Unlock3e - LS SB L1 - Unit 7 Food and Culture

Oct 1, 2026

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Unit 7 Food and Culture focuses on luxury fruit and how to discuss food preferences, traditions, and survey results. Learning activities include watching and listening tasks that train number recognition and true/false comprehension, grammar practice using the past simple, and speaking practice for reporting survey outcomes. Vocabulary work introduces items related to food and culture, followed by inference exercises and discussion questions. Listening sections also emphasize key vocabulary, main ideas, and pronunciation for distinguishing -teen and -ty numbers in conversations.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages22

Reading Time55 min

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Learning objectives

Watch and listen

Food and culture

Your knowledge

Watch and listen

While watching

Making inferences

Discussion

Listening

Understanding key vocabulary

Listening for main ideas

Pronunciation for listening

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Watch and listen Watch and understand a video about luxury fruit in Japan. Listening skill Listen for numbers. Critical thinking Understand pie charts. Grammar Use the past simple (1) . Speaking skill Introduce a report; talk about surveys. Speaking task Report the results of a survey. FOOD AND CULTURE UNIT 7 UNIT 7 FOOD AND CULTURE YOUR KNOWLEDGE Work with a partner and answer the questions. 1 What can you see in the photo? 2 What kind of food do you usually eat for dinner? 3 How often do you cook your own food at home? WATCH AND LISTEN ACTIVATING YOUR KNOWLEDGE PREDICTING CONTENT USING VISUALS PREPARING TO WATCH 1 Work with a partner and answer the questions. 1 Do you like fruit? What is your favourite kind of fruit? 2 When do most people eat fruit? (for breakfast? after dinner?) 3 What is the most expensive fruit where you live? Why is it so expensive? 2 Look at the photos from the video. Choose the correct answer. 1 These grapes / apples are very expensive. 2 This box of vegetables / fruit looks delicious. 3 The young women are sitting / standing in front of a shop. 4 The farmer / shop manager is showing the melons. GLOSSARY care and attention (phr) love and time dessert (n) a sweet food at the end of a meal luxury (n) something expensive which is pleasant to have but is not necessary ordinary (adj) not special at all smell (v) to have a quality which people notice by using their noses taste (v) to have a particular flavour in your mouth WHILE WATCHING 3 Watch the video. Write T (true) or F (false) next to the sentences below. Compare your answers with a partner. 1 You can buy luxury fruit in a supermarket. 2 Each piece of luxury fruit is the perfect shape and colour. 3 Luxury fruit is very expensive. 4 Most people buy luxury fruit for themselves. 5 Melons are the most expensive luxury fruit in Japan. 150 UNIT 7 4 Watch again. Choose the correct answer. 1 Luxury fruit is expensive because each one a is a special gift. b gets a lot of special attention. c takes a long time to grow. 2 The grapes cost a $30. b $95. c $175. 3 The woman is buying luxury fruit for her a family. b boss. c husband’s parents. 4 The woman says luxury fruita is too expensive. b is not as good as cake. c makes people feel happy. 5 One pair of melons costs as much as a a car. b a bicycle. c a house. 5 Write the correct word from the box in the sentences. hard expensive ordinary rich MAKING INFERENCES 1 Most people in Japan know that a gift of luxury fruit is . 2 The person who bought the two melons is probably . 3 Growing luxury fruit is probably work. 4 Luxury fruit probably tastes better than fruit. DISCUSSION 6 Discuss the questions below with a partner. 1 Would you like to try luxury fruit? Which one? 2 Think about luxury fruit as a gift. Who would you buy it for? 3 When you buy a gift for somebody special, what do you buy? WATCH AND LISTEN 151 LISTENING USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING KEY VOCABULARY 152 UNIT 7 LISTENING 1 PREPARING TO LISTEN 1 Work with a partner and answer the questions. 1 What foods are popular in your culture? 2 How often do you eat … • Chinese food? • Mexican food? • Italian food? • other kinds of food? 2 You are going to listen to part of a class discussion about food and traditions. Before you listen, read the sentences (1–7) . Write the words in bold next to the definitions (a–g) . 1 Meat is expensive in my country, but I often eat beef and chicken. 2 I like eating white rice, but I don’t like brown rice. 3 In my city, you can eat a lot of international food. Mexican, Chinese and Italian food is very popular. 4 I eat a lot of fish. I live near water. 5 My grandmother makes many special dishes. She cooks all day to prepare them. 6 Salad is made of vegetables. I think it’s very good for us. It’s fres

FAQs

What listening skills does Unit 7 practice?

It practices listening for numbers and understanding information from a video using true/false statements and multiple-choice questions.

How is the past simple used in this unit?

The unit includes grammar practice using the past simple (1) as part of the learning objectives and related activities.

What does the unit focus on in the speaking tasks?

It trains learners to introduce a report and talk about surveys, including reporting survey results.

Why is pronunciation for -teen and -ty numbers important here?

Because learners must distinguish -teen numbers (e.g., 13–15) from -ty numbers (e.g., 30–50) by stressing the correct syllable when listening and responding.

Oct 1, 2026

Uploaded by Jiven