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6 Eating Habits

Writing

A. Discuss with a partner.
1. What fresh fruit and vegetables can you see in the picture?

2. How often do you eat them?
3. Which are your favourite fruit and vegetables?

B. Discuss with a partner.
1. Why do companies and individuals carry out questionnaires?
2. Why do they often ask about a person’s age, gender and ethnicity?

Five-a-day Questionnaire

1. Which five of these fruits and vegetables do 2. What percentage of your diet would you say
you eat regularly? consists of fruit and vegetables? (tick one)

avocado peas less than 10%
cabbage salad 10% – 25%
cherries spinach 25% – 50%
cucumber strawberries more than 50%
grapes mango, other __________

3. Do you usually eat five portions of fruit and 4. Circle the correct option.
vegetables every day?
Gender Male Female Prefer not to say
yes no Age under–18 18–35 35–65 65–plus

5. To what extent do you agree with these statements?

disagree agree

0 1 2 3 4 5

Fruit and vegetables are cheap where I live.

Which fruit and vegetables I eat depends a lot on the season.

I’m happy with the amount of fruit and vegetables I eat.

C. Write your own questionnaire on one of the D. Use your questionnaire to interview ten people.
following topics. Use a variety of question types. Discuss the results with a partner. Then work in
a group of four and discuss these questions.
• favourite places to eat
• popular cuisines 1. How successful was your questionnaire?
• celebrity diets 2. What changes would you make to make it more
effective?
• healthy eating
3. Did the people you interviewed respond as you
were expecting?
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