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The future of our food
Everyone likes food and loves to eat it! In countries in Europe and America people love to eat, and
they eat A LOT! In the Netherlands preparing food is becoming more and more popular, especially because of all the cooking shows you can watch. Many people now like cooking more than they used to like it, and they try out all different kinds of new recipes.
Can you write down the names of three cooking shows?
All over the world there are different countries, people, cultures and eating habits. We eat completely different food than Chinese or Brazilian people. We are all crazy about our typical Dutch potato but in most parts of Asia people prefer rice over the potato any day!
Basis
Task 1 - What have you got?
Choose the correct form of ‘have got’.
a) I has/have got a cat.
b) She has/have got special cat food because of allergies.
c) Has/have you got any allergies?
d) I hasn’t/haven’t got any allergies.
e) Has/have The Netherlands got a place where you can eat insects?
Task 2 - Food around the world
Have a look at this video about different eating habits and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcbwRYRh0Ok
1. What place does America take (op welke plek komt Amerika) when we talk about the consumption of meat?
2. How much meat does an American eat every year?
3. What is a traditional Finnish dish?
4. How much meat does a Fin eat every year?
5. How much meat does a Bangladeshi eat every year?
6. What is the staple food (=basisvoeding, kenmerkend) in Bangladesh?
7. What is the staple food in these countries? Look it up on the web!
Task 3 - Eating insects
Because people are eating so much meat, and there are so many people on the world, we are going to have a problem if we want to feed everyone on earth. Some people think that a solution to this problem is to eat insects. They are very cheap and easy to grow. It costs 22.000 litres of water to grow 1 kilogram of beef (really!!) and it only costs 1 litre of water to grow 1 kilogram of insects (amazing, isn't it?!).
Have a look at this video and answer the questions. Work individually on these questions, you can watch the video multiple times if you wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4avZiKD2o
1. Vertaal de volgende woorden naar het Nederlands. Je mag voor deze opdracht geen woordenboek gebruiken.
| Fried bugs | |
| Giant grasshopper | |
| Cricket | |
| Silkworm | |
| Crunchy |
2. Hoe zorgen ze er in Thailand voor dat de insecten goed smaken?
3. Hoeveel verschillende insecten zitten er in het zakje?
4. Hoe smaken de reuze sprinkhanen?
5. Waarmee vergelijkt hij de smaak van de kleine wormen?
6. Beschrijf uitgebreid hoe de ‘crickets on steroids’ smaken.
7. Wat is zijn favoriete insect?
8. To make eating insects more popular, people are also making candy with insects. This way, children can get used to eating insects too.
Look for two photos of candy with insects. Copy and paste them into your Word Document/Google Docx document.
9. Even in Tilburg eating insects is promoted, especially around Christmas.
a) Look for a place where you can eat insects in Tilburg.
You can eat insects at ...
b) Wat kan je hier op het menu vinden? Noteer twee dingen.
Task 4 - Verb party
Maak 2 zinnen met een vorm van ‘to be going to’ & 2 zinnen met een vorm van ‘have got’. Gebruik de woorden die je bij Task 3: Eating Insects vertaald hebt (fried bugs, giant grasshopper, cricket, silkworm, crunchy). De eerste zin is een voorbeeld: I’m not going to eat fried bugs.
Now make your own sentences using the other four words.
Task 5 - What are you going to do?
Put the verbs in the correct form. Use the correct form of ‘to be going to’.
Task 6 - Story time!
Use the right form of ‘to be going to’. Vertel in het Engels dat:
Task 7 - That is not going to happen...
Maak de bovenstaande Engelse zinnen nu ontkennend. Gebruik daarbij ‘not’ in combinatie met 'to be going to'. Op deze manier kun je zeggen dat iets niet gaat gebeuren/ dat je iets niet van plan bent om te doen.
Task 8 - Insect candy
An American wants us to start eating more insects and he even thinks children should start eating insects! That’s why he is making candy with insects!
Have a look at this video and answer the questions. Work individually on these questions, you can watch the video multiple times if you wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7I_HAm4d8
1. Translate the following words to Dutch. You cannot use a dictionary.
| Catarpillars | |
| Cockroaches | |
| Mealworms | |
| Species | |
| Garnish |
2. Where can we find this unusual store?
3. What is the name of the store?
4. According to Larry, why don’t people like insects?
5. How many species of insects show up in dishes around the world?
6. Where do people already eat insects?
7. How many resources do you need to produce a pound of insects, compared to a pound of beef?
8. Larry has guests come over to his house for dinner. What does he serve them?
| First Course | |
| Main Course | |
| Desert |
9. Would you eat candy with insects?
Yes / No because ...
Task 9 - The production of meat
Don’t we all just love to eat a nice, tasty hamburger every once in a while? Americans love them even more! On average, Americans eat 3 hamburgers per week! As it turns out, eating these delicious hamburgers isn’t very good for the environment.
Have a look at this video and answer the questions. Work individually on these questions, you can watch the video multiple times if you wish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3URdEzlKQ
1. Who is the largest beef producer in the world?
2. How much global land area do the cows take up?
3. How many gallons of water does it take to make 1 pound of beef? 
4. What do cows eat at a ‘feedlot’?
5. Why is it bad for cows to eat corn?
6. How many pounds of fertilizer do we use?
7. How many different cows can be in 1 hamburger?
8. What can happen when we eat too much red meat?
9. For every burger, the costs of greenhouse gasses, water for feed and health care are $...
10. How much do all Americans pay for it in total?
11. What would be the effect if all Americans would NOT eat meat or cheese 1 day a week?
Uitbreiding
Task 10
What do you think are possible solutions to the problem in the video you just watched? Because of the growing population (=number of people on earth worldwide), we will have problems to feed everyone. How do you think we can solve these problems? What should we change about our food to make sure there is enough food for everyone? Explain your answer in English.
