Chewing Gum Process

Foundation Term One:
Process Listening, Note-taking, and Writing
Chewing Gum
This activity combines everything we
have worked on for the Process Coursework:
 Cause & Effect
 Sequence
 Passive grammar (be + past participle)
Discuss
Do you like chewing gum? Why/why not?
How do you think chewing gum is made (steps and stages etc.)?
Lesson plan:
1. Listen to the video and make notes (on the other side of this sheet)
2. Discuss with your partner what you heard and finalise your notes
3. Write a summary description of how chewing gum is made.
Vocabulary Check:
Listen to the first section of the video and make notes on the list of ingredients.
Initial ingredients
Gum base:
Ingredients not on label, trade secret
Polyisobutylene:
Polyvinyl acetate:
Wax
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Talculm powder
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Rosin
Foundation Term One:
Process Listening, Note-taking, and Writing
Method
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Make your gum base
Safety warning
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Add flavour
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Equipment:
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Method:
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flavour ingredients:
glucose syrup,
,
3
mangle
4 Cut into pieces
(Caution: This is not how regular
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chewing gum is made this is a DIY
version.)
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