Reading worksheet British Food

1 Before you read, look at the photo of Vera. Where do you think Vera works? Read the text and check.

restaurant

school canteen

café,

Read about Vera. She has a very important job, she is a dinner lady at St Alban's school in Swindon.supermarket

1

I love my job. I like working with young people and I love preparing food. I cook lunch every day in the school canteen and I also help to serve the food. Then I clean up - I suppose I am waitress, chef and cleaner! I work with seven other dinner ladies because there are around 1,400 students in our school and that is a lot of meals!

2

My job is sometimes difficult. We try to cook healthy meals and to teach students to eat healthily but some students don't always listen. They sometimes say they don't like the food. I think it's important that students understand that healthy food is really important.

3

There isn't any junk food in the school canteen and there aren't any ready meals. We use fresh ingredients for all our meals. We sometimes cook traditional British food but we often have foreign food especially Italian or Chinese. I think the perfect healthy meal is meat or fish with vegetables and rice or potatoes and fresh fruit for dessert.

4

In the break students often ear crisps or chocolate and fizzy drinks, so now we give the students free fruit and milk so they can have a healthy snack. This is a very popular idea, parents love it and some students love it, too!

5

I think that a lot of students' favourite meal is pizza, and ice-cream for dessert. I like that too but you can't eat it every day. My favourite meal is lasagna and salad and my favourite dessert is chocolate cake.

2 Match the headings a-e with the paragraphs 1-5 of the text.

a Favourite food

b School dinners

c Snacks

d My job

e Problems

3 Read the text again and write true or false.

1

Vera doesn't like her job.

2

There are 1,400 students at St Alban's school.

3

Not all students love healthy food.

4

They sometimes cook junk food at the school.

5

In the break students often have fizzy drinks.

6

All the students love the idea of free fruit.

7

Vera doesn't like pizza.

4 Answer the questions.

1. How many dinner ladies are there at St Alban's school?

2. What kind of food does Vera cook in the school canteen?

3. What does Vera think is the perfect healthy meal?

4. What do students often eat at break?

5. How much do the students pay for fruit at break?

6. Why doesn't Vera want the students to know what her favourite dessert is?