Unit 19 Putting food on the table
Vocabulary Task
Answers/Script
A I need to pick up something for dinner on the way home. I’d like to be able to throw together something quick and easy. The easiest would be to just open up a package and toss it in the microwave.
B What’s for dinner? Instant noodles again? I’m so sick of that junk. I guess I’ll have to order out for pizza.
C I’m hoping to get a care package from Mom soon. It’s hard to find something to eat every single day. There’s never enough ingredients in the fridge to make anything. I wish someone would cook me a decent, well-balanced meal.
Listening Task
1) First Listening
Answers
1. Frozen meals.
2. Fried rice.
3. Delivery pizza.
4. Barbecued chicken, salad and rice.
2) Second Listening
Answers
1. She is going to buy frozen meals on the way home.
2. She is going to cook dinner tonight.
3. No one, they are ordering pizza.
4. They both are, she is cooking rice and making salad and he is — cooking or preparing chicken.
Script
1. A: Hi, honey. I’m on my way home now. Want me to pick up something for dinner?
B: Yeah…
A: Frozen meals? What are they called?
B: Uh, Stir-master, or something Like that. Some kind of stir-fry dinners. They’re already cooked. All you do is open up the package and toss it in the microwave.
A: Perfect! Want me to pick some up on the way home?
B: Yeah. Could you?
A: Sure. I’ll be home in a few minutes.
2. A: Hey there! What’s for dinner uh, fried rice again?
B: You have no idea, do you, how much time and creativity it takes to plan a decent dinner. First you have to get an idea – for some thing that is balanced, tastes good, and isn’t the same old thing. Then you have to figure out what ingredients you already have and what you need to buy. Then you have to go get the stuff, bring it home, cook it. I have to do this every single day!
B: Okay, okay, I get your point. But what can I do? You know what an awful cook I am.
A: Well, if you really want to help, you could look through these cookbooks and cooking magazines to get an idea for dinner tomorrow. Then you could go to dinner?
3. A: Hey, there you are. I’m hungry – what should we do for dinner?
B: I don’t know and I don’t care. I know I’m not gonna cook today.
A: What’s up?
B: I had a really rough day. The computer crashed and destroyed a report that my boss needed, so I had to retype it. I worked straight through lunch and am so tired. I can’t deal with cooking let’s just order a pizza to be delivered.
B: Sounds good – I’ll give ‘em a call. Mmm, let’s see, DiMaggio’s Pizza *oh, here it is.
4. A: I’ve got a big report due tomorrow, so could you do the cooking tonight?
B: Nah, I really don’t feel like it. Let’s just get some take-out.
A: But we’ve already got salad ingredients, and I’ve started the rice. Just throw something together quick and easy.
B: What’s your idea of quick and easy?
A: Well, you could barbecue some chicken legs.
B: Do we have any?
A: Oops, I guess not. Would you mind getting some from the store?
B: Oh, okay. I’ll go get some chicken. I guess I can handle that.
A: I’d appreciate it, I’m really under pressure right now.
Real World Listening
1. Predict
Answer
A cookbook
2. Get the main idea
Answer
1. He got a cookbook.
2. They usually eat instant ramen or fast-food burgers.
3. They have lots of soda, half a submarine sandwich and cheese in their refrigerator. They have a box of cereal, some instant ramen sand a jar of peanut butter in their cabinets.
4. They are going to buy chips, salsa, a can of chili, and shredded cheese.
5. They are going to eat hamburgers or pizza.
Script
Rob: Hey, Tony! What’s up?
Tony: Hey, Rob. Check this out. I got a package from my Mom.
Rob: Oh, yes! Cookies, I hope.
Tony: Nah, it’s a cookbook. Twenty-Minute Meals. It’s perfect for us, don’t you think?
Rob: Yeah, I guess. But I wish she would’ve sent you cookies instead.
Tony: Think about it, though. No more instant ramen, no more fast-food burgers. Twenty minutes in the kitchen, and voila! We have a well-balanced meal. Are you in?
Rob: Whatever you say, Chef Tony. Let’s have a look. How about this? Super Nachos. Now that’s my kind of food.
Tony: All right! Let’s get started. What do we need?
Rob: What we really need is for you to find a girlfriend who can cook.
Tony: Yeah, right. And then you’ll find one, too, and they can take turns cooking for us. So what are the ingredients?
Rob: Hmm…chips, salsa, can of chili, and shredded cheese. That sounds easy enough.
Tony: Well, we’ve got half a bag of nacho chips. Think that’s enough?
Rob: It’ll have to be. Let’s see what’s in the fridge. We’ve got lots of soda…half a submarine sandwich…cheese! We’ve got that…oh, it’s kind of moldy, though.
Tony: Kind of? It’s green! Do we have and chill?
Rob: Sorry, man, I think I ate it the other night.
Tony: That wasn’t yours. Anyway, I had a coupla cans. There must be at least one left.
Rob: Let’s see…box of cereal…some instant ramen…and a jar of peanut butter. That’s it.
Tony: Oh, rats. It looks like we can’t have nachos tonight after all.
Rob: I guess not. Well, what’s it gonna be? Instant ramen for the third night in a row? With peanut butter?
Tony: I’m so sick of that junk! Let’s go to the supermarket and get what we need to make Super Nachos.
Rob: Yeah, and on the way, let’s stop for hamburgers or a pizza.
Tony: Yeah, cool. |