A Big Breakfast — Student | Essential Idiomas

1

Reading

10 minutes

Reading

Read the text aloud. Then discuss the questions below.

A good breakfast — Is it important? Some people say a big breakfast is good for you. Other people say: 'Don't eat if you aren't hungry!' What do YOU have for breakfast?

Ashley, the US: I have breakfast in a cafe near my office. I have a croissant and coffee. I love breakfast! It's my favorite meal.

Paulo, Brazil: I have breakfast at home. I don't have a big breakfast. I have fruit and juice and sometimes toast. It's a healthy breakfast.

Sakura, Japan: I have a traditional Japanese breakfast at home with my family. We have rice, fish, and miso soup. We drink green tea. We don't drink coffee.

Key Words from the Text

breakfast — I have breakfast at home.

eat — I eat eggs for breakfast.

drink — I drink coffee in the morning.

love — I love breakfast! It's my favorite meal.

coffee — I just have coffee at work.

tea — We drink green tea.

toast — I have toast for breakfast.

rice — We have rice, fish, and miso soup.

1. Who has breakfast in a cafe?

2. Is Paulo from the US?

3. What is in Sakura's breakfast?

4. Who drinks green tea?

5. What about you? What do you have for breakfast?

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Language Focus

12 minutes

Dialogue: Two colleagues talking about breakfast habits.

Ana and Leo

I have breakfast at home every day.

Really? I don't have breakfast.

I eat eggs and toast. I love breakfast!

I don't eat in the morning.

I just have coffee at work.

I don't drink coffee. I drink orange juice.

I like orange juice, too!

Click any speech bubble to hear that line!

Comprehension:

1. Does Ana have breakfast?

2. Does Leo have breakfast?

3. What does Ana eat?

Grammar Discovery: simple present affirmative and negative (I/you/we/they)

Look at these sentences from the dialogue. What's the difference between the pairs?

I have breakfast at home. ↔ I don't have breakfast.

I eat eggs and toast. ↔ I don't eat in the morning.

I drink orange juice. ↔ I don't drink coffee.

How do we make the negative?

Try it!

1. Positive: I ___ breakfast. (have / has)

2. Negative: I ___ ___ coffee. (don't drink / doesn't drink)

3. I ___ eggs and toast. (eat / eats)

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Practice

15 minutes

Food and Drink

Match the English word to the Portuguese translation.

Column A

eggs

toast

rice

fish

meat

vegetables

Column B

ovos

torrada

carne

arroz

legumes

peixe

Simple Present: + and -

Complete with the correct verb.

eatdon't drinkdrinkdon't havehavedon't eat

1. I breakfast at home.

2. I breakfast.

3. I eggs and toast.

4. I in the morning.

5. I coffee.

6. I coffee. I orange juice.

True or False — A Good Breakfast

Based on the reading and the three profiles, is each statement True (A) or False (B)?

Replay text

1. Ashley is from the United States.

True

False

2. Paulo doesn't have breakfast.

True

False

3. Sakura has a typical Japanese breakfast.

False

True

4. All three people drink coffee.

True

False

5. Ashley has eggs and toast.

True

False

Meals — Like, Eat, Drink

Read each prompt out loud. Use real preferences — your meals, your drinks.

1. Tell me about your day: I have breakfast at 7 AM. I have lunch at 1 PM. I have dinner at 8 PM.

2. Say what you like: I like coffee. I like rice. I don't like fish.

3. What do you drink? In the morning I drink coffee. At lunch I drink water. At dinner I drink juice.

4. Describe a typical meal: For lunch I eat rice and meat. For dinner I eat vegetables. I like vegetables!

What About You?

Talk about your real food habits with your teacher. Your teacher will model first, then you respond.

Scenario:

You and your teacher talk about what you eat and drink.

Useful Expressions

I have breakfast at ___.I have ___ and ___.I love ___.I don't like ___.I don't eat ___.

Round 1 — Breakfast + Likes

TEACHER: I have breakfast at home. What do you have?
YOU: I have ___ and ___.
TEACHER: I love coffee. What about you?
YOU: I love ___. / I don't like coffee. I like ___.

Round 2 — Don't eat

TEACHER: I don't eat meat. What about you?
YOU: I eat meat. / I don't eat ___.
TEACHER: Why don't you eat ___?
YOU: Because ___.

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Let's Talk

13 minutes

Let's Talk!

Use what you learned today to answer these questions. Elaborate as much as you can!

Real food preferences — beyond the basics.

1. What's your FAVORITE meal — breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Tell me what you usually have, and why it's your favorite.

Follow-up: Do you eat the same thing every day, or different things?

2. Tell me 3 things you LOVE eating or drinking, and 1 thing you DON'T LIKE.

Follow-up: What about Brazilian food — what's typical?

Self-Assessment

How did you do today?

✓
I can talk about my meals: "I have eggs for breakfast."
✓
I can say what I don't eat: "I don't eat meat."
✓
I can say what I like and love: "I like fish. I love coffee."

Great work today!

Next class: Do you like the book? — You'll learn to ASK questions with "Do you...?"