| NEW WORD/EXPRESSION | EXAMPLE |
| junk food: food that is bad for your body but quick to prepare and eat | Most junk food is high in sugar. |
| fibre: a substance in foods such as vegetables that helps other foods pass through the body easily | This cereal is high in fibre. |
| dairy: relating to milk or to foods made using milk | Dairy products may provoke allergic reactions in some people. |
| carbohydrate: (any of a group of) substances containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, especially the sugars and starches found in food | Potatoes are full of carbohydrates. |
| fat: an oily substance made by the bodies of animals and by some plants | This meat has got a lot of fat on it. |
| PHRASAL VERB | EXAMPLE |
| come down with: to start to suffer from an illness, especially one that is not serious | I think I’m coming down with flu. |
| cut down on: to do or use less of something | I’m trying to cut down on caffeine. |
| get round to: to do something that you have intended to do for a long time: | I still haven’t got around to fixing that tap. |
| go for: to choose something | Instead of butter, I always go for margarine or a low-fat spread. |
| keep to sth: to do what you have promised or planned to do | I think we should keep to our original plan. |
| live on sth: If you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need: | We lived on very little when we first got married. |
| put on: to add or increase an amount or action | I put on weight when I went away to college. |
| take up sth: to begin to do something | I’m not very good at golf – I only took it up recently. |
| PHRASAL VERB | EXAMPLE |
| make up: If you make up something such as a story or excuse, you invent it, sometimes in order to deceive people | I think it’s very unkind of you to make up stories about him. |
| make up for sth: to do or have something as a way of correcting or improving (something else) | She tried to make up for lost time by working extra hard. |
| make for somewhere/something: to go directly toward someone or something | They split up and the man made for the subway. |
| make out something: to find or grasp the meaning of tried to make out what had really happened. | He made out that he had been robbed. |
| make sth into sth: to change something into something else: | They’ve made the spare room into an office. |
| NEW WORD/EXPRESSION | EXAMPLE |
| blister: a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning | New shoes always give me blisters. |
| stomach upset: a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea. | He was suffering from a stomach upset. |
| sore throat: a condition in which your throat is red and feels painful, especially when you swallow | She has a sore throat and a fever. |
| run-down: in very bad condition because of age or lack of care. : in poor health or physical condition: worn-out or exhausted. | She was run-down, thin, with no appetite. |
| jet-lagged: tired and confused because you have made a long trip by plane from a place where the time is different | I just felt too jet-lagged to go out. |
I.
| Diet can mean the food and drink normally eaten by an individual or a group of people:
I am an athlete so I eat a healthy diet. Diet is also used when a particular food is eaten for medical reasons or to lose weight: The doctor put me on a low-salt diet. |
II.
| The words prescription; receipt and recipe are often confused.
A prescription is a piece of paper on which the doctor writes the medicines you need. The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. A receipt is a piece of paper you receive to show you have paid. I always keep the receipt when I buy clothes in case I want to change anything later. A recipe is a set of instructions telling you how to prepare and cook food My mother gave me a really good recipe for bread. |
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