French Toast

Ingredients Bread Eggs Milk Sugar Oil Preparation Whisk the eggs and mix them with the milk. Dip the sandwich bread into the mixture. Heat some oil in a pan and cook the soggy bread for 2 minutes on each side. When its ready, sprinkle some sugar on top and eat! You can have French Toast for breakfast or as a dessert with a ball of ice cream.

Here are a couple of simple French recipes for you. By Tiphaine and Pauline.

Making sure that everything is nice and safe.

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Health & Safety

Pre-listening

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What would a health and safety inspector check in a school building? Write down as many ideas as you can.

fire extinguishers, the roof, fire escapes, the kitchens

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Le Croque Monsieur
Ingredients Sandwich bread Cheese (sliced and grated) Ham (sliced) Bchamel sauce Butter Mustard (optional)

You are going to listen to a conversation between a health and safety inspector and a school caretaker. Which items from the Pre-listening task did you hear them mention?
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Listening I

Listen again and answer the questions. 1. When will the fire escape be finished? 2. Whats wrong with the fire extinguishers in the dining room? 3. Whats happened to the fire extinguisher order form? 4. Whats wrong with the school kitchens? 5. Why dont they use the kitchens much these days? 6. What happened to the swimming pool roof?
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Listening II

Preparation Toast the pieces of bread in the oven (spread GLOSSARY to whisk vb butter on one side of each piece of bread for to use a fork or an electric device to move a mixture very fast so it extra flavour). becomes light to dip vb When the toast is ready, brush half of the if you dip one item of food into a liquid, you put it into the liquid so toasted slices with mustard. (optional) the liquid covers it Put a slice of ham between two slices of soggy adj cheese and place this between two pieces of if bread is soggy it is wet and covered in a liquid toast. to sprinkle vb if you sprinkle cheese on top, you Spoon some bchamel sauce on top and put a bit of cheese over the top sliced adj sprinkle some cheese over this. into thin, flat pieces Place in a pan and bake in the oven for about cut grated adj if cheese is grated, it is cut into 5 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly and very small pieces with a grater (a lightly browned. kitchen implement for cutting food into small pieces) If you top this sandwich with a fried egg, it bubbly adj with bubbles on it (little balls of air) becomes a Croque Madame.

Look at this extract from the listening, I wonder how that could have happened? The speaker has used a Perfect Modal Verb construction (could have + a past participle) to talk about past possibility. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate past participle. 1. Instead of eating at the Chinese restaurant, we to the Indian one. could have 2. Instead of choosing the blue dress, I could have the green one. 3. Instead of going by bus, we could have the train. 4. Instead of seeing the Spielberg film, we could the Woody Allen one. have
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Language focus Could have + a past participle

1. Have you ever been in a building that you considered unsafe? Why did you think it was so dangerous? 2. What safety measures are in place in the building where you work? 3. What safety measures are there where you live?

Discussion

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recipe & Skills Booklet listening (B2)

Recipe

Refer to unit 7 of your Upper Intermediate Skills Booklet for more explanations and exercises.

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