Listening repo #4

Obesity in the classroom

Access Date: 2010-06-30

Summary
This movie show what kinds of foods served at schools around the world. As school meals, each country provides one’s own traditional foods. For instance, in Japan the lunch is traditional foods in bento-box, in Korea lunch is similar to Japanese but it has Korean traditional salted vegetables and in India curry and rice are served. In France the meals have American French fry and enough flutes. It is so different from American common school meal JUNK FOOD. Through looking at stuffs of lunch, there are lots of notices of food culture of the each country.

My Opinion
Now almost of all school in Japan provide lunch with rice and another with bread from day to day. Rice is an essential stuff of Japanese meal so the school lunch should never lack this traditional food. Shoku-iku is a Japanese word which means an education to learn the traditionalism of food and having good meals with thanks for food and understanding of food. School lunch is a good tool for students to learn their traditional stuffs and meal.

5 vocabularies
Obesity ---- when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy
Stuff ----- used when you are talking about things such as substances, materials, or groups of objects when you do not know what they are called, or it is not important to say exactly what they are
Serve ----- to give someone food or drink, especially as part of a meal or in a restaurant, bar etc
Valence ----- another spelling of valance
Classic ----- having all the features that are typical or expected of a particular thing or situation