Stop To Eat

Lead-in

  • List and describe 5 examples of typical Brazilian food.
  • What is your favorite typical Brazilian food?
  • What is a typical Brazilian food everyone seems to like but you?

Presentation

Pre

  • What did you eat the last time you ate at a restaurant? When was it?
  • Have you ever taken a gastronomic trip? 
    • If so, where was it and how was the experience?
    • If not, where would you go? Talk about it.

Top Down

  • What would be a good title for the text? Read it and find out.
  1. The best restaurants in Brazil
  2. The best culinary destinations in southern of Brazil
  1. The best culinary destinations in Brazil
  2. The best food Brazil has to offer
  1. The best restaurants in Brazil
  2. The best culinary destinations in southern of Brazil
  1. The best culinary destinations in Brazil
  2. The best food Brazil has to offer

Generally speaking, traveling is good… And so is eating… What about both together? Just wonderful!

In addition to being rich in natural wonders, Brazil is a delight for foreigners thanks to its great gastronomic variety and, of course, its unique flavors. Because of that, we have compiled a list of five must-see places that offer incredible cuisine. Enjoy!

Salvador, Bahia

Yes, Bahia’s flavor is as wonderful as the place itself! Those who go to Bahia should not forget to try the acarajé, vatapá, caruru, bobó, and moqueca. Renowned for palm oil and with African influence, Bahia’s cuisine seduces tourists with its intense flavor, aroma, and beauty.

São Paulo, São Paulo

All kinds of food such as Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Arabic… In São Paulo, you can find flavors from all over the world. Over 15,000 restaurants with different cultures and spices are available to please all types of palates.

Florianópolis – Santa Catarina

Florianópolis, also known by its nickname Floripa, does not delight foreigners only because of its beaches, but also thanks to its cuisine! It is very common to find shrimp and other delicacies in coastal regions, such as seafood and good wines.

Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais

The food of this mining town is based on its origin: it is teeming with history and culture. Tips for those who like lots of seasons and flavors: tutu mineiro, chicken with okra, sausage, cabbage, crackers, and of course, Brazil and the world’s best cheese bread.

Belém, Pará

Besides the natural wonders and a very rich culture, Belém has dishes for foreigners to enjoy and delight themselves. For example: tacacá, fish with açaí, tucupi, and maniçoba with jambu.

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Bottom Up

  • True or False?

Example: The text only mentions Brazilian food. False

  1. Some nationalities mentioned in the text are African, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, and Arabic.
  2. The text mentions moqueca as from Bahia and explains that it is cooked fish tempered with color tints of urucum.
  3. The world’s best cheese bread can only be found in Bahia and Minas Gerais.
  4. Seafood is more common in Florianópolis than in the other cities mentioned.
  5. Brazil is known to have the same particular flavor in every dish.
  1. Some nationalities mentioned in the text are African, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, and Arabic. True
  2. The text mentions moqueca as from Bahia and explains that it is cooked fish tempered with color tints of urucum. False
  3. The world’s best cheese bread can only be found in Bahia and Minas Gerais. False
  4. Seafood is more common in Florianópolis than in the other cities mentioned. False
  5. Brazil is known to have the same particular flavor in every dish. False

Post

  • In your opinion, which of the cities mentioned have the best food? Why?
  • What is some typical food of your hometown? 
  • If you move out of your city, which restaurant are you going to miss the most? Why? 

Target Language

Transition Expressions

Useful expressions to connect ideas and signpost transitions, conveying clarity and concision to speech or text.

Highlighting

  • especially
  • mainly
  • for the most part

Generalizing

  • as a rule
  • in many/most cases
  • generally speaking

Exemplification

  • such as
  • an example is
  • for example

Transition to a new idea

  • in terms of
  • regarding
  • in terms of

Conclusion

  • to sum up
  • in summary
  • in conclusion

Verbs followed by -ing and to + infinitive

Some verbs take -ing as a complement, others take to + infinitive and there are cases in which both options could be used.

verb + ing

  • enjoy
  • avoid
  • finish
  • forgive

verb + to infinitive

  • want
  • plan
  • decide
  • manage

 

verb + ing or to infinitive

  • remember
  • stop
  • try
  • forget

Bare in mind that there might be a difference in meaning when using verb + ing or to infinitive with a verb that takes both complements.

  • I’m so embarrassed… My friend Joey’s birthday party was yesterday and I completely forgot to go!
  • I’ll never forget going to Disneyland.
  • We stopped eating cheeseburgers.
  • We stopped to eat cheeseburgers.

Traditional food around the world

Controlled Practice

  • Match the traditional dishes to their meaning. There is one example.
  1. Bagel
  2. Cuy
  3. Bunny Chow
  4. Tarator Soup
  5. Koshari
  6. Jerk Chicken
  7. Lamington
  8. Pie Mash and Liquour

(   ) Minced beef pie, mashed potato, and a parsley sauce known as liquor.

(   ) A chunky snack consisting of a lump of bread stuffed with curried meat and vegetables.

(   ) Guinea pig meat.

(   ) A cube of sponge cake coated in chocolate and dried coconut.

(   ) A cold summer soup, usually consisting of yoghurt, oil, water and various vegetables such as cucumber and garlic

(1) A dense bread roll in the shape of a ring, made by boiling dough and then baking it.

(   )  Grilled chicken marinated in a spicy sauce.

(   ) A National vegetarian dish consisting of a mix of pasta-tomato sauce-lentils-rice-onion and chickpeas.

  1. Bagel
  2. Cuy
  3. Bunny Chow
  4. Tarator Soup
  5. Koshari
  6. Jerk Chicken
  7. Lamington
  8. Pie Mash and Liquour

(8) Minced beef pie, mashed potato, and a parsley sauce known as liquor.

(3) A chunky snack consisting of a lump of bread stuffed with curried meat and vegetables.

(2) Guinea pig meat.

(7) A cube of sponge cake coated in chocolate and dried coconut.

(4) A cold summer soup, usually consisting of yoghurt, oil, water and various vegetables such as cucumber and garlic

(1) A dense bread roll in the shape of a ring, made by boiling dough and then baking it.

(6)  Grilled chicken marinated in a spicy sauce.

(5) A National vegetarian dish consisting of a mix of pasta-tomato sauce-lentils-rice-onion and chickpeas.

Freer Practice

  • Complete the sentences according to your own ideas.
    • I was traveling and stopped to eat… because…
    • I need to stop eating… because…
    • As a rule, forgiving someone is an act of…
    • Some people need to remember…
    • Avoiding problems is… 
    • Going to… is an experience that…
    • I need to go… mainly because…
    • Once, to avoid a problem, I…

Production

  • Use transition expressions to describe the food and the service of the 3 best restaurants you’ve gone to and of the worst one.

Example: The best restaurant I’ve been to is a small restaurant in Goias. Generally speaking, it is…

Homework

Match the sentence halves. There is one example.

  1. There is a concerted plan to make us feel…

  2. Everyone crowds around him, forgetting…

  3. We are trying to…

  4. But generally speaking, it does escape…

  5. I always felt I was walking on eggshells, avoiding what…

  6. Learning to manage the planet’s resources…

(   ) them, and lives to finish its task.

(   ) all about their fights and arguments.

(   ) we are neither welcome nor wanted.

(6) while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult.

(   ) you didn’t want to talk about, or didn’t dare talk about.

(   ) avoid the word policy, which commits us down a certain course of action.

  1. There is a concerted plan to make us feel…

  2. Everyone crowds around him, forgetting…

  3. We are trying to…

  4. But generally speaking, it does escape…

  5. I always felt I was walking on eggshells, avoiding what…

  6. Learning to manage the planet’s resources…

(4) them, and lives to finish its task.

(2) all about their fights and arguments.

(1) we are neither welcome nor wanted.

(6) while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult.

(5) you didn’t want to talk about, or didn’t dare talk about.

(3) avoid the word policy, which commits us down a certain course of action.

Complete the sentences with the infinitive or gerund form of the verb in parenthesis. 

Example: Do you think Flavia would consider (give) _______ the speech at our work party? >. Do you think Flavia would consider giving the speech at our work party?

1. Vinicius often go (dance) _______ on the weekends.

2. When they finish (do) _______ their homework, they can play outside.

3. They aren’t planning (buy) _______ a new car anytime soon.

4. Isabella needs (rest) _______ more! She’s been feeling too tired lately.

5. Ana wants (go) _______ to Sydney next year.

1. Vinicius often go dancing on the weekends.

2. When they finish doing their homework, they can play outside.

3. They aren’t planning to buy a new car anytime soon.

4. Isabella needs to rest more! She’s been feeling too tired lately.

5. Ana wants to go to Sydney next year.

Use the following verbs in their correct form to complete the sentences.

Decide – Have – Talk – Hear- Embrace – Educate

Example: We want _______ a smooth transition when the new owners take control of the company. > We want to have a smooth transition when the new owners take control of the company.

  1. She’s a teacher who can _______ to her students about serious subjects without sermonizing.
  2. Stop _______ what you perceive to be adulthood so readily and let the inner child free for once.
  3. A gangly group of teen boys in Japan decides _______ a synchronized swimming team.
  4. But they do try to _______ their public with an extremely informative tea menu.
  5. His positions are based on the political calculation of what voters want _______.
  1. She’s a teacher who can talk to her students about serious subjects without sermonizing.
  2. Stop embracing what you perceive to be adulthood so readily and let the inner child free for once.
  3. A gangly group of teen boys in Japan decides to start a synchronized swimming team.
  4. But they do try to educate their public with an extremely informative tea menu.
  5. His positions are based on the political calculation of what voters want to hear.

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

Example: this just world sitting, go I in by. watching situation, Normally, enjoy the > Normally, in this situation, I enjoy just sitting, watching the world go by.

  1. I care bi-folds? how that’s to to and learn want when about do and puzzles and go play parallels problems, a game to and what I I play, all
  2. Larissa information did gain. contributed much to quantify not how that technology try to
  3. password decide username, have is to your on email All you and give them a find do address. a
  4. about traumatic few read make less wife how books a making things kids. your Stop work reading about and to your for divorce with
  5. some have they enjoy though still even of Many degree acrophobia. flying pilots
  1. I want to learn how to play, and that’s all puzzles and problems, and what do I care when I go to play a game about parallels and bi-folds?
  2. Larissa did not try to quantify how much information technology contributed to that gain.
  3. All you have to do is find a username, decide on a password and give them your email address.
  4. Stop reading books about making things work with your wife and read a few about how to make divorce less traumatic for your kids.
  5. Many pilots still enjoy flying even though they have some degree of acrophobia.

Which sentences are wrong? Correct the wrong ones.

  1. In the villages, elders enjoy inviting their age-mates to their houses or to rustic pubs for a drink.
  2. I manage keeping it in a straight line even though I swear I was going crabwise for a while.
  3. There is a very pleasant drive which the visitor must not forget to enjoy.
  4. When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid to come back to my flat.
  5. To win in a competition, it is often necessary to avoid playing by the rules.
  1. In the villages, elders enjoy inviting their age-mates to their houses or to rustic pubs for a drink.
  2. I manage to keep it in a straight line even though I swear I was going crabwise for a while.
  3. There is a very pleasant drive which the visitor must not forget to enjoy.
  4. When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat.
  5. To win in a competition, it is often necessary to avoid playing by the rules.

Writing

Choose 3 verbs that can be used with both infinitives and gerunds and create 6 sentences, one for each case. Remember to use as much of the Target Language as possible.