day 13what we eat

what we eat

Weigh the good and bad sides of a habit with 好处是……坏处在于……, turn a point around with 不但不……反而……, draw a result with ……因而……, and retell a short anecdote with a punchline.

words to say

• 营养 yíngyǎng · nutrition
• 饮食 yǐnshí · food and drink, diet
• 热量 rèliàng · calories; heat
• 便利 biànlì · convenient
• 依赖 yīlài · to depend on
• 包装 bāozhuāng · packaging; to package
• 一次性 yīcìxìng · disposable; one-off
• 节省 jiéshěng · to save, economise
• 消费 xiāofèi · to consume, spend; spending
• 口味 kǒuwèi · taste, flavour; personal taste

sentences

• 外卖很便利，可是营养不一定够。 · Takeaway is convenient, but it isn’t always nutritious enough.
• 吃得太快不但不节省时间，反而容易吃多。 · Eating too fast doesn’t save time; if anything, it makes you eat too much.
• 很多年轻人越来越依赖外卖。 · Many young people rely more and more on takeaway.
• 一次性包装用完就扔，因而产生了大量垃圾。 · Disposable packaging is thrown away after one use, and so it creates a lot of rubbish.
• 这家店的口味不错，可是热量太高了。 · This place’s food tastes good, but it’s far too high in calories.

say it after the voice

• 外卖虽然又快又便利，但是天天吃对身体不一定好。 · Takeaway may be quick and convenient, but eating it every day isn’t necessarily good for you.
• 很多外卖油多盐多，热量很高，营养却往往不够平衡。 · A lot of takeaway is oily and salty: high in calories, but often not nutritionally balanced.
• 吃饭吃得太快不但不节省时间，反而让人吃得更多。 · Eating too fast doesn’t save time; it actually makes people eat more.
• 自己做饭可以选择口味，也可以少用一次性包装。 · Cooking for yourself lets you choose the flavours, and you use less disposable packaging.

questions to answer

• 为什么很多人特别喜欢吃甜的东西？ · Why do so many people love sweet things?
• 你怎么看一次性包装？ · What do you think of disposable packaging?
• 学校食堂该不该少放盐和油？ · Should school canteens use less salt and oil?

a passage to retell

• A man was on a diet, but he loved chocolate cake. He hid a cake at the very back of the fridge, in a box marked “vegetables”. A week later he opened the box and found it empty. It turned out his wife was on a diet too, and lately she had been “eating more vegetables”.

a passage to read aloud

众所周知，吃饭太快对身体不好，可是很多人还是做不到慢慢吃。为什么吃得快就容易吃多呢？原因在于，大脑大约需要二十分钟，才能收到“已经吃饱了”的信号。如果十分钟就吃完一顿饭，大脑还来不及反应，我们就觉得自己没吃饱。因此，外卖再便利，也最好放下手机，每一口都慢一点儿，好好感受食物的口味。这样不但不浪费时间，反而让人吃得更少、更舒服。