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UNIT 2
EDUCATION
2.1. TEXT ANALYSIS
Read the text and find out what the aim of these cooking classes is.
COMPULSORY COOKING CLASSES
English teenagers are to receive
compulsory cooking lessons in
schools. The idea is to encourage
healthy eating to combat the
country's spiraling obesity rate. It's
feared that basic cooking and food
preparation skills are being lost as
parents
turn
to
pre-prepared
convenience foods.
The new lessons are due to start in September but some schools without kitchens
will be given longer to adapt. There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers with
the right skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than
practical cooking. Also the compulsory lessons for hands on cooking will only be
one hour a week for one term.
But the well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, believes it will be worth it. She said: "If
we'd done this thirty years ago we might not have the crisis we've got now about
obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how
to cook, not just so that they'll be healthy, but because it's a life skill which is a real
pleasure and we deny children that pleasure."
(Adapted from BBC Learning English by Jon Devitt)
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