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Sweets
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Sweets
甜食

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.

巧克力曲奇、糖果、蛋糕和冰激凌……如果你还没有馋得流口水,那你肯定不爱吃甜食。
美国似乎是一个喜欢甜食的国度。美国人每年消耗大约 142 磅糖,而西兰花的消耗量仅为 8.3 磅!听起来就像我们很多人不听妈妈的话,不肯吃蔬菜一样。
艾拉不怎么爱吃甜食,但是艾米非常喜欢甜食。听听她们谈论各自的甜食嗜好吧。

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Amy

Amy

Ella

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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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?

 

Comments

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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!

10:38 AM May 01 2011 |

Szancsuska

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!! Yell

09:45 AM May 01 2011 |

Madline

Madline

Jordan

I DO like sweets more than anything …....and they let my life sweeter ;)

08:24 AM May 01 2011 |

Madline

Madline

Jordan

I love the sweets more than anything and I alwa

08:12 AM May 01 2011 |

Olya1106

Olya1106

Ukraine

I also like sweets. I like it most of all. I’m a sweet eater.

08:12 AM May 01 2011 |

CharleneTran

Viet Nam

i don't like sweets but i love ice cream..^^

07:13 AM May 01 2011 |

Edy Pontes

Edy Pontes

Brazil

I love eat chocolate as well, but i know that i need to do exercises, phisical activities after eat them…laughts


Please firends, add me and lets practice english in Skype too…my skype account is Mredypontes

09:51 PM Apr 30 2011 |

Bojana

Bojana

Serbia and Montenegro

I’m not so fond of eating sweets. I used to eat them all the time when I was smaller, but I guess I became sick of eating them after a while. I prefer some good fruit, actually, over candies and stuff, because any fruit kinda refreshes you, and somehow replaces water, whereas in case of sweets, you have to drink water afer eating them…. :)))

08:11 PM Apr 30 2011 |

vool220

vool220

Saudi Arabia

i love eat chocolate

08:04 PM Apr 30 2011 |

ilovepeace

ilovepeace

Hungary

gosh i love these cupcakes on the pic, they look delicious :DD


i also have sweet tooth i eat something sweet every day, a slice of chocolate or some cookies or even candy, and unfortunetely i eat sweets instead of fruits or vegetables. but they r soooo yummy^^


and ice cream :) at the beginning of spring and warm weather we eat it with my friend almost every day on the way home from school =)


yeah i crave sweets i think :P

04:42 PM Apr 30 2011 |

Wantstoknow

Bangladesh

Lawl that was nice.. this was myfirst lesson and it was 'sweet' haha

11:20 AM Apr 30 2011 |

taidva

taidva

Viet Nam

Sweets as Chocolate, cookies, candy, and ice cream are entirely good for young people who usually exercise everyday. However, eating them so much certainly causes some problems of your health. According to my opinion, If you have a sweet tooth you should do more exercises than give them up.

09:57 AM Apr 30 2011 |

tammya360

Taiwan

i have to admit that i have a huge sweet tooth. i guess i'm effected by my mom because she is such a great cookie baker!! 

06:04 AM Apr 30 2011 |

Nicte ha

Nicte ha

Mexico

My daughter and me usually are on diet, so when we find a candies & chocolates shop, I just usually tell to my daughter:


“Walk straight ahead quickly, dont watch and dont smell anything”Laughing


 

05:30 AM Apr 30 2011 |

Stitch

Stitch

Taiwan

I don’t like sweets as much, but I’m a suker for chips and salty snacks.

06:00 PM Apr 29 2011 |

deroz

deroz

Egypt

i abore sweets :) and i dont worry about gaining weigth …eating more sweets and work harder at the GYM :) ,,,,,,,see its simple 


LIFE IS GOOD U GOTTA LIVE IT FULLY :)

05:41 PM Apr 29 2011 |

Vina Novalina

Indonesia

I don't have much of sweet tooth but i cant deny that i love eat chocolate, cookies  and ice cream, they are my favorite foods , see how so interesting the appearance, make me drooling hehhe but i don't drink pop, better for me to drink water. yeahh they are right when they said that  you are what you are eat, it mean if u  wanna be healthy eat the kind of healthy foods too, so if u wanna be skinny should eat the skinny people o_o hehhe  (just kidding) lol!!!

05:26 PM Apr 29 2011 |

Futuristic

Futuristic

Philippines

I love sweets, but in a contrary I avoided it but it is attempt to eat those food. I crave food specially when I'm hungry any food will do.   

 

04:51 PM Apr 29 2011 |

i love life

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

specially  in the middle east the sweets very delicious and nufortunalety including many of suger and fat shortly this unheathy habit but what we can do the humain needs this sweetd from time to time i.m not addicted sweets but if i have it no problem i can eat much i dont care what  will happened in the future

03:57 PM Apr 29 2011 |

Emaskanderli

Azerbaijan

Cookies, chocolate, ice cream. I love it too)))))))))))))))))

03:25 PM Apr 29 2011 |

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