Prime Time 1, Coursebook

d) Draw your own food pyramid and answer the questions for yourself. 1. What is your favourite food? 2. Where is it in the food pyramid? 3. How many servings should you have every day? 4. Do you have more or fewer? Be honest l Reading: It’s all about tomatoes Where are tomatoes in the food pyramid? Take a guess: vegetable or fruit? What do you remember? Study these two pages for three minutes. Close your book. Then write three facts from the texts in your exercise book. 2 You probably think tomatoes are the red vegetables we make into ketchup or tomato sauce for pizza, right? But are they really vegetables? Believe it or not! In fact, tomatoes are … fruit! So, how do you decide if something is a fruit or vegetable? The big question to ask is, does it have SEEDS ? If the answer is yes, then it’s a FRUIT . So a tomato is a fruit. So is a banana a fruit or vegetable? Hmmm. Did you know? The world’s heaviest tomato weighed 3.51 kg. It grew in Oklahoma, USA, in 2013. Tomato ketchup is good for you! Scientists say ketchup can protect your skin from the sun. So pass the ketchup, please! The most tomatoes from one plant: 32,194. That’s a lot of tomatoes! No, you eat it, silly! 3 131 16 one hundred and thirty-one Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv