COOKING
Grammar: Circle the correct word in the brackets [ ] below:
Cooking is a process to make food ready to eat by heating it. People can [cooked / cook / cooking / cooker] food using a variety of things - with fire (using wood or charcoal), with a stove that uses gas, or with a stove or cooker that [used / uses / use / using] electricity. An oven is a part of a stove that is [likes / liked / likely / like] a box. It is easy to make one out of clay or bricks. There are several different ways to cook food. We boil food by [cook / cooks / cooking / cooked] it in very hot water; we fry it by cooking it in hot butter, fat or oil; we bake it by keeping it hot in an oven; and we roast or grill it by holding it over a hot fire.
Usually we cook the food in some kind of pot or pan. Sometimes people [cooking / cooked / cooks / cook] food by putting it directly into the fire, by wrapping the food in leaves before they put it into the fire, or by holding it over a fire with a stick. Before food is [cooks / cooked / cook / cooker], we say it is raw. Some food is [more / many / some / much]delicious to eat raw and is more [benefit / benefits / beneficial / beneficially]to the body. Some food is dangerous to eat raw, so it must [is / are / was / be]cooked. Some food is good to eat either raw or cooked and can be [uses / used / using / use]in different recipes.
A person [whose / what / that / who] job it is to cook food may [do / be / can / is]called a cook or a chef. Some students get confused by the word "cooker". This is not a person; it is a machine [what / that / who / whom] a cook or chef might use to cook food, such as a rice cooker. To many people, cooking is an art. To many [other / others / another / the other]people, it is a job. Cooking as an art is preparing the food so it tastes good and looks colourful and beautiful. This kind of cooking is usually very expensive if you eat it [on / in / to / up]a restaurant.
In most parts of the world, people [usually / usual / unusual / unusually] eat three meals a day. The morning meal is [call / calls / called / calling]breakfast. It usually includes food made from grain (cereal, porridge, or bread), fruit, and milk products (milk, yogurt, or cottage cheese).
Around noon, people eat their lunch. People who are working at jobs are[gives / given / gave / giving] a break to eat their lunch. The lunch meal [includes / included / including / include] food such as sandwiches, rice dishes, soup, vegetables, fruit, and milk.
In the evening, people [eat / ate / eating / eats] their supper or dinner. Dinners are different in different countries. Usually dinners include a "main course" such as roast beef, a grain (such as rice or pasta), a vegetable (such as carrots or cauliflower) and a dessert (called a "sweet" or "pudding" in England). In some cases, a starter or appetizer is [serves / served / serving / serve] before the dinner. Appetizers are a small serving of food such as olives, cheese, or bread.