Question

Read the text below. Match choices (A-H) to (1-6). There are two choices you do not need to use. English teenagers are to receive compulsory cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to combat the country's increasing obesity rate. It's feared that basic cooking and food preparation skills:

1)

D

Cooking 2)

as parents turn to pre-prepared convenience foods.

an integral part of education in England even

if it was mainly aimed at girls. In recent decades cooking has progressively become a peripheral activity in schools. In many cases the schools themselves 3) cooking meals in kitchens on the premises. But the rising level of obesity, has led to a rethink about the food that children are given and

the skills they should be taught.

The new lessons are due to start in September but some schools without

kitchens 4). There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers. with the right skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than practical cooking. Also the compulsory lessons for hands on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, believes it will be worth it. «If we'd done this thirty years ago, 5) the crisis we've got now about obesity and lack of

knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook,

not just so that they'll be healthy, but because it's a life skill which is a real

pleasure and we deny children that pleasure.

The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity. in Britain 6) and according to government figures half of all Britons

will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not halted.

A) will be given a longer period to adapt

B) might be able to eat C) was once regarded as

D) are being lost

E) we might not have

F) which is amongst the highest in Europe.

G) have given up

H) because of the sugar