Slow down, you move too fast, p 70-71

Dear NI1 students,

This is the key to the Reading exercises on p 70 & 71 from your coursebook:

4.a
1. encourage             2 increase
3 ban                         4 promote
5 reduce                    6 protect

A.
1 Carlo Petrini, an Italian journalist. Because he saw that McDonald's had opened a restaurant un a beautiful square in Rome.
2 He thought it was tragic that people live too quickly to sit down to eat a proper meal and that they they only eat mass-produced food.
3 To encourage people to stop during they day and eat slowly, to use local shops and markets, eat out in small family restaurants, cook with traditional recipes.
4 It is now a global organization and has members in 100 countries.


B
1 It was inspired by the Slow Food movement. It was started by the mayor of Greve in Chianti in Italy.
2 Its aims are to make our towns places where people enjoy living and working and to protect things that make the town different.
3 It has spread all over the world, e.g. Japan, Australia, etc
4 Most people are very happy ("delighted") because they think it increases their quality of life. Teenagers aren't so happy. They have to travel 25 km to the nearest city if they want excitement.

VOCABULARY

government                     organization                           discussion
movement                        relaxation                               reaction

proposal                           happiness                                possibility
survival                            madness                                  similarity