food surplus cafe

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Fill in the blanks. Match the words you see to their meanings. a measurement of 1,000 kg- tonnedelicious - tastymore than you need - surplusyou can eat this - ediblenot in a fixed pace or at a fixed time - pop-upto get things from different places and put them together - collectto put something you don't want into a rubbish bin - throw awaywnen you want something very much - determined Click HEREand watch the film. (Video will also be posted in Google classroom in case this link doesn't work). How are the words used in the film? Put them in the right context. 1. A café in Oxford which is turning food waste into tasty meal is called the Food Surplus Cafe.2. All of the food here is food that other restaurants and supermarkets throw away.3. In the UK, we throw away more than 7 million tonnes of food every year.4. Here at the Oxford Food Surplus Cafe, they are determined to do something about it so they collect food from different resaturants..5. They organise pop-up cafés, where they serve all this delicious food to the local community. Watch the video again. Choose the correct answer: A, B, C or D1. Every year, millions of tonnes of food are collected by waste managementcompanies. are thrown away by UK restaurants. pollute our seas. are turned into new energy. 2. The Oxford Food Surplus Cafe turns waste food into school dinners. delicious meals for local people. dinners for expensive restaurants. supermarket meals. 3. The UK throws away _ of food every year. 7.3 tonnes 73 tonnes 7.3 million tonnes 50 million tonnes 4. 50% of the food the UK throws away could be used to make energy. is edible. is fruit and vegetables. comes from supermarkets 5. The Oxford Surplus Food Cafe decides what to cook when they see how many customers they have. know what the weather is like. meet the chefs. see what food they have collected. 6. In the future, the Oxford Surplus Food Cafe wants to open cafés in more cities in the UK. open a regular, full-time café. work with professional chefs. give food to schools EXTRA EXERCISE Match the sentence halves. 1. The tasty meals are offered at a low price. 2. We must do something about the food crisis. 3. It’s quite easy to turn waste food into great meals. 4. Throwing food away should be a crime at a time when some people are hungry. 5. Food surpluses just add to our pollution problems. 6. The meals are based on what ingredients they collect

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