Listening Test 2A – Year 8

Name: ___________________________ Class: ______ No.: ___ Date: _______________________________________

@Teacher: _______________ Mark: ____________________ @ Enc. Educação: ___________________________

30 minutes
A. Listen to the first part of a podcast about school lunches around the world. Match the countries (1-4) with the
lunches (a-d).

a) The UK

b) The USA
1 2
.. c) Australia

d) Finland

3 4

B. Listen to the second part of the podcast and complete the gaps with the correct country from the box. Write each
country only once.
1. In ________ students can have meals cooked with local, fresh ingredients.
Guatemala
2. In _________ students don’t have lunch at school. Ukraine
3. In ______________ lunches are divided into three courses. Brazil
4. In ______________ students take lunch to school. Israel
Norway
5. In ______________ kids only have classes in the morning.

C. Listen to the last part and complete the sentences with the missing words.
1. In Japan kids aren’t served __________ meals, they serve them! The meals are heavy on __________,
vegetables and fish.
2. Italian students have lunch at the ____________. The first dish is made of _________, and then they eat
___________ with a tasty salad.
3. Students from Thailand have the most ___________ lunches in all Asia. Kids eat a _________ meal.
4. Families in China pay a monthly fee of about 70 cents per day for children to receive a ___________.

Good work!

8.º ano – Ana Santos, Catarina Pedrosa (2021-2022)

Year 8 – Listening test 2A

Listening scripts

A.
Lunch time at school can be one of the best parts of a kid's day. Let’s get to know what kids around the world eat for lunch.
A kid in the UK might be served fish fingers, a hot jacket potato with beans and chocolate biscuits for dessert.
A lunch tray in the USA can include cheese on crunchy bread, with creamy tomato soup, carrot sticks, fruit like a box of raisins,
an apple and a brownie for dessert before the kids head back to classes.
Australian kids eat lunch outside, bringing food from home or buying meals from a cafeteria or a street vendor. Food can include
classic takeaway like a sausage roll with a couple of sweet chocolate biscuits for dessert.
Finland was the first country in the world to provide free lunches to every student and the law ensures high nutrition standards.
They eat veggies like beetroot salad and roasted turnips. The plate is also filled with grains and proteins. They usually eat soup
and some crackers.

B.
Students in Ukraine get their lunches in three courses. First, a soup course, followed by meat like sausages with potato. They
finish with shortbread biscuits.
Kids in Guatemala go home for lunch, where they eat dishes like pasta with tomato sauce.
With classes 6 days a week, school in Israel finishes before lunch time, but kids do take a morning meal to school, like pita bread
with an egg.
In Norway, schools don’t have cafeterias, so kids bring a light lunch from home, which can include a sandwich. Milk and fresh
food is provided by the school.
Food is a constitutional right in Brazil, which means schools are required to provide students with healthy meals with 30% of
ingredients sourced from local farmers. The kitchen staff cooks fresh food like vegetables with rice and beans and a piece of
fruit.

C.
In Japan kids aren’t served healthy meals – they serve themselves! To teach healthy cooking, kids take turns helping to cook,
serve and clean up for their peers. Meals are heavy on rice, vegetables and fish.
Italian students run to the cafeteria to receive a two-course meal and if these kids live in Rome the meal must be 70% organic by
law. First, comes the pasta course, while protein like chicken with a tasty mozzarella and tomato salad comes after.
According to the World Food Program, students in Thailand receive the most nutritional lunches in all Asia. Kids can expect a
balanced meal like chicken, rice and a green papaya salad.
Families in China pay a monthly fee of about 70 cents per day for children to receive a lunch box. Inside kids can find rice, meat
and vegetables.
So which type of school lunch do you want to try?
https://www.insider.com/what-school-lunch-trays-look-like-countries-around-the-world-2021-2 (abridged and adapted)

8.º ano – Ana Santos, Catarina Pedrosa (2021-2022)

Answer key

A. 4 x 5 = 20%
1. b) | 2. c) | 3. d) | 4. a)

B. 5 x 8 = 40%
1. Brazil | 2. Guatemala | 3. Ukraine | 4. Norway | 5. Israel

C. 8 x 5 = 40%
1. healthy… rice | 2. cafeteria… pasta… chicken (protein) | 3. nutritional… balanced | 4. lunch box

8.º ano – Ana Santos, Catarina Pedrosa (2021-2022)