OK, now I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about that for one to
two minutes. You will have one minute to prepare. Do you understand?
Yes.
Here is a pencil and paper for writing notes,
and here is your topic.
Please do not write anything on the topic paper.
I'd like you to talk about eating and food.
Alright! Remember, you have one to two minutes for this,
so don't worry if I stop you.
I'll tell you when the time is up.
Can you start speaking now please.
Well the last special occasion when I had a really enjoyable meal was actually
last lunar ... last Chinese Lunar New Year, and all my family members from my father's
side has came (come) to this meal to have dinner with my grandfather, and we are
have ... and we had an enjoyable meal because we share ... a great meal
together with steamed fish, Indian curry, chicken with soy sauce, and as my
grandfather is ... is a farmer in Hong Kong, so he grows a different ... all kinds of
vegetables like choy sum, bok choy and lettuce, so we had a quite a full meal
that day and that meal was so enjoyable because all my family members like 30,
40 of them came to my grandpa's home and have their dinner together, so you can
imagine the crowdedness [sic] and the happiness which we all share together and
most importantly of course is that we gave each other presents ... give each other
gifts in Chinese Lunar New Year after the dinner, and we had a long chat with
my cousins, and my father enjoyed drinking wine with his siblings
so we all enjoy ourselves in the last Chinese Lunar New Year meal.
Would you like to eat that meal again?
Well of course I'll would like to have that meal again, maybe next Chinese Lunar
New Year, because in every occasion where all my family members gathered together
is really a truly memorable
experience, and that we ... and as my grandfather is like 90 years old, I really doubt
that we can have many of those again, so I really treasure each and every
occasion.
Thank you.
Can I take the pencil and paper back please?
We've been talking about a special occasion when you have a really
enjoyable meal.
I'd now like to discuss with you one or two more general
questions relating to this topic.
First, let's consider learning about food.
Do you think children should be taught about healthy diets and cooking at school?
Well, I believe that it is important for children to learn about
diets and how to cook food in school.
Well, as a matter of fact in Hong Kong, in secondary school, we have a set of course
called home economics which includes culinary science in it and although I
only took a year from it but I really learned a lot from it ... it gives me
it provides me without cooking skills so that I don't need to have instant
noodles
every time I cook at home. I can cook some simple dishes like tomato with eggs and
maybe fried beef with some cucumbers,
yeah, and also knowing about diet is also important for children because
nowadays maybe some children are moderately obese. It is important for them
to know how to have a good diet, to have balanced health and more
importantly to be ... to stay fit.
So now let's move on to food aid.
Should rich countries help poor countries with
more than just food?
Well I believe that rich countries should help poor countries, not just
food but also other supports. Food is a kind of basic need for humans. It is
vital no doubt, but if we only give food to the poor people, they will never
get out of the poverty, so what we need to do, what we also need to do is to give
them education and opportunities to sell their products so that they could earn
money themselves instead of just being fed on.
So ...
and besides education, I think that to give them a fair trade is also important
as rich countries always dominant (sic) the resource in the poor country and gives them no
room to develop so it is important for them ... for the poor countries to have
their own resource and to sell it to others.
Do you think your town is doing
enough to educate the other poor countries?
Well in my town, I think that there are a lot of people ... who are willing
to volunteer to go to poor countries Iike Nepal to help the people there to
learn to have ... to receive education to eliminate literacy (illiteracy) ... to eliminate
literacy and most importantly the people in our town mainly go back to Mainland
China and to help those people who lives (sic) in the countryside far away from
cities to receive education,
yeah.