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Jackie: Hello and welcome to People and Places with bbclearningenglish.com
and me, Jackie Dalton. Food and eating habits are a big issue in Britain
at the moment – everyone seems to be worrying that the nation is
getting too fat and people don’t know how to feed themselves properly.
So the government decided that teenagers are to receive compulsory
cooking lessons in schools. What’s that word? Compulsory – it means
something that you have to do, that you don’t have any choice about.
Most the subjects that were compulsory when I was in school were
things like Maths and Science – I never had had compulsory cooking
lessons though, which sound much more fun! We’re going to hear part
of a report by the BBC’s Jon Devitt. To practise your listening
comprehension skills, try to answer this question: why might it be
difficult for some schools to start teaching cookery in September? Try
to spot two reasons.
Jon
The new lessons are due to start in September but some schools without kitchens will
be given longer to adapt. There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers with the right
skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than practical cooking.
Jackie: Did you get those? One problem is that there might be a shortage of
skills – not enough people who know how to teach cooking. The other
is that some schools won’t have kitchens, so they’ll need some time to
sort that out. In the next part of Jon’s report, he’ll tell us why cooking
has become such a big issue in Britain. This time, try to answer this question: how many Britons are expected to be obese – or very fat – in
25 years if people don’t change their habits?
Jon
The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity in
Britain which is amongst the highest in Europe, and according to government figures
half of all Britons will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not halted.
Jackie: Did you get the answer? Jon said half of Britons will be obese in 25
years time if current trends are not halted, in other words, if people
don’t change their behaviour. Next we’re going to hear from Ed Balls -
the minister in charge of schools. Try to answer this question: what
does Ed Balls want young people to be able to do?
Ed Balls
What I want is for young people to be taught how to do basic, simple recipes which
they can use then at home and in their later life, experiment with, discover the joy of
food, having got the basics under control.
Jackie: Did you catch that? Ed Balls talks about basic, simple recipes – a
recipe is a set of instructions for preparing food. So he wants teenagers
to be able to cook basic, easy things. He says that should be able to
enjoy food, once they’ve got the basics under control. To have
something under control means to be comfortable with it and able to
do it. I’m not quite sure if I’ve got the basics of cooking under control.
Listen again and try to spot those three terms: recipes, basic, to have
the basics under control.
Ed Balls
What I want is for young people to be taught how to do basic, simple recipes which
they can use then at home and in their later life, experiment with, discover the joy of
food, having got the basics under control.
Jackie: Next we’re going to hear the views of a well known cookery writer in
the UK, Pru Leith. Now try to answer this question: does Pru think
making teenagers to learn to cook is a good thing or a bad thing?
Pru Leith
If we'd done this thirty years ago we might not have the crisis we've got now about
obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to
cook, not just so that they'll be healthy...

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