Listening: Where Did Pizza Come From?

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A2 | Listening from video | 9 min

Where Did Pizza Come From?

Watch the whole video. You can watch more than once. Then answer the questions below. (3:52)

Choose the best answer.

1. What is the video mostly about?

____ Who made the very first pizza____ How pizza began and spread____ How to bake pizza at home

2. At first, how did many people in Europe feel about tomatoes?

____ They loved them right away.____ They used them in every meal.____ They were unsure about them.

3. What do many historians think about the story of the queen's pizza?

____ They think it is probably not true.____ They think it is a true story.____ They think the pizza was new then.

True, False or Not Given? Choose Not Given if the video does not say.

4. In Naples, workers ate their hot flatbread in restaurants.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

5. Margherita is the most popular pizza in Italy today.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

6. Pizza in one country can taste different from pizza in another country.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

Complete each sentence with the words you hear.

ONE WORD from the video.

7. It cost less money and took less time than a big ____

ONE WORD from the video.

8. The tomatoes' trip across the ocean was ____

ONE OR TWO WORDS from the video.

9. Many Italians moved to other countries, for example the ____ and some opened small pizza places there.