Poison

10/10/2020 3:47:00 PM

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Do you know?

  • Tomatoes increase in weight as they ripen, even after harvesting.
  • Believe it or not, tomatoes aren’t always red. They can be yellow, pink, purple, black and even white!

Let's learn more about this delicious fruit!

FACT: There are over 10 thousand varieties of tomato.

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Listen and choose the correct answer.

  • Why is Vitamin C in tomatoes good for your health?
  • Where did explorers bring tomatoes from South America to?

 

Vitamin C in tomatoes _____.

  • helps you see clearer
  • helps your cuts recover quickly
  • helps you eat well

Where did explorers bring tomatoes from South America to?

  • The USA
  • Europe
  • Italy

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

Poison

Something is on pizza. Something is in ketchup. Long ago, people thought that something was poison. They thought that if you ate it, you would get sick. You would at the mouth. You would feel great . You might even die. What was it?

It was the tomato! Tomatoes are good to eat. They have lots of vitamin C. They have lots of vitamin A. Vitamin C helps your cuts . Vitamin A helps you see.

Where did tomatoes come from? They came from South America. People grew and ate them long ago. brought them back to Europe. People in Italy were growing them by the late 1500s. People in the U.S. did not eat them until much later. They thought they were poison. Thomas Jefferson grew and ate tomatoes in the late 1700s. He helped people learn that they were good to eat.

Read the text and answer the following questions.

Ripe Tomatoes. Image: gardeningknowhow.com

Something is on pizza. Something is in ketchup. Long ago, people thought that something was poison. They thought that if you ate it, you would get sick. You would froth at the mouth. You would feel great pain. You might even die. What was it?

It was the tomato! Tomatoes are good to eat. They have lots of vitamin C. They have lots of vitamin A. Vitamin C helps your cuts heal. Vitamin A helps you see.

Where did tomatoes come from? They came from South America. People grew and ate them long ago. Explorers brought them back to Europe. People in Italy were growing them by the late 1500s. People in the U.S. did not eat them until much later. They thought they were poison. Thomas Jefferson grew and ate tomatoes in the late 1700s. He helped people learn that they were good to eat.

Where were tomatoes first grown and eaten?
  • Italy
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America

From the story, you can tell that people have _____

  • always eaten the same foods.
  • eaten new foods as they learn more.
  • never eaten foods from other places.
  • only eaten foods brought back by explorers.

Vitamin A _____

  • helps you see.
  • makes you get sick.
  • helps you heal your cuts.
  • makes you froth at the mouth.

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

  1. You would at the mouth.
  2. You would feel great .
  3. Vitamin C helps your cuts .
  4. brought them back to Europe.

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

  1. As people age, they tend to more slowly.
  2. When we open a bottle of soda, it will up.
  3. There are drugs you can take to reduce the .
  4. Columbus was a famous 15th-century .