Topics：

1. Do you often do any cooking?

2. Do you like cooking? (Why?/Why not?)

3. What cooking experience have you had?

4. Who taught you to cook?

5. When you were a child, did you ever help your parents to prepare a

meal?

Sample answers：

1.Normally I don’t frequently cook at home on weekdays because I have no

time. But on weekends, I usually cook food at home for my family.

frequently 频繁地 常常

2.Yes, I’m quite into cooking because I believe that good dinner could

guarantee our health and also I’m a foodie, I’d like to taste all kinds of tasty

food. I always do some cooking in my home with my family during the weekend to

enjoy the family time.

guarantee 保证 同义词有ensure assure.

3.Obviously, in my opinion, a fabulous cooking can’t be done without fresh

food resources. So I always try to go to the supermarket early in the morning

and select today’s vegetables and meat. Besides, I always put several vegetables

such as carrot, bamboo shoots, pepper, tofu, along with meat to cook in order to

get the balanced diet.

fabulous 极好的 这里可以用excellent、perfect替换

4.Cooking has always been a pleasure not something I have dreaded.

Found out if you put your heart and soul into anything it always turns out so

much better than if you disliked doing it.

From the time I was a little girl watching my mother cook I was hooked. I

realize now that she was the best teacher I could have ever asked for.

pepper 辣椒

4.My mother is an expert at cooking, and she taught me how to cook when I

graduated from university and started to live independently. She told me that

the ability to cook was fairly important because good dinner could guarantee our

health.

5.I remember when I was a little boy, I was used to help wash the vegetables,

go out to buy some flavours, etc. I strongly recommend that children should take

part in this kind of housework because it can help cultivate the hands-on

abilities, a sense of achievement and even learn some table manners.

flavour 调料，调味品 cultivate 培养