Here is the overview with teaching notes and activity ideas to complement these resources. Please read this first. The slides are designed to be used in Slideshow mode.

Here is a leaflet about the Community Food Share. Read it and answer:

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1. When is the Food Share?

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• Who is the Food Share for?

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• What is the address?

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• What kind of food can you get?

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• Is the Food Share the same as a Food Bank? What is a Food Bank?

Vocabulary: Read the text again and find words with these meanings:

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• To make smaller or less

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• To be allowed to collect

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• Extra/ more than is needed

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• To get

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• The place where rubbish goes if it is not recycled

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• Too much has been made

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Click here for the community food share leaflet.

Click on the image below for matching activity:

Put the following words in alphabetical order….Click on the image for the activity:

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Meat Tinned food�

Fridge items� �Yoghurt Dairy products

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Fruit and Vegetables

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Chocolate Soup�

Crisps Treats

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The Branch is not a foodbank.

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What is a foodbank?

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Click here to go to the Kirklees website about foodbanks.

Now use the website to do the activities on this worksheet:

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Click on the button for information from Eat Well about food labels. Find out:

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How can a label help me choose healthy food?

How do I know if a product has too much sugar in it?

What do labels on the front of a packet usually tell me?

What is red, amber and green colour coding?

Click here for a video showing the types of food available at the Food Share.

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Tick the foods when you see them:�

crisps carrots soup tinned food

chocolate meat apples peppers

fruit and veg cream yoghurt bottled water

Now watch this video about The Branch and complete the following activities.

Here are the questions that Richard answers. Can you answer them?

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1. What is The Branch and how does it work?
2. How long has The Branch been running?
3. How do people find out about The Branch?
4. What is the process of getting some food?
5. What kind of food do you have in stock?
6. How often does the food share run?
7. How many people come to each session? Is that the same as last year?

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Here are Richard’s answers to the questions - can you match them to the questions on slide 10?

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It’s a programme that saves food from landfill and re-distributes it to people in the area.

25 years

Come to the Jubilee Centre on Fridays and pay £2.

Word of mouth

Fruit and veg, fridge items, treats, bottled water, crisps and more

Once a week, every Friday

On average at the moment between 80 - 90. Last year it was around 65.

Watch the video about The Branch and answer the following questions (E3+):�

1. Watch the video. Write down the questions that Richard answers.
2. Who is Richard and what does he do?
3. How many different groups and projects do they run at The Branch?
4. How long has the food share project been running?
5. What word does Richard use to describe the building? What does it mean?
6. What kind of social media do they use?
7. What type of food do people get?
8. How much is the food that they get worth?
9. What happens if somebody can’t pay £2?
10. Why can’t they guarantee that they will have milk or eggs?
11. When might the food share not run?
12. What is the biggest number of people they’ve had at the food share?

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Watch the video about The Branch and answer the following questions (Pre/E1):

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1. Stop the video at 0:13. What can you see? Talk to a partner.

2. What is the first piece of fruit or veg that you see?

3. Write down 5 different types of fruit and veg that you see in the video.

4. Write down 5 other products that you can get, apart from fruit and vegetables

5. Stop the video at 1:17. What does she pick up?

6. Stop the video at 2:50. What can you see?

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Here are some of the words Richard uses in the video. Can you guess what they mean and put them in the right gaps?

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Barriers Referral process Surplus food Treats

Laundry Capable

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1. “Thankfully, we are _________ of helping.”�
2. There is no _____________ - nobody has to give you permission to come here, and there are no __________, nothing in your way.�
3. All the food is __________ food - more food than the supermarkets can sell.�
4. I wash my clothes on a Thursday - that is my _________ day.�
5. When I go shopping I always buy a few _________ like cakes and biscuits.

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Below are some aims of the project, and some tools that they use. Can you put them in the right category on slide 16?

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Togetherness Help people Make people feel better

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Make people feel well Kindness Tackle hunger

Help people feel comfortable with themselves Love

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Break down barriers Help with social isolation

Address poverty Link people up with other services

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Below are some aims of the project, and some tools that they use. Can you put them in the right category?

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Aims

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Tools

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Here are some statistics about the food share. Stop the video at 4.15 and complete the sentences:

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In 2022:

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• The Branch served the equivalent of _______ meals.

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• The project stopped _________kg of food going to landfill.

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• ______ hours were volunteered by members of the community to run the Food Share.

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Keywords Audio

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If you are from Kirklees area and are interested in volunteering with The Branch.

Find out more about them by clicking here.