Meat conversation questions
A discussion activity about meat for ESL teachers and students. Before undertaking this handout be sure that your class is familiar with these words – rare, medium, well done, raw, starving, refuse, livestock, cloning, vegetarian, vegan, diet, prepare, sauce, cruelty, abattoir, and endangered.
The meat conversation questions are –
1- How much meat did you eat yesterday? What kind of meat was it?
2 – What do you call a person who sells meat?
3 – What is your favorite kind of meat? How do you like it cooked?
4 – What meat is farmed in your home country? Which is most popular?
5 – How do you like your steak cooked – rare, medium, or well done?
6 – Would you ever eat raw meat? What if you were starving and couldn’t cook?
7 – Do you eat meat with every meal? How many times a week do you eat meat?
8 – Is there a kind of meat you refuse to eat?
9 – Where do you usually buy your meat from? Is it expensive?
10 – People are now cloning livestock, would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
11 – Do you think you could kill, cut up, and cook an animal by yourself?
12 – Are there any things you worry about when you go to buy meat?
13 – Are there any holidays in your country where people eat a certain kind of meat?
14 – Do you know any vegans or vegetarians? Why did they choose this diet?
15 – How many days do you think it is safe to keep meat in a refrigerator?
16 – What kind of sauces do you like to put on steak or roast chicken?
17 – Do you know of any special ways to prepare meat for a meal?
18 – Do you think there is animal cruelty in the meat industry? In what ways?
19 – Have you ever been to an abattoir? Do you think you could work in one?
20 – What do you think of meat in a can? Do you ever buy it?
21 – How many different meat products can you think of?
22 – What things do you think go into sausages? How about pet food?
23 – What do you think of people eating endangered species?
24 – Do you think you would be healthy if you stopped eating meat?
25 – Which part of a chicken do you like to eat most?
Meat Idioms
If you have a beef with someone you have a problem with them, this could be an argument or a grudge from past behaviour. A person asking you what your problem is might say “What’s your beef?”.
If a person is described as a meat and potatoes person they just like ordinary things. They don’t really like fancy, strange, or exotic things.
If you stop a habit suddenly or abruptly you are going cold turkey. For example, we may say this of a person who quits smoking cigarettes completely.
If you chew the meat and spit out the bones, you sort information, keeping the good and getting rid of the bad.
