GREAT LEARNERS GREAT THINKERS
Lesson aim: To think about ways we can feed the planet in a sustainable way Video: A different kind of school lunch SEL Social and emotional learning: Making decisions SUSTAINABLE FOOD SOLUTIONS
‘In the UK we throw away one of every five bags of food that we buy’
GREAT THINKERS Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate
Ask and answer these questions.
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speaking
1 How do you feel about eating insects? 2 Why do you think some experts want to encourage us to eat more insects? You are going to watch a video about a school that has prepared dishes with insects for school lunch. What do you think the students are going to say about eating insects before they try them? And after trying them?
speaking Work in small groups. Follow these instructions to solve the problem at the end of the text in 4. 1 Generate ideas. Make a list of any ideas you can think of to waste less food. 2 Sort your ideas into groups. Decide your different categories and put your ideas into the categories in diagram form. 3 Connect any ideas from different categories that you think have a link. 4 Elaborate any of your ideas by expanding them and taking them in new directions.
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2a speaking
Watch the video and check your ideas in 2a. Were your predictions
2b video
right?
video Here are some statements that are very similar to things that people actually say in the video. Read the statements. Then watch the video again and put them in the order you hear the ideas. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a ‘The food wasn’t bad but I prefer not to eat it again.’ b ‘My feeling about insects in general (not just as food) has changed.’ c ‘It doesn’t taste strange but it has an unusual texture.’ d ‘I don’t feel so nervous about eating insects now but I don’t want to eat them again.’ e ‘I’m nervous about trying insects but I know that people say it’s morally right.’ f ‘Eating insects is horrible but I’m going to try them.’ g ‘Eating insects can help us to think again about what different groups of people eat.’
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6 speaking In your group, create a mind map with as many ideas for throwing away less food as possible. Start doing some of your ideas today! Lorem ipsum
Only Cook What You Need
Make toast from old bread Make banana cake from brown bananas
Find Recipes For Older Food
Stop Wasting Food
Cooking
Buying
Storing
Check dates on food you buy
4 Read the text. What is the connection between eating insects and being careful about the food we throw away?
Put oldest food at the front of cupboards and newest at the back
WHATA WASTE!
With problems like food waste, why is it so important to think of ourselves as all citizens of just one global community? GREAT LEARNERS Great learners are active global citizens SEL
Insects could be one solution to the problem of feeding the world because they help us to get the protein we need without using a lot of water, energy or land. Another solution is to be more careful about all the food we waste. When we throw food away, we are also unnecessarily wasting the water, energy and land that went to produce the food. An organisation called ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ says that in the UK we throw away one of every five bags of food that we buy. That’s seven million tonnes of food a year! We need to think of different ideas that help us to throw away less food … now!
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