Your favourite food – speaking topic

5 words to use

• spicy – hot with chilliesHindi meaning
• ingredient – a thing used in cookingHindi meaning
• delicious – very tastyHindi meaning
• recipe – instructions to cookHindi meaning
• homemade – made at homeHindi meaning

Sentence starters

• “My favourite dish is……”
• “It is made with……”
• “I like it because……”

Sample answer (read it aloud, then make it yours)

My favourite food is my mother's dal baati churma. The baati is a round wheat ball baked till it is golden, and the dal is spicy and full of flavour. The main ingredient of churma is wheat, ghee and sugar. The smell of ghee fills the whole house when she makes it. We eat it with our hands, sitting together on the floor, usually on Sundays. I have tried it in restaurants, but it never tastes the same. For me, this dish means family.

Follow-up questions to ask your partner

1. What is your favourite dish, and who makes it best?
2. Can you cook? What can you make?
3. Do you prefer home food or restaurant food?
4. What food from another state have you tried?
5. Is street food good or bad for us?