Write. At the end of his TED talk Jamie Oliver made a wish: “ My wish is for you to help a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again and to empower people everywhere to fight obesity”. Write an essay

Write

At the end of his TED talk Jamie Oliver made a wish: “ My wish is for you to help a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again and to empower people everywhere to fight obesity”. Write an essay expressing your opinion on whether you believe that Mr Oliver’s suggestions can be effective so as to fight obesity. Do you have any other suggestions?

Quotes

“Every one of your individual efforts makes a difference”

“If the kids don’t know what stuff (food) is, then they will never eat it. ”

“Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them. ”

Activities

1. Visit dictionary. cambridge. org, look up and write down the meaning of the following words or phrases. Write an example as well.

purveyor: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
movers and shakers: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
the eye of the storm: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
tangible: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
processed: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
the time is ripe: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
additives: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
reboot: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
rant: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2. Match the following phrasal verbs to their meanings.

slag somebody off / pass something on / wean somebody on / wean somebody off / roll out

…………………………………: learn about and be influenced at a young age
…………………………………. : to make a new product, service or system available for the first time.
………………………………….. : criticize somebody
……………………………………: to make somebody gradually using what is bad for them
……………………………………. : togive something to someone, after someone else gave it to you:

3. Now write a sentence for each phrasal verb

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