A1
English Reading Exercises for A1 – Online dining
3練習問題
1. Complete the messages on the internet forum. Use the words below.
- chef customers fork knife menu service tray waiters
- I love this restaurant. The 1) is from Italy and makes fantastic pizzas. There are lots of great pasta dishes on the 2) too. And the 3) are really friendly.
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- I don’t like the atmosphere. The 4) are all over 40 and eat their pizzas with a 5) and 6) It isn’t for young people!
- **
- Don’t go there! It’s really expensive. You pay £18 for a small 7) of bread, olives and other starters. Main courses are about £20 each. And then they add 15% to your bill for 8) !
- *
2. Read the text. Tick the best definition of mukbang.
- a Buying meals online and eating them alone.
- b Finding friends online and going out for meals together.
- c Paying to watch somebody online eat a meal.
- Watching people eat is a popular online activity in South Korea. You can also watch on a special TV channel. The name of the hobby in Korean is mukbangAbout 3,500 South Koreans take part in it and a small number of them are famous. For example, Park Seo-yeon is well known online as TheDiva. She earns $9,000 a month from her viewers and it is now her full-time job.
- But why do the viewers pay? Park Seo-yeon believes that health is the main reason. People love dishes with lots of fat and sugar, but they don’t want to eat them, so they ask her to eat them – and they watch! But can you really enjoy watching a meal but not eating it? Or is there another reason for the popularity of mukbang?
- Perhaps there are social reasons for its popularity. These days, a lot of South Koreans live alone. When you eat dinner alone every evening, it’s easy to feel sad. But with mukbang, you can eat with others. It is a kind of online dinner party. And when you visit the website often, it is almost like visiting friends.
- At the moment mukbang is only popular in South Korea, not in other countries. But perhaps it just needs some time
Reading Strategy
When you have to complete sentences with information from a text, start by deciding which part of the test contains the information you need. Remember that the sentences follow the same order as the text.
3. Read the Reading Strategy. Complete the sentences with information from the text. Write one or two words in each gap.
- 1)When Lee Chang-hyun starts work, he sits in front of his
- 2)While Lee Chang-hyun is working, he gets messages from his
- 3)About 3,500 people in South Korea in mukbang
- 4)Park Seo-yeon earns $9,000 from mukbang
- 5)Park Seo-yeon thinks people pay to watch her eat because they don’t want to eat a lot of or sugar.
- 6)Perhaps South Koreans enjoy watching people eat online because a lot of them live
- 7)For the viewers, mukbang is like eating with
練習方法
- 1各質問を注意深く読みます
- 2答えを書くか、正しいオプションを選択します
- 3「答えを表示」をクリックして確認します
- 4間違いを見直し、同様の練習を試みます
- 5準備ができたら次の練習に進みます