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Junior Cycle Spanish: Food & eating out
How often Food & eating out comes up on the Spanish papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Quick ones on Food & eating out.
- Soup as a dessert
- Soup as a starter
- Salad as a starter
- Una mesa para dos, por favor
- La carta, por favor
- La cuenta, por favor
- Still water
- Water with ice
- Sparkling water
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(a) Soup as a starter
(b) La cuenta, por favor
(c) Still water
Common Level
Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q7 |
| 2024 | Q6, Q15 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Q1 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Food & eating out questions
Food & eating out, 3 marks
'Estoy a dieta, así que no como dulces.' What does the person avoid?
- Pasta
- Fried food
- Sweet things
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Sweet things
Dulces = sweets or sweet things. Estar a dieta = to be on a diet. Así que = so. No como = I don't eat (comer).
Food & eating out, 2 marks
English to Spanish: 'chicken' (on a menu)
- el cordero
- el pollo
- el cerdo
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el pollo
Pollo = chicken; gallina = a live hen. Cerdo = pork or pig, cordero = lamb, ternera = beef or veal.
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