Questions

a) What kind of typical dishes are there in

our country?
b) Are they known in other countries?
c) Do you know any typical Japanese
food?
d) Do you think people have the same
eating habits in all countries?
e) Does everybody eat bacon and eggs at
the breakfast in England?
f) Does everybody eat bread and butter at
the breakfast in Brazil?
d) List some descriptions of food from
other countries you know.

Game

Now the teacher puts on the board the

name of the countries: BRAZIL, BRITAIN,
GERMANY, ITALY and JAPAN. So he/she divides the students into two groups.

Then pass on a box containing pieces of paper with the names of food from
different countries. Each student picks out a piece of paper and he/she says
the name of the country the food is from. The group who guess which the right
country, scores a point. If they guess wrong, the other team scores a point.

BRAZIL BRITAIN GERMANY ITALY JAPAN

Rice and Lamb Apple strudel Spaghetti Sashimi
beans
Feijoada Roast beef Eisbein Pizza Sukiyaki
barbecue Roast pork Sauerkraut Ravioli Yakisoba
Roast potatoes
Fish and chips
Yorkshire
pudding
Read the text about eating habits:

“As you can see, food habits vary from country to

country. All the food wasted in a society of some kind is
not allowed in another one. They are related to cultural
aspects, like the American belief that “time is money” or
related to other issues, like climate and economic conditions.

The most important meal in Brazil is lunch, a meal eaten at noon with the
family. For Americans and British, the most important meal is dinner, which is
also a hot meal eaten with the family, but in the late afternoon.

Food isn’t only a nutrition rise. We can see society organization being
constructed from things that people eat.

As every society has a language, it establishes its own media looking forward
people’s relationship. Meal constitutes a cultural layer that happens to be a
ritual and adds the nutritional function. The menu’s choice, the plate’s
disposition, the dishes and cover used, show the individual’s relations and
values that share the food and can symbolize social status or can be used as a
group identity encoding.

The fact is that, in Brazil, because of globalization our habits have been
changing. Few people nowadays can go home for lunch. Sometimes it is
cheaper and easier to have a hotdog in a place near work. Unfortunately, we
are importing a very bad foreign habit: substituting a balanced meal for a snack
full of empty calories (a lot of calories and few nutrients) – and causing obesity
and its effects.”

Fonte: Língua Estrangeira Moderna – Espanhol e Inglês, vários autores, Curitiba, SEED/PR,
2006. Unit 5 – Healthy Food and Junk Food.
According to the
text, mark T
(true) or F
(false) for the
sentences:

( ) The eating habits has a relation with the cultural aspects of each country.
( ) The most important meal for the brazilians is the lunch, because most
brazilians like to join to the family to have this meal together.
( ) For the americans and British the principal and most important meal is the
breakfast.
( ) A family is recognize culturaly through its eating habits.

Questions:

a) Hás the eating habits a relation with social status of the family and it can be
used to identify a group in which one its belong? Why? Or why not?
b) What is happening with the Brazilian eating habits? Is it changing? Why?
c) Brazilians are giving more importance to the nutrients, vitamins of a meal or
they are not worried about it? Why?
In general, the schools
It is common to hear that
European they have
in
restaurants,
USA and in England, the
breakfast is generally a where the pupils have lunch
reinforced meal. It is at a least price, or
already almost as a even of grace. Those
lunch meals are called of
Usually is a very rich school meals and they consist
meal: a sandwich, snacks in soup, vegetables,
or one greens, meat or fish,
soup. The principal meal potatoes and eggs.
corresponds to our
dinner, being
done at night or in the
At home as a homework, make a research about the eating habits involving
some countries of ASIA, Africa, Oceania and Europe, like Italy, France,
England, Portugal, Germany, Spain and América like Brasil, EUA, Mexico
among others.

At the end of this research make a chart like this one to demosntrate and show
A typical
what you have found about curiosities, differences etc. Present it to your
colleagues. school meal
from Britain is
Country Breakfast At lunch
fish and chips In the evening At dinner
and peas.

Discuss with your partner these questions.

a) Have you ever had meals with people from another country?
b) Where were they from?
c) What different eating habits or table manners have you seen? How different
are they from yours?
d) Which table manners or eating habits are considered unacceptable in our
culture?
a) Have you ever eaten food from another country?
b) If you have, what kind of food have you eaten?
c) Where did you have it?
d) How did you like it?
a) Can you recognize what influences you the eating habits when you eat?

b) What could it be? From television? Friends? Family habits? Social habits?
Why?

c) Does advertising influence your choices of food?

In

pairs, organize a MENU for a restaurant that will receive some international
visitors of several countries, they will come from different countries. You can
insert special or traditionals dishes and surprising them with delicious meals.

We give you some suggestions in this chart below:

After you make the selection fo the best dishes, organize each item in the
menu according to the categories below (you can use images, pictures,
drawings to ilustrate your MENU:

MENU

SALADS SANDWICHE MAIN COURSES DESSERTS DRINKS

S
Make an interview inside the classroom and ask your colleagues about their
preferences concerning Food and Drinks. Are they tasty? Are they healthy?

1. What do you think about spinach? Is it healthy or not?

2. I like it, and I think it is healthy.
3. What’s your opinion about chewing gum?
4. I love it, but I think it is not healthy.
 classmate’s name What do you think Likes Dislikes Healthy Not healthy
about
Spinach

Tomato

Cabbage

Chicken

Meat

Chips

Lettuce

Chewing gum

Beans

Ice-cream

Chocolate

Mayonnaise

Rice

Hamburgers

Eggs

Fonte: English Clips, 5, Mariza T. Ferrari e Sarah G. Rubin. Ed. Scipione. São
Paulo, 2001

Task: Compare your list with the list of your colleagues.

1. What are the most favourites kind of food they have choosen?
2. What are the most healthy food they have choosen?
Let’s try?
You Will read the principal word and you Will make the association to it with
other words in English, they must be related to the subject “Food”.