Page 19 - Close-Up B1 Students Book Form 3

Food, Food, Food!

A How much do you know about olives? Do the quiz and find out!
People have been growing People used to use olive
olive trees for oil to
a 2,000 years, a attack people,
b 4,000 years, b make cleaning products,
с 6,000 years. с fight religion.
Which country produces the We now know exactly why
most olive oil in the world? olive oil is good because of
a Spain a olive growers,
b Italy b ancient traditions,
с Tunisia с modern science.
В Quickly read the text and check your answers to the quiz.

С Read the incomplete sentence below. Then look at each gap
carefully. W hat type of word do you need for each gap?
Butter and olive oil are both fats but olive oil is a (1 ) fat and is
better (2) you because it (3) your body from (4)_______
Word Focus

crush: to press something very hard
and break it
harvest: to pick and collect crops
fresh: not preserved or old
improve: to make something better

Maria Alcala of Madrid speaks for many Mediterranean people Many olive growers keep their ancient traditions
when she says that "a meal without olive oil is boring". (1) and still harvest the olives (4) _i hand. "We
knows when the Mediterraneans first fell in love with harvest in the traditional way", says Don Celso, an i
olives because it was before people wrote and kept records. olive farmer from Tuscany, Italy. "It is less expensive
However, there is some evidence that people began growing to do it with machines but it's more a social thing.
olive trees around the Mediterranean Sea approximately Twenty people come to help with the harvest and
6,000 years ago. The Mediterranean countries still (2) we pay them in oil".
99% of the world's olive oil with Spain being the world's
biggest producer. Ancient civilisations used olive oil (5 )______
money and medicine. They even used it during war
From ancient times (3) _ today, the basic process of - they would heat it up and drop it down on the
producing the oil is the same. First, farmers crush the enemy! (6) days, it is still used in religious
olives. Then, they take the liquid and separate the oil from ceremonies as it was in ancient times. It is also great
the water. for making fish and cheese stay fresh. There are
oil soaps.