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Practice dictation & shadowing on the Cambridge IELTS 19 Academic Listening Part 3 Test 1.
Cambridge IELTS 19 Academic Listening Test 1 Part 3
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Speaker 2 (1)
I haven't seen you for a bit, Marie.
Speaker 3 (2)
No. I've been busy with my project.
Speaker 2 (3)
You're making a vegan alternative to eggs, aren't you? Something that doesn't use animal products.
Speaker 3 (4)
Yes. I'm using chickpeas. I had two main aims when I first started looking for an alternative to eggs, but actually I've found chickpeas have got more advantages.
Speaker 2 (5)
Right.
Speaker 3 (6)
But how about your project on reusing waste food?
Speaker 3 (7)
You were looking at bread, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (8)
Yes. It's been hard work, but I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (9)
The basic process was quite straightforward, breaking the stale bread down to a paste, then reforming it.
Speaker 3 (10)
But you were using 3D printing, weren't you, to make the paste into biscuits?
Speaker 2 (11)
Yeah, I'd used that before, but in this project I had time to play around with different patterns for the biscuits, and finding how I could add fruit and vegetables to make them a more appetizing color, and I was really pleased with what I managed to produce.
Speaker 3 (12)
It must have been a great feeling to make something appetising out of bits of old bread that would have been thrown away otherwise.
Speaker 2 (13)
It was, and I'm hoping that some of the restaurants in town will be interested in the biscuits.
Speaker 2 (14)
I'm going to send them some samples.
Speaker 3 (15)
I came across something on the Internet yesterday that might interest you.
Speaker 3 (16)
It was a company that's developed touch-sensitive sensors for food labels.
Speaker 3 (17)
It's a special sort of label on the food package.
Speaker 3 (18)
When the label's smooth, the food is fresh, and then when you can feel bumps on the label, that means the food's gone bad.
Speaker 3 (19)
It started off as a project to help visually impaired people know whether food was fit to eat or not.
Speaker 2 (20)
Interesting. So just solid food?
Speaker 3 (21)
No. Things like milk and juice as well.
Speaker 3 (22)
But actually I thought it might be really good for drug storage in hospitals and pharmacies.
Speaker 2 (23)
Right. And coming back to food, maybe it'd be possible to use it for other things besides freshness, like how many kilograms a joint of meat is, for example?
Speaker 3 (24)
Yes. There's all sorts of possibilities.
Speaker 2 (25)
I was reading an article about food trends predicting how eating habits might change in the next few years.
Speaker 3 (26)
Oh, things like more focus on local products?
Speaker 3 (27)
That seems so obvious, but the shops are still full of imported foods.
Speaker 2 (28)
Yes. They need to be more proactive to address that.
Speaker 3 (29)
And somehow motivate consumers to change, yes.
Speaker 2 (30)
One thing everyone's aware of is the need for a reduction in unnecessary packaging, but just about everything you buy in supermarkets is still covered in plastic.
Speaker 2 (31)
The government needs to do something about it.
Speaker 3 (32)
Absolutely. It's got to change.
Speaker 2 (33)
Do you think there'll be more interest in gluten and lactose-free food?
Speaker 3 (34)
For people with allergies or food intolerances? I don't know. Lots of people I know have been buying that type of food for years now.
Speaker 2 (35)
Yes. Even if they haven't been diagnosed with an allergy.
Speaker 3 (36)
That's right. One thing I've noticed is the number of branded products related to celebrity chefs.
Speaker 3 (37)
People watch them cooking on TV and then buy things like spice mixes or frozen foods with the chef's name on.
Speaker 3 (38)
I bought something like that once, but I won't again.
Speaker 2 (39)
Yeah. I bought a ready-made spice mix for chicken, which was supposed to be used by a chef I'd seen on television, and it didn't actually taste of anything.
Speaker 3 (40)
Did the article mention ghost kitchens used to produce takeaway food?
Speaker 2 (41)
No. What are they?
Speaker 3 (42)
Well, they might have the name of a restaurant, but actually they're a cooking facility just for delivery meals.
Speaker 3 (43)
The public don't ever go there. But people aren't aware of that.
Speaker 3 (44)
It's all kept very quiet.
Speaker 2 (45)
So people don't realize the food's not actually from the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (46)
Right.
Speaker 3 (47)
Did you know more and more people are using all sorts of different mushrooms now to treat different health concerns? Things like heart problems?
Speaker 3 (48)
They might be taking a big risk there.
Speaker 2 (49)
Yes, it's hard to know which varieties are safe to eat. Anyway, maybe now we...
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