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Make a Healthy Raspberry Smoothie

1. Before You Watch the Video

Look at the title above

What do you know about this topic already?

Have you ever tasted a raspberry smoothie?

2. Check Your Vocabulary

How many of these words do you know?

Click on words for pronunciation and definitions:

Raspberry
Calories
Vanilla
Honey
Yogurt
Cancer
Flax
Seed
Snack

Smoothie
Blender
Slice
Prevent
Ripe
Vitamin
Nutrient
Mix
Froth

Blend (ed)
Slice (ing)
Prevent (ing)
Ripe (r)
Vitamin (s)
Nutrient (s)
Mix (ture)
Froth (v)*

Vanilla is a flavor derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). The word vanilla, derived from the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina (vaina itself meaning sheath or pod), translates simply as “little pod”.[1]

*Not a common word.

3. Watch the Video

4. Answer the Questions:

A. How many ingredients do need to make this?

       B. What are they? Make a list.

       C. What other things do you need?

       D. What are flax seeds good for?

                                Hands and fingernails
                                Hair and fingernails
                                Head and skin
                                Heads and tails?
                                Hammer and nails?

5. Grammar Points:
       The riper the bananas are, the sweeter thry will be
       (The riper, the sweeter.)

6. Talk (with a partner) or write about it.:
       What is your favorite food?
       Why do you like it
       Tell how to make your favorite disk

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