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Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: Slow Food

The document discusses the Slow Food movement which began in the Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The mayor of Greve and other mayors started the Slow Cities League to prevent their towns from becoming too fast-paced and losing their local traditions and culture. The Slow Food movement now has over 66,000 members worldwide and aims to promote traditional, high-quality, and sustainably produced food. It has helped save foods like pecorino cheese from becoming extinct and ensures local specialties are respected rather than replaced by fast foods everywhere. Greve wants to enjoy modern life but at a slower pace that respects its traditions.

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Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: Slow Food

The document discusses the Slow Food movement which began in the Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The mayor of Greve and other mayors started the Slow Cities League to prevent their towns from becoming too fast-paced and losing their local traditions and culture. The Slow Food movement now has over 66,000 members worldwide and aims to promote traditional, high-quality, and sustainably produced food. It has helped save foods like pecorino cheese from becoming extinct and ensures local specialties are respected rather than replaced by fast foods everywhere. Greve wants to enjoy modern life but at a slower pace that respects its traditions.

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book

Life
1f Page 19 VIDEOSCRIPT

Slow food
00.00–00.20 Chianti is a region in Italy. It’s between the famous cities of Florence
and Siena. It’s famous for its beautiful countryside and its vineyards.

00.20–00.48 In Chianti, there is a town called Greve. It has a population of 4,000


people, and it’s the centre of traditional products from the region. There are local
products like mushrooms and cheese. Greve is a place with tradition. A place where
time is slower.

00.48–00.59 Mayor Our aim is to keep Greve the same. We want to keep Greve
and all the other slow cities special.

00.59–01.17 The mayor of Greve and mayors from three other Italian cities started
the Slow Cities League. The purpose of the Slow Cities League is to stop their
home towns from becoming fast cities. That’s why the Slow Food movement
began.

01.17–01.34 The idea is simple. They want a good life with good food, family and
friends. Now the Slow Food movement is an international movement. It has more
than 66,000 members worldwide.

01.34–01.53 Greve resident It’s very nice to live here because we have a nice
atmosphere, we have nice landscapes … and so, when you have nice things to see, a
nice place to live in, it’s very easy.

01.53–02.06 Salvatore Toscano lives in Greve. In the past he ran an American-style


restaurant in Florence. All day, he served fast food, like burgers.

02.06–02.14 Five years ago he moved to Greve, and he opened a new restaurant.

02.14–02.22 Salvatore It’s about taking more time, so you are more calm and
relaxed. This means you also have to think about what you eat.
Life
02.22–02.39 In the mountains of Pistoia, in northern Tuscany,
farmers produce pecorino cheese.

02.39–02.52 They make it with the milk of black sheep twice a


day.

02.52–03.06 This traditional food was dying out. But the Slow Food movement
helped the farmers. Now the cheese is popular again.

03.06–03.18 Cheese maker Not everyone knows about our product, but now the
Slow Food movement means people know about us.

03.18–03.38 Farmer From Singapore to Macau, in New York, in Rome, you


always find the same pizza, the same hamburgers. Slow Food doesn’t want this.
Slow Food wants the specialness of every product to be respected.

03.38–end The city of Greve does not want to leave the modern world, but it wants
to enjoy itself … slowly.

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