Jamie’s School Dinners, Episode 3

1) What medical problems are appearing in kids as young as 5?

2) What is Jamie’s new tactic? How successful is it?

3) What do the kids do in protest?

4) What part of the canteen improves its business thanks to Jamie’s ban on junk food?

5) What food does Jamie ask the young Robert to help him with?

6) Why does Robert think that Spicy Chicken wrap is a bad idea?

7) How much does Jamie offer Robert to try his chicken wrap?

8) What kind of event does Jamie organize at his restaurant in September?

9) What does he serve at the event?

10) Where do a lot of the older kids of Kidbrook eat their lunches these days?

11) Why does Jamie complain about the parents?

12) When Jamie is training his new Dinner lady (Leslie) why does he complain about the pasta?

13) What does he ask Nora to do, when he comes for dinner?

14) Where will the dinner lady training camp be?

15) How many dinner ladies are going?

16) Why do the dinner ladies complain?

Vocabulary

Obesity	being overweight
Overcooked	cooked too much
undercooked	not cooked enough
Raw	uncooked
Tray	a large surface for carrying food
Recipe	list of ingredients
Flavouring	something added for better taste
Raspberry	red or black berries
Flour	product of crushed wheat or grain
peas	leguminous plant
broccoli	type of cauliflower
bone	part of a skeleton
fat	grease
Throw s.t up	vomit
Spit s.t out	expel from mouth
Chuck s.t away	throw s.t away
Check up on (s.o)	check s.o’s progress
Persist	endeavour
moan	whinge (complain)
reduce	decrease

Use the vocabulary (in the correct form) in the following sentences

1) Jamie’s healthy meals are rather unpopular at first and the kids?????? the food?????

2) Some of the children even protested and refused to clean their??????

3) But Jamie?????? with his campaign against??????

4) When Jamie tries giving the children fish and vegetables many of them???? it????? straight away.

5) Eating food with too much????? can lead to heart disease so we should do our best to????? the amount in our diets.

6) The doctor explained that many children???????? their food and were constipated.

7) The dinner ladies?????? when they were working for 10 hours on the camp.

8) And Jamie complained that the dinner ladies didn’t follow his????? and often?????? or?????? the meat, rice and pasta.

What do the following expressions mean?

I’ve lost the plot

They haven’t got a clue how to cook

We have to get their cooking up to scratch, and fast.

Discussion questions

1) Why do you think that a minority of schools in the borough decided NOT to try the healthy food campaign?

2) Why do so many of the children refuse to try the healthy food? What tactics would you use to make them try something new?

3) Is the show completely fair in its treatment of dinner ladies? Or does it represent them in a bad way?

4) What do you think of how Jamie interacts with the children? Is it appropriate for teachers to behave this way?

5) What do you think is the main cause of obesity in children?

Answers

1) compacted faeces is being vomited because of blockage in the colon.

2) Junk food is banned. It goes very badly – the kids refuse the healthy stuff and complain.

3) Refuse to clean up their trays

4) Sandwich counter

5) Sandwiches

6) Kids don’t like spices very much

7) 100 quid! (100 pounds)

8) All the head teachers in the borough are asked to come to dinner at Jamie’s restaurant and decide whether they would like their school to participate in Jamie’s Healthy food campaign.

9) The same school dinner he served the kids at Kidbrook school.

10) They go off the school premises to fast food places

11) They bring fast food to the school at lunch time and pass it on to their kids.

12) Its overcooked.

13) He wants her to help him train all the other dinner ladies to cook his healthy dinners.

14) Army training camp

15) 60

16) They have been working for 10 hours and then dinner arrives an hour late

Obesity

being overweight

Overcooked

cooked too much

undercooked

not cooked enough

Raw

uncooked

Tray

a large surface for carrying food

Recipe

list of ingredients

Flavouring

something added for better taste

Raspberry

red or black berries

Flour

product of crushed wheat or grain

peas

leguminous plant

broccoli

type of cauliflower

bone

part of a skeleton

fat

grease

Throw s.t up

vomit

Spit s.t out

expel from mouth

Chuck s.t away

throw s.t away

Check up on (s.o)

check someones progress

Persist

endeavour

moan

whinge (complain)

reduce

decrease

1) Jamie’s healthy meals are rather unpopular at first and the kids chuck the food away

2) Some of the children even protested and refused to clean their trays

3) But Jamie persisted with his campaign against obesity

4) When Jamie tries giving the children fish and vegetables many of them spit it out straight away.

5) Eating food with too much fat can lead to heart disease so we should do our best to reduce the amount in our diets.

6) The doctor explained that many children threw up their food and were constipated.

7) The dinner ladies moaned when they were working for 10 hours on the camp.

8) And Jamie complained that the dinner ladies didn’t follow his recipes and often overcooked or undercooked the meat, rice and pasta.

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