This year FCE II has taken part in a wonderful experience: exchanging e-mails with other learners of
English as a foreign language. Their writing teacher, Alejandra Scotti,
contacted a teacher in England, and the two groups answered the following task:
"We´re doing a project this
month at school on eating habits and customs around the world. Will you be able
to help me by telling me what the traditional meals are in your country and
what people typically eat?"
Students were delighted to receive
answers from places such as Saudi Arabia, Italy, Spain and Venezuela.
Enjoy their answers!
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I’m very well, thanks for your message and I’m really happy to
help J
It was also really nice to find out what you eat in Argentina
So, before answering your questions, you may need to know where
I’m from?
My name is Abdulrahman and I’m from Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia
Secondly, for lunch (1 – 3:30 pm) people tend to eat the
traditional dish which is called Kabsa and it includes some chicken or lamb
with rice as you can see in the next picture:
Finally, for dinner (8 – 11pm) people don’t eat a particular kind
of meal, I would say it depends on the person, some people like to eat
sandwiches and some others like to eat fast food.
If you want to know more about the traditional meal in my country,
as I said before it called Kabsa and you can easily find the recipe on google
searching for ‘Kabsa recipe’ .
Hope that really helps you, and good luck with your project .
Abdulrahman.
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Hello dears!
Thank you for asking us to help you,, I’m glad to write this
letter to you and I really liked the descriptions of your food in Argentina
I’m Alaa from Saudi
Arabia
We cook the kabsa with chicken or lamb it depends on the person.
If we cook it with lamb we cook the lamb and rice together and if we cook it
with chicken we roast the chicken separately. And this is the most interesting
course in our culture, I hope it is gonna help you in your research!
Take care,
Alaa
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Dear
students of Argentina
How is
everything? It is a pleasure to receive your email. I am glad to help you. The
eating habits in my country, Spain
In Spain
A common traditional
meal in Spain
Your food also looks delicious and it was nice to hear about your
customs.
Thank you for writing to us and I hope this email can help you!
Guillermo from Spain
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Dear friends
from Argentina
Thanks so
much for your letter. The asado looks
amazing, I want to eat it!
I’m writing to
you because it’s a pleasure for me to answer your questions, so I’m gonna start
talking about when and what do people in Venezuela typically eat. We usually
have five meals during the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks. For
breakfast we tend to have arepas with cheese, ham and butter (Typical course
from Venezuela); for lunch, we usually eat different type of meals like pasta,
chicken with rice, lasagna or beans, and for dinner we tend to have a small
portion of food, could be salad, or a small arepa with tuna or chicken; for the
snacks we generally have a piece of fruit.
I’d like to
talk about the arepas which is one of the traditional meals in my country. In
my opinion it’s delicious and also healthy.
It can be filled with a lot of options, could be cheese, ham, chicken,
beef or tuna. It’s an excellent option for breakfast but people in Venezuela
I hope I’ve helped you with your research.
Thanks for
the opportunity.
Regards, Meriana
Crespo Molina (Venezuela)
Arepa with cheese and butter:
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Hi Pals,
It is my
pleasure to hear from you. I really
liked all the information and photos of your food in Argentina
Actually,
people in my country have three different times to eat.
The first is
breakfast in the early morning which mainly consists of one kind of drink and
bread or any kind of wheat products.
The second
meal of people is lunch which is considered the main meal for the most, and it
is usually kabsa which is mainly made from rice and meat, it could be chicken
or lamb, and it is usually served in the middle of the day. You can see a picture of this below.
Finally the
last meal is dinner and it is usually light and served after sunset.
See you
soon..
Bye.. Bye..
Fahd
KSA
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Dear students
from Argentina.
Hi, how are
you? I want to start by telling you thank you for your interest in knowing my
country and thank you for telling me about yours. It was very interesting. So I’m Fabio Galli and I live in Milan, but
now I’m studying in LSI in Portsmouth.
The people from my country tend to eat different dishes, this depends
where you live, for example the people from south Italy prefer eating spicy
food and in the north of Italy, they prefer eating light food but all over
Italy we tend to eat pasta and pizza.
Today I
want to tell you about a famous dish
from north Italy: Pizzoccheri.
If you live
in the north Italy probably you eat pizzoccheri 6 or 10 times in a month. Making pizziccheri is easy, so buy:
·
Flour
wheat and flour or Pizzoccheri already made (it is similar to pasta)
·
Cheese
and butter
·
Potatoes
·
Cabbage
Mix together
wheat flour 1: 2 with water and make a dough to create the pasta. Cook potatoes
and cabbage in the water with a little salt on the hob. When it is halfway cooked,
add the pizzoccheri. When all is ready drain it and add a lot of cheese and
wait until this in melted and your dish is ready!
So I hope I
helped you!
See you
soon!
Fabio.
