English Listening B1 Episode 09 - Track 12
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
Exercise (Track 12 - Eating a Rainbow Diet):
In today's session, we are going to learn how a
can help us eat a balanced diet.
Many nutrition and health experts recommend that we eat at least
of fruit and vegetables a day. That's about twice as much as most people eat at the moment. A '
' is an amount of food for one person.
Why are fruit and vegetables so important? Well, they provide many of the
our body needs, especially vitamins
. These vitamins help our bodies to fight against
.
However, eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day does not mean eating five
. It is important to eat different fruit and vegetables because they each give our bodies slightly different
. No single food can supply all our needs, so we need to aim for a good
of colours and types.
You can use the idea of a
to help you. Try to eat one fruit or vegetable every day from the colours of the rainbow. So what fruit and vegetables are there for each colour? I will give you a few
, but I'm sure you will be able to think of many more of your own.
The first colour of the rainbow is
. What fruit and vegetables are this colour? The most obvious one is the
. This is one of the
foods you can eat. Canned tomatoes are just as good as fresh ones. And you can eat them
.
is our next colour.
both contain lots of vitamin C. The next colour is
. One of the most popular fruits is the
and these are really good for you, especially if you need some
fast. And they won't make you fat.
It is easy to think of lots of vegetables for the
section of the rainbow. But the best one is probably
because it contains many essential minerals and nutrients as well as large amounts of vitamin C.
Finally, the last colours of the rainbow include
. You might find it more difficult to think of things to eat from these colours. But as well as '
' grapes, which are really purple or red, there are also
and other berries, and for vegetables we can eat
. Blueberries are very good for your
- so if you find it hard to listen in class, eat lots more of them!
So, there are many kinds of food for each rainbow colour. But what's the best way to
them? We'll look at that in our next session.
