Unit 3

UNIT 3 FOODTask：Translate the following Chinese into English according to what you hear:1. 菜单menu 9. 牛排steak2. （一道）菜course 10. 红酒red wine3. 第一道菜starter 11. 吃饱了full4. 沙拉salad 12. 意大利面pasta/spaghetti5. 主菜main course 13. 辣味的菜hot spicy dishes6. 甜点dessert/sweet 14. 煎炒的食品fried food7. 账单bill/check 15. 鱼和薯片fish and chips8. 点菜orderScript:Sometimes we go out to eat. Maybe we will go to a restaurant, and order some food from the menu. The person who serves you at the table is called a waiter or, if they are female, a waitress. The meal is usually divided into sections. Each one is called a course. First there is the starter, which is usually a small serving of food, such as soup or salad. Some people do not have a starter, worrying they may have trouble finishing the main meal. Then there is the main course, which is the largest part of the main meal. Finally there is the dessert, which can also be called sweet. This is normally a small portion of ice cream or a hot pudding or cake. Coffee is usually offered at the end of a meal too. The meal must be paid for. So you will call the waiter or waitress over and ask for the bill or check. “Good evening sir, can I take your order?” “Yes please, I would like the tuna salad to start. And for the main course, I would like to have the steak.” “Ah, that’s a excellent choice. Would you like a sweet to follow?” “Yes, please. I would like the hot chocolate fudge ice cream.” “And any drinks to go with your meal?” “I think I will have a bottle of red wine please to go with the main course.” “Very good. Enjoy your meal!” “Did you enjoy your meal sir?” “Yeah, that was delicious. Thank you very much.” “I’m so full now.” “Could I have the bill please?” “Certainly, no problem.”Yeah! Every country around the world has its own special type of food. For example, Italy is well known for pasta and spaghetti. India is well known for its hot spicy dishes. China is well known for its fried food. And the UK is well known for fish and chips, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.PART TWO LISTENINGText 1Teach every child about food (Part I)Task 1: watch the clip and decide whether the following statements are true or false.（F） 1. He is a doctor who saves lives in his own way.（T） 2. Children today will live a shorter life than their parents because of what they eat. （T） 3. Diet-related diseases are bigger threats to people’s lives than homicide.（F） 4. Obesity costs Americans 115 billion dollars a year.（F） 5. The speaker started a food revolution in America 3 years ago.Task 2: watch the clip again and fill in the blanks according to what you hear.1.I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us tothe best bits of life.2.Two-thirds of this room, today, in America, are statistically overweight or obese.3.We need a revolution. Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problemsof obesity and bad health.4.Think about smoking. It costs way less than obesity now. Obesity costs you Americans 10percent of your healthcare bills.Script:Sadly, in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat, four Americans that are alive will be dead from the food that they eat.My name's Jamie Oliver. I'm 34 years old. I'm from Essex in England and for the last seven years I've worked fairly tirelessly to save lives in my own way. I'm not a doctor; I'm a chef, I don't have expensive equipment or medicine. I use information, education.I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. We have an awful, awful reality right now. America, you're at the top of your game. This is one of the most unhealthy countries in the world.Can I please just see a raise of hands for how many of you have children in this room today? Please put your hands up. Aunties, uncles, you can continue to put your hands up, aunties and uncles as well. Most of you. OK. We, the adults of the last four generations, have blessed our children with the destiny of a shorter lifespan than their own parents. Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them. Two-thirds of this room, today, in America, are statistically overweight or obese. You lot, you're all right, but we'll get you eventually, don't worry.(Laughter)Right? The statistics of bad health are clear, very clear. We spend our lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide, you name it; it's on the front page of every paper, CNN. Look at homicide at the bottom, for God's sake. Right?(Laughter)(Applause)Every single one of those in the red is a diet-related disease. Any doctor, any specialist will tell you that. Fact: Diet-related disease is the biggest killer in the United States, right now, here today. This is a global problem. It's a catastrophe. It's sweeping the world. England is right behind you, as usual.(Laughter)I know they were close, but not that close. We need a revolution. Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of obesity and bad health. Think about smoking. It costs way less than obesity now. Obesity costs you Americans 10 percent of your healthcare bills, 150 billion dollars a year. In 10 years, it's set to double: 300 billion dollars a year. And let's be honest, guys, you ain't got that cash.(Laughter)I came here to start a food revolution that I so profoundly believe in. We need it. The time is now. We're in a tipping-point moment. I've been doing this for seven years. I've been trying in America for seven years. Now is the time when it's ripe -- ripe for the picking. I went to the eye of the storm. I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in America. Or it was last year. We've got a new one this year, but we'll work on that next season.(Laughter)Teach every child about food (Part 2)Task 3: watch the next clip and fill in the table according to what you hear.Task 4: watch the clip again and answer the following questions.1.What did the speaker say about food 30 years ago?It was largely local and largely fresh.2.What is the example he gave when explaining the problem of labeling ?Something is said to be low fat when it’s full of so much sugar.3.What was the purpose of school in the past according to the speaker?School was always invented to arm us with tools to make us creative, do wonderful things, make us earn a living, etc.4.Why don’t students get given knives and forks?The school thinks they are too dangerous.5.According to the speaker, what does it mean if you don’t have knives and forks in the school?If you don't have knives and forks in your school, you're purely endorsing, from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld.Script:OK, I see it as a triangle, OK? This is our landscape of food. I need you to understand it. You've probably heard all this before, but let's just go back over it. Over the last 30 years, what's happened that's ripped the heart out of this country? Let's be frank and honest: Well, modern-day life.Let's start with the Main Street. Fast food has taken over the whole country; we know that. The big brands are some of the most important powers, powerful powers, in this country. Supermarkets as well. Big companies. Big companies. Thirty years ago, most of the food waslargely local and largely fresh. Now it's largely processed and full of all sorts of additives, extra ingredients, and you know the rest of the story. Portion size is obviously a massive, massive problem. Labeling is a massive problem. The labeling in this country is a disgrace. They want to be self -- they want to self-police themselves. The industry wants to self-police themselves. What, in this kind of climate? They don't deserve it. How can you say something is low-fat when it's full of so much sugar?Home. The biggest problem with the home is that used to be the heart of passing on food, food culture, what made our society. That ain't happening anymore. And you know, as we go to work and as life changes, and as life always evolves, we kind of have to look at it holistically -- step back for a moment, and re-address the balance. It ain't happening, hasn't happened for 30 years, OK? Let's get on schools, something that I'm fairly much a specialist in. OK, school. What is school? Who invented it? What's the purpose of school? School was always invented to arm us with the tools to make us creative, do wonderful things, make us earn a living, etc., etc., etc. You know, it's been kind of in this sort of tight box for a long, long time. OK? But we haven't really evolved it to deal with the health catastrophes of America, OK? School food is something that most kids -- 31 million a day, actually -- have twice a day, more than often, breakfast and lunch, 180 days of the year. So you could say that school food is quite important, really, judging the circumstances. Now, the reality is, the food that your kids get every day is fast food, it's highly processed, there's not enough fresh food in there at all. You know, the amount of additives, E numbers, ingredients you wouldn't believe -- there's not enough veggies at all. French fries are considered a vegetable. Pizza for breakfast. They don't even get given crockery. Knives and forks? No, they're too dangerous. They have scissors in the classroom, but knives and forks? No. And the way I look at it is: If you don't have knives and forks in your school, you're purely endorsing, from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld. And yes, by the way, it is fast food: It's sloppy joes, it's burgers, it's wieners, it's pizzas, it's all of that stuff. Ten percent of what we spend on healthcare, as I said earlier, is on obesity, and it's going to double.Text 2College dietTask 2: Watch the clip and decide whether the following statements are true or false.(T) 1. Eating right isn’t college students’ priority.(F) 2. College dining services don’t take students’ health into account very much.(F) 3. One in four American students are overweight.Task 3: Watch the clip again the answer the following questions.The clip has been put into four parts. Each part has a sub-topic. The following four questions focus on the topics of the four parts.1. What are the most popular items in college dining halls, according to a survey?Fast foods like French fries, chicken tenders and hamburgers.2. What can you eat in a college dining hall?The variety is definitely there. They have everything from stir-fries to fast foods to hot meals that include vegetables. Abundant salad bars.3. If students form an unhealthy diet pattern, what consequences could there be?An increased risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly diabetes, possibly hypertension.4. What advice does the expert give when eating at the dining hall?Instead of having simply pepperoni pizza, two or three slices of that, maybe have one slice along with a salad, snacks such as nuts and seeds, along with fresh fruit.Task 4: Listen to this part of the text again. Fill in the blanks with weak form words and read after the recording.Students will choose foods that are quick and easy to eat, on the run, and sometimes that comes at the expense of having more balance with their diet.Kelley says college dining services have catered to student demands for healthier choices, but honey buns and hamburgers are still the grab and go favorites.Script:Elizabeth Cohen.With all their classes, tuition bills and homework, many college students don't make eating right a priority.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALEWhen I have a lot of tests, or I have to do a lot of studying, I have to get something fast. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALEFor lunch, it's really whatever I can grab. I usually snack.Cohen.Fast foods like French fries, chicken tenders and hamburgers, are college dining halls most popular items, according to recent surveys. Carol Kelley, a nutritionist at Emory University, gave us a lesson in college diets, 101.Carol KelleyStudents will choose foods that are quick and easy to eat, on the run, and sometimes that comes at the expense of having more balance with their diet.CohenKelley says college dining services have catered to student demands for healthier choices, but honey buns and hamburgers are still the grab and go favorites.KelleyThe variety is definitely there. They have everything from stir-fries to fast foods to hot meals that include vegetables. Abundant salad bars, however, students still typically will select what they know as familiar and tasty to them.CohenKelley says college students aren't invincible to the consequences of unhealthy diets. The Centers for Disease Control reported in their last survey of American college students, that one in five students was overweight.KelleyStudents may be developing a template, a nutritional template, a pattern, that they are going to take with them into adulthood. Nutrition is involved with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly diabetes, possibly hypertension.CohenSo students, the lesson for the day is talking to your college nutritionist about your diet. In the meantime, here are simple changes you can make to eat healthier on any college campus. KelleyInstead of having simply pepperoni pizza, two or three slices of that, maybe have one slice along with a salad, snacks such as nuts and seeds, along with fresh fruit.Cohen.I hope you took good notes, because this will all be on the final. For Feeling Fit, I'm Elizabeth Cohen.PART THREE SPEAKINGTask 1: Watch the video “Dark secrets of the food industry”, pay attention to the complaintsScript:The industry changed the entire way that chicken are raised. Birds are now raised and slaughtered in half the time they were 50 years ago, but now they are twice as big. People like to eat white meat, so they redesigned the chicken to have larger breasts. They not only changed the chicken, they changed the farmer. Today chicken farmers no longer control their birds. A company like Tyson owns the birds from the day they’re dropped off until the day they’re slaughtered. Let me go to the top. This is the chicken. National chicken council. The chicken industry has really set a model for the integration of production, processing and marketing of the products that other industries are now following, because they see that we have achieved tremendous economies.In a way, we are not producing chickens, we are producing food. It’s all highly mechanized. So allthe birds coming off those farmers have to be almost exactly the same size. What the system of intensive production accomplishes is to produce a lot of food on a small amount of land at a very affordable price. Now somebody explains to me what’s wrong with that.“Smells like money to m e. 16 chicken houses sit here. And Chuck’s son has four over the top of this hill the chicken industry came in here and it’s helped this whole community out. Here’s my chicken houses here. I have about 300,000 chickens. What do you want? We have a contract with Tyson. They’ve been growing chickens for many many years. It’s all a science. They got it figured out. If you can grow a chicken in 49 days, why would you want one you gotta grow in 3 months? More money in your pocket. These chickens never see sunlight. They’re pretty much in the dark all the time.”“So you think they just want to keep us out?”“I don’t know. If I knew, I’d tell you. It would be nice if you all could see what they really do, but as far as you’re going in, we can’t let you do that.”“I don’t understand why farmers don’t want to talk. Because the company can do what it wants to do, as far as pay goes since they control everything. But it’s just gotten to the point that it’s not right what’s going on. And I’ve just made up my mind. I’m gonna say what I have to say. I understand why others don’t want to do it. And I’m just to a point that it doesn’t matter anymore. Something has to be said. It is nasty in here. There’s dust flying everywhere. There’s feces everywhere. This isn’t farming. This is just mass production, like an assembly line in a factory. When they grow from a chicken and in seven weeks you’ve got a five-and-a-half-pound chicken, their bones and their internal organs can’t keep up with the rapid growth. A lot of these chickens here, they can take a few steps and then they plop down. It is because they can’t keep up all the weight that they are carrying. That’s normal. There’s antibiotics. That’s put into the feed and of course that passes through the chicken. The bacteria builds up a resistance, so any antibiotics aren’t working any more. I became allergic to all antibiotics and can’t take them.”PART FIVE HOMEWORKTask 1: Listen to the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.Part five: HomeworkScript:The way to complain is to act businesslike and important. If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager. When the manager comes, ask his or her name, and then state your problem and what you expect to have done about it. Be polite! Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere. But also be firm in making your complaint. Besides, act important. This doesn’t mean to put on airs and say “do you know who I am？”What it means is that people are often treated the way they expect to be treated. If you act like someone who expects a fair request to be granted, chances are it will be granted. The worst way to complain is over the telephone. You are speaking to a voice coming from someone you cannot see, so you can’t tell how the person on the line is reacting. It is easy for that person to give you the run-around. Complaint in person or by letter is generally more effective. If your complaint does not require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter. If you have an appliance that doesn’t work, send a letter to the storethat sold it. Be businesslike and stick to the point. Don’t spend a paragraph on how your uncle Joe tried to fix the problem and couldn’t.Key: CDD。