Consider a time when you sat down to share a dish with family or friends.

What was the dish?

Is the dish special in your country or area?

In today's lesson, we will explore how to talk about foods.

We will learn about the structures and words commonly used to talk about popular dishes.

Let's start with a comparison between cooking and grammar.

Just as we have common ingredients when we cook — oil, salt, vegetables, meats, and so on — we also have common ingredients for sentences about food.

These language ingredients include nouns, adjectives, and special kinds of phrases.

Just as cooking is about using food ingredients in special ways, food discussions are about using language ingredients in special ways.

Our first ingredient is the noun.