An Old Food

10/10/2020 4:41:00 PM
Cheese. Image: Freepik.com

Do you know?

  • Cheese is nutritious food made mostly from the milk of cows but also other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, reindeer, camels and yaks.
  • There are around 2,000 varieties of cheese.

Let's explore!

Cheese. Image: Curiosity Magazine

 

Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

  • What did the man do?

  • What was the man's pouch made from?

What did the man do?

  • Shepherd
  • Farmer
  • Traveller

What was the man's pouch made from?

  • A sheep's stomach
  • A plant
  • A piece of cloth

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

An Old Food

Cheese is an old food. People have been eating cheese for thousands of years. Who made the first cheese? How did it start? No one knows for sure, but many people think it started with a man and a pouch.

The man was an Arab . He was traveling across the . He had a pouch made from a sheep's stomach. One day, the traveler filled his pouch with milk. Then he continued across the hot desert.

Later, the man went to drink his milk. He opened his pouch to find that it was no longer filled with milk. It was filled with cheese! The sheep's had digestive juices in it. There was rennet in the juices. The rennet with the milk in the heat and changed it to cheese.

Read and answer the following questions.

An Old Food

Cheese. Image: emborg.com

 

Cheese is an old food. People have been eating cheese for thousands of years. Who made the first cheese? How did it start? No one knows for sure, but many people think it started with a man and a pouch.

The man was an Arab traveler. He was traveling across the desert. He had a pouch made from a sheep's stomach. One day, the traveler filled his pouch with milk. Then he continued across the hot desert.

Later, the man went to drink his milk. He opened his pouch to find that it was no longer filled with milk. It was filled with cheese! The sheep's stomach had digestive juices in it. There was rennet in the digestive juices. The rennet reacted with the milk in the heat and changed it to cheese.

What was needed to react with the milk to change it into cheese?
  • juice
  • rennet
  • a sheep
  • a pouch

From the story, you can tell that cheese was invented _____.

  • thousands of years ago
  • one hundred years ago
  • ten years ago
  • one year ago

Most likely, the first time cheese was made, it was _____

  • raining.
  • planned.
  • not sunny.
  • not planned.

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

  1.  The rennet with the milk in the heat and changed it to cheese.
  2. There was rennet in the juices.
  3. The man was an Arab .
  4. The sheep's had digestive juices in it.
  5. He was traveling across the .

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

1. She is a seasoned .

2. We should eat healthy food that makes our systems work well.

3. You shouldn't go to work on an empty .

4. They were lost in the for nine days.

5. Some people can badly to certain foods.