Új Szó, 2008. december (61. évfolyam, 277-300. szám)

2008-12-06 / 282. szám, szombat

www.ujszo.com ÚJ SZÓ 2008. DECEMBER 6. Angol nyelvlecke 17 •• BRITISH •• COUNCIL LearnEnglish 24 Kedves Olvasó! Az Új Szó és a British Council együttműködésében hat héten keresztül - a SME napilapban korábban sikeresen megjelentetett - angol nyelvtanfolyamot közlünk 12 leckében. Hetente kétszer csütörtökön és szombaton - ezen az oldalon érdekes témákat talál, melyek segítségével nemcsak szókincsét bővítheti, hanem angol nyelvtani tudását is tökéletesítheti. Minden lecke egy kvízkérdést is tartalmaz. Ha 2008. május 29-ig a quiz@britishcouncil.sk e-mail rímre elküldi mind a 12 helyes választ, átruházható tanfolyamot illetve nyelvtankönyveket és szótárakat nyerhet. A játékot 2008. június 2-án értékeljük ki. A játékszabályokról és a díjakról a www.britishcouncil.sk rímen talál további információkat. A tanfolyammal kapcsolatos véleményét, észrevételeit elküldheti a www.velemeny@ujszo.com címre. A nyelvtanulás akkor a leghatékonyabb, ha olvassa és hallgatja Is a szöveget. Reading Article Food by Julie Bray When I was at school, our teacher told the class “You are what you eat.” My friends and I would laugh and call each other ‘hamburger’ and ‘biscuits'. Our teacher was trying to show us the importance of eating the right food to stay healthy. This was a few decades ago when there were big campaigns to make British people health­ier. We decided to throw out our chip pan which we had used until then to make chips every day for dinner. We replaced our chips with boiled potatoes. We also started using - semi- skimmed milk instead of whole milk in our cups of tea and bowls of cornflakes. At first I felt like I was eating my cornflakes in water and my potatoes had no taste at all. But after a while I started to prefer healthier food bcause I felt stronger and I didn’t get sick so often. Japanese people are reputed to be the healthiest in the world because of the food they eat. The healthiest Japanese people eat rice and fish and vegetables every day. They drink green tea or water when they’re thirsty, and snack on dried fish, fruit or gingko nuts. The traditional Japanese diet is famous for helping you to live a longer and healthier life. So we have proof that you be­come what you eat. Can you tell what your friends eat just by looking at them? When you know the effects of different types of food, you can use your knowledge well and eat what you want to become. Food has an impact on our physical and emotional health. Have you ever heard any of the following advice? Lettuce or milk can make you sleepy. To stop feeling sleepy you should eat peanuts or dried fish. To keep your teeth clean you should eat apples often. Garlic helps you not to catch a cold. Everyone has their own advice to give, which they have read about or have been told by older relatives. Some of these pieces of advice seem to contra­dict each other. Eating chocolate makes you fat and gives you spots. Chocolate contains the essential minerals iron and mag­nesium What we need to figure out is what type of chocolate to eat to get the benefits and how much of it to eat. We can do this by reading the list of ingre­dients on the chocolate bar wrapper. Exactly how much real chocolate is in there? And how much of that do we need to eat to get the benefits of the minerals it contains? Future restaurants might be named after the physical or emotional state they hope to create. Their menus will list the benefits of each dish and drink. Some restaurants have already started this concept, and list the nutritional content of their dishes on the menus. Let’s take the restaurant ‘Winners' as an example. Their menu would list dishes specifi­cally designed to help you win sports competitions. There would be Night-before Vegetable lasagne, a pasta dish with extra layers of spinach pasta for slow- burning energy, rich tomato sauce full of vitamin C and soft, easy-to-digest vegetables. All this would be topped with a lit­tle fresh cheese - just enough to help you get a good night's sleep, but not enough to give you nightmares! Or you could choose the Go- faster salad, which is a large bowl of mixed raw vegetables in a light salad dressing, giving you energy without making you gain weight. The vegetables are carefully chosen to include plenty of natural vitamins and minerals. What kind of dishes do you think would be on the menu at the ‘Clever Café’ (which sells food that’s good for your brain)? So what’s going to happen to hamburgers and biscuits? Will the concept of eating food because it's tasty go out of fash­ion? Of course not! Junk food is also changing. If ice-cream is not good for children, can’t we give them fat-free, sugar-free tofu ice-cream? Unhealthy food is going out of fashion, so brands are changing. We are told not to drink cola because of the sugar and caffeine content so cola companies are making sugar-free and caffeine-free drinks. We are told dried fruit is a healthier snack than biscuits so some biscuit companies are making biscuits with added vi­tamins. Snacks might soon be changing their names to “Skinglow" and “Choco- mineral”! So in the future you might be able to eat your way to your idea of perfection! Vocobu 5 words/phrases from the text L. semi-skimmed milk: milk with some of the fat removed to make it healthier 2. (to) snack (on): to eat small amounts of food between meals 3. wrapper: the covering (usually made of paper or plastic) used to protect something 4. salad dressing: oil, vinegar, salt and other ingredients mixed together to eat with salad s.free (sugar-free, fat-free, caffeine-free): a suffix which means “without” Vocabu Vocabulary gap fill. Now use the 5 words/phrasesto fill the gaps in the sentences below: 1. The doctor recommended ...................... instead of full fat milk to reduce my cholesterol. 2. Teenagers these days .................. on chocolate and crisps. 3. If you want to know what these sweets contain, read the ................ 4. You can’t smoke here, it’s a smoke ­.............zone. 5. Waiter, can you bring me some .....................please? Answer the 5 questions using information from the article. 1. Why are Japanese people so healthy? 2. How is chocolate bad for you? And how is it good for you? 3. What can we find out by reading a chocolate wrapper? 4. What is the food at “Winner’s” good for? 5. Waiter, can you bring me some .....................please? Famous ‘square’ in London that commemorates a sea battle of 1805. Words that are often confused Some words are often confused by language learners - be­cause they are similar to another word or because they look like a word in your own language but have a different meaning. Here are some words that often cause confusion. sensible and sensitive sensible means ‘practical’ or 'having good judgement” sensitive means ‘easily affected by the things people say or do’ Come on darling, be sensible and put a coat on. It's freezing outside. Don't be so sensitive he didn't say you were fat, it was just a joke. sympathetic Usually we are sympathetic when someone has a problem or is in trouble. They were very sympathetic when our house was burgled but they couldn't do much to help. We don't use it to mean 'nice' or 'pleasant' My uncle is a very sympathetic man. nervous We are nervous in a particular situation, like an exam. We don’t generally use nervous to describe someone’s character. I've never been as nervous as the time I had to give a speech to 500 people. Aiy sister is very nervous. She's always shouting at me. journey and travel Journey is countable. Travel is uncountable and refers to the general idea of travelling. Did you have a good travel? Travel is something I recommend to all young people. The journey took about 8 hours. recipe, receipt and prescription A recipe is a set of instructions for cooking something. A receipt is apiece of paper you are given after you pay for something. A prescription is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the mediáne you need. Exercise Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. 1 Did you make this cake yourself? It’s lovely. You must let me have the (recipe/receipt/prescription). 2 I think it would be (sensible/sensitive) to take an umbrella. The forecast is for rain. 3 We’ve had a horrible (joumey/travel) and now I want a cup of tea. 4 Don't ask him how old he is - he’s really (sensible/sensitive) about it. 5 We often eat in that restaurant. The owners are really (sympathetic/nice). •aara 's ‘OAprsuas -p ‘Asumoj £ ‘ajqxsuas ’Z ‘odpar -t reuiurern aaij-jeSns ro aaq-auiageo squup rprp Supprui Aq jaiqqeaq squup riaqr Suppui are saureduioa epa •£ ‘-suoppaduioo sqiods uiM noA sdjaq, spauuiM,, pooj aqjV -surejuoa }i ajHjoooqo qanui Moq Apoexa ino pup ubo a/vt rsdde.tM ajejoaoqa e Suipear Ag •$ ‘•umxsauSeui pure uoq suiejuoa q -sjodshoA saAiS pure jej noA saqrem arejoaorp 'z ‘-aja ‘jiiuj uo qaeus pue rajBM ro ear uaarS quup ‘Aep AraAa sajqepSaA pue qsy ‘aau rea Aaqj. paip Aqqreaq e aAeq Aaqr asneaaq Aqqreaq os are ajdoad asauedef t uoisuaqarduio;} ‘Suissarp pe[cs -s ‘aarj V ‘laddreiM •£ hpreus ~c ‘pauiunqs-iuias q ArejnqeaoA Aa>| - pooj Megrendelőlap Név: Utca, házszám:................................................................................................................................. .................... Település: ..................................................................Irányítószám:................................................................. Telefonszám: ...................................................E-mail:....................................................................................... Utánvéttel megrendelem az angol nyelvtanfolyam egyes CD-it 49 koronáért (1,62 €) + postaköltség* CDI .........db CD II........db CD III.........db Aláírás:........................................................................... Utánvéttel megrendelem mindhárom angol nyelvi CD-t, összesen 147 koronáért (4,87 €) + postaköltség* *1 és 2db angol nyelvi CD megrendelése esetén a postaköltség 40 korona (1,32 €), 3 és több CD esetében 80 korona (2,65 €). A kitöltött szelvényt küldje el a következő címre: Petit Press, a.s., edičné oddelenie, Lazaretská 12,814 64 Bratislava, vagy a 02/59 233 339-es faxszámra. BRITISH COUNCIL Nemzetközi nyelvvizsgák A British Council nemzetközi nyelvvizsgák széles skáláját kínálja. A Cambridge ESOL vizsgán kívül más brit egyetemek nyelvvizsgái közül választhat, melyeket a világ számos országának egyetemei, vállalatai és nemzeti oktatási intézményei is elismernek. Jelentkezzen a Cambridge-i nyelvvizsgák bármely fajtájára - FCE, CAE, CPE, ICFE, ILEC vagy BEC - és emelje angolnyelv-tudásának szintjét. Részletes információk a www.britishcouncil.sk honlapon. British Council, Panská 17, Pozsony, info@britishcouncil.sk

Next

/
  • Elrendezés
  • Igazítás
  • Forgatás
Oldalképek
Tartalom