question: Jamie Oliver has been invited by Gordon Brown to prepare a banquet at No.10 for President Barack Obama and other leaders of the G20, offering a cut-price menu to reflect times when trade and industry are far from prosperous and the rate of employment is decreasing.

Downing Street sources say Oliver, the well-known chef, will cook using "honest high-street products" and avoid expensive or "fancy" ingredients.

The prime minister is trying to avoid a repeat of the embarrassment last year when he sat down to an 18-course banquet at a Japanese summit to discuss world food shortages.

Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other leaders will be served by apprentices from Fifteen, the London restaurant Oliver founded to help train young people in poverty in order to make a living by mastering a skill.

Brown wants the dinner to reflect the emphasis of the London summit, which he hopes will lead to an agreement to lift the world out of recession."To be invited to cook for such an important group of people, who are trying to solve some of the world's major problems, is really a privilege," said Oliver.

"I'm hoping the menu I'm working on will show British food and produce is some of the best in the world, but also show we have pioneered a high-quality apprentice scheme at Fifteen London that is giving young people a skill to be proud of."

The chef has not yet finalized me menu, but is expected to draw inspiration from his latest book, Jamie's Ministry of Food, which has budget recipes for beef and ale stew and "impressive" chocolate fudge cake. (

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1. What is Jamie Oliver's latest book?
2. Who was he preparing the banquet for?
3. Who invited him?
4. What is Gordon's title?
5. What type of menu was Jamie going to use for the event?
6. Was he using fancy ingredients?
7. Why not?
8. What does the prime minister hope to accomplish from the dinner?
9. How does Jamie feel about cooking at this event?
10. What are his hopes?
11. What else?
12. What type of recipes are included in his new book?
13. Are they expensive to make?
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answer: 1. Jamie's Ministry of Food
2. President Barack Obama and other leaders of the G20
3. Gordon Brown
4. prime minister
5. British food
6. No
7. avoid a repeat of the embarrassment last year when he sat down to an 18-course banquet at a Japanese summit to discuss world food shortages.
8. Brown wants the dinner to reflect the emphasis of the London summit, which he hopes will lead to an agreement to lift the world out of recession.
9. privilege
10. He hopes to show menu of British food
11. show that he has pioneered a high-quality apprentice scheme at Fifteen London that is giving young people a skill to be proud of
12. recipes for beef and ale stew and "impressive" chocolate fudge cake
13. No

question: A preschool also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool; kindergarten (outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children, usually between the ages of 2 and 5, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They may be privately operated or government run, and one option is to subsidize the costs. The grades include daycare, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.

Terminology varies by country. In some European countries the term "kindergarten" refers to formal education of children classified as "ISCED level 0" - with one or several years of such education being compulsory - before children start primary school at "ISCED level 1".

The following terms may be used for educational establishments for this age group:

In an age when school was restricted to children who had already learned to read and write at home, there were many attempts to make school accessible to orphans or to the children of women who worked in factories.

In 1779, Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Scheppler founded in Strassbourg an early establishment for caring for and educating pre-school children whose parents were absent during the day. At about the same time, in 1780, similar infant establishments were established in Bavaria In 1802, Pauline zur Lippe established a preschool center in Detmold.
1. What is the focus of the article?
2. What is the name of the school?
3. Is it known as a different name?
4. What is that?
5. Are they all state run?
6. Can they be owned by private entities?
7. Do children have to be able to read and write to attend?
8. Are they all state run?
9. What ages attend?
10. What grades attend?
11. Who is credited for founding early childhood education?
12. In what year?
13. In what city was it founded?
14. Why was it created, for whos benefit?
15. What was established in Detmold?
16. Who founded it?
17. What year was this?
18. What county was Detmold in?
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answer: 1. Schooling for children between 2-5
2. preschool
3. it can be
4. nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool; kindergarten
5. no
6. Yes
7. No
8. No
9. 2 - 5
10. daycare, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.
11. Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Schepple
12. 1779
13. Strassbourg
14. children whose parents were absent during the day
15. a preschool center
16. Pauline zur Lippe
17. 1802
18. Bavari

question: CHAPTER XVIII

A MEETING OF SOCIALISTS

The _brasserie_ into which the two men pushed their way was smaller and less ornate than the one which they had last visited. Many of the tables, too, were laid for supper. The tone of the place was still entirely Teutonic. Kendricks and his companion seated themselves at a table.

"You will eat sausage?" Kendricks asked.

"I will eat anything," Julien replied.

"It is better," Kendricks remarked. "Here from the first we may be watched. We are certainly observed. Be sure that you do not let fall a single word of English. It might be awkward afterwards."

"It's a beastly language," Julien declared, "but the beer and sausages help. How many of the people here will be at the meeting?"

"Not a hundredth part of them," Kendricks answered. "It was a terrible job to get these tickets and I wouldn't like to guarantee now that we have them that we get there. Remember, if any questions are asked, you're an American, the editor or envoy of _The Coming Age._"

"The dickens I am!" Julien exclaimed. "Where am I published?"

"In New York; you're a new issue."

Julien ate sausages and bread and butter steadily for several minutes.

"To me," he announced, "there is something more satisfying about a meal of this description than that two-franc dinner where you stole my chicken."

"You have Teutonic instincts, without a doubt," Kendricks declared, "but after all, why not a light dinner and an appetite for supper? Better for the digestion, better for the pocket, better for passing the time. What are you staring at?"
1. what was the tone like in the restaurant?
2. are they being watched?
3. what must they be careful not to do?
4. what meal of the day is it?
5. how is this place different than others they have been to?
6. Who is Julien pretending to be?
7. working where?
8. how does he feel about the English language?
9. what are the mens names in this story?
10. and?
11. What are they eating?
12. and drinking?
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answer:
1. Teutonic
2. Yes
3. let fall a single word of English
4. supper
5. It was less ornate
6. an American
7. In New York
8. It's a beastly language
9. Kendricks
10. Julien
11. sausages
12. beer