Starting off
1. Discuss these questions with a partner:
1. What does September mean to you?
- the start of a new school year
- getting ready for Christmas
- walks in the forest
- picking fruit and vegetables
- finding wild mushrooms
2. Match the pictures to the words
Olives
Truffles
Oyster mushrooms
Horse chestnut
Apple
Before you read
1. Look at these words and then answer the questions.
1. To harvest - to take crops (plants used for food) from the fields.
What time of year is the most important harvest time?
2. A net Which jobs use a net?
3. A ladderWhat do people use ladders for?
4. A pig
What are pigs good at?
5. Poisonous – a plant or animal that can kill you or make you ill if you eat it or it bites you.
What animals are poisonous? What plants are poisonous?
6. StringWhen was the last time you used string?
7. To ban – to say that something must not be done or used
Which of these is banned in your school? eating in class, using a mobile phone in class, smoking, wearing jeans
8. Coast – the area where the land meets the sea
Which of these countries DOESN’T have a coast? Poland, France, Germany, Czech.
9. Medicine – something you use to make you better when you are ill
Where do you buy medicine?
First reading
1. Read the texts and match the headings to the correct paragraphs:
A A dangerous activity.
B Hurry! Hurry!
C Tasty and healthy.
D Help from an animal.
E The older the better.
Second reading
1.Read the texts again and decide whether the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1. Olive picking in Tuscany starts earlier than in other places.
2. You must pick olives carefully.
3. Dogs can’t find truffles.
4. There are no truffles in chocolate truffles.
5. People can’t eat horse chestnuts.
6. ‘Conkers’ is the name of a game.
7. Cider is an area of France.
8. Calvados shouldn’t be kept for more than two years.
9. Oyster mushrooms are white.
10.The Japanese don’t like mushrooms.
Vocabulary
1. Choose the correct meaning for these phrases.
1. climb a ladder
go up a ladder / take a ladder from one place to another
2. turn olives into oil
sell the olives and buy oil with the money / make oil from olives
3. train a dog
take a dog on a train / teach a dog to do something
4. collect chestnuts
play a game with chestnuts / find lots of chestnuts and keep them
5. pick apples
take apples from a tree / buy apples in a shop
6. grow fruit
have fruit trees or plants in your garden / take fruit from the tree
7. contain chemicals
make chemicals / have chemicals inside them
Speaking
Discuss these questions with a partner:
What else can you climb?
What do people turn grapes into?
What can you train a dog to do?
What do you collect?
Does your family grow any fruit or vegetables?
Do you eat mushrooms? Do you like them in a soup or fried?
Do you collect chestnuts? If so, what do you do with them?
What food do you know which contains the following things:
-sugar
-butter
-tomatoes
-pasta
-rice?
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Find the name
of this mushroom
by completing the crossword:
A ______
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1 You can use it to tie things up / 2 A drink made from apples / 3 An area of north-west France / 4 A game played with horse chestnuts
5 The colour of an oyster mushroom / 6 A farm animal which can find truffles / 7 Some mushrooms can kill us because they are … / 8 A part of the world where oyster mushrooms are very popular (3-4)
9 A very expensive food / 10 The last month for black summer truffle picking / 11 Something you can climb / 12 What olives are turned into
13 Another drink made from apples
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