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Food in the Kitchen: A Listening Exercise

About This Lesson

In this listening exercise, you'll learn about what food and drink people have in their kitchens. You'll practice vocabulary related to food and expressions for talking about quantities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn food vocabulary in English
  • Practice expressions for quantities (some, any, a lot of, many)
  • Learn how to describe what's in your kitchen
  • Expand your food-related vocabulary

Pre-Listening Task

Match the food words with their definitions:
Vegetables
Noodles
Cereal
Bread
Famous for

Listening Task

A. Fill in the gaps with the words you hear (use CAPITAL LETTERS):

A = Agata C = Catherine E = Ed J = Junko L = Lara

What food and drink are there in your kitchen?

Catherine: In my kitchen there is lots of . There are tea bags, but there isn't decaf coffee.

Agata: There are bananas in my kitchen. There is some in my kitchen. There isn't any in my kitchen. There aren't vegetables in my kitchen. And there aren't cans in my kitchen.

Junko: In my kitchen there is rice and noodles.

Ed: There is cereal. There a lot of tea and coffee. There is milk. There are not bananas in my kitchen, no.

Lara: Well, in a typical German kitchen, I would say there is a lot of , different types of bread, and so also a lot of and just things you can eat with bread, 'cause that's what Germany's quite . Also there are and fruit, and not that many biscuits like there are in England, I guess. And not much tea, but we drink definitely more than we do drink tea.

B. Who says what? Write the correct letter (A, C, E, J, L):
Statement Who?
Doesn't have any milk in the kitchen
Has a lot of rice and some noodles
Doesn't have many vegetables
Says Germany is famous for bread

Post-Listening Task

Answer the questions about the kitchens:
What does Catherine have lots of in her kitchen?
What doesn't Agata have in her kitchen? (two things)
What two foods does Junko have a lot of?
What does Lara say Germans drink more than tea?
What does Ed have a lot of in his kitchen? (four things)

Grammar Focus: Talking About Quantities

Notice how the speakers talk about quantities of food:

Useful expressions:

  • "There is a lot of..." (for uncountable nouns)
  • "There are many..." (for countable nouns)
  • "There are some..." (positive)
  • "There isn't any..." (negative for uncountable)
  • "There aren't any..." (negative for countable)

Countable vs. uncountable nouns:

  • Countable: bananas, vegetables, cans, tea bags, biscuits
  • Uncountable: coffee, meat, milk, rice, bread, cheese, tea

Remember: Use "a lot of" with both countable and uncountable nouns. Use "many" only with countable nouns. Use "much" with uncountable nouns in questions and negatives.

Try It Yourself

Write about what food and drink there is in your kitchen:

Example: In my kitchen there is a lot of tea and coffee. There are some vegetables and fruit. There isn't any milk. There aren't many biscuits.

Translation

Translate into English: