Задание

Listen and complete the dialogue with the given phrases

  • eating meat
  • kill and eat animals
  • kinds of vegetarians
  • eggs and dairy
  • good for your health
  • eating unsafe food
  • eat less meat

H: Hi, Betty. How are you? You look wonderful. They say you have become a vegetarian. Is that true?

B: Quite true. I've stopped [ ] for a number of different reasons.

H: Really? What are they?

B: Well, I think it is wrong to [ ], then, it is too expensive and just not safe.

H: I know that there are several different [ ]. To what group do youbelong?

B: Some vegetarians eat fish but not meat. There are those who eat [ ] products things which come from milk, like butter and cheese but not meat, but I don't eat any animal or anything which comes from an animal. So, no meat, no fish, no milk and no eggs.

H: Wow! But what do you eat then?

B: Lots of things – fruit, vegetables, nuts, bread, rice.

H: And do you think it is safe and [ ]?

B: I'm sure of it. People have been vegetarians all round the world for thousands of years, and in Britain the number of them has grown quite a lot recently. Besides, you know, some people have become ill and even died after [ ].

H: But any food could be bad or unsafe. Why do you think that people become ill after eating meat?

B: I'm not saying that. But meat and fish can easily become unsafe. Well, Helen, agree that vegetarian food is much safer. By the way, about 5 percent of people in Britain today do not eat any meat, about 10 percent do not eat red meat, and most people say they [ ] now than in the past.