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Unit 4 Listening 2

=__Guide__: Good morning ,Lords and Ladies. Welcome to Cosmeston Medieval village. = =__Jenny__; Lords and Ladies !! We are just a group of Year 9 students on a class trip!! = =__Andrew__: Quiet. Jennyfer!! He is an actor. He is talking like somebody from the 14th century. He knows we are students in Year 9 = = = =__Jenny__: Ok Andrew Hey something smells good. = =__Guide:__ We are making bread. Medieval people ate bread all day, you know. = =__Andrew__: Where did they make the bread? This doesn’t look like a kitchen. = =__Guide__: In the 14th century, they made bread in the fireplace. Have some. It is delicious. = =__Andrew__: Nlo thanks.I don’t like brown bread. = =__Guide__: Sorry, but there wasn’t any white bread in the 14th century = =__Andrew__: What about spaghetti and pizza? Did medieval people eat spaghetti and pizza? = =__Guide:__ No, they didn¡t.They didn’t have hamburgers either. = =__Jenny:__ So what did they eat? = =__Guide__: They ate bread- about 1000 grams a day, that’s is 1 kilo of bread a day. They also drank 3 or 4 cups of malt every day and they ate soup. = =__Jenny:__ A 1000 grams of bread dvery day? And cups of malt and soup too. Wow!! That’s thousands of calories. Were they fat then? = =__Guide__: They ate almost 4000 calories every day actually, but they weren’t fat. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">__Jenny:__ I can’t believe they ate 4000 calories every day and they weren’t fat. Wow!! = =<span style="font-family: Arial,serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">__Guide:__ You see the village people worked about 12 hours a day. They did physical work for 12 hours, so they needed all this food. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">__Andrew:__ 12 hours of work every day. We are lucky we didn’t live in the 14th century =