1. Look at the diagram - what does it show?
2. What is plant domestication?
3. Have you ever gone collecting wild food? (Mushroom gathering, fishing, hunting etc).
Listening challenge:
A scientist is speaking about plant domestication. Which of the four statements below sums up her main idea?
A) Humans are the only species that domesticates other species.
B) Humans have created an imbalance in nature.
C) Most of the edible plants we think of as 'natural' are not in fact natural at all.
B) Humans have created an imbalance in nature.
C) Most of the edible plants we think of as 'natural' are not in fact natural at all.
D) Adult plants are poisonous but we can eat their babies.
Plants and human selection
Answer these and listen again to check.
19:00 - 21:20
1. All/most/some agriculture is unnatural.
2. For the last 200/800/2000/8000 years we have eaten unnatural plants.
3. In the real world plants want / don't want you to eat their babies.
3. All/most/some natural plants are bad for you.
4. By ______, the closer a plant is to its natural state, the ___likely it is to be toxic.
5. The process of deliberately planting selected plants (domestication) began about / exactly 8000 years ago.
6. Natural selection / human selection involved putting / taking many things into / out of plants.
How often do you eat bread?
Have you ever made bread? What kind? What is the process?
Look at these adjectives used to describe it... how do you pronounce them?
white black brown dry stale fresh unleavened sourdough hard hot baked dark fried coarse french warm grainy crusty sweet plain flat thin moldy heavy sacramental wholesome artisan multigrain homemade wholemeal whole-wheat sacred fresh-baked sourdough spongy
What's a "baker's dozen"?
Göbekli Tepe
2:29 - 4:30
Answer these and listen again to check.
19:00 - 21:20
1. All/most/some agriculture is unnatural.
2. For the last 200/800/2000/8000 years we have eaten unnatural plants.
3. In the real world plants want / don't want you to eat their babies.
3. All/most/some natural plants are bad for you.
4. By ______, the closer a plant is to its natural state, the ___likely it is to be toxic.
5. The process of deliberately planting selected plants (domestication) began about / exactly 8000 years ago.
6. Natural selection / human selection involved putting / taking many things into / out of plants.
How often do you eat bread?
Have you ever made bread? What kind? What is the process?
Look at these adjectives used to describe it... how do you pronounce them?
white black brown dry stale fresh unleavened sourdough hard hot baked dark fried coarse french warm grainy crusty sweet plain flat thin moldy heavy sacramental wholesome artisan multigrain homemade wholemeal whole-wheat sacred fresh-baked sourdough spongy
What's a "baker's dozen"?
Here are some useful 'bread' idioms: what do they mean?
a breadwinner
to know which side your bread is buttered
the best thing since sliced bread
to live on bread and water
a bread and butter job
to break bread with someone*
He is toast!
it landed butter side up
*What is the connection between bread and the word "company"?
Varieties of bread are endless:
naan, tortilla, roti, bagels, ciabatta, rye, pumpernickel, pita, focaccia, brioche, baguette, ficelle
Which are your favourites?
Write down a memory associated with bread.
E.g. When I was a kid my dad used to cut the bread so that one side of the slice was thicker. He called this a "doorstop".
E.g. When I was a kid my dad used to cut the bread so that one side of the slice was thicker. He called this a "doorstop".
Video: Bread - A Turning Point in Human History
Ceres - Roman Goddess of grain
1. Why are cereal crops (wheat etc) so important in the history of human civilisation?
2. Are you comfortable eating genetically modified wheats?
Pre-learn vocab
Stone Age
to sustain (a population)
nutrition
precariously
a strain of (wheat)
ridge
a mutation
a solid band
in the wild
trait
stork
harvest
This BBC documentary explores the beginnings of our modern cereal diet, back in the Stone Age in an area in the south of modern day Turkey:
Göbekli Tepe
2:29 - 4:30
Listen for main ideas
1. What kind of place was Göbekli Tepe? Why is it so important in human history?
2. Why was it so hard for ancient people in this area to collect wheat?
3. What crucial event in human history can be traced back here?
4. How exactly did people in this area figure out how to domesticate wheat?
Listen for detail
1. How far is the temple site from the Karaca Dağ mountains?
2. What is special about Einkorn wheat?
3. What is precariously attached to the wild plant?
4. collecting it _________ a huge problem
5. just the _______ of touches and look what happens
6. ________ it's hard to believe anyone would bother
7. That mutation has been __________ to here
8. What exactly is the difference between the wild strain of wheat and the genetically modified one?
9. What are some of the virtues of bread mentioned?
1. How far is the temple site from the Karaca Dağ mountains?
2. What is special about Einkorn wheat?
3. What is precariously attached to the wild plant?
4. collecting it _________ a huge problem
5. just the _______ of touches and look what happens
6. ________ it's hard to believe anyone would bother
7. That mutation has been __________ to here
8. What exactly is the difference between the wild strain of wheat and the genetically modified one?
9. What are some of the virtues of bread mentioned?
10. a f____________ly c__________d f____m of energy
it could be c______ , d_______d u__ and s_____d
What kind of bread is it?
Listening 2
The History of Bread with Dan Saladino
8:05 - 11:00
1.What images does the french baguette conjure up?
2. Why is the size of a baguette a symptom of modern life?
3. How big were loaves of bread in paris in the 19th century?
4. When was Ciabatta first baked?
5. Why could Ciabatta bread not have been made in earlier times?
6. Why is now the golden age of bread?
Injera (Ethiopian bread)
11:23 - 16:30
1. Why did everyone use to assume that bread was invented about 10,000 years ago?
2. What was discovered in a cave in Mozambique?
3. Why does it make sense that we ate wild grain before we began to cultivate it?
4. How does Injera taste?
5. How was first Injera probably cooked?
6. What did Nathan forget to do when cooking the Injera?
7. Why are grain foods so important in the story of civilisation?
8. What two micro-organisms are present in sourdoughs? What happens when they interact?
To try Injera, and the stews that go with it, go to Gojo Restaurant, New Lynn, Auckland
What are these words?
a trng nt
gntc mk p
tty btty
abndnt
hydrtn
dgh
to ascrb a prvnnce
nbknwnst
nn-stck ckwr
imprvs
lctc cd
What kind of bread is it?
Listening 2
The History of Bread with Dan Saladino
8:05 - 11:00
1.What images does the french baguette conjure up?
2. Why is the size of a baguette a symptom of modern life?
3. How big were loaves of bread in paris in the 19th century?
4. When was Ciabatta first baked?
5. Why could Ciabatta bread not have been made in earlier times?
6. Why is now the golden age of bread?
Injera (Ethiopian bread)
11:23 - 16:30
1. Why did everyone use to assume that bread was invented about 10,000 years ago?
2. What was discovered in a cave in Mozambique?
3. Why does it make sense that we ate wild grain before we began to cultivate it?
4. How does Injera taste?
5. How was first Injera probably cooked?
6. What did Nathan forget to do when cooking the Injera?
7. Why are grain foods so important in the story of civilisation?
8. What two micro-organisms are present in sourdoughs? What happens when they interact?
To try Injera, and the stews that go with it, go to Gojo Restaurant, New Lynn, Auckland
What are these words?
a trng nt
gntc mk p
tty btty
abndnt
hydrtn
dgh
to ascrb a prvnnce
nbknwnst
nn-stck ckwr
imprvs
lctc cd
Reflection
What was the most surprising or interesting fact you learned in this lesson?
What was the most surprising or interesting fact you learned in this lesson?
Which listening did you find the hardest?
Write down six words you learned in this lesson.
Write down six words you learned in this lesson.
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