1. Objectives
Explain what food miles are & describe the global advantages and disadvantages of importing food.

2. Food Miles What I know already. What I want to know.
Draw this table into your books and complete the first two columns that last will be filled in at the end of this lesson.
Food Miles
What I know already.
What I want to know.
What I have learnt.

3. Starter: With the items you have been given sold in shops in Beijing, find out their origin (where they are from) and label them onto the world map with the help of an atlas.Draw lines connecting these countries to Beijing and the food type imported here.
Teacher: Bring different packets of food products from different countries (realia)/ show slides of food products for each of the continenets.
Print out a blank world map for each ss to glue in their notebookss
Tomatoes from Spain.
Tea from India

4. Cashewnuts from India
Bananas from Costa Rica

5. Kiwi Fruit from New Zealand
Coffee from Kenya

6. Chocolate from Cote d’ivoire
Strawberries from Israel

7. Copy the sentences into your book filling in the blanks.
Activity 1
Copy the sentences into your book filling in the blanks.
Food miles are the measure of the ____________ a food travels from field to plate. This travel adds greatly to the ___________ ___________ emissions that are contributing to ____________ change. ____________ per cent of the fruit and half of the vegetables in Europe are __________. The amount of food being _________ into the Europe____________ in the 1990s and is predicted to rise further each year. Consumers are also directly responsible for increased food miles. We now travel further for our shopping and use the ______ more often to do it.
Print this out for ss to save time.
Missing words:
Ninety-five flown climate distance imported car carbon dioxide doubled

8. Advantages Disadvantages
Sort the cards provided into the advantages and disadvantages of food miles.
Advantages
Disadvantages
Print the cards for a pair of ss

9. By importing food we generate large amounts of CO2 causing global warming. The countries that will be most effected are those we import from. Many African countries will have drought and not be able to farm any more.
Producing this food has transformed communities. Now young people want to stay in farming because there is money and a future in it. They can have smart phones and good clothes by living here not in a city.
We use the money from producing our crops for both our children to be in primary school and to build a new home and put in electricity.
Sorting cards. Print these, cut out an give to ss to sort in groups.

10. By travelling by car to supermarkets we are contributing to global warming so in the future many areas may become flooded while others become desertified.
What do Europeans want – to see us all stay in poverty, to come to Europe looking for jobs? By exporting these crops we can earn more and invest in better lives and future developments.

11. Food transported across the world burns up a lot of fossil fuel and contributes to global warming.
The direct social, environmental, and economic costs of food transport are estimated at over £9 billion each year.
Our farming contributes little to global warming. We use people to weed fields not tractors. I wonder whether stopping the export of out produce to Europe would stop the planes flying and whether that would really reduce the carbon emissions?

12. Plenary/Homework
Should we import our food from abroad. Give a reason for your answer.
Complete the last column in your table: What I have learnt.