Today we visit Scotland, to find out what a… SCOTLAND
schoolgirl thinks of her school meals.
Martha Payne is 9 years old. She … in a small LIVE
community in Scotland called Lochgilphead.
Like many … schoolchildren, Martha has a BRITAIN
meal at school in the middle of the day. In English,
we often call these … “school dinners”. Everyone MEAL
remembers the school dinners at their school –
perhaps they loved their school dinners, or they … HATE
them, or they remember funny things about … . THEY
At my school, way back in the 1950s, we sometimes
got bilberry tart and custard for dessert. I
remember that the bilberries … our tongues blue. MAKE
We used to go around sticking our blue tongues out
at each other.
Martha is … in the food at her school. INTERESTING
She is interested in how good it tastes, and how
healthy it is, and whether it contains any hairs!
A few months ago, she … to write a blog START
about her school dinners. She took her camera
into school, to photograph her school dinner, and
then she … the picture in her blog and told POST
… what she thought about the food. Most days, WE
she thought the food was OK, and on some days
she thought it was really good.
Children in other schools, and in other countries,
started to read Martha’s blog. Some of them … LEAVE
comments to say what they thought about
Martha’s school dinners. And some sent Martha
pictures of their own school dinners, and Martha
published … on her blog. Then Martha started THIS
to use her blog to raise money for a charity called
Mary’s Meals, which provides school meals for
children in poor communities in developing countries.
And at this point, the bureaucrats who run the education
system in the part of Scotland where Martha lives… BECOME
aware of her blog. And they … it. They did not want NOT LIKE
publicity about the food in their schools. Perhaps
they were afraid that people would start to criticize
their school dinners and say that they were … . HEALTH
They decided that Martha’s blog had to stop.
Martha’s head teacher told Martha the bad news,
and Martha was sad and wrote a final blog post to say
goodbye to her many readers.
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