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Students say whether the sentences in Exercise 5 are facts or 
opinions.
7
Look at the example with the class. Students then work out 
the function of the other two sentences.
8
Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to work out the function of the sentences, or they 
can work on their own and then compare answers.
9
You can also ask students if they have already tried some of 
these dishes. Did they like them?
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1
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-
speaking environment, students can choose one of 
their favourite dishes from their country or region and 
describe the dish to the class. Encourage them to include 
a description of the dish, some facts about it and a 
recommendation/suggestion. 
2
You could also encourage students to prepare dishes from 
their country so that their classmates can try them.
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3
If you are teaching a monolingual group in their own 
country, students could write a similar text for the food 
section of a guidebook to their country. Cut-out photos 
from magazines could be used to illustrate the text.
B
This looks good
1
Find out which of the things the greatest number of students 
chose as the most important and which as the least important.
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-
speaking environment, ask students if they have been to any 
restaurants in the town/city. How would students rate these 
places in terms of their location, price, size of dishes, etc?
2
Set a time limit, e.g. one minute, in order to encourage 
students to skim the messages. Check the answers with the 
class. Ask students to say the words from the messages which 
gave them the answers (
popular, best, good, fantastic
).