LISTENING 1

USING YOUR

KNOWLEDGE

1 Supermarkets 5 Specialist food shops

2 Environmental pollution 6 Locally grown fruit and vegetables
3 The creation of jobs 7 Shipping food by aeroplane
4 Multinational 8 International meat and dairy
corporations transport

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WHILE
LISTENING
2 1 Listen to the radio programme and check your LISTENING FOR GIST
.
answers to
Exercise
1
1.
3 1 Listen to the radio programme again. Write true (T) or false
. LISTENING FOR
to the(F) next
statements below.
1 DETAIL
1 The radio programme is investigating the types of
food people buy. ONLINE
2 Most of the food David is buying is imported.
3 David usually tries to eat foods that are grown locally.
4 The global food industry limits the types of fruit
and vegetables people eat.
5 Altogether, the fruit David is buying has travelled
47,000
kilometres.
6 Locally grown food is always environmentally
friendly.
POST-LISTENING
4 Choose the statement (a–c) that best matches the radio
LISTENING FOR
programme
reporter’s opinion.
OPINION
1 ‘Cheap food comes at a price.’
a Cheap food can have hidden negative effects.
b Cheap food costs less for consumers.
c Cheap food is better for the environment.
2 ‘The 49,000 kilometre fruit salad.’
a Shipping fruit by air is a good thing.
b Shipping fruit by air is not environmentally
friendly.
3 c‘What’s
Shipping
the fruit
true by air is cheap cost
environmental and of
easy.
David’s healthy
lunch?’ a Shipping fruit around the world might cause
global warming. b The price of fruit at the supermarket is
too high.
c If we don’t eat enough fruit, we won’t be healthy.

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PRONUNCIATION FOR LISTENING

Consonant clusters
Mixtures of consonant sounds (consonant clusters) can cause problems with
note- taking as it is possible to write the wrong word because you misheard the
speaker. Consonant clusters can be heard at the start of words, like grow, fly
and cross or at the end of words like cost, passed and find.

5 1. Listen to the consonant clusters in these sentences and

the2word the speaker says.
underline
1 These agricultural products are already growing / going
abroad.
2 We grow many kinds of tea / tree on this plantation.
3 The police regularly fine / find illegal imports.
4 The company sold / sewed more clothes overseas last year.
5 The bananas are tied / timed so that they ripen together.
6 Flying / Frying the crops causes air pollution.
7 The products pass / passed through customs easily.
8 I want to know why these routes cost / crossed more.
6 1. Listen and correct the mistakes in this student’s
3
notes.

There hasn’ t been much sport from

the go vernment
over the issue of imported
agric ultural crops. There
are free issues with this. Furs, nearly a six
of all ted fruit cannot grow in our crime ate.
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Second ly,
the estate should help our own
farmenrsgr rather than
foreig owers. Finally, we should
not offall into the
tap not going enough food. What
woodtha ppen if it
didn’ train and we were left with a
food shortage?

DISCUSSION
7 Work with a partner. Discuss the questions.
1 What fresh foods are often imported in your country?
2 Do you often buy imported fresh food? Why / Why not?
3 Why do you think people in the UK buy food that has travelled
long distances? Is this also common in your country?
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LANGUAGE DEVELOPM ENT

THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
EXPLANATION

The active and passive voice

We use the passive voice when the result of an action is more important than
who or what made it happen (the agent). If we want to use the passive voice
and include the agent, we use by.
The passive is often used in formal spoken English, such as lectures. It is
formed with the auxiliary verb be + the past participle.
Active: The UK imports bananas from Thailand.
Passive: Bananas are imported from Thailand.
Passive + agent: Bananas are imported from Thailand by many
supermarkets.
1 Write active (A) or passive (P) next to the statements below.
ONLINE
1 This fruit is imported from all over the world.

2 Sea transport creates lower carbon emissions than air transport.

3 David has recently decided to eat a healthier diet.

4 The blueberries were flown about 11,100
kilometres.
5 Fruit and vegetables should be labelled
with information about
where they have been imported from.
2 Companies ship fruit long distances.
2 Rewrite the sentences below using the passive voice.
1 Farmers grow tomatoes
3 All supermarket chainsinimport
greenhouses
Spanish tomatoes.
Tomatoes are grown in greenhouses.
4 Spanish farmers sell a lot of produce for export.

5 Farmers must heat greenhouses in the UK.

6 Supermarkets should give customers more information about

where their fruit comes from.

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GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT VOCABULARY

3 Complete the text with words from the box.

carbon footprint transportation climate change

environment processing supply
produce carbon dioxide emissions chain
imported purchasing

Th
e
Locavo r
e
Resta u ran
t

simple,
local
food

A lot of us try to have the smallest possible (1) ,

to reduce our impact on the environment, but almost all food
(2)
, mostly by lorry and aeroplane,
produces (3) .
Food (4)
, putting products into tins, for example, also
uses a lot of energy. How can eating at a restaurant help with
this?
If you want to eat well without contributing to
(5)
, try The Locavore. We serve
delicious
food that is less damaging to the (6) . How?
We keep our food (7)
as short as possible
(8) our (9)
by directly
from farms within 40 kilometres of the restaurant and not buying a
single (10) ingredient, from locally sourced
fruit and vegetables to bread we make on-site from wheat grown
ten kilometres away.

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