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Bananas are very popular fruits all over the world. They have essential nutrients that helps keep you healthy.
Here’s an article that’s all about bananas. Read about the facts of this well-known fruit and how important it is in some regions or countries.
http://www.english-online.at/biology/bananas/bananas.html
Discussion Questions:
1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
In my country, Spain, the common fruits are oranges from Valencia, strawberries from Huelva and grapes from Murcia among others.
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
Spain is a big exporter of olive oil, ceramics and wine, each region has a special label for their products which guarantee their origin and make they uniques.
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I love to eat bananas with cereal and milk in the morning, beans with potatoes and garlics for lunch and salad of tomatoes, corn, tuna, olive oil and vinegard for dinner. I eat any kind of fruit between hours every day, apples, kiwis, peaches… But if I had to choose one of them I would choose watermelon no doubt.
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
The banana, apple, oranges, tangerine, strawberry, watermelon, figs.
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
Spain export fruit like oranges, tangerine and watermelon
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I like to eat all kind the fruits and vegetable. In case of fruit it like to eat them in fruit salad.
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
Spain is a large fruit producer in the EU, where we export a high percentage of the production. The most important fruits produced are: orange, peach, watermelon, strawberry, apple,…
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
The most important food products that Spain exports are: fruits such as oranges, strawberries, peaches…, vegetables, olive oil (our liquid gold), pork,…
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I really like strawberries from southern Spain, cherries from the Jerte Valley (in this place the cherries have a lot of quality) and peaches from Aragon
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In Spain the common fruits are oranges, tangerines and Canarian banana.
Spain exports all of kind fruits and vegetables and variety of products. In fact, much of the production in spain is grown for other countries. The products are more export are olive oil, wine or Iberian ham.
The fruits like citrus, kiwis, watermelon, and melon are usually export to north European countries. The vegetables more export are tomatoes, peppers and eggplants.
My favorite fruit is papaya and I try eating it each morning. In summer I eat a lot of much fruit than winter but I try to eat all year apples, bananas, and blueberries.
With respect to vegetables, I eat almost everything and I like them wok cooked, baked or grilled.
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In my opinion, the more common fruits that are eaten in my country are bananas, apples, and kiwis, oranges, and mandarin when it’s the time.
As I could read, Spain is the first exporter of strawberries, melons, mandarins, peaches, and lettuces.
In my case, I specially love bananas, mangos, and spinaches. I’ve always been a good eater, so I like to combine different fruits, use fruits in salads, in milkshakes, in pancakes or alone. In terms of vegetables, I also like eating salads, or grilled vegetables, but spinaches are one of my favorite vegetables, specially when they’re cooked by my mum or my grandma: I like them au gratin, in cannelloni, with cream, with potato, pan-fried with garlic, and raw, in salads. Everything is ok.
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
In Spain oranges of Valencia and bananas (plátanos) of Canarias are the most common fruits.
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
There are many products that Spaint exports to other countries. Wine (Galician wines are the best: “albariño”), olive oil and Iberian jam is delicious. Galician exports fishery products: octopus, seafood..
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I like all fruits, but my favorites are strawberries, cherries and peaches. I usually eat every day an apple with the dinner.
The vegetables, I like to eat at grill or at boil with olive oil.
Salad is my favorite dinner in the summer: lettuce, tomato, cheese, tuna or grilled chicken with nuts and cesar sauce…it´s delicious!
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1.- There is a lot of common fruits in Spain, We also have tropical fruits, the weather in some places in Spain is so kind that we have fresh fruits and vegetables out of season.
Also noticed that most of the fruits that grow nowadays in Spain comes from other countries (historically), like oranges (original trees came from China) or bananas (South America) , potatoes, tomatoes….
We have oranges, pears, apples, banana (called platano), melon, watermelon, mango, avocado, tomato, strawberries and other berries like raspberries, blueberries….
2. Because of the kind weather in some places in Spain, we export to Europe all kind of vegetables (that grow out of season) and fruits. Also we export olive oil, vine and processed pig (like ham)
3. I prefer to eat fruits and vegetables raw. Also prefer the tasty ones like the ones that are in season. Strawberries and Carrots are my favourite
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One of the most famous an exported fruit from Spain is orange. Spain is also well-known for olive oil, ham or Paella and “Tortilla de Patatas” if talking about more elavorated food. I think olive oil is very demanded offshore.
I have eaten vegetables cooked in different ways:row, steamed, fried,mixing some of them. All of them are delicious.
Regarding fruits I like to eat them as a dessert.
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1. The common fruits that I have in my country are pears, grapes, apples, oranges, peaches, melon, watermelon… these are only a few of the common ones
2. Spain exports many products but the most popular ones are: wine, olive oil and pork meat
3. I like all kind of fruits and vegetables and I prefer to eat the ones that have been harvested in the season.
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The phrase ‘in season’ means (of a fruit, vegetable, or other food) grown or available at the time of year in question. It will be better to use this expression in this case:
1. Apples, orange (of Valencia for example), tangerines, bananas (of Canarias for example) watermelons, the other watermelon but it’s white or yellow inside and it’s typical of summer (I don’t know the english name of this fruit)…
2. The wine, the olive oil, the ‘jamón serrano’ and the other products make with parts of pigs.
3. I like so much the red and green peppers. I like onion and sweet potato. Normally I use this vegetables to make my food.
I like the fruits that are sweets, like banana.
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
The common fruits that there are in my country is watermelon, melon, peach, oranges, pear, bananas too.
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
My country cultivates a lot of fruits and vegetables and more of them are export to other countries. But there are other products typical of Spain that are export too, for example Jamon Serrano.
If you go to other country to buy exports products, the price of them is very expensive.
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I like all the vegetables, I dinner vegetables manny of the days and I eat them boilt and add them olive oil, or I cook them in a ommelette.
The fruits I like eat them on summer, on winter I don’t usually so much eat fruit, but oranges and bananas is the only fruit that I usually eat.
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1. What are some of the very common fruits that you have in your country?
The common fruits that I have in my country are apples, oranges and peaches.
2. Talk about some of the food products that your country exports.
There are some food products that my country export like olive oil, wine and serrano ham. I think there are more, but I do not know which they are.
3. What are some of your preferences when it comes to fruits and vegetables and how do you like to eat them?
I like the majority of fruits and vegetables, but I prefer oranges in winter and peaches in summer.
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I was a funny class, we discussed about Bananas and their variety and in the differents kinds of preparations about the world. I learnt new vocabulary and practiced some topics in english that are not usual in my routine.
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