The Reading / Listening - Seafood - Level 0

High levels of "forever chemicals" may be in seafood. Forever chemicals are man-made. They stay in our blood and lead to health problems like cancer and kidney problems. Researchers said we need safety guidelines, especially for things like prawns and lobster. People who love seafood may have to change what they eat.

Forever chemicals are found in food packaging and food containers. The chemicals are now in our food chain. A professor wants people to be aware of the risks, and to understand more about what is in the food we eat. She said: "Our recommendation isn't to not eat seafood."

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Seafood - Level 1 Seafood - Level 2   or  Seafood - Level 3

Sources
  • https://scitechdaily.com/dartmouth-research-uncovers-hidden-dangers-in-popular-seafoods/
  • https://www.newsweek.com/warning-toxic-forever-chemical-risk-seafood-diet-1889465
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12403-024-00640-w


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Forever chemicals are
  2. They stay in our
  3. health problems
  4. kidney
  5. we need safety
  6. things like prawns
  7. People who
  8. change what
  1. problems
  2. love seafood
  3. blood
  4. they eat
  5. and lobster
  6. man-made
  7. guidelines
  8. like cancer

Paragraph 2

  1. Forever chemicals are found
  2. food
  3. The chemicals are now in our food
  4. A professor wants
  5. be aware
  6. understand
  7. what is in the
  8. Our recommendation isn't to
  1. food we eat
  2. chain
  3. not eat seafood
  4. of the risks
  5. containers
  6. people
  7. more
  8. in food packaging

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

(1) ___________________ "forever chemicals" may be in seafood. Forever chemicals (2) ___________________. They stay in our blood (3) ___________________ health problems like cancer and kidney problems. Researchers said (4) ___________________ guidelines, especially (5) ___________________ prawns and lobster. People who love seafood may have to (6) ___________________ eat.

Forever (7) ___________________ in food packaging and food containers. The chemicals (8) ___________________ our food chain. A professor wants people (9) ___________________ of the risks, and to understand (10) ___________________ is in the (11) ___________________. She said: "Our recommendation isn't (12) ___________________ seafood."

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Highlevelsof"foreverchemicals"maybeinseafood.Foreverchemicalsa
reman-made.Theystayinourbloodandleadtohealthproblemslikeca
ncerandkidneyproblems.Researcherssaidweneedsafetyguidelines,e
speciallyforthingslikeprawnsandlobster.Peoplewholoveseafoodmay
havetochangewhattheyeat.Foreverchemicalsarefoundinfoodpacka
gingandfoodcontainers.Thechemicalsarenowinourfoodchain.Aprofe
ssorwantspeopletobeawareoftherisks,andtounderstandmoreabout
whatisinthefoodweeat.Shesaid:"Ourrecommendationisn'ttonoteats
eafood."

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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