Part A   Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver

 

Vocabulary Preparation:

 

chef   n. a professional cook 厨师

cafeteria   n.arestaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier 自助餐厅

asparagus   n. the tender young shoots of this plant, eaten as a vegetable andconsidered a delicacy 芦笋；笋尖

vending machine a machine that you can get cigarettes,chocolate, drinks etc from by putting money in 自动售货机

campaigner   n. someone who leads or takes part in a series of actions intendedto achieve a particular social or political result 活动家；发起运动的人

diabetes  n.any of several metabolic disordersmarked by excessive urination and persistent thirst 糖尿病

pre-packaged   adj. prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale（出售前分质按量）预先包装的

preservative   n. a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay ordecomposition 防腐剂；保存剂

that sums it all up used to saythat a description of a situation is correct 所说情况均属实

leek   n. a vegetable with a long white stem and long flat green leaves,which tastes like an onion 韭；韭葱

set one’s sights on to want to do something very much, or to be aiming todo something以…作为自己的目标

immoral  adj.deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong 不道德的

go against the grain to be not what you wouldnaturally or normally do 格格不入；违反意愿

strip down to remove something that iscovering the surface of something else 脱去；去除

zucchini   n.a long vegetable with a dark green skin绿皮密生西葫芦；小胡瓜

the sky is the limit used to say that there is no limitto what someone can achieve, spend, win etc 没有任何限制；一切均有可能

 

 

Notes:

 

James Trevor 'Jamie' Oliver(born 27 May 1975), frequently nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an Englishchefand media personality, well known for his role incampaigning against the use of processed foods in national schools. The restaurant and itsaccompanying TV series, Jamie's Kitchen,have both been huge successes. There are now three more Fifteen restaurants, inAmsterdam, Melbourne and Cornwall. 杰米·利佛（英国知名厨师，英国电视厨艺节目主持人）

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in theblood. It begins when the body does not respond correctly to insulin, a hormonereleased by the pancreas. It is the most common form of diabetes. Familyhistory and genetics play a large role in type 2 diabetes. 二型糖尿病

Essex / 5esIks / is a county in the southeast of England. The county town isChelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near thevillage of Langley, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches482 feet (147 m). 艾塞克斯（英国英格兰东南部的一个郡）

The Naked Chef(1998-1999) was Oliver's first series. The title was a reference to thesimplicity of Oliver's recipes, and has nothing to do with nudity. The successof the programme led to the books Return of the Naked Chef and HappyDays with the Naked Chef. 《裸厨》（英国电视厨艺节目）

Emeril John Lagasse (born October 15, 1959) is an American celebrity chef,restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional JamesBeard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows EmerilLive and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick itup a notch!” and “BAM!” 埃莫莱尔·约翰·拉各斯（美国名厨，厨艺作家）

Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey), one of thebest-known and most influential American chefs since the 1970s, is creditedwith single-handedly creating a culinary revolution in the United States. She isthe founder and co-owner of Chez Panisse, the original "CaliforniaCuisine" restaurant in Berkeley, California, as well as the informal CaféFanny in West Berkeley. Her ideas for "edible education" have beenintroduced into the entire Berkeley school system, and with the current crisisin childhood obesity, have attracted the attention of the national media. 爱丽丝·路易斯·沃特斯（美国名厨）

Harlem / 5hB:lEm / is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, longknown as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. 哈莱姆（纽约著名黑人居住区）

Berkeley / 5b\:klI / is acity of western California on San Francisco Bay north of Oakland. A branch ofthe University of California is here (established 1872). 伯克利（美国加州西部城市）

 

 

Exercise1: Listen to the news report and get the main idea.

      

What is the mainpoint of the report?

A. A highly popular television show by acelebrity chef named Oliver.

B. A celebrity chef who wants to changechildren’s unhealthy diet in schools.

C. A success story about a young man whodesires to become a famous cook.

D. Some constructive suggestions about whathealthy food students should eat at lunch.

 

Exercise2: Listen to the news report again and fill in the blanks with the exact wordsor phrases.

 

Bob Woodruff: Finally tonight,our person of the week. If you’ve taken a closer look at what your children areactually eating these days at the school cafeterias, you’ll     1     what he is trying todo. He’s replacing French Fries with asparagus, dumping the vending machinesand believe it or not, most of the kids     2    .

Jamie Oliver: Everyoneloves to have, something they’re good at. You just have to try hard to makesure you find out what it is and not waste time trying to do the things you arenot good at, you know?

Jamie Oliver (frying fish): Look at that,quick, look at that. Fantastic!

Bob Woodruff: Jamie Oliver is good at a lot of things.

Jamie: So move and actions.

Bob Woodruff: He's only 30 years old, and already he's a celebrity chef, an author, awildly successful businessman, and most recently, a     3    .

Jamie Oliver (in a campaign): Nice tomeet you all. Listen.I’m going to be here for the next couple of months.

Jamie Oliver:England has the most unhealthykids in Europe. America has some of the most unhealthy kids in the world, youknow, with regards to     4     , Type-2 diabetes, and I just think it's areal shame.

Bob Woodruff: Nearly five billion lunches were served in the US last year. Most of it,Oliver says, is pre-packaged, processed, and full of     5     and chemicals.

Jamie Oliver:I realized that there were morestandards in place for dog food than there were for our own kids, and that justsums it all up. (You have to have a little bit, darling.)

Bob Woodruff: Oliver took on nearly 60 schools in London and promised to deliverhealthy food to every kid for the same price, 21,000 meals a day, and all the while,Oliver filmed the process for a TV program.

Broadcast Voice: Can Jamie Oliver change what Britain’s kidseat at school?

Jamie Oliver:Who knows what this is?

Student 1: onions?

Jamie Oliver:onions? No. Sit down.

Student 2: Is it leek?

Jamie Oliver:No, not leek, no. I can’t believeit. I think I’m going to pass out.

Bob Woodruff: It was not a quick sell.

Kids: JamieOliver go away. Jamie Oliver go away.

Bob Woodruff: But kids eventually ate and like the food.The TV program raised public’s awareness and forced the British government to     6    . Here he is at lunch with Sectary of Education.

Sectary of Education: That, is miles, miles better thanthat. Nobody could answer that at any level.

Bob Woodruff: Britain committed more than $500 million to improve school lunch, andnow Jamie Oliver     7      America's lunchrooms — 20 percent ofschool-age children in America are obese.

Jamie Oliver:It's wrong, it's immoral. Who onearth is policing it? Who in the government has aspirational hope for yourkids? No one.

Bob Woodruff: Jamie Oliver was born into the business. His fatherowned a pub in Essex. Oliver was working weekends at the pub when he was eight.He went on for formal chef training, and by the time Jamie Oliver was 24, hehad his own cooking show. You might know him better as the "NakedChef."

Jamie Oliver:It was about kind of going againstthe grain of all the original old cooking shows, you know. It’s like strippingdown the food, stripping down the pretension, no cheffy talk.

Bob Woodruff: At thirty, Jamie Oliver says he's a pretty content guy.

Jamie Oliver (to his daughter): This ischicken. This is zucchini…

Jamie Oliver: He savors any free time he canget with his wife, Jooles, and two daughters.

Jamie Oliver: Quite frankly, and now I am a father of twobeautiful young girls. I'm     8      about kids and children. (Who’s ready for a nice meal?) What's morebeautiful in life than the next generation of people that are going to be thecooks or the writers or, do you know what I mean? I think we have to make surethat     9      for our kids, you know?

Bob Woodruff: And so we choose Jamie Oliver. Because ofhim, this week Britain banned all junk food, all vending machines and allprocessed meat from its schools. He says that’s      10     . There are alreadysimilar projects in the US to bring healthier food to schools. Famous Americanchef Emeril Lagasse and Alice Watershave reinvented menus of Harlem, New York andBerkeley, California.