Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F),
Not Stated (NS).
The Lovely Banana
Bananas are popular all over the world. What a wonderful fruit the banana
is! Its three colours tell you how ripe (cnebi) it is. Green means go, as in
"go and find another banana". Yellow means "eat me". Brown means "eat
me but don't bother chewing before you swallow (rnotatb)". The only
thing that could make a banana more user-friendly is if you could eat the
peel. Plus, a banana is neat to eat. When you bite into it, you don't have
to worry about juice all over yourself and your neighbours (like oranges
or grapefruit, for example). And it's a silent food - you can chew it as long
as you like without driving your neighbours crazy with crunching sounds
(like apples or carrots, for example). Finally, it's easy to cut - you don't
need a knife. You can slice it with a fork or a spoon, if you like.
You're never too young or too old to eat bananas. Babies eat mashed ba-
nanas before their teeth grow in. Great-great-grandparents eat mashed
bananas after their teeth fall out.
The banana is various. You can fry it, bake it, mash it, or eat it raw. You
can slice it and put it on your breakfast cereal. At lunchtime you can have
a raw banana as a snack, or make a peanut butter and banana sandwich,
or eat a bag of dried bananas. You can add a banana to your ice cream
for dessert and call it a banana split. On weekends you can order a
banana milkshake at your local restaurant.
Bananas give us lots of vitamins A and C. The price of bananas is low. So,
millions of people enjoy this fantastic fruit.
