Dinner
What are typical foods you eat in your country for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Is there a another small meal or snack between the main mealtimes? Who usually prepares the food in your home?
Learning how to cook isn’t too difficult. Just select a recipe of a food you like and give it a try. Your friends might be willing to try any free food you make.
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| Key Vocabulary |
- starving (verb): hungry, famished
- Many deer will starve to death in the mountains because of the harsh winter.yuck or yucky: expression showing strong displeasure or dislike for something (informal)
- Oh, Dad. I don’t like this yucky soup. - adaptation (noun), adapt (verb): a change or modification to something, revision
- Sometimes it takes time to adapt to the customs and language of another culture. - mess up (phrasal verb): (1) to make a mistake or (2) make something untidy or cluttered
- If you take your eyes off that boy, he might mess up your entire house.
| Vocabulary Activities |
Now, do these exercises to review the vocabulary. Then, return back to the Post-Listening Exercise to use the vocabulary in real conversations.
- Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer Questions
- Mixed-Up Sentence
- Sentence and Vocabulary Matching
- Text Completion Quiz
INTERESTING FACTS
Dinner used to be the name of the main meal of the day. However, depending upon culture, it may now be the second or third meal of the day. Originally, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten about noon, and is still occasionally used in this fashion if it refers to a large or main meal.
Etymology
Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night’s fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning “breakfast”, from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare (“to break one’s fast”), from Latin dis- (“undo”) + Late Latin ieiunare (“to fast”), from Latin ieiunus (“fasting, hungry”).Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal. The (lighter) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea.
Which meal is it?
In some usages, the term dinner has continued to refer to the largest meal of the day, even when this meal is eaten at the end of the day and is preceded by two other meals. In this terminology, the preceding meals are usually referred to as breakfast and lunch. In some areas, this leads to a variable name for meals depending on the combination of their size and the time of day, while in others meal names are fixed based on the time they are consumed. However, even in systems in which dinner is the meal usually eaten at the end of the day, an individual dinner may still refer to a main or more sophisticated meal at any time in the day, such as a banquet, feast, or a special meal eaten on a Sunday.
In the rural American South, it is still common to hear dinner used to refer to the noonday meal and supper for the nighttime meal.
Usually, in America, dinner is the last meal of the day, eaten from 5:30PM onwards. In other countries, dinner is the second meal of the day, and supper is the last meal of the day.
