7 CLASS 5 UNIT VIDEO

Read the text and answer the questions.

Britain – the sweet-toothed nation!

Before the Industrial Revolution, sweets and chocolates were made by hand. They were expensive luxury items which only rich people could buy. The Industrial Revolution changed this because very large amounts of sweets and chocolates could be made by machines in factories and that made them much cheaper. The fi rst chocolate bar was invented by Joseph Fry in 1847 and milk chocolate was invented in 1875. The best-selling chocolate bar in the UK now is Dairy Milk, which Cadbury’s have made since 1905. The largest chocolate bar ever made was made by the British chocolate company Thornton’s in 2011 to celebrate their 100th birthday. It was four metres long, four metres wide, and weighed almost six tonnes! Today the UK is one of the biggest consumers of sweets, chocolates, cakes, and desserts in Europe. The famous British ‘sweet tooth’ (love of sugary things) means that British people eat about 669,000 tonnes of chocolate each year – around 11 kg per person – and they spend £4 billion every year on it.

1. How were sweets made before the Industrial Revolution?

2. When was the fi rst chocolate bar invented?

3. What is the most popular chocolate bar in the UK today?

4. Who made the largest ever chocolate bar? Why?

5. How many kilos of chocolate do British people each eat a year?

6. How much money do they spend on chocolate each year?

Look at the words below. Watch the video. Tick the things that you see.

Watch the video again. Match numbers 1–4 with the things they refer to a–d.

Complete the extract. Write one word in each gap.

Ronnie: Maybe I       get my mum sweets for her birthday!

Conor: What      of sweets does your mum like?

Ronnie: What have you got?

Conor: Well,     about this?

Ronnie:       …

Conor: Or      about this?

Label photos A–F from the video with the actions in the box.

Decide if the sentences below are true (T) or false (F).

1. Ronnie is reporting from a café.       [true, false]

2. Conor teaches people how to make sweets by hand.       [true, false]

3. Ronnie has forgotten to buy his mum a birthday card.       [true, false]

4. Ronnie decides to buy a candy rose.       [true, false]

5. Conor adds yellow colouring to the sugar syrup first.       [true, false]

6. Conor twists the colours into a rainbow.       [true, false]

7. Ronnie’s lollipop looks the same as Conor’s.       [true, false]

8. Ronnie is happy with the lollipop that he made.       [true, false]