1. How have the eating habits of people changed since the invention of a microwave oven and the spread of prepared food? Do you consider the tendency in modern food production a positive thing? Why or why not. Support your answer with concrete examples and reasons.

2. Give your ideas about the topic “Eating at Restaurants vs. Eating at Home”. Do you like to cook? Where do you prefer to eat? Why?

3. Write about the traditional cuisine in your country. What are the traditional meals prepared on special holidays like birthdays, Easter, Christmas, New Year, etc.?

4. Think of any cuisine you like or are interested in (American, French, Asian, Japanese and so on). Tell more about the peculiarities of the meals of that country. Include some tips on eating habits of the people from that country (if you know any). Tell why you like/dislike this very cuisine.

5. Discuss the peculiarities of school and university students’ eating habits. Do they eat regularly? What dao they usually eat? How should their habits be improved (if you think they should)?

6. Who cooks in your family more often? Do you think it is an exclusive responsibility of a woman to prepare food in a family? How do you think the roles in the kitchen should be divided? Why?

7. Give your examples of good and bad eating habits. What are the consequents of such habits? When must a person start develop right eating habits? Who and how should teach a person to do it?

8. What is your opinion about vegetarianism? Are you for or against it? Do you eat meat? Do you believe that some kinds of food should be excluded from everyday ration? If yes, what are those kinds of food?