How Does It Taste

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Unit 2

• How Does It Taste?

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Does milk taste the same as orange juice? Of
course not!

• the same as
• Of course! Vs. Of course not!

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Does fish taste like chicken? Not at all.

• Not at all!

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But how do you know? What tells you they are
different?

• how vs. what

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Is it your tongue? Maybe you think so. But guess
again.

• maybe
• so

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We do taste things with our tongues thats true.

• do
• with
• Thats true. But,.

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But the smell of food has a lot to do with its
taste, too.

• have something/nothing/a lot to do with sth

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We taste foods with our noses as well as our
tongues.

• as well as

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In fact, the nose has more to do with taste than
the tongue.

• in fact / as a matter of fact
• morethan
• do with

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Scientists say that your tongue can recognize
only four tastes.

• Scientists say that
• only

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It can tell if something is sweet or if its
salty.

• tell
• if ?????
• or

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It can tell if something is sour (like vinegar)
or bitter (like soap).

• tell if
• A or B

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But thats all.

• Thats all.

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To tell different foods apart, we also have to
use our noses.

• To V / In order to V, S V. ??(??)
• tell sth/sb apart ??

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Can you remember a time when you had a bad cold?

• a time when ??
• have a cold/headache/sore throat

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Your food tasted very plain then. It seemed to
have little taste at all.

• then
• It seems to V / that ??
• not at all

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That wasnt because your tongue wasnt working.

• work

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It was because your nose was stopped up.

• ones nose is stopped up ??

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You couldn't smell the food, and that made it
seem tasteless.

• that
• make sth/sb V ??(??/??)

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You can prove this to yourself.

• prove to sb
• oneself ?????

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Try eating something while you pinch your nose
shut.

• try Ving vs. try to V
• V O (??) OC (????)

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It wont seem to have much taste. Heres another
test.

• notmuch ??
• Here is/are

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It shows how important the nose is in tasting.

• how ?????
• in Ving ???

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First you blindfold a person. Then you put a
piece of potato in his mouth.

• first, second/next/then ????
• a piece of ??N / ???N

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You tell him to chew it. At the same time, you
hold a piece of apple under his nose.

• at the same time ??

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Then ask what food is in his mouth.

• what ?????

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Most people will say, An apple. The smell of
the apple fools them.

• ?????????
• fool v. ?? n. ??

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The test works best when the two foods feel the
same in the mouth.

• best adv. ??,??
• feel ???/?? v. ??

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It wont work well with apple and orange slices.
They dont feel alike.

• work well with sth. ??
• alike adj. ??,??

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What about the eyes? Do they help us taste?

• What about N/Ving? ???
• help sb/sth (to) V

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Sometimes they may.

• sometimes / occasionally ??,???

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The way a food looks can make a difference in its
taste.

• the way ?? ??????
• make a/some/no difference

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Sometimes we taste what we expect to taste.

• what ????
• expect to V ??

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Heres a test to show that Get some orange food
coloring.

• that
• ?????

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Mix some into milk. It does not change the taste.

• mix A into/with B ??
• it ???

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Now ask people to taste the orange milk.

• ???/???

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Ask if it tastes all right. Many people will say
it tastes odd.

• ask if ??????
• all right

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Because it looks odd, they expect an odd taste.
And so it tastes odd to them.

• because ???
• look ??????

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So you see, its not only the tongue that does
the tasting!

• you see
• its that ????
• not only but (also) ????
• do the/some/much/ones Ving ?

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Any Question?