Joy English · Level C2 · Healthjoy-english.com
Reading a food label sensibly
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Follow practical health advice with warnings and comparisons.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- bewilder
- To confuse someone completely.
- descending
- Going down from largest to smallest.
- wary
- Careful because of possible danger.
- guarantee
- To promise that something is certain.
Answer key
- Food labels are designed to inform, but anyone who has squinted at one in a supermarket knows they can also bewilder.“Squinted” means looked with half-closed eyes. “Bewilder” is a verb here, with the object left out.
- Ingredients are listed in descending order of weight, so the first few items make up most of what you are eating.“Make up” means form. “Descending” has stress on the second syllable.
- Be wary of products advertised as natural or light, since neither word guarantees that the food is genuinely healthy.“Wary” rhymes with “fairy”. “Neither” takes a singular verb: “guarantees”.
- A far more useful habit is to compare the sugar and salt content of similar products before choosing one.“Far” strengthens “more useful”. “Content” here has stress on the first syllable: CON-tent.
- None of this demands perfection; the aim is simply to make slightly better choices more often than not.“More often than not” means usually. “None of this” takes a singular verb.