DRIVE 9/2012

ISSUE 0/2012 PRICE 25 CZK

MAGA ZINE FOR STUDENTs OF ENGLISH / LE VEL a 2– B1

T H r o u g h

y o u r

e n g l i s h

Better Breakfast Month And do YOU have breakfast?

Tic, Tic, Boom Interview with an Explosives Technician

Nature‘s cities Termites – Little Monsters or Little Architects?

Who is he?

Draco Malfoy or Tom Felton?

MAGA ZINE FOR STUDENTs OF ENGLISH / LE VEL a2– B1

T H r o u g h

y o u r

e n g l i s h

Contents / issue 0/20 1 2 Do you spend time breakfasting?

O pinion P oll

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health / nutrition

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Read what other teenagers said.

Start the Day Right

The benefits of breakfast and the health risks of bad nutrition.

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Go Green, Go Local

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econom y

Learn how globalisation impacts the economy and environment.

Drilling Deep in the Earth

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technolog y

Find out how an electricity generator is powered by geothermal energy.

A Painful Bet

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true story

Don’t forget your swimsuit when you go on holiday!

Sweet Revenge

photo story

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culture

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Teasing your brother doesn’t pay.

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Tom Felton

Take a look at a young man, who is more than just Draco Malfoy.

Sweat, Sport & Sand

sport

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planet/animals

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WO R K / PR O F E S S I O N S

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Get inspiration: The Cornwall Festival of Sport.

Nature´s Cities Discover ingenious termite constructions.

Tic, Tic, Boom

Enjoy a unique interview with an explosives technician.

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Are You Xenophobic?

T E S T YO U R S E L F

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Take our test and find out.

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O p i n i o n Po l l

Skipping breakfast has become a big problem in the USA. On pages 4–5, you can read about how Americans are trying to make people have a proper breakfast. They have introduced September as “Better Breakfast Month”. What do you think? Do the Czechs need a Better Breakfast Month, too?

Drive magazine asked five Czech students about their breakfasting habits:

Adam, 16 years Hunger wakes me up every morning, so I have a big breakfast every day.

Most often, I have dark bread with cheese and ham, fruit, and I drink some juice.

Katka, 15 years I never forget to have breakfast. On weekdays, I usually eat a roll with jam or cereal with milk, and I always drink tea. But at weekends, when I have more time, I have toast with cheese and I drink orange juice.

Martin, 19 years I have breakfast every day. I usually have cereal with milk or something sweet, for example a cake or a donut.

With the cake, I drink black tea or hot chocolate.

Karolina, 17 years No matter how much in a hurry I am, I always have breakfast. I usually have cereal with milk or yoghurt and from time to time, I have bread and ham or cheese. Most often, I drink tea.

Damn, I look like a pig!

Barbora, 16 years I have breakfast regularly, every day, and as I like sweet breakfasts, I usually have hot chocolate and white bread with jam.

Task Look at the Nutrition Facts table and guess which food it belongs to: a) cereal b) bread c) cheese Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1-Slice / Servings Per Loaf 18 Amount Per Serving

Yeah, and moreover, you’ve spilt* the orange juice on your shirt! * you’ve spilt – vylil jsi And you? Do you always have time for breakfast? What do you have?

Discuss

/ Calories 103

% DV* Total Fat 2g 3% Satd Fat 1g 2% Cholest 16 mg 5 % Sodium 18 mg 1 % Total Carb 20 g 7 % Dietary Fiber 1 g 12 % Sugars 7 g 12 % Protein 2g 4%

Fat Cal 17

Vitamin A 2%, Potassium 1%, Thiamine 6%, Iron 3%, Riboflaven 3%, Niacin 5% *Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower based on your calorie needs.

Solution on page 2

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H e a lt h / N u t r i t i o n

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Start the Day Right September – Be t ter Bre akfast Month Do you think breakfast is not important and you can just skip1 it? Your body and your mum don’t think so. Neither do food and nutrition2 experts. They all want people to be more serious about breakfast. What do they say? / James Plummer (UK) September is known as Better Breakfast Month (BBM) in the USA, where obesity has become a big problem, because so many people are overweight3. Experts believe that teaching people to eat a healthy breakfast is the right way to control weight. BBM is like a food holiday. There are lots of recipes and ideas which people can share, and some people try to meet up with friends or family for breakfast. In some schools and colleges, they have lessons to teach

the students how important it is to eat a healthy breakfast. There are TV programmes and adverts as well, to help teach people about nutrition. So why is breakfast such an important issue?

Your Body is Sending Out an SOS After 8–12 hours without food, your body is calling for some fuel.

Your muscles 4 and brain need energy in the morning. So give

The old English saying is: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper7.”

Do you have a similar one in your language?

your body what it needs! Recharge your brain and your body. Give it some nice proteins and yummy carbohydrates, fibre5, anti-oxidants, calcium, vitamins, minerals and healthy fats. And glucose on the top! Did you know that 25 % of your daily calories should come from breakfast?

Benefits Eating breakfast has many benefits.

It is the secret to staying healthy, staying at a good weight, and stabilizing your blood sugar level6. In other words, breakfast will make you healthy, slim, balanced and smart. It is a good opportunity to start the day right.

Web task

4 | Health/Nutrition

about Breakfast

My t h s & Fac t s

M: Eating breakfast will make you tired during the day.

F: Eating breakfast increases both mental and physical activity.

You will do better at school, and you won’t get tired so easily.

M: Breakfast will make you overweight.

F: Breakfast can help you reduce your weight, because it will speed up your metabolism.

Health Risks On the other hand, skipping breakfast brings many risks like heart attack8, high cholesterol, and blood sugar problems. It is proven that a bad diet can cause diabetes as well.

Do you think that ten more minutes in bed are worth facing such risks?

Doctors believe that, no matter how hectic our lives are, we should always take the time to eat breakfast.

M: Having breakfast is a waste of time in the morning. You can skip it.

F: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Do not skip it.

The health risks are too high.

Task

In what country would you eat this for breakfast?

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Traditions Help

V ocabular y to skip [skɪp] – přeskočit, vynechat nutrition [njuːˈtrɪʃən] – výživa 3 to be overweight [ˈəʊvəweɪt] – mít nadváhu 4 muscle [ˈmʌsəl] – sval 5 fibre [ˈfaɪbə] – vláknina 6 blood sugar level [blʌd ˈʃʊgəˈlevəl] – hladina krevního cukru 7 pauper [ˈpɔːpə] – chudák, žebrák 8 heart attack [hɑːt əˈtæk] – infarkt

1 – Japan, 2 – Czech Republic, 3 – USA, 4 – France, 5 – Russia, 6 – Great Britain

Skipping breakfast is not as common in Great Britain as it is in the USA. Although the traditional British breakfast, also called a “fry up”, has a deep history, these days no one has much time in the morning. So now the British prefer toast with jam, or cornflakes with milk. But if you want to enjoy a real traditional British breakfast, you will get it in a Bed and Breakfast, or a B&B. B&Bs are small hotels made in family houses, and they are cheaper and friendlier than hotels. They will serve you with a huge breakfast, and you will not have to do the washing up!

Quiz

What did you learn about breakfast?

1. BBM stands for: a) Buying Bigger Muffins b) Bread, Butter, Milk c) Better Breakfast Month

3. Skipping breakfast can cause: a) blood sugar problems b) hearing problems c) speaking problems

2. Eating breakfast helps you to: a) be slower b) be smarter c) be fatter

4. B&B stands for: a) British and Breakfast b) Bacon and Bread c) Bed and Breakfast Solution on page 2

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ibals o can n d t a h st?

W reakfa b r o f eat t. ed h o s but ter

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E c o n om y

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Go Green, Go Local While I am writing this article, I am sitting in the Czech Republic, drinking a Scotch whisky, from a glass that was made in Russia by a Swedish company, and typing on a laptop made by a German company, which I bought in Australia and which has parts that were made all over the world.

We are living in an increasingly globalised world; what are the effects? / Seb Noltorp (AUS)

Do you “go green”? If so, you: a) dye your hair green. b) go to the woods very often. c) a ct and think in an environmentally friendly way.

Globalisation Globalisation means that companies, ideas and lifestyles are spreading more and more easily around the world, thanks to modern me­t hods of travel and communication. Unfortunately, globalisation has some negative impacts1 on the environment, economy and culture. For example, the unemployment rate2 in developed countries is growing because companies tend to outsource3 production to reduce operation costs4. Many

V ocabular y

impact [ɪmˈpækt] – dopad u nemployment rate [ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt reɪt] – míra nezaměstnanosti 3 o utsource production [ˌaʊtˈsɔːs] – přesunout výrobu do jiných zemí 4 o peration/transportation costs [ˌɒpəˈreɪʃən/ˌtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən kɒsts] – provozní/dopravní náklady 1 2

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big corporations and powerful nations protect mainly their own interests in a free market economy5.

They just want to maximise their profits. This system ge­nerates a lot of money through trade agreements6 and transportation costs, but the money has no benefit for the consumer7 because most of the money leaves their country.

Wasteful system The current system of global trade is incredibly wasteful8. There are some developed countries that are importing products which they do not need, or which they can produce themselves. We have apples being grown in one country, processed9 in another country, packaged in a third country, and then sent back to the country

f ree market economy [friː ˈmɑːkɪt] – hospodářství volného trhu 6 t rade agreement [treɪd əˈgriːmənt] – obchodní dohoda 7 c onsumer [kənˈsjuːmə] – spotřebitel 8 w asteful [ˈweɪstfʊl] – nehospodárný 9 t o process [ˈprəʊses] – zpracovat 10 t o save [seɪv] – ušetřit 5

that the apples started in. All this movement costs a lot of money. It uses a lot of fuel. It creates a lot of waste and pollution.

Localization To protect our planet from pollution, we just need to stop wasting so much energy. One of the possible methods is “going local”.

Focusing on local products saves10 fuel spent on transportation, supports local businessmen and farmers, makes us think more about what we actually need instead of what we just want, and eventually, perhaps, spend less money. All of this can make us happier. And isn’t that what we all really want?

Discuss

What Czech companies do you know? Do you use their products?

Why/Why not?

Look at some things that you own, like your clothes or mobile phone.

Where do they come from? What do you know about these countries?

What food do you eat that is grown locally? Do you like it?

What local products do you know?

Do you use any local products?

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