This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about food tourisms!
Traveling to different places can be a fun, rewarding, and exciting experience, but one reason to travel is to try new foods and expand your culinary horizons!
Do you travel often? Have you ever traveled for food? Do you like trying new things or are you a fan of your home comforts? Either way, food is a great way to explore.
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about food tourism!
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Conversation Questions: Taking a Food Tour!
- 1. Is food a good reason to travel to new places?
- 2. Describe the best meal you ever had when traveling.
- 3. When you travel, do you like to relax, explore, or do a bit of both?
- 4. Have you ever taken food with you when traveling? Is this ever a good idea?
- 5. When you travel, do you prefer to eat authentic local food or international foods?
- 6. Describe the worst meal you ever had when traveling.
- 7. In your opinion, what is the best reason to travel?
- 8. Do you think people should travel to your country just for the food? Why or why not?
- 9. How difficult is it to find authentic local food in touristy areas?
- 10. “Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.” – Mary Catherine Bateson – What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary
- Meal
- an occasion when food is eaten, or the food that is eaten on such an occasion
- Relax
- to (cause someone to) become less active and more calm and happy
- Explore
- to search a place and discover things about it
- Authentic
- If something is authentic, it is real, true, or what people say it is
- Local
- from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of a country
- Touristy
- A touristy place is not attractive because a lot of tourists visit it and it is full of things for them to buy and do
- Nutrient
- any substance that plants or animals need in order to live and grow
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Model Answers & Vocabulary
To help you prepare for the Thinking in English conversation club this week, the wonderful English tutor Thomas Brock has created vocabulary lists and some model answers.
The model answers are split into intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced level responses. Hopefully this will give you an idea on the differences in quality between intermediate and advanced response, and perhaps inspire your own answers to these questions!
B1 (Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
B2 (Upper Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
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