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Past Eating Habits

Food and Gastronomy
Speaking & Discussion
Level B1

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Past Eating Habits Outline

Content
In this lesson you will learn to discuss past eating habits and food in general.

Learning Outcomes
• Learn various words related to food
• Learn to use “Used To” and “Didn‘t Use to” for past habits
• Learn to use “Now I Prefer” for current preferences

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Vocabulary

1) Food 11) Health Concerns

2) Food Pyramid 12) Comfort
3) Indulgence 13) Decline
4) Temptation 14) Eating Schedule
5) Fast Food 15) Portions

6) Change
7) Preferences
8) Tastes
9) Excessive
10) Candy

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Exercises

Speaking
Match the words with the correct image.
Describe the images to explain your answer.
1) Shopping
2) Meat
3) Junk Food
4) Vegetables
5) Refusal

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Grammar

Please note
To talk about past habits (things you did but
now you no longer do) you can use “Used to
(verb)”

Examples:
I used to eat a lot of sandwiches as a kid.
When I lived in Japan I used to eat a lot of fish, rice and soup.
She used to eat very little when she was a model.
My parents used to live in New York before living here.

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Grammar

Please note
To talk about things you didn‘t do before but
now you do, you can use “Didn‘t Use To
(verb)”
Examples:

I didn‘t use to eat much meat but now I do quite often.

She didn‘t use to eat so much but now she‘s divorced
and eats a lot.
My cat didn‘t use to be like this. He used to be nice!

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Exercises

Speaking
Complete the sentences with “used to“ or
“didn‘t use to“
EX) I used to eat a lot of meat until I got really sick one time.

1) She _________ smoke but then she started coughing too much.

2) Brazil ____________ be so expensive but the time‘s are changing

and everything costs more.

3) I ____________ like whiskey but now I think it‘s great!

4) Children ________ be so well behaved. Now they‘re so rude!

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Grammar

Please note
To express what you presently prefer
compared to what you preferred in the past,
you can say “Now I prefer...“

Examples
I used to eat lots of fried food, but now I prefer grilled food
I used to hate mushrooms on pizza but now I prefer it

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Vocabulary

Food
Adjectives

Tasty Healthy

Indulgent Irresistible

Hazardous Addicting

Greasy Salty
Sweet

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Exercises

Speaking

Fill in the sentence with the correct word

1) I used to eat a lot of Doritos. They were irresistible. I couldn‘t say no!

2) She didn‘t used to eat such ________ food. She was really fat before!

3) I used to eat lots of ________ food but then my teeth started hurting,
so no more candy.

4) We used to go to many buffets but those are so ___________ and

you just eat so much of everything
5) He used to eat __________ foods like Double Bacon Cheeseburger
Tacos until he had a small heart attack. Now he‘s off that!

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Exercises

Speaking

Fill in the blanks with the correct word.

hazardous addicting salty tasty healthy

It‘s so hard to change our eating habits because some food is just so
_________ like pizza, popcorn and cookies. To break some habits means
we have to say no to incredibly _________ foods. Foods like potato chips
and ice cream are prime examples. It‘s hard to stop eating them!
Continuing to eat such foods can be quite _______ to your health and
create complications. When we get older we tend to prefer food that is
_________ since our metabolism slows down and we feel tired more easily.
That‘s a good habit to change to. But of course, for special occasions like
parties and football games it‘s okay to have some __________ snacks like
pretzels and chips to celebrate the occasion!

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Review
Text

1. Used to + Verb To explain something you did in the past but not
now
Ex. She used to be a dancer, but then she broke her leg
To explain something you didn‘t do but now you
2. Didn‘t use to + Verb
do
Ex. I didn‘t used to eat meat, but now I love it!

You could also use “Now I prefer” to express what your current
preferences are.
I used to eat lots of meat but now I prefer to eat veggie meat.

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Exercises

Writing
Write three things you used to do regarding
your eating habits
EX) I used to microwave a lot of food, but now I eat mostly fresh food.

1) ________________________________

2) ________________________________

3) ________________________________

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Exercises

Writing
Write three things you didn‘t used to do
regarding eating habits
EX) I didn’t use to cook, but now I cook all my meals!

1) ________________________________

2) ________________________________

3) ________________________________

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Exercises

Speaking
What are your eating habits like? Ask a
partner

Example:
A) How were your eating habits before?

B) Really bad. I used to eat a lot of fast food and ice cream.

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Exercises

Writing
Write three sentences talking about your
preferences
EX) I prefer grilled fish to fried fish.

1) ________________________________

2) ________________________________

3) ________________________________

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Exercises

Writing
Using the vocabulary from the previous
slides, write two sentences
EX) These muffins are addicting, I can’t stop eating them!

1) ________________________________

2) ________________________________

3) ________________________________

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Exercises

Speaking
Ask a partner if they used have a certain
eating habit
Example:

Person A Person B
- Did you used to eat food - Oh yeah! I used to eat at
really late at night when you around 1 AM. Now I prefer to
were younger? eat earlier.

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Exercises

Speaking
Look at the image below. This represents your current
eating habits. What can you say about them?

1.

2.

3.

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Exercises

Writing
Write about why you‘ve changed past eating
habits
Ex) I used to eat a lot of bacon and then one day the elevator to
my office was broken so I had to walk up the stairs to the 5th
floor and when I got up to my office I was out of breath and
sweating! I thought it was from all the bacon so I stopped eating
it and now I can walk up stairs with no problem!

_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________

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Exercises

Speaking

Argue in favor of or against this statement

There should be less fast food in

the world.

Pros Cons

You could improve your health You will miss all the good food and good
dramatically times you used to have

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