We live in a throwaway society. If it doesn’t work, throw it away and buy another one. And food is no different. We are faced with servings on huge plates and no one needs to eat that amount of food. So we don’t finish it and we throw it away. Fruit and vegetables rot in our fridges, what do we do? We throw them away. And yet a large percentage of the world’s population has no food. They are starving. In this section we look at a move that France has made to combat this.
In this next lesson, we look at dealing with too much Food.
Discuss with a classmate:
Which do you think are the best ways for dealing with too much food?
Give an advantage and a disadvantage for each.
donating the food to charities
eating the food beyond the expiration date
producing less food
composting the food
taking food home from a restaurant in a doggie bag.
This lesson contains 5 steps and an evaluation.
Work them through step by step.
Step
Activity
Introduction
Find out what you already know.
Step 1
Speaking
Makes notes about the food you ate yesterday. Compare and discuss your answers with a classmate.
Step 2
Reading
Read a text and write a summary. Choose the correct words to fill in the gaps in the text. Give advantages and disadvantages for dealing with too much food. Read the complete text.
Step 3
Listening
Listen to the live radioshow and answer questions.
Step 4
Grammar
About past perfect. Complete sentences with the correct form. Read the theory in the Grammar Desk.
Step 5
Task
Make true sentences with a partner about the things you did before you came to this class.
Think about the food you ate yesterday. Make a note of every item.
Did you eat everything? If no, why not?
If yes, think of a time recently when you didn’t eat everything and why.
What did you do with the food you didn’t eat?
Do you eat food that has passed its expiration date? Which foods?
Why do people choose to throw food out that has passed this date? Give three reasons.
What do you think of this statement: 'Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry'.
Answer the questions and compare your answers with a classmate.
Step 2 - Reading
Reading
You are going to read about a law that was passed in France.
It's now illegal for supermarkets to waste food in France By Willa Frej
Hooray, more bread and cheese for all!
France’s Parliament took definitive .....[1]..... to prevent food waste on Wednesday. The country’s Senate unanimously voted to ban large food stores from throwing away food that’s approaching .....[2]..... expiration date.
The National Assembly, France’s other legislative chamber, had unanimously voted on the same .....[3]..... in December. Supermarkets must either compost or donate .....[4]..... and nearly expired goods to charity. The law also prohibits stores from .....[5]..... bleach over food items — a tactic some used to prevent homeless people from foraging — and mandates that schools across the country begin to educate students on the fight against food waste. French food banks welcomed the ruling. “We’ll be able to increase the quality and diversity of food we get and distribute,” Jacques Bailet, head of Banques Alimentaires, a network of French food banks, told The Guardian.
The campaign to end food waste began after grassroots .....[6]..... compelled local Councilman Arash Derambarsh to launch a petition promising that “10 million French people would not go hungry.” It gained hundreds of thousands of .....[7]....., Le Monde reported. Supermarkets throw away over 44 pounds of food every day, Derambarsh wrote in the petition. That’s about seven bags of oranges. And a(n) .....[8]..... person wastes 44 to 66 pounds of food every year, the country’s Environment and Energy Management Agency said in October. Another law, which went into effect on New Year’s Day, aims to target food waste in restaurants. Large French restaurants .....[9]..... to offer customers “doggie bags,” or takeaway containers, should they request them.
France is the first country in the world to adopt food waste legislation of this kind. In the U.S., for example, legislation only extends as far as encouraging donations to nonprofit organizations. Derambarsh, who spearheaded the initiative, is now working to get the European Union to implement .....[10]..... measures, Le Monde reported. “This battle is only just beginning,” he said. We now have to fight food waste in restaurants, bakeries, school canteens and company canteens.”
We use the past perfect to show something that happened before the main event. In the example above, the voting took place before the main event.
The past perfect underlines the difference in time.
For example:
When I arrived at the cinema, the film had already started.
Do the exercise.
Past perfect continuous
Lets look at ..... past perfect vs past perfect continuous. The scientists had been working all night to get the report ready for publication.
We use the present perfect continuous when we want to emphasise an action that was happening before a certain point in time.
In other words, something that was happening.
Read the theory about the Past perfect continuous in the Grammar Desk.
Speaking activities
With your partner, see how many true sentences you can make about the things they did before they came to this class to practise with the past perfect grammar.
When you got to school, you had already had your breakfast.
Yes, that’s right.
When you had your breakfast, you had already cleaned your teeth.
No! I cleaned my teeth after breakfast.
.....
My go!
Food waste
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality has been pursuing a policy aimed at reducing food waste since 2009. One of the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is halving per capita food waste by consumers and supermarkets by 2030 compared to 2015 and minimising food losses in the rest of the chain.
The European Union has subscribed to this objective and the Dutch government also endorses it.
Discuss these questions with your classmate:
Do you know what happens to food not sold in supermarkets in the Netherlands?
How do grocery stores get rid of expired food?
Do you think it will help to simplify food expiration labels?
Do you think that selling “ugly” vegetables at discount prices will be a good experiment?
Do you think this will help: Stores offer consumers free food magazines that share waste reduction tips.
Do you think this will help: Stores offer consumers free recipes to utilize leftovers.
Evaluation
Fill in the schedule and answer the questions below.
Lesson
Activity
Needs improvement
Satisfactory, good
Excellent
Step 1 - Speaking
I can speak with a classmate about (spoiled) food.
Step 2 - Reading
I can read an article about a law against the waste of food in supermarkets and answer questions.
Step 3 - Listening
I can listen to a live radio show regarding environmental issues and answer questions.
Step 4 - Grammar
I can understand and use the past perfect.
Step 5 - Task
I can make sentences with past perfect and have a discussion about waste of food in supermarkets.
What have you learned in this lesson?
Answer the following questions:
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Introduction - Supermarkets in France
Speaking
It's now illegal for supermarkets to waste food in France
Grammar
What have you learned in this lesson?
