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KITCHEN MANAGEMENT

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BREAD DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)1) What is bread?2) How important is bread in your life?3) What do you think of the smell of freshly baked bread?4) What is the best way to eat bread?5) Do you usually buy sliced or unsliced loaves of bread?6) Do you prefer white or brown bread?7) What kinds of bread from other countries have you tried?8) Which country makes the best bread?9) Do you ever leave the crusts?10) How important is yeast when baking bread?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)1) Do you know how to make bread?2) Do you prefer bread or bread rolls?3) Have you ever had a blood transfusion?4) What is your favorite spread to put on bread?5) Do you ever buy specialty breads?6) How nutritious is bread?7) In slang, “bread” means money and “brown bread” means dead. Canyou think of explanations why?8) Which is a better staple food, bread or rice?9) What is your favorite sandwich?10) Do you prefer bread or toast?

CHOCOLATE DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)1) Do you like chocolate?2) Which country do you think makes the most delicious chocolate?3) Do you like getting chocolate as a present?4) Do you know how chocolate is made?5) How much chocolate should children eat?6) Is chocolate part of any celebrations in your country?7) Do you think chocolate is healthy?8) Who do you think are the world’s biggest chocolate eaters?9) Why is chocolate so often associated with romance?10) What would the world be like without chocolate?

CHOCOLATE DISCUSSIONSTUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)1) What do you know about the history of chocolate?2) Did you eat a lot of chocolate when you were a child?3) Why do you think so many people are addicted to chocolate?4) What is your favourite brand / bar / kind of chocolate?5) Would you like to eat some chocolate right now?6) Do you have a favourite chocolate TV commercial?7) How can the word ‘chocolate’ be a countable and uncountable noun?8) Have you read the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’?9) Does eating chocolate change our feelings?10) What are your earliest memories of chocolate?

GARLIC DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)1) Why do vampires, especially Dracula, hate garlic?2) Do you know the names for the different parts of garlic?3) Do you know of any potential side effects of garlic?4) How do you like garlic – crushed, sliced, diced or whole?5) What food / dishes do you know that have ‘garlic’ in the title?6) Cervantes wrote in ‘Don Quixote’: "Do not eat garlic or onions; for theirsmell will reveal that you are a peasant." What do you think of thisquote?7) What do you think of the smell of garlic being cooked in the kitchen?8) Which countries do you think value garlic the most?9) What products do you have at home with garlic in them?10) What is the best way to avoid having garlic breath?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘garlic’?2) How important is garlic in your country’s cooking / cuisine?3) Do you like garlic?4) What is your favourite food that has garlic in it?5) What do you know about the health / medicinal benefits of garlic?6) Do you like the smell of garlic?7) Is garlic used for any customs or rituals in your country?8) What do you know about how to grow garlic or how garlic grows?9) How would you describe the taste of garlic to someone who had nevereaten it?10) What are your thoughts on another person’s (or your own) garlicbreath?