Food waste

 Food waste

1) Warm up

Look at the images and answer the following questions.

Sweets/cakes

 Takeaway

    Fruit and vegetable

Fish and meat

1. Look at the photographs. How much do you tipically spend on those types of food for your home and office each weak?

Ans/ We don't usually market each weak, but when we buy it my parents spend like 300.000cop for my house.

2. Which of the foods in the photographs are you most likely to throw away? Why?

Ans/ Maybe the sweets and cakes, because I think is not as necessary as the other ones. I like it too, but not that much.

3. Why do you think takeaway and restaurants portions are the size they are?

Ans/ I think the takeaway size is because they want to catch the attention of the people, maybe if they sell bigger food it will reach the attention of costumers by other hand, the portion size of food in gourmet restaurants is considerably small but that doesn't means that you won't be satisfied. 

4. Do you think that businesses are responsible for food waste? Why/Why not?

Ans/ People are involved in a porcent of food waste, but the businesses are the responsibles for the mayority. Because they use a lot of food and the other part that they doesn't need they throw it away and make a food waste, all the products they use over the food make a impact on the environment. 

Vocabulary:

1. Excess (n)  - More than is required 

2. Stability (n)  - An unchanging state or situation 

3. Mutually (adv.)  - done or felt in equal amounts by two or more people

4. Disposal (n)  - The act of discarding something after it is no longer needed or useful

5. Surplus (adj.)  - An amount wich is more than required 

6. Notify (v)  - To oficially give a person some information

7. Honour (v)  - Official praise and rewards for an achievement

8. Recognition (n)  - To do something that shows what great respect you have for someone or their achievements

Glossary

Acronym - a word composed of the first letters of other words

Squab - a type of baby pigeon

Swede - A root vegetable 

Bachelor of sciense - a type of undergraduate negree, often abbreviated to B.S. There os also Bachelor of Arts, often abbreviated to B.A.