Lesson: Peruvians Can’t Afford Their National Dish Ceviche After El Nino Devastates Farms

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Peruvians face ceviche woes as El Nino disrupts lime crops, causing a 70% price surge. Learn about this culinary crisis on our English learning website, where you can listen, read, and answer questions. Explore language exercises while understanding the impact of weather patterns on local cuisine.

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Peruvians Can’t Afford Their National Dish Ceviche After El Nino Devastates Farms

 Peruvians Can’t Afford Their National Dish Ceviche After El Nino Devastates Farms

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 Peruvians Can’t Afford Their National Dish Ceviche After El Nino Devastates Farms

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Many Peruvians can no longer afford to eat their own national dish, ceviche, as the El Nino weather pattern hits harvests and stokes food price inflation.

Heavy rains have devastated local lime crops, sending prices up by almost 70% just in August.

Memes on social media now show stacks of the citrus fruit as a sign of wealth. One portion of ceviche can require five or more limes to create the marinade used to cure raw fish.

 

Vocabulary:

Devastated - destroyed

harvests - the time when food is collected from the farm

inflation - when the price of money goes up

marinade - to rest meat in a sauce to give it flavour

raw - uncooked

stacks - many

stokes - increase

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The article says that many Peruvians ________

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In Peru, El Nino ________

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Memes are saying that people with a lot of limes are _______

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Fill in the gaps: raw, stokes, marinade, harvest, inflation, stacks, devastated

Peruvians Can’t Afford Their National Dish Ceviche After El Nino Devastates Farms

Many Peruvians can no longer afford to eat their own national dish, ceviche, as the El Nino weather pattern hits and food price .

Heavy rains have  local lime crops, sending prices up by almost 70% just in August.

Memes on social media now show of the citrus fruit as a sign of wealth. One portion of ceviche can require five or more limes to create the used to cure  fish.

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