B2 – Upper Intermediate
Baking a single-tiered cake at home takes about 25-30 minutes. However, decorating it is another story. It usually takes about 4 hours or longer to make one cake. However, one factory manages to decorate eight cakes in a minute.
Here’s a full video and watch how the workers do it.
Vocabulary Discussions
Explain the meaning of the highlighted words below and make some sentences.
1. Start by scraping the icing to make sure that the icing goes into the holes of the stencil.
2. My handmade snowflakes are finally getting their starring role.
3. 480 cakes are boxed and conveyed towards the end of the line.
Discussion Questions
1. How does the video make you feel?
2. Discuss how the cake assembly lines in the video make it possible to decorate eight cakes a minute.
3. The workers use stencils to decorate cakes at a fast pace. Can you think of other tools or methods that help to speed up tasks?
4. Do you like decorating things? Talk about the best decoration you have ever made.
5. Have you ever witnessed a high-speed production process like the cake assembly lines in the video? If so, share your experience and impressions.