{"id":26017,"date":"2023-07-02T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=26017"},"modified":"2023-07-04T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T08:16:11","slug":"factory-decorates-8-cakes-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2023\/07\/factory-decorates-8-cakes-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Factory Decorates 8 Cakes a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full video and watch how the workers do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"This is How this Factory Manages to Decorate 8 Cakes a Minute \ud83c\udf70 Inside the Factory | Smithsonian\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7jr4NjCYQo?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Discussions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explain the meaning of the&nbsp;<strong>highlighted words<\/strong>&nbsp;below and make some sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Start by&nbsp;<strong>scraping<\/strong>&nbsp;the icing to make sure that the icing goes into the holes of the stencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. My handmade snowflakes are finally getting their&nbsp;<strong>starring role<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. 480 cakes are boxed and&nbsp;<strong>conveyed<\/strong>&nbsp;towards the end of the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. How does the video make you feel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Discuss how the cake assembly lines in the video make it possible to decorate eight cakes a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Do you like decorating things? Talk about the best decoration you have ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Have you ever witnessed a high-speed production process like the cake assembly lines in the video? 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