4. Speaking
1. What is the most important feature of Vietnamese eating habits?
⇒ Vietnamese people usually have big dinner with at least 3 dishes and use many kinds of special sauces for each dish.
2. What are the typical components in a Vietnamese meal?
⇒ Rice is the typical components in a Vietnamese meal.
3. What is the staple of our country?
⇒ Rice is the staple.
4. How are the dishes arranged?
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5. Are there any other characteristics of our eating habits that you know?
⇒ Vegetable and soup are two dishes that always appear in a typical Vietnamese meal; after a meal, we usually eat fruit for desserts.
6. In general, do Vietnamese people have healthy eating habits?
⇒ Yes, because we eat a lot of vegetables and fruits.

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5. Imagine that you take part in an international competition in which competitors talk about the eating habits of their own country. Present your group's ideas about Vietnamese eating habits.
Vietnamese food is varied and distinctive. It is considerably low fat and high in carbonhydrates. Traditional Vietnamese cooking usually uses fresh ingredients, little dairy and oil, and various herbs and vegetables. Different sauces such as fish sauce, shrimp paste, ans soya sauce are quite popular in various regions.
There is no concept of "course" in a Vietnamese meal. A meal consists of various dishes( meat, fish, egg or tofu), vegetable, soup and rice. Rice is the staple in Vietnam. In many families, people eat ariund a tray of food with a small bowl of fish sauce in the middle. Around this bowl are dishes. If people place the food on a table, a similar arrangement is followed. Dishes are served communally. Usually there is a big dish/ bowl of each dish, and people ose chopsticks ans spoons to get their share. In general, Vietnamese food is considered healthy and is popular in other countries.