GATEWAY 2nd EDITION B2 Unit 3 FOOD MILES (VIDEO) vocabulary build-up exercise
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SOURCED MARKET – GATEWAY 2nd EDITION B2, UNIT 3, Gateway to life skills – FOOD MILES (VIDEO)

I ______________ Sourced Market (основал) in 2009.

My ______________is __________________. (ответственность – управлять).

I ____________ on a famous produce market. (раньше жил). I ______________________ (был вдохновлен качеством) of food and over the years I got to know many _________________(мелких производителей) and learned what it takes to get food from __________________(с поля до стола). I no longer had all of this amazing produce on my doorstep.  I felt it should be ___________________ (более доступны).

The idea of SM is to take quality produce and ________________________________(доставить его в удобном формате). We _____________(расположены) in_________________(международный)train station and work _________________(7 дней по 16 часов). My feeling is that if something is good and available _________(местно), we should get it __________(местно). Kent produces amazing apples and therefore we should source apples there _________________________________________(а не привозить их издалека). If we want to sell apples in June, that means keeping them in ___________________________________ (холодных складских помещениях) that actually use a lot of energy. We have to _____________________________ (производить сложные расчеты) to work out if it is better to keep them in the fridge or bring them in from __________________(Южное полушарие). Overall the best thing is to eat ______________(«сезонно»).

Food miles are absolutely ________________________ (часть более глобального вопроса/проблемы). At its _________ (простыми словами, проще говоря) FM is/are how many miles it takes to get product from A to B and what’s the _____ (стоимость)of mile in terms of ___________________(энергопотребления). You’ve got to look into how a product is produced - _____________(по-разному) in different places.  New Zealand produces lamb–it has plenty of wide open spaces and it is easy for them to do it ___________(эффективно). And then they put it in frozen _____________________________ (грузовые контейнеры).  There is an argument that rather than using the limited farmland in the UK ________________________(может быть лучше )to bring them in from NZ. Locally grown food is not necessarily ________________________(менее дорогая). It might be produced __________________(в меньших масштабах), it might not be a _______________________(огромный агробизнес), they may not have the economy of _________(масштаба) and it _____________________(может быть потенциально) be more expensive.

The best place to buy food would ____________(точно) be local market – you meet people, ______________(узнаете\выясняете) more information about the product and they ______________ (дают вам пробовать) the product.

L_________(маркировка)can be _____________(обманчива).  

One of the issues is that something can be __________(упаковано) in the UK and we put the British flag on the label, and the а_____________(предположение) people make is that it was produced here. You have to be almost an expert to _____________(расшифровать) the info on a label. But if you talk to the person who makes the product, you form a ______________________ (гораздо более точное представление) about what goes into it.