Dangerous Dining.

Dangerous Dining.

Concern = Worry

Cute = Attractive

Cyanide = A type of poison

Fin = A thin triangular part of a fish body that helps it to swim.

Fool = Make someone believe in something that isn't true.

Funeral = A ceremony for a dead person.

gill= The part of its body that a fish uses to breathe.

Licence = An official permit.

Major = Very important.

Paralyse= Make something stop move.

Poison = Kill or make a person sick with poison.

Poison= A substance that can kill people if they eat it.

Puffer fish = A type of fish that is dangerous to eat.

Regulations = Official controls.

Sake = Japanese rice wine.

Toxin = poison.

1) Puffer fish is very cheap. False

2) All restaurants in tokyo serve puffer fish. False

3) Puffer fish toxin is 100 times stronger than cyanide. True

4) Chef Hayashi has a lot of experience preparing puffer fish. True

5) You have to have a special licence to cook puffer fish in japan. True

6) Between 45 and 75, 2500 japanese people died because of eating puffer fish. True

7) Nobody dies from fugu poisoning anymore. False

1) What does Yuji Nagashima study? Fugu poison.

What does he hope to develop? Antitoxine

2= Howmuch of the toxin is enough to kill a person? a miligram

What are the effects of the toxin? Paralysing people nerves ( can't move )and lunx (can't breathe)

3) What treatment should a person who has eaten puffer fish poison receive? Respirator which can breathe for them.

4) How much of the puffer fish does Chef Hayashi throw away? Half.

Which two parts does he say are poisonous? The heart and the gills.

II ) Complete the information about Tom Caradoma:

Tom decided to eat puffer fish in the famous matsumoto restaurant in Tokyo.

Tom has heard stories about people dying when they eat fugu but he isn't worry.

Chef Hayashi tells Tom and aki that everything will be fine.

He shows them his fugu chef's licence.

The meal that Tom and Aki eat has usually eight different dishes and includes sake tapped with a cooked fugu fin.

During the meal, Tom laughts and says that he can still beathe !

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