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B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restaurants around the world offer different menus with unique and distinctive names for their listed dishes, which can be perplexing most of the time.

We often wonder if they have their own language that they use to name and describe their food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to this audio and read the transcript about how restaurants come up with the food descriptions on their menus that make their dishes seem “appealing, tasty, or poetic”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english_2024\/ep-240125<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What does “haute cuisine<\/strong>” mean? “Many of the words used to describe\u00a0gourmet\u00a0food – that\u2019s food which is higher-quality and more sophisticated than usual – are French, coming from a country with a long tradition of high-level cooking called\u00a0haute cuisine<\/strong>.<\/em>”\u00a0Construct your own sentence using this phrase.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Do you know the meaning of “turn (someone) off<\/strong>“? “Some diners like the French names, but it turns <\/strong>other diners off<\/strong>.<\/em>” Use this expression in your own sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. How about the word “not available to everyone<\/strong>“? “Caroline thinks French makes her cooking sound too\u00a0posh,\u00a0<\/strong>too fashionable, expensive and not available to everyone<\/strong>.”<\/em> Use this idiom in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. What are your thoughts on the confusing menu selection?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. What steps do you typically take to make sure you don’t regret your menu selections? What are the usual questions you ask if you are confused about the name or description of a certain dish?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Do you think the language used to describe food affect our psychology? Explain your insights.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. What are your thoughts on this, “There’s a tendency to not use French because it sounds\u00a0pretentious.<\/em>“? Would it turn you off as a diner? Why or why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Could you share a funny or embarrassing experience with menu selection? What’s the moral lesson you learned from that experience?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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