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b) Prepare a statement on the impact our diet choices have on the planet that you can record and upload to your YouTube channel. Include the following aspects: different forms of diet (plant-based vs. meat-based) personal taste, personal preferences your opinion on the ideas discussed in the article Reading–speaking: How giving up meat and eating bugs can help save the planet (B2) Prepare a statement in which you argue why adopting a diet based on insects is (not) a reasonable option for you. Describe how a diet based on insects would look like on a typical day. Argue why you could/couldn’t imagine adopting such a diet. Suggest strategies to raise awareness on our food and diet choices. Self-assessment Tick the appropriate boxes. Listening Can understand most radio documentaries and most other recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect and can identify the speaker’s mood, tone, etc. I could understand everything. Sometimes I had to guess the meaning. I could only under­ stand parts. I could hardly under­ stand anything. Writing Can summarise, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and nonroutine matters within his/her field with some confidence. I could write the text without help. I reused phrases from the text. I had to look up words/phrases. I could not express my ideas as wanted. Reading Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints. I understood the text without help. I had to guess the meaning. I had to use a dictionary. I did not understand the text. Speaking Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic within his/her field which is clear enough to be followed without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. I could express my opinion without help. I was sometimes lost for words. I had to make notes before I started. I could not express my ideas clearly. Find suggestions to help you on the CD-ROM in this book. 3 70 75 researcher for the Nordic Food Lab, a non-profit organisation established by chef Rene Redzepi from the Michelin-starred restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. He believes that for those of us who have not grown up eating insects their greatest value is “as a provocation to mindful eating – they force us to consider what we do eat, what we don’t, and why.” By challenging our own prejudices and taboos around food, we can better understand cultures that are different from our own. (Charlotte Payne, The Independent , 21 March 2018) 127 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eige tum des Verlags öbv