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Sweets

Second Conditional

Date: Apr 29 2011

Themes: Food

Grammar: Second Conditional

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Chocolate chip cookies. Candy. Cake and ice cream. If you’re not drooling yet, you must not have a sweet tooth.

The US seems to be a nation of sweet lovers. Americans consume about 142 pounds of sugar per year, compared with just 8.3 pounds of broccoli! It sounds like many of us aren’t listening to our moms’ advice to eat our vegetables.

Ella doesn’t really have a sweet tooth. But Amy craves sugary foods. Hear them talk about their sweet-eating habits.

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Amy

Ella

Amy: Oh man, I should not have had that entire package of cookies. I have such a stomach ache.

Ella: For me, that’s kind of a weird craving. I’m just not very addicted to sweets. It’s never been a big deal for me.

Amy: Really? I wish I could say the same. Sugar is definitely the thing I crave more than anything else. Salty foods, you know, I don’t care about. But I just love sweets. I’m addicted to them.

Ella: What do you think it would take to make you just give them up?

Amy: I don’t know, I mean, if I…You know, I do other things to kinda keep my weight under control, and like…and be pretty healthy. Like I exercise and I try to eat well in other ways. Definitely if it ended up creating obvious help problems, or if I gained a lot of weight or something, I guess I would definitely try to give it up. But it would be really hard for me.

Ella: In my field of work we see all kinds of problems linked to sugar.

Amy: I know, I know it can cause so many problems. And Americans especially eat so much sugar. You know, we just love our pie, and…

Ella: Pop.

Amy: Yeah, our pop. I don’t drink pop, so that’s one thing that I have going for me. But like, cookies, chocolate, ice cream. Oh gosh, I love it all.

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Discussion

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Amy ate too many cookies, and now she has a stomach ache. Ella says she doesn’t understand why some people crave sweets so much. She doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth.

Amy loves sweets and doesn’t want to give them up, but she tries to be healthy in other ways. She says that if sweets started to cause health problems for her or if she gained a lot of weight, she would have to stop eating them. But it wouldn’t be easy.

Do you love sweets? What foods do you crave?

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Shymaa

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

i like sweeeets

kane charles

China

nice food。。。

Anna91

Poland

i likie sweets, but i’m not addicted to them. it’s so unhealthy to eat sweets in big amounts, if i crave sth really sweet, i replace bought products to fruits, which are also sweet :) but healthier

fsm1

Netherlands

I crave sweets but i try to keep myself from doing it everyday

sammi517

Hong Kong

i love eating chocolate cookies :P

but we shouldn't eat too many snacks. They're unhealthy for us

lqh青

China

I like sweets

Anrusch

Germany

I do love chocolate,nothing fancy just simple and plain milk chocolate. There is nothing better than feeling a piece of soft chocolate melt in my mouth. No wonder it can make you addictive ;) ...and actually there are days when i do crave for a piece ;)

isabel139

Peru

I like sweets :P, but don’t crave them… I crave cheese :)))

hirabosh

Iraq

i dont like sweets in summer

Ali Imran

Pakistan

I like sweets but not that much.

dd egypt

Egypt

i really like eating sweets , but i dont like to make it

Moly 20

Egypt

i love spicy foods so much

Moly 20

Egypt

iam not addicted to sweets like others

chief_wang

China

I DON’T EAT SWEETS, BUT IF I DO SOMETIMES, I ALWAYS HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH:))

jt1971y

South Korea

Sometimes I like to eat sweets especially after eating spicy foods because I have to be relax in my mouth and tongue.

haiyensony

Viet Nam

I like sweets too. But I'm not a sweet eater.

shristi

Australia

I like sweets so much but I can not take it everyday as my family background has sugar problem and I herd that diabetes is genetic problem so, I prefer not to eat so much sweet. Another reason is that I am very fatty. But once I start to eats sweets I can't give up them.

Hey, What you say guys!

Szancsuska

Hungary

I can’t give up nashing!!!! and I hate it because i want to loose weight and be more fitter but if i saw a bar of chocolate or something i would ate it up… i cant eat just 1-2 pieces of chocolate because if i taste it i cant stop….... and the ice-cream..yeah..oh my gosh!!

Pk butterfly

Pakistan

Hi….i Love chocolates,cookies and ice creams a lot ..well..sweets are very important part of our diet without sweets I think my life is incomplete and colorless!!

it's very important to captivate users towards your presentation…and U GUYS DID.It!!.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK..!!

THX!