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martes, 18 de febrero de 2014

A Matter of Taste!!!


You are going to talk about your favourite food and national dishes.



In the following Voicethread you have to develop the following ideas:
- Which food do you particularly enjoy eating?
- What type of food do you dislike? Why? (Because of the smell, taste, etc.)
- Which national dish do you love and why? Describe it and say if it´s a savoury or a sweet dish, when 
do you eat it?, what are the main ingredients?, how do you cook it?





Jamie Oliver is a very well known British chef. He strives to improve unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits in UK and USA. His campaigns against the use of processed foods in national schools became very popular and he has become a TV star with lots of TV shows and cookbooks.

Listen to the following video about how to make an omelette.
1. What´s special about it? Listen carefully and write down  the ingredients he mentions and the quantities.
2. What different tips does he give us to make   "the perfect omelette"?



1. What does JAmie Oliver want to do with the Nugget experiment? 
2. How does he want to explain it and make the children undestand?
3. Does he achieve his aim?





Listen carefully to this talk about the power of food and how to teach our children how to eat healthily.  Try to make a summary of the main ideas mentioned in it.


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Tommy DOX dijo...

1)He mentions crispy bacon, tomatoes, mushroms,cheese,3eggs,pepper,soup,milk, cream,little bit of extra virgin oil,melted butter,grated cheese and salad.
2)Fist, he says tht we can do omelettes with many different ingredients, then, he says tan eggs are a big source of proteins and that he uses 3 eggs to cook his omelette. He also says that when a Little piece of Shell goes into the eggs, you should use the Shell to avoid spoiling the eggs.
The perfect size of the pan is 7 inches more or less, he says.
He advises us to use extra virgin oil better tan others.For the first 20 seconds you can move the mixture and after 30 seconds you should squiggle it. You could also use cheddar cheese. When you flap the omelette there has to be a Little color.

Unknown dijo...

1. He had made his omelette with 3 eggs, he aslo put some oil in the pum, the he pour the three eggs in the pan, and when he move slowly the omelette he put a bit of pepper and a bit of salt, and finally he introduced cheddar cheese inside the omelette.
2. The first tip tha jaimie gave to us is that to do a omelette we can use a lot of ingredients, such as tomatoes, mushrooms, crispy bacon, etc.
The second tip he gave is that, although is easy to do a omelette, we have to be focuse on the edges of the omelette, so we have to separate from the pan. He also said that when a little piece of shell fall into the omelette, you should use yhe shell to extract it. And finally, he said that the perfect omelette has to have a little color.

Unknown dijo...

1. What´s special about it? Listen carefully and write down the ingredients he mentions and the quantities.
Mushrooms, crispy bacon, tomatoes, different types of cheese, eggs(in this case he use 3 eggs), milk, cream, butter, pepper, oil(specially extra virgin oil), grated cheese, salad.

2. What different tips does he give us to make "the perfect omelette"?
He said thet we can make an omelette with all the ingredients we want, also he said that a perfect basic omelette have 3 egg and when a little piece of the shell of an egg fall in the bowl you can take it off with the other part of the shell. The perfect size of the pan is 7 inches. He tell us to use extra virgin oil because i sbetter than other types of oil. He said that for the first 20 minutes we can move the omelette. When you need to flap the omelette it must has a little color. At the end he said that you can eat the omelette for a snack with a salad.

Anónimo dijo...

1. He mentions many ingridients to use in a omelette such as: crispy bacon, mushroms, tomatoes, pepper; he do the omelette with a little bit of extra virgin oil, and a little bit of butter, then he put 3 eggs in the pan, he add salt and chedar cheese to the omelette, finally he flap the omelette and the cheese stay inside.

2: THe first tip he gave us is that you can use a lot of ingridients to do the perfect omelette. The second tip is to use 3 eggs and also he said that if a little piece of shell fall into the omelette we have to use the shell to take it off. He say that the perfect size of the pan is 7 inches. Also to use extra virgin oil because is better than others. He tells us that for the first 20 seconds we have to remove the omelette, after 30 seconds we add the cheese and finally when you flap the omelette it must have a little color.

Unknown dijo...

1. At the beginning, he says that for omelettes we can use different types of ingredients like cheese, vegetables, mushrooms, crispy bacon, tomatoes, etc. To do an omelette we need three eggs, butter, salt, parsley and a little bit of extra virgin oil.

2. The first tip that he sais is that we can use a lot of ingredients to do our omelette like mushrooms, crispy bacon, cheese... The second tip that he sais is that we have to use three eggs. Another tip is that we have to use a pan about 7 inches, more or less. We have to remove the eggs for a few seconds. If a little of shell goes into the egg, you have to use the shell to avoid to use the hands. One of the last tips he sais is that is better to use extra virgin oil, instead of a normal one. And finally, if the omelette is without colour, it means that it's perfect.

Unknown dijo...

1.What´s special about it? Listen carefully and write down the ingredients he mentions and the quantities.

The ingredients he has mentioned crispy bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, cheese, three eggs, pepper, soup, milk, cream, oil(but specially extra virgin oil), butter, grated cheese and salad.

2.What different tips does he give us to make "the perfect omelette"?.
Fist, he says that we can cook the best omelette with many different ingredients, then, he says that eggs have many proteins so he said that he’ll use three eggs to cook his omelette. He continues saying that when a little piece of shell fall into the omelette, you have to use the shell to avoid take it off. Then, he said that the perfect size of the pan is 7 inches more or less.
He tell us to use extra virgin oil because it´s better than others. For the first 20 seconds you have to move the mixture and after 30 seconds you have to add the cheese. And finally when you flap the omelette it should have a little colour.

AprendELE dijo...

1. He mentioned the folowing ingredients: crispy bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, cheese, eggs (three), a bit of pepper and salt, he also mentioned that some people put milk or cream, but he doesn´t, then a little bit of oil and butter in the pan.
2.The best pan to cook the perfect omelette had to be of the size of 7 inches. When the ingredients are now in the pan, removed them for 20 seconds and then put chedar cheese or any other, wait other 40 seconds and maintan separating the omelette from the edges of the pan. Serve the omelette on a plate and add the ingredients you like. Like for example mushrooms, tomatoe or eat it accompained by salad.

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gonzaatleti99 dijo...

Obessity is the first cause of death in the USA, way higher than the number of people who die murdered. The three most mortal diseases are related to diet. This is what Jamie Oliver wants to evite by any mean. In his brilliant speech, he mentions the cases of people who are condemned to die soon with an stroke or a heart attack because of a huge problem: cooking has been expelled from everyday life in the States. People prefer pre-cooked food because their routine ain't give free time for them it. Here enters the conflict of large food companies: htey are allowed to lie in their publicity and they add huge portins of useless, non-natural additives or other producs as sugars and transgenic fats. In the period of five years, a normal american guy will drink milk with the quantity of sugar equivalent to what fits into a wheelbarrow.His solution to all this huge problems is education: sharing traditional knowledge is the keystone for next generations to inherit the skills which will save them from fast food.

Unknown dijo...

Jaime Olvier is trying to show us how obesity and having bad habbits in food can kill us. For this reason 150 billion dollars are spent on obesity and even food-related diseases are the main causes of death in America, having a rate much higher than murders. Also, children are condenmed to live shorter than their parents just because of eating so much fast food or pre-cooked meals. Jaime states that education is the main way to avoid this. Children don't learn how to cook and the goverment does not spend money on teaching the students about the benefits of having good food habits. He also adds that cooking has been spelled out of Americans' daily life and they do not eat so much fresh food as before all the big fast food companies and supermarket chains appeared. Appart from that, he shows us as an example the huge amount of sugar that contains a brick milk nowadays, which is unhealthy for any child. He demands the goverment to work on this huge problem that can be food and to restrict the additives and flavourings in food, as well as to spend more money on educating the students about food and cooking.

Unknown dijo...

The thing that Jamie Oliver wants to transmit in this speech, is that obesity is very bad thing that affect most of the population of the U.S.A.
He presented some cases in which obesity was an issue. One of these cases was the one that a girl had lost her father and his uncle because of this problem, Jamie said that obesity not only affects you, it also affects the people that is around you and if you die people that surrounds you it's going to suffer only because you couldn't change it. the maijority of the deads in the United States are because of the awful diets,and they have awful diets because theydon't have time to cook and they feed by the fast food restaurant in the main street.
So his purpose is to teach children who are going to be the next generation how to cook and to give imformation about food, because that is going to be thebeginning of a huge change.

Unknown dijo...

The objetive of Jamie Oliver´s speech is to show the people that diet is important in our lifes and that bad diets kills millions of people every year, as he said 4 people die every 20 minutes in America. He shows that most of the people that died because a heart disease, every kind of cancer and diabetes are mainly produced by awful diets. He says that this problem is bacause people don´t have time to eat healthy food and because of the fast food restaurants. As a solution to this problem, he wants to teach children to cook healthy food, and wants them to know, how bad or good diets can change your life completly.

Unknown dijo...

In this speech the chef Jamie Oliver tries to concer us about the problem of obessity among the American population, but we could extend that concern to all the affected countries. One of the causes of obessity is, as he calls it, the "awful" reason that that ilness is shortening lives by ten years and that diet-related ilnesses are the first death cause in the US. By giving some examples of real cases, he explain that this disease not only affects the people that suffer it, but their family, friends or relatives. He also talks about food, emphazising the fact of cooking. He shows an experiment done with little children in England, and where they were not able to distinguish between an eggplant and a pear. He also talks about milk, and how by adding sugar to a high sugar containing product we are overexposing our children to ilnesses such as diabetes. Continuing with the topic of cooking and knowing about food, he gives an advise to governments encouriging them to create food embassadors in shops and supermarkets and that there is a need to really invest money in nutrition education. Finally he sais that if we want our children to be a health generation, since they are elementary students they should be taught how to cook and how to select fresh foods rather than fast foods or so.


Pablo Amor de Miguel 4º ESO D

Unknown dijo...

Jamie Oliver, an English chef, is giving a speech to make Americans aware that obesity is very common in the USA. He advises people that if the diet remains the same, children in the next generation will have a shorter life. He uses data to show that health diseases are causing more problems than people can think of but they are not shown in newspapers, in contrast with other types of death, which are less common than deaths related to health. He talks about his experience to show that many people have obesity or know people which suffer it. Obesity is a preventable problem. He gives some responsibility to supermarkets, which sell “low-fat” food full of sugars and to schools. He mentions that schools don’t have food experts so people in charge of buying food look for cheap food instead of fresh food, without additives or things like that. To make people aware of children’s knowledge about food, he shows a video in which kids have no idea of the vegetables that Oliver shows. He asks how kids can eat something that doesn’t exist for them. To emphasize the fact that food is not good in schools, he puts the example of milk, which has much more additives and sugars than we expect. He states that a good solution for all these problems is teaching people how to cook in good conditions, choosing the best food possible. To end up with his speech, he mentions his wish, which summarizes everything. He has the following dream: “I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity”

Ángel Benítez Gómez 4ºD

Unknown dijo...

In his speech, Jamie Oliver starts saying that in 18 minutes, four american people are going to be deeth. And this is due to obesity. Wich is a relly big problem in North America.
Fast food has provided this problem with this huge companies of fat food, so we can see that the problem is in the Street.
Also, we have the other factor that creates obesity wich is located in schools, here, people who are not reaaly experts in food, accept the fast and cheap food as a good idea for their students.
In the breakfast, just driking milk represts a problem because of the huge amounts os sugar that contains.
In this countries, they are not really free, talking about food.
For example, in the supermarket, we think that they can buy whatever they want but, again, we have the ideal of fast and cheap food as the only posibility.
And then, the third factor, is at home, were parents really kill their children because they don´t know really how to cook.
So, Jaime Oliver, ends promoting that children need to know how to cook at least 10 récipes in order to save their lives, because they are going to know how food is really prepared, and how to choose fresh foods.
And for that, we need education.
Because children spend most of their time in schools, and here is where they have to be teach what to eat. Becasuse diet defines our lives, in a negative or in pisitve way.

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HM-JG-DM-JR-AG dijo...

In this video, Jamie Oliver is giving a speech about the causes and consequences of obesity in the United States. During his speech, he tries to show and warn American people from obesity and bad way of eating. He tries to persuade the audience and encourages them to change their unhealthy diets to have healthier ones. He shows several examples of obese families and tries to make US people start thinking on the bad way they have on feeding themselves and their family.
First, he shows a chart with the average of dead people in America, surprisingly most of US people die due to food. Another example he uses is milk. Milk for the children has a lot of sugar that will be harmful for the future. He says that if US people continue like that, without doing any change, the future generations will live shorter.
In resume, during his speech Oliver shows clearly that USA needs a change if they want to improve their health.
In my opinion, I think that US people should start to do changes if they want to see their children with a good health and without any food related illness.
HUGO DE MINGO 4ºD

RAUL BRASERO dijo...

Jamie Oliver is a chef that is trying to fight obesity that is one of the highest causes of mortality in North America, even higher than homicides. Jamie Oliver thinks that children will live ten years less because od obesity and this fact will become more common so he thinks that is time to teach children how to have a healthy diet.
Jamie Oliver thinks that there are some factors which are the main causes of obesity such as the type of diet that is follow at home, because in North America nutritional habits are horrible and are the main cause of obesity. Another important factor are supermartkets and their labelling because they tell you that the food you are buying is low-fat food and it is not true. And the las factor is the type of alimentation that is follow in local schools because diets in this schools are horrible. So the conclusion of Jamie Oliver is that obesity is a huge problem but we can solve it teaching our children good feeding habits.

Unknown dijo...

Jamie Oliver wants to tell American people that their country is the most unhealthy of the world, and diet illnesses are the main reason of death there. Obesity is a global problem, although America is the leader country with this problem.
Obesity costs more than smoking-10% of the money spent in healthcare, and this is a great amount of money. This illness hurts everyone: The person who suffers it, and the people who surround them.
Nowadays fast food is all over the world, while 30 years ago fresh food was a lot more extended than it is now. For this reason, Jamie Oliver thinks that big food companies like McDonald's would help with this problem, as they are the ones who control the food industry.
Another factor that Jamie Oliver talks about is that schools is a big problem, as it doesn't have enough food, and children don't even know what fresh food it. Jamie thinks that if kids don't know what a tomato or a carrot is, they won't eat it. The solution to this problem rquested by Jamie is that children are tought at school how to cook healthy food and also tought what vegetables and fresh food are.
Milk in school is also a problem because it has a lot of sugar and chemicals that aren't needed, but with them children drink it and like it.
The main idea of this speech is that we need to reboot. We need to teach kids to eat healthy food, so in a period of 10 or 20 years from now, society changes its way of thinking. And America has to start it, because if America does it, the rest of the world will.
So, after listening to Jamie Oliver's speech, I agree with him. We need a change in our diet, as it is our future of what we are talking about.

Beatriz Avelar Garfias. 4ºD.

Unknown dijo...

Jamie Oliver is a 34 years old british chef that tries to fight obesity and makes american people see that this is one of the most common cause of mortality in the United States of America.

To start the speech he introduces himself and tells the audicence that America is one of the most unhealthy countries of the world. He thinks that children could life more than they do now if obesity wasn't so common. He also says that it's time to change kids habits and teach them how to have a good and healthy diet.

Some of the problems or factors that he thinks are: Type of diet followed at home, supermarkets and the products labelling or location because you can't really know if what you are buying is low-fatted or not.

To end, he says that another factor is the alimentation followed by local schools because as he knows, they're really bad, or horrible. And as his conclusion, he says that obesity is a huge problem, not only in America,but mostly there that we can easily solve by teaching good feeding habits to our children.

Sandra Acosta 4ºD