“Friendship Kitchen”

Jason is a volunteer with Friendship Kitchen and Food Distribution Centre. He is talking to his friend Angela
about his homework there.

Angela: I hear you’re volunteering at a place that provides food for poor people. What’s the name of it?
Jason: Yeah, it’s called Friendship Kitchen and Food Distribution Centre. I go in a couple of times a week and do mostly kitchen work
-you know, cutting up vegetables, washing dishes, serving food, and things like that. Sometimes I answer the phone there are
usually a lot of calls from people who need food or are trying to get information about the wok we do.
Angela: Are there many volunteers?
Jason: Well, there are quite a few. Let’s see, I guess there are eleven or twelve of us. There aren’t many paid workers, though,
because the Centre doesn’t have much money, and we want most of it to go for food for the hungry people in this city.
Angela: How many people usually eat at Friendship Kitchen?
Jason: A lot. There are really a great many people here who don’t have enough to eat. Some nights we feed almost five hundred. For
one dinner we sometimes cook seventy pounds of beans and fifty gallons of soup. The kitchen often uses twenty loaves of
bread a day.
Angela: Wow! That sounds like a great deal of food. Where do you get it?
Jason: Well, the government makes a lot of donations. We get quite a bit of extra food that it has, especially dairy products. It’s really
great to get cheese because it’s high in protein, and a lot of people who come to Friendship Kitchen get very little protein in
the food that they eat. We also get quite a few donations of food from stores, companies and individuals.
Angela: Do you ever give the people any food to take home with them?
Jason: Yes, we do that through our Food distribution Centre for people who have a place to cook. We don’t give out any fresh meat
or produce, but we often give people with children some dry milk, and there are almost always canned goods available.
Angela: Are most of the people who come to Friendship Kitchen homeless?
Jason: Some of them are, but we also serve a great many whose income isn’t high enough for them to get good nutrition –the elderly
and families on welfare. Not many of the people who come to eat have jobs.
Angela: It sound like you do an important work at Friendship Kitchen. Do you like working there?
Jason: Well, to tell you the truth, sometimes it’s pretty depressing. Hunger is a big problem. But I’m glad I’m helping to do something
about it.

Activity: Cross out the quantity expression that makes each sentence false according to the dialogue, also the
ones that are grammatically incorrect.

1. Jason does volunteer work a small number / a large number of times a week.
2. The Centre receives a few / plenty of calls from people who want information.
3. There is a small number / a lot of paid workers in the Centre.
4. The Centre has a little / enough money.
5. Too many / too much people eat at Friendship Kitchen every night.
6. The Centre gets far too much / slightly too much food from the government.
7. Most people who eat at the Centre usually get a little / quite a little protein in their diets.
8. The Centre gives people no / none fresh meat to take home.
9. Almost all the / enough people who eat at the Centre are old or poor people.
None / Some of the people who eat at Friendship Kitchen have jobs.