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1
Students can fi nd out more about British Customs 
regulations from the website www.custom&exercise.gov.uk.
2
Students can fi nd about regulations concerning food items 
that can/can’t be brought into Britain on the website www.
defra.gov.uk.
Real Reading 2 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes
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Unit
5 
Where shall we eat?
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Look at the example with the class. Students then underline 
the correct word for the other items. Make sure that students 
understand the meaning of the six unused words.
If any of your students are from countries in the list, ask them to 
tell the class about the dish from their country.
Ask students if they have eaten any of the dishes in the list. What 
were they like?
A
I’d like to try that
1
Use this exercise to make sure that students understand the 
meaning of the words in the box.
2
Ask students to scan the text and underline the words from 
Exercise 1. They are all in the text.
3
Look at the example with the class. Encourage students to 
look at the illustrations and match the things they know, e.g. 
salad
, 
olive oil
, before they read the text.
4
Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to fi nd the answers, or they can work on their own 
and then compare answers.
Focus on … vocabulary
Explain or elicit that 
fried, boiled, grilled
and 
hard-boiled
are 
used as adjectives (because they are before nouns) and 
fried
is also used as a passive verb – 
(which is) fried
. Students can 
then fi nd other words ending in 
-ed
and work out if they are 
adjectives or verbs (
served, dressed, introduced, perfected
= 
verbs). After students have done the exercises, encourage them 
to suggest other food items and to say how you can cook them 
or how they prefer them, e.g. 
I like fried potatoes more than 
boiled potatoes.
5
Check answers with the class. Ask one student to say whether 
the sentence is true or false and another student to read out 
the information from the text which gives the answer.