eng8-V2· UNIT 2. FOOD AROUND THE WORLD· ~16 min

Unit 2 Vocabulary: Food and cooking

Understand and apply eight words for food, taste, ingredients, and preparation.

Food descriptions become precise when you separate cooking style, taste, condition, contents, and preparation. Cuisine means a style of cooking. Spicy, juicy, raw, and fatty are adjectives: they describe food that contains hot spices, much juice, has not been cooked, or contains much fat. Flavour names how food or drink tastes. Contain tells what is inside something, while spread describes putting something across a surface. Learn each meaning, then check the word class and the words around the gap.

Key terms

cuisine — a style of cooking
spicy — containing chillies or hot spices
juicy — containing a lot of juice
flavour — how food or drink tastes
raw — not cooked
contain — have something inside
fatty — containing a lot of fat
spread — put things over a surface
Meaning and use
RoleWordsExample pattern
Cooking stylecuisineAzerbaijani cuisine
Food descriptionspicy, juicy, raw, fattyjuicy fruit
Taste nounflavourdifferent flavours
Content verbcontainThe sauce contains garlic.
Preparation verbspreadspread cheese on bread
✎Choose by meaning and grammar
  1. 1Read the situation: The sentence describes an orange with plenty of liquid inside.
  2. 2Choose the meaning: Juicy means containing a lot of juice.
  3. 3Check the form: The adjective juicy correctly appears before the noun orange.
💡Meaning plus form

After selecting a meaning, check whether the gap needs a noun, adjective, or verb.

🚫Raw is about cooking

Raw means not cooked; it does not mean that a food is cold.

Rules

  1. 1Use cuisine for a style of cooking associated with a place or tradition.
  2. 2Use adjectives before a noun or after be: spicy soup, a juicy orange, raw vegetables, food that is fatty.
  3. 3Flavour is a noun; use flavours when referring to more than one taste.
  4. 4With a third-person singular subject in the Present Simple, contain changes to contains.
  5. 5Use spread with an object and a surface: spread butter on bread or spread ingredients over a flatbread.

Practice

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