermore, families who can afford to dine out often will be able to try more types of food so that
‫we have the expression to dine out.
‫And lastly, we have a sweet tooth.
‫A sweet tooth, again, is kind of an idiomatic expression.
‫If somebody likes to eat sweet foods, snacks or desserts, you can say they have a sweet tooth.
‫Having a sweet tooth definitely can mean a few extra trips to the dentist.
‫I've always had a big, sweet tooth since I was a child.
‫OK, so there are eight key expressions for talking about discussing and understanding the topic of
‫food.