Hello, dear students!
Today you will work on describing processes. Let’s take a look at the first one:
How to fish.
Are you familiar with fishing?
Do you know how to get the food you eat everyday?
THE BIG BANG THEORY : PENNY TEACHES THE GUYS HOW TO FISH
This is the story of four brilliant scientists who are capable of understanding how the universe works but quite a disaster when it comes to interacting with people, especially with girls. They spend hours watching science fiction films full of unreal heroes. But all this changes "a bit" when a free-spirited beautiful girl, Penny, moves next door. In this short video, Howard, who is married to Bernardette, has to try to please his father-in-law by going fishing with him.Watch the video sequence and do the exercise below:
Watch the video and do the following activity.
Summarize the how-to-fish process seen in the video into 10 sentences describing the main features of the process and the steps you should not take. Write the description using passive voice and sequence words.
The following verbs can help your writing.
Pass out (not)
| Vomit (not) | Stick |
Pick up
|
Slice up
|
Gut
|
Name (not)
| Cut deep (not) | Grab |
Pull
|
Hook
|
Catch
|
1._______________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________
3._______________________________________________________
4._______________________________________________________
5._______________________________________________________
6._______________________________________________________
7._______________________________________________________
8._______________________________________________________
9._______________________________________________________
10._______________________________________________________
How to Make Olive Oil
Harvesting
Production of olive oil begins with the harvest. The picking of the olives starts as early as September, when the lives are under-ripe and still green. They yield little oil, but their flavor is intense. These oils have the longest shelf life and are richer in flavor and aroma. Oil from olives harvested early has a low percentage of acid and a deep green color.
However, most harvesting takes place between early November and late December.
The youngest green olives are handpicked off the branches, whereas riper olives are beaten or shaken down with rakes or sticks and collected on nets beneath the trees. Since olives are delicate, the best oils are made from olives that are picked by hand or by machines that do not beat or bruise the fruit. Leaves and small stones are removed.
Milling and Pressing
After gathering the olives, growers bring them to be pressed. Olives should be crushed within the first 24 or 36 hours of picking. If left to wait, the level of acidity rises, creating olive oil of poor quality. Just before being crushed, the olives need to be run through a washer to eliminate any remaining impurities. Generally the olives are crushed whole, without prior stoning.
The simplest and oldest method of crushing olives is with granite millstones, although other methods are now used. The olive paste obtained is layered on nylon or natural fiber mats which are stacked high with metal disks between them. These mats of olive pulp are then put under great deal of pressure from a screw or hydraulic press. The liquid produced by the pressing drains through the mats and is collected for the final separation.
This liquid is made up of water and oil that need to be separated from one another. The liquid is put through a centrifugal separator, where the rapid spinning eliminates all remaining water and all of the impurities from the oil.
After centrifugation, oil appears amber in color, with an opaque quality—a characteristic feature of superior oils. The more acidic the oil, the clearer and brighter it appears, and the worse it is for your health. Oils processed in this mechanical or hydraulic presses cannot be called virgin olive oil and is expensive. Cheaper
oils are produced by crushing the olives several times or by heating.
Taken from:
http://www.italiancookingandliving.com/olive_oil/oil_essentials/production.html
TASK
Complete the diagram with ten pieces of missing information from the passage “How to Make Olive Oil”.
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