SCHOOL WORK ENGLISH VII (6TH COURSE)

FRUIT:  BENEFITS OF FRUIT & INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FRUITS

   In this two activities you´re going to discover interesting info aboout fruit.

  First do the activity: BENEFITS OF FRUIT

  Later continue with: INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FRUITS.

                                       INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FRUITS.

   We´re going to continue talking about the same ten fruits.

   Now you´ll have to click on each name to be redirected to another website where you can look up 

the info you need.

   Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

   Again, copy and correct the false ones in your notebook.

1. The production of strawberries in Huelva (Spain) in the 2018-2019 reached 340.000 tons (  )       

2, The scientific name for banana is “finger” (      )

 3. There are more than 5.000 varieties of apples (     )

4. Wild mango trees can grow up to 20-30 metres high. (     )

5. Pineapples were brought into Europe by Christopher Columbus in 1496 back from his fifth voyage

to the New Continent (      )

6. This fruit gives name to a punk-hardcore band from New Orleans founded in 2014 (     )

7. The cherry blossom trees are highly appreciated and beloved in China where people call them 

“Wok” (    )

8. The grapefruit was first described in 1750 by Griffith Hughes who called it the "forbidden fruit" of 

Barbados, where the Madonna was born (      )

    

9, Watermelons are considered both as a fruit and a vegetable (      )

10. This fruit gives name to a character in the videogame  “Final Fantasy” (    )