VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Homework

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Advertising can tell you a lot about a country.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

You should write at least 250 words.

Writing exercise

Nowadays food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?

Humankind has undergone many changes in the eating habit from the period when he hunted for himself to era when he has become dependent on processed food. Obviously, it has made great contribution to the way people live.

Instead of spending hours for preparation in the past, now, people cook by themselves just in short time through diverse cookers, modern equipment and precooked food. With refrigerators and freezers, people are able to preserve food for a longer time. Since technology makes cooking so much faster, people are willing to make several dishes for even a small meal. Parents are more likely to let children be picky, now that they can easily heat them up some prepackaged food or instant food on the side. Needless to say, adults living in the same house may have very different eating habits as well. If they don’t want to cook a lot of different dishes, it’s common now to eat out at restaurants several times a week.

Healthful eating is also easier than ever now. When people cook, they use new fat substitutes and cooking sprays to cut fat and calories. This reduces the risk of heart disease and high cholesterol. Additionally, we can buy fruits and vegetable fresh, frozen or canned. They are easy to prepare, so many of us eat more of those nutritious items daily. A hundred years ago, you couldn’t imagine the process of taking some frozen fruit and ice from the freezer, adding some low-fat yogurt from a plastic cup and some juice from a can in the refrigerator, and whipping up a low-fat smoothie in the blender!

Our lifestyle is fast, but people still like good food. What new food preparation technology has given us is more choices. Today, we can prepare food that is more convenient, healthier, and of greater variety than ever before in history.

Humankind has undergone many changes in the eating habit from the period when hunting without the aid of technology to an era when he has become dependent on processed food. Obviously, it has made a great contribution to the way people live.

Instead of spending hours for preparation in the past, now, people cook by themselves just in short time  / people spend a short amount of time cooking through diverse cookers / a diversity of equipment and tools, modern equipment and precooked food. With refrigerators and freezers, people are able to preserve food for a longer time. Since technology makes cooking so much faster, people are willing to make several dishes for even a small meal. Parents are more likely to let children be picky, now that they can easily heat them up some prepackaged food or instant food on the side. Needless to say, adults living in the same house may have very different eating habits as well. If they don’t want to cook a lot of different dishes, it’s common now to eat out at restaurants several times a week.

Healthy eating is also easier than ever now. When people cook, they use new fat substitutes and cooking sprays to cut fat and calories. This reduces the risk of heart disease and high cholesterol. Additionally, we can buy fruits and vegetable fresh, frozen or canned. They are easy to prepare, so many of us eat more of those nutritious items daily. A hundred years ago, you couldn’t imagine the process of taking some frozen fruit and ice from the freezer, adding some low-fat yogurt from a plastic cup and some juice from a can in the refrigerator, and whipping up a low-fat smoothie in the blender!

Our lifestyle is fast, but people still like good food. What new food preparation technology has given us is more choices. Today, we can prepare food that is more convenient, healthier, and of greater variety than ever before in history.

Vocabulary

head chef 

relatively cheap – cost effective 

bland – no flavor

ladle – a big spoon

iceland has devoted (itself) to

Grammar

that’s what it most captured me – that’s what captured me the most