Стр.52 Unit 6 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
READING AND LISTENING 1 In pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions. Cereals Beans Insects Seeds Roots Which of these things are a part of people’s diets in your country?
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Гаярделли, Редли 8 класс, Вентана-Граф:
READING AND LISTENING
1 In pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions.
Cereals
Beans
Insects
Seeds
Roots
Which of these things are a part of people’s diets in your country?
Which of these things would you not Uke to try?
2 Read the text opposite quickly and decide which sentence is the best summary of the article.
1 People in Europe only started to eat meat during the nineteenth century.
2 Most people in the western world eat more meat today than their ancestors.
3 In many countries people don’t eat meat.
3 Read the paragraphs below and decide which one is the missing second paragraph from the article.
A Today many famous sportsmen and models choose not to eat meat. Brad Pitt, Liv Tyler, Kim Basinger and Michael J. Fox are just a few examples of film stars who are vegetarian. We can add a lot of rock and pop stars to the list too: Bob Dylan, rapper Dr Dre, Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, Mel C, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Moby and Robert Smith of The Cure all refuse to eat meat.
В How do we know? One important clue is our teeth. Just like animals which eat plants, humans have teeth called molars (these are the large, flat teeth at the back of our mouths) which we need to break down hard food such as seeds. Archaeologists can also tell us about diets of the past. In fact, we know a lot about the human diet over the last 7,000 years.
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Twenty-four million years ago when our ancestors lived in the tropical forests of central Africa, they probably ate plants and fruit, and from time to time a few insects. When these prehistoric people started to travel north into the savannah then diet changed too, and they began to eat a lot of seeds and other plant material. And this is probably how man lived for the next twenty-two million years, eating roots, seeds, fruit, nuts, vegetables and occasionally a little meat.
The Aztecs and Incas ate a lot of cereals, beans and fruit and not much meat at all. In classical India most people didn’t eat meat and the Japanese were mainly vegetarian until a few generations ago. The main food of the slaves who built the Pyramids was boiled onions! Even today, some societies whose lifestyles are unchanged (like the Aborigines of Western Australia) are still mostly vegetarian.
Daring the nineteenth century people in western countries suddenly began to eat a lot more meat.
New methods of keeping and killing animals, better transport and new inventions like fridges and freezers helped to reduce the price of meat for ordinary people. It was probably at this time that the typical western meal that millions of people eat every day – meat potatoes and vegetables – was born. Also during the nineteenth century, the vegetarian movement started in Europe and the USA. But it was in the 1960s that more and more people in the west decided to give up meat in their diets. So why do people choose to be vegetarian? Many people decide to become vegetarian for personal reasons. First of all, some people think that it is healthier not to eat meat. Others believe that it is cruel to eat animals. The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said ‘Animals are my friends – and I don’t eat my friends. Finally there are some people who think that growing food for cows and pigs to eat is not very economical. Today vegetarianism is more and more popular in Europe and the USA. But in most countries people who never eat meat are still a very small minority.