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Food vocabulary

Meat: duck, sausages, beef, chicken, lamp, pork, bacon, turkey, veal, rabbit, poultry.

Fish/Seafood:salmon, trout, cod fish, sole, tuna fish, prawns, lobster, crab, shrimp, octopus, scallops, snails, oyster, mussel.

Fruit:apple, strawberry, orange, banana, grape, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, avocado, lemon, watermelon, pear, olive, passion fruit, coconut, tangerine.

Vegetables (veggies): spinach, broccoli, potato, cabbage, sweet potato, tomato, onion, peas, carrots, cauliflower, lettuce, celery, cucumber, asparagus, radish, artichoke, garlic, corn, mushrooms.

Lesson A present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs (2)

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Lesson A present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs (2)

Lesson A present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs (1)

Please click on the following link to start your exercise:

Lesson A present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs (1)

To Get + Adjectives

Adverbs of Frequency: always, usually, sometimes, rarely, never

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Pronunciation

/ʊ/ vs /uː/

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Present simple & continuous / action and non-action verbs. Listening 1.1

a. Listen to Rumiko answering questions 2-6 from the interviews.
Do you think food for her is fuel or pleasure? Why?

b. Listen again and answer the questions.
1 What does she usually have in the morning?
2 Where does she usually have lunch and dinner?
3 Why doesn’t she often cook?
4 Does she eat or drink anything unhealthy?
5 Is she cutting down on anything at the moment? Why (not)?
6 What’s happening to the Japanese diet at the moment?
7 Does she think this is a completely bad thing?

Interviewer: Rumiko, what do you eat on a typical day?
Rumiko: I don’t usually have breakfast because I can’t get up early enough to eat! I normally just buy a coffee and drink it in the office. I usually have lunch in a restaurant near the office with people from work. When I was younger I used to go to fast-food restaurants and have pizza or fried chicken and chips. Now I prefer eating something healthier, so I go to sushi restaurants or restaurants which serve organic food. And for dinner I eat out a lot, too.
Interviewer: Do you ever cook?
Rumiko: Well, I like cooking but I work very late every day and also my kitchen’s too small. My boyfriend’s a better cook anyway.
Interviewer: Do you ever eat unhealthy food?
Rumiko: Well, I don’t eat a lot of sweet things but I drink a lot of coffee every day. I think I’m addicted to caffeine.
Interviewer: Are you trying to cut down on anything at the moment?
Rumiko: No. I do eat healthily and I exercise regularly, so I don’t think I need to cut down on food.
Interviewer: Are people’ diets in your country getting better or worse?
Rumiko: Oh, probably worse. I think the diet in Japan today is much more westernized than before and that’s why some people are getting fatter. But personally, I like the fact that there are more different kinds of food and restaurants now. I enjoy the variety, it makes eating out much more fun.

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LIMA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Four former and current executives of Peruvian construction companies were detained pending trial on Monday, accused of colluding with Brazilian builder Odebrecht to bribe a former president.

Judge Richard Concepcion ordered the men, who deny wrongdoing, to be held in pre-trial jail to ensure they do not flee or obstruct the law, as prosecutors prepare criminal charges.

The decision marked the first time executives from major Peruvian companies have been jailed in the 'Car Wash' scandal, Brazil's largest-ever corruption probe that has widened to include other Latin American countries.

Odebrecht has admitted to bribing local officials in 12 countries to secure public works contracts over the course of a decade and promised authorities that it would provide details.

Prosecutor Hamilton Castro accused Jose Alejandro Grana and Hernando Alejandro Grana, who once headed Peru's biggest construction group Grana y Montero, and Fernando Gonzalo and Jose Fernando Castillo, who work for two private contractors, of providing $15 million of a $20 million bribe that Odebrecht paid.

The money was paid to ex-president Alejandro Toledo to secure highway contracts that the companies partnered together on a decade ago and had been disguised on company books as the cost of "additional risks" covered by Odebrecht, Castro said at a court hearing.

The judge also ordered Gonzalo Ferraro, a former Grana y Montero manager who was in local hospital, to be placed under house arrest.

All five men deny any wrongdoing and are appealing the judge's ruling, said Ferraro's attorney Roger Yon.

Grana y Montero, and the two private companies, JJC Contratistas Generales and Ingenieros Civiles y Contratistas Generales, declined to comment. The three companies have previously denied knowing about or taking part in Odebrecht's bribes.

Grana y Montero's U.S.-listed shares closed 6.9 percent lower on Monday.

The corruption probe has shaken up the local construction sector as the government prepares to award nearly $8 billion in contracts for rebuilding infrastructure and housing destroyed by flooding.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who served in Toledo's cabinet when the highway contracts were awarded, has said he knew nothing about the alleged bribe for Toledo.

Toledo, ordered to pre-trial detention in February, has denied taking bribes from Odebrecht. Peru is seeking his extradition from the United States.

A second former President, Ollanta Humala, has been in pre-trial detention since July and denies allegations he took illicit funds from Odebrecht.

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