How to Give Your Opinion on Food Drink in English
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this week’s
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how to
give your opinion on food and
drink for this week’s lesson uh i’m
going to
review some basic patterns you can use
to talk about food and drink and to
express your opinions
about those topics of course and then
i’m going to talk about
uh some comparison patterns that you can
use
uh to uh more i guess
naturally express your ideas and how to
be
a little more creative in how you
express your opinion
so for today’s lesson uh yes the
patterns i’m going to talk about
uh are for food and drink but i’m going
to also give you patterns you can use
for other
situations too so i hope it’s helpful
finally we’ll end
with some vocabulary words that you can
use so
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going to begin with this review
here we go this review of some basic uh
some basic patterns first we’re going to
review i like
adjective or i don’t like adjective in
part one
part two we’re going to practice making
comparisons comparisons
and finally i’m going to talk about some
adjectives you can use
to describe food and drink and i’ll also
share with you
uh an adjective trick so
how to make i’m going to talk about how
native speakers
make their own adjectives so this is a
maybe a good one
uh i hope for a intermediate and higher
level learners so
let’s get started okay begin
let’s begin with this
part let’s begin with a quick review a
quick review
of a very very basic pattern to express
your opinion so to do this
we simply say i like
or i don’t adjective
noun so i have adjective here
uh so that we can express a deeper
opinion so of course you can make
a a basic opinion expression with just i
like plus a noun but today i want to
focus on making kind of deeper questions
okay so let’s take a look at some
examples here’s one i like salty
snacks okay so salty is my adjective
snacks plural noun is here
so a point uh to be careful of for many
learners
in this pattern when you use um
when you use a noun here so the noun you
use here
should be uh in the plural form so i
like salty snack
is not correct i like salty snacks do
not forget this
s please to make a negative pattern
i don’t like sugary desserts
i don’t like sugary desserts so sugary i
will talk about later but sugary means
something that tastes
really really a lot like sugar
super super sweet so i don’t like sugary
desserts
so this is a very basic pattern
you can use to describe food and drink
that you like so i’ve used snacks or
desserts here
but you can choose drinks whatever you
like to eat
and of course you can use this with a
different
type of noun so it could be clothes or
movies or whatever
okay so uh let’s review we’ve reviewed
this
now let’s review just a few very basic
expressions you can use uh to talk about
your preferences so again this will be
just some review
so some basic expressions when you like
something when you like something
you can say this is really good or
this is delicious or this is amazing or
this is
tasty so what’s the difference lots of
people ask what’s the difference
and generally there’s not much of a
difference
there’s really not much of a difference
between these
delicious though i should note delicious
we use only for food
so don’t say like this sweater is
delicious or this book is delicious
we don’t use uh delicious except
for food uh really good though
you can use for anything and amazing you
can use for anything
tasty sorry tasty also we use tasty for
food and drink only so again
just some basic expressions you can use
to express when you like something and
then of course
when you don’t like something you can
say i’m not
a fan or i’m not a fan
of the food or drink so like i’m not
a fan of sugary desserts
or i’m not a fan of salty snacks so
i’m not a fan and
if you want to you can finish the
sentence here
alternatively i don’t like food or
drink very much i don’t like food or
drink very much
at native speed that sounds like i don’t
like food or drink very much
like i don’t like salty snacks very much
questions are coming in john says uh
can we use uh don’t to hate uh so
if you want to say you like something a
little bit you can say
i don’t hate it i don’t hate it so like
i don’t
hate healthy snacks but if you say i
don’t hate
it sounds like you only like it a little
bit
not very much of course you can say i
hate
something to express dislike too that’s
fine
nickel punch says i’m not a fan of okura
me too me neither rather
alexander on facebook says can we use
yummy yes you can use yummy like this
is yummy yes you can but please keep in
mind yummy sounds kind of childish
so like kids use it or like like parents
and children use it
or if you want to sound childish you can
use
yummy or kind of playful that’s the
feeling of yummy
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cup of tea yes exactly that’s what we
use when
uh it’s we don’t like something very
much
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today’s lesson is about uh how to give
your opinion
on food and drink so uh we’ve just
talked about uh some
reviews some basic patterns we can use
to talk about our preferences
i will show you again today’s lesson
boards
so that you can see where we are and
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so i just talked about this point just a
short
review now i’m going to talk about this
point
comparisons i want to give some examples
of comparison patterns because native
speakers
use these a lot so let’s go to part
two okay uh also if you have not please
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awesome all right part two let’s
continue
so comparisons comparisons
the basic comparison pattern i want to
practice with you today
is this one a tastes like
b a tastes like b so
in this pattern for i’m going to talk
about
two ways to use this pattern
let’s begin with this one where a
and b are nouns so
noun tastes like other noun
so when you do this this pattern means
that
thing a has the same taste
as thing b but they are different
yeah some examples this sauce
tastes like vinegar this sauce tastes
like
vinegar so vinegar is generally
kind of a strange flavor for sauce or
my drink tastes like lemon juice
or that dessert tasted like
heaven so this one is actually a concept
i wanted to introduce this idea we can
use concepts in our comparison to show
that we
really really like or we really really
dislike something okay i see
some questions coming in i will come to
you very shortly after this point
so what’s happening here first this
tastes
this tastes so when we use
this pattern as i said this means it
this thing has the same or similar taste
as this thing
many learners forget this s because
when native speakers say this pattern
this
sound i’ll show you i’ll write so you
can see how it’s connected
these two sounds
connect this sauce tastes
like is really really hard to say
in fast speech native speakers say
this sauce tastes like tastes like so
this
s and l connect tastes like tastes like
another example my drink tastes like
lemon juice or
here past tense tasted like
tasted like that dessert tasted like
heaven so that one’s
a little more clear but please don’t
forget this
s when you’re spelling yeah here
again yes i’ve used past tense you can
use the same pattern
to talk about something you ate before
the conversation
so this is a the first comparison
pattern i want to practice we’re going
to get creative
in the second part here but i saw some
questions
uh coming in raquel on facebook said can
i say
i’m in a mood of drink or food close
say i’m in the mood
for food or drink so just change your
article
and your preposition i’m in the mood
for something i’m in the mood for a
smoothie
and so on okay uh there were a couple
other questions i think that came in
real quickly
i’m looking for you okay some of you are
sending examples
uh this cola tasted like acid oh
good example perfect example that’s a
little scary good job
okay uh bhavana says this drink tastes
like lemonade
perfect very nice job someone says i
like your pen great i got it at the
dollar store
okay uh let’s go to uh this part then
so i want to i want to practice
uh this to help you level up from this
pattern
this basic noun tastes like noun pattern
is useful
but these kinds of patterns are things
you can use to be more creative and more
interesting in your conversations
so to do this get creative and
use a verb phrase instead of
a noun for be so here
for this practice for part two instead
of
noun let’s use like a full
sentence we’re going to imagine
something here
so i’m going to give you uh
a few patterns or a few uh example
sentences
to practice so for example this sauce
tastes like this is the same someone
poured a bottle of vinegar into
a pot so what does this mean this sauce
this still means this sauce tastes like
vinegar
it still has the same meaning but here
we’re imagining a situation this sauce
tastes like someone poured a bottle of
vinegar into a pot
so why is this more interesting it
sounds
we’re imagining that someone like took
vinegar
and poured it into our sauce like we’re
imagining it was
a plan someone planned it so it sounds
more creative
to express it in this way let’s look at
one more example
my drink tastes like
the bartender squeezed a fresh lemon
into my glass so my drink tastes like
the bartender squeezed a fresh lemon
into my glass
so again this sentence means this my
drink
tastes like lemon juice we’re saying the
same
thing but this is much more specific
and more creative so we can imagine i
don’t know if you can see my glass
okay so we imagine that a bartender so
squeezing
means like this motion with a lemon yeah
into your glass
so it’s like saying this was a
planned choice we want to express that
more creatively with a pattern like this
so you’ll notice this part here these
are
full sentences the bartender squeezed a
fresh lemon into my glass
or someone poured a bottle of vinegar
into a pot these are complete
sentences we are making a comparison
with the complete sentence and it makes
a more creative
opinion expression okay let’s look at
uh this one more example this is a
negative example
that cake tasted like
someone left it in the oven
a little too long this cake or sorry
that cake tasted like someone left it in
the oven
a little too long what does this mean so
the cake i ate the cake
it’s past tense that cake tasted like
someone
so the person who made the cake
they left the cake inside the oven
baking for too long so this
is a creative way to express
i think the cake was burned
but this is a more creative way to
express that idea
okay so in the comments some of you are
already doing it use
a comparison to describe your favorite
food or your
favorite drink ah great question jamari
how do i use as if or as though to talk
about how something feels or how
something tastes great question
so in these example sentences i’m using
tastes like tastes like taste like
and yes technically we should use tastes
as if before uh tastes as if
someone verb right native speakers
often we don’t often remember this we
just use
like a lot so tastes as if we can use
that in these cases tastes as if the bar
tender
or tastes as if someone blah blah so as
if you can use
in this pattern as though as well
but generally in everyday speech we te
at least in american english we tend to
use this
like pattern more so i know that we
practice when we practice grammar
we know that like and as if uh and as
though
take different rules but in everyday
speech we tend to break those rules a
lot
so you can use those in the same way as
you use
like here i hope that answers your
question
okay other questions uh some of you are
sending good examples uh this burger
tastes like someone
left it in the open convolution the open
for an eternity
okay uh some other points ah
ana says can i know how to use the word
taste
and tastes in sentences sure sure good
point
so taste here
is used to express the flavor of
something
yeah but we also use the verb
taste to talk about trying something
so like if i if i have a drink
i don’t know what it is or my friend’s
drink i say
can i taste your drink it means
i want to try a little bit i want a
small amount of your drink
so we can use taste to express that idea
to try a little
piece of something or a little bit of
something
and we use taste to express
the flavor of something i hope that that
helps answer your question thank you
okay i don’t see other questions yet on
facebook so
i’m checking your questions and checking
your questions uh some examples lots of
examples are on youtube my drink
tastes like iced tea jermaine so again
don’t forget this
s yeah this s tastes like tastes like
this pizza tastes like someone put the
pepper of the whole world
all the pepper in the world is there
someone cutting grass
i don’t know there’s someone doing
something outside today so
it’s a little background noise okay so
this is uh the focus point for today i
want
i hope that all of you can practice
using this point right here
practice making a comparison uh with a
verb like a full
sentence at the end of your comparison
to make your
opinion more uh detailed and to
creatively express your ideas so try to
listen for this
uh like if you like cooking shows or
other tv shows
in english you can hear that felipe says
how about tasted like heaven yeah so i
have this here
tasted like heaven you can use this
expression to mean something was super
super delicious
it tasted like heaven okay i have to
finish part
two so we have time for part three where
i want to share
a vocabulary trick with you so we’ll end
there for part
two thanks for all your questions that’s
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says could i swap
taste to another verb of senses ah
oh yeah so like taste or uh sounds like
yeah or feels like yes absolutely you
can totally change
uh this verb you can change this verb
in this sentence for another sense verb
to make a comparison
so a sounds like b or a feels like b
or a smells like me perfectly fine
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lesson okay let’s go to the last
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i will show you today’s
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part one part two now we’re going to
food and
drink adjectives food and drink
adjectives and
i want to teach you a trick that you can
use
uh to make your own adjectives this is
something native speakers do a lot
uh okay so this is a very
quick list of course there are many many
many many adjectives we use to describe
food and drinks but i want to review
this group like in particular i want to
practice these
because a lot of these follow a certain
pattern
so let’s go through them uh and note
that lots of them end in y yeah
lots of these end in y so first let’s
look at these what do they mean
first i have salty salty so something
that tastes
like salt yeah something that tastes
like
too much like salt salty is usually
kind of a negative thing
sugary i talked about sugary today too
sugary so it tastes
like sugar so generally uh
not such a good thing savory
savory is an adjective we use to talk
about
meat to talk about meat generally so it
means something
that has a little salty flavor
and something uh maybe that has a little
bit of
other flavors like herbs or spices or
whatever too
savory generally is a good thing so this
meat is
savory it’s like we use it to describe
meat that is cooked
nicely very nicely cooked meats and
sauces sometimes too okay
fatty is another good one to use fatty
we use
fatty though please keep in mind yes fat
is the root here
can i do this yeah fat okay so fat is
the root here yeah
the base but fatty is used to talk about
foods that have a lot of fat
so that means like fatty tuna or maybe
fatty pork a food usually a meat
well of course it’s a meat like
vegetables don’t have fat so
a meat that has a lot of fat
on it and has that fat rich
taste we can describe that as fatty
fatty another one i just used
rich rich something that is rich feels
like heavy kind of so we use rich
for desserts and like sauce
sometimes too so it’s kind of like heavy
or maybe very thick
kind of luxurious with desserts so we
use
rich a lot with like chocolate for
example
okay uh another good one i think many of
you know
sour things that are sour so like citrus
lemon
lime those sorts of things when you eat
it your face
is like whoa that’s something that’s
really
sour a lot of people ask what’s the
difference between
sour and bitter if you imagine the
difference between like
lemon so sour lemon is very sour
although
i guess some people could say bitter and
something
uh like like spinach so something that
has kind of a
uh there’s not that strong uh like acid
feeling with with bitter that’s the
difference between
sour and bitter okay
uh bubbly is another one we use bubbly
for drinks to talk about drinks so
bubbly the root here you can see
the root is bubble the spelling has
changed
here bubble is the root so a drink that
is
bubbly has lots and lots of bubbles in
it so my soda is
bubbly or my cocktail is bubbly
something that is bubbly
i included cloudy here too because we
use cloudy
to talk about drinks also not just the
weather
cloudy a cloudy drink is a drink this
one this is the opposite of cloudy this
is clear
like you can see through it easily so
imagine
cloudy weather in your glass
that’s a cloudy drink so maybe juice is
cloudy or like a beer
is cloudy so we use cloudy to talk about
drinks
awesome okay last one irby
erby if you are if you study british
english you might hear this pronounced
herb in american english we say herb
verb this h sound we do not pronounce
herb
herbie so something that is herby has a
strong
herbal taste it tastes like an herb it
tastes like many herbs maybe
so what’s the reason so i chose all of
these vocabulary words
to share today uh of course i hope that
you can practice these vocabulary words
but i wanted to focus on this trick
this is what a lot of native speakers
like to use
to create their own adjectives to create
adjectives
in the moment we use noun plus
y to describe something so
for example lemony or
chocolaty or meaty so when we want to
make a specific description of something
and maybe we don’t know like is there a
word is there a specific word
we can use this trick this is in casual
conversation with friends don’t write
this in like a
business email this is a casual
conversation trick that we use
all the time so like i use this
all the time so if i want to talk about
water
that has a lemon taste i describe it
as lemony so my water is
lemony you can use this trick uh
with lots of flavor uh and smell
adjectives so this is a really really
fun and easy trick
you might also have heard ish ish i will
include this on the board there’s some
time
you might hear noun
plus ish i-s-h i-s-h
so for example lemon-ish or
chocolate-ish
or meat ish so this ish
maybe it’s not so common in
in these cases this y pattern is more
common in these cases
but ish the difference between ish and
this
e ending ish
is like saying a little bit so
lemon ish is like a little bit lemon
or chocolate-ish it’s like a little bit
of chocolate flavor so
meat well we probably wouldn’t say
meat-ish like
unless we want to talk about something
that tastes a little bit
like meat so that’s the difference like
lemony versus lemon-ish
it’s like lem the lemon level is higher
with lemony
with lemon-ish it’s a little bit lower
so this is a really really useful trick
you can use to create your
own adjectives in the moment of course
if there’s already an adjective please
use that please use that someone said
can i use richie instead of rich no
because there’s already this adjective
so you cannot use
this adjective plus y so like richie
doesn’t work or like sour e
doesn’t work to use this trick you have
to use
noun plus y so not adjective
plus uh convolution this soup
tastes lemon-ish tastes lemon-ish so
good point
that’s a good point to finish on today
if you want to use
an adjective you cannot use the pattern
we practiced
in part two so why let’s look at why
part two we practice this pattern a
tastes like
b noun tastes like
noun noun tastes like noun
has to be sorry we have to use
a noun in b these words
are adjectives we cannot say that so
we would say this drink is lemonish
where’s my first one this is
for example we practiced this basic
structure at the beginning of today’s
class
this is delicious this is amazing this
is tasty
this is lemony so please use
these words like adjectives the same
as an adjective someone says
tasty can we use tasty yes of course
tasty is a very casual
kind of cute word that you can use okay
uh raquel says this chocolate tastes
like mint good felipe says my drink is
lemonish good nice
nice i think you got it i think you got
it that’s fantastic okay
i will continue checking your examples
but i have to finish
up for today’s lesson that was really
fun uh someone says the soup tastes like
lemon
is that good lemon soup i don’t know
okay uh we’ll finish there for today
oh i’ll show you today’s lesson boards
one more time if you want to take
a picture here we go so today’s three
points
basic patterns uh with adjectives
comparisons we practice this is your
maybe focus point this week
and our adjective list and a trick
you can use to make your own adjectives
so
i hope it was a helpful lesson for you
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go to next week’s lesson topic which is
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