FEEDING THE PLANETS

Vocabulary in context — ■
Food Meals
1 ☆ Find 18 food items in the word search. 4 Complete the blog post with the words in
the box.
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ca n te e n • d e sse rt • d ish e s * fa st food •
p S T U N A M U L P m ain co u rses • packed lu n ch e s • school m ea ls •
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N P E A N T C H J F FOOD FORTHOUGHT Posted August 2nd

La st year, I studied abroad at a high school in France,

A C R E A M C A W 1
where school lunch w as a four-course meal that
C R E T T U B O D N lasted for an hour. There w as a starter, a choice
of two (a) ............ , a cheese course and a
H E C U T T E L R O (b) ......... ! A s an American, I w as amazed
Y E K R U T P 1 E N at how different French (c) .............were
from what I w as used to back home. Instead of a
(d ).........................., there w as a self-service cafeteria,
Describing food or 'self as they called it. I didn't see any typical
2 ☆ ☆ Choose the correct alternative. Am erican options like burgers and chicken nuggets
on the menu. There w as always fresh bread on the
1 W hen you go to university, it's good to know how to table and only water w as available to drink. Once
m ake c h e a p an d tastv/iuicv m eals. a week, the (e ) ...........served for the main
2 M y dad cooks g re at cu rrie s but th e y 're so m e tim e s too course were vegetarian to encourage students to
baked/spicv for m y brother. eat less meat. There were no (f) .................................In
the school - they have been prohibited in French
3 Eatin g rotten/stale food will m ake you very ill.
schools since 2005 to stop students from buying
4 Baked/Boiled food is cooked by dry h ea t in an oven junk food and unhealthy (g )..................................Very
an d It's low er in fat th an fried/saltv food. few students brought (h )................................ from home
5 Are th e re m o re v ita m in s In fresh b lu e b e rrie s th an In either. Of course, outside school things are different.
processed/frozen o n e s? (i)................................. is very popular with young people in
France, ju st as It is in other countries. In fact, France
6 T h e re are lots o f recip es o n lin e fo r tu rn in g stale/rotten
has the second highest number of McDonald's®
bread into d e licio u s d ish e s.
restaurants in Europe after Germany!
7 I love fish and ch ip s, but so m e tim e s th e ch ip s are a bit
raw/areasv.

3 ☆ ☆ @ 1 9 Complete the sentences with a word from

the box. Listen to check your answers.

boiled • carro t • crisp s • fatte n in g • fried • lam b • j

p lum • p ro cessed * raw • roast • sa u sa g e s *
s e m i-sk im m e d m ilk

1 A .................................is a fruit w ith a purple, red or yellow

skin. They can b e .................................w ith su g ar to m ake ja m .
2 For a trad itio n a l British S u n d a y lu n c h ,.................................
b e e f o r .................................in th e oven. Vocabulary extension ☆ ☆ ☆
3 G e rm a n y p ro d uces m o re th an 1,000 d iffe re n t types 5 Choose the incorrect adjective for each
o f ..................................S u p e rm a rk e t v arie tie s o f this m ea t food described.
p ro d u ct a r e .................................In a factory.
1 ch e e se so ft/cru n ch y/h ard /stro n g
4 ............................ has o nly 1.5% cream so it's not very
2 d e sse rt crea m y/fru ity/m lld /rich
3 steak so u r/ju lcy/te n d er/ch ew y
5 A ............................... is an o rang e veg etab le th at grows
u n d e rg ro u n d . You can e at t h e m .................................in salads.
4 curry h o t/m ild /sp icy/h ard

6 ................................are m ad e fro m p o tatoes, w hich are

5 ap p le cru n ch y /sp icy /sw e e t/ju icy
.................................in hot oil. 6 lem o n te n d er/so u r/b itter/zesty

Unit 4
 ading ....... n«"i..........................
Choose four items that are not normally part of a
plant-based diet.
b e e f........ • c e r e a ls ........ • l a m b ....... •
m ea t su b stitu te s • n uts • oil
p e a c h e s ____ • p e a s ........ * p r a w n s ........... • r ic e ........ •
s p in a c h ........ * tu rk e y ........
Read the article and choose the best summary.
1 We need to c h a n g e o u r sh o p p in g h ab its to save
th e w orld.
2 G lo b a l w a rm in g is affe ctin g p lan t p ro d u ctio n .
3 T h ere are m an y d iffe re n c e s b etw een p la n t-b a se d
m eat an d red m eat.
@ 13 Read the text again and match the halves to
make sentences.
To in cre ase food p ro d u ctio n w e'll n eed to ...
Buying m issh a p e n fru it is a good w ay to ...
P lant-b ased m eat is b etter for th e e n v iro n m e n t.
T h e g o ld e n b an an a w as created ...
P lants from th e sea are ...
M icro alg ae w on't be a big p art o f o u r d i e t ...
p reve n t w aste.
until w e can grow a lot o f th em cheap ly,
b e cau se p eo p le n ee d e d m ore n u tritio u s food,
b e cau se a n im a ls u se a lot o f reso urces,
have a m o re p la n t-b a se d diet,
alrea d y p art o f th e d ie t in so m e co u n trie s.
PLRNTING IDERB FDR
THE FUTURE
According to the World Resources Institute, we
will need to increase food production by 70% by
2050 to feed the world's population. This means we need
to make a dramatic change to our diets. But how? Experts
say it won't be easy, but we can feed the world with a
plant-based diet. We just have to rethink our traditional
ideas about what we consume.
First, we need to stop waste. Around 1.3 billion tons of food is
thrown away every year. Much of that is fruit and vegetables
that aren't the right shape or size. We need to learn to love
these'ugly'fruit and vegetables! Many supermarkets
« now sell produce that is imperfect, but just as
nutritious, at a huge discount. It's time
to start buying.
We also need to eat less meat.
For some of us, this isn't an
appealing idea, but animal-
free meat is already big business. For
example, the Impossible Burger™ is now
sold in over 10,000 restaurants in the US.
The recipe includes apple, pea, potato and rice, and it's
become famous because, when you cut it, plant-based 'blood'
comes out. Not all plant-based meat is healthy, however.
It is often processed and high in salt, sugar and saturated
fat. Nevertheless, plant-based meats do cut down on gas
emissions from animals and excessive land and water use.
Match the .underlined words in the article with the
definitions.
1 in or to a n o th e r place .................................
2 to m ake so m e th in g b e tte r .................................
3 fru it, ve g e ta b le s or o th e r n atu ral
p ro d u cts .................................
4 m ake so m e th in g su ita b le fo r a new
p u rp o se .................................
5 h o w e ve r or d e sp ite w h a t has ju s t
been said ..............................
6 The boxes, bo ttles, p lastic, etc. used
to w rap pro d u cts so th e y can be sold .................................
© According to the text, what explains people's
behaviour in relation to food, a, b or both?
i Peo ple w h o buy p la n t-b a se d m e a t ...
a buy it b e cau se it is next to o th e r pro d ucts
th ey w an t.
b are attracted by th e p ackag in g .
Peo ple a re n 't e atin g m ore pro d u cts m ad e
from m icro alg a e ...
a b e c a u se th ey are too e xp e n sive,
b b e cau se th ey are d ifficu lt to prod uce.
Scientists can also improve what nutrients we get from the plants we
already love to eat. The golden banana is an example of their ability to
adapt plants to increase nutritional content. They put genes from a Papua
New Guinean banana with high levels of provitamin A into the common
variety of banana to make the diet in other countries more healthy. This
kind of technique could be used to make many different kinds of plants
more nutritious - and also to make foods like peanuts less dangerous to
those with allergies.
Plant-based meat is also on sale in supermarkets. It now has similar
packaging to meat products with images of animals, and it's located
next to meat instead of vegetarian products. This appeals to more
consumers and it's an important step in planting the idea that
less meat can help save the planet.
And it may be time to look .elsewhere. Perhaps future
food will come from the plants in the sea rather
than on land. Seaweed is already very popular
in Asia. Microalgae - tiny photosynthetic sea
plants which contain 50-70% protein - could
be the next big thing. They can be mixed into bars
or used to make plant-based meat healthier and tastier.
They don't require much water and can even be grown in deserts. So why
aren't we buying them now? While algae grow easily on a small scale,
producing large quantities is still a complex and expensive process. It's a
technical problem that won't be solved very soon, but research continues.
Will we be eating a more plant-based diet by 2050?
What do you think?
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