English Reading Exercises
Jake cooks!
Hi everyone and welcome to my cooking blog.
I’m not a good cook, but I want to become better. I just want to learn how to cook simple dishes and eat
well. I don’t want to cook difficult things and I don’t want to be a famous chef. In this blog, I want to tell
you about the help I get from my family and friends and the things I try out. So if you want to be a better
cook, but not a chef, then maybe I can help you!
My food – shared!
Do you like the idea of cooking dinner for friends? Here are my ideas for planning a dinner for friends – I
hope you find them useful …
First, think about how many people you want to invite. Don’t invite too many – I think four people is a
good number.
Next, ring or email to invite your friends and all agree on a night that’s good for everyone.
After that, decide on your menu. Only choose food that you know how to prepare. Don’t choose new and
difficult dishes – it’s just too hard. Your friends know that you are not a chef and your house is not a
restaurant!
Finally, on the day of the dinner, you need a lot of time to prepare everything – the food and the table.
(The weekend is good because you have all day to prepare.) If everything is ready before your guests
arrive, you can enjoy the dinner much more.
Cooking for friends can be easy and fun. I hope it is for you!
1. Read “Jake cooks!” Who is it for?
a People who know how to cook very well.
b People who want to learn how to cook.
2. Read “My food – shared!”. What does Jake talk about?
a the food he eats
b planning a dinner
3. Read “My food – shared!” again. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
1 Jake hopes the blog can help other people plan dinner for friends.
2 It’s not a good idea to invite a lot of people for dinner.
3 It’s always fun to try a new dish because friends can tell you if it’s good or not.
4 Decide the night of the dinner and then tell your friends.
5 It helps to do all the cooking before your friends come.
Use of English
Read the texts. Choose the right words and write them in the blanks.
Cheese
You need milk ………to……… make cheese. You can make cheese from cow’s, sheep’s (1)…………… goat’s
milk (2)…………… are lots of different kinds. A lot of people in the world eat cheese with bread for breakfast.
In some places they eat it in the evening (3)…………… dinner.
You can eat cheese with a lot of different food, for example on pasta and potatoes and in cakes.
Some children eat a lot of cheese because it is good for (4)…………… teeth.
Often in stories and films, the favourite food of mice (5)…………… cheese.
Example to for in
1 but or because
2 There Here Where
3 off below after
4 his their its
5 is are be
Tea or Coffee?
A lot of people drink tea and coffee. But which plants give us ………these……… drinks and why do people like
drinking them?
You can only find the tea plant (1)…………… hot, sunny places. For a drink of tea, you must put (2)……………
tea leaves with very hot water and you sometimes add milk or lemon. Some people drink tea in the
afternoon because they (3)…………… tired.
Then the tea helps them.
Some people like coffee (4)…………… than tea in the mornings. They like drinking coffee for breakfast
because (5)…………… helps them to wake up quickly!
Example this them these
1 in at to
2 any a some
3 have are do
4 most more best
5 it they he
