Soluzioni Inglese Maturità 2015: Seconda prova Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo

Pag. 1/3 Sessione ordinaria 2015

Seconda prova scritta

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

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SI96 Esame di stato di istruzione secondaria superiore

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Indirizzo: IT04, EA07 Turismo

Tema di: Lingua inglese

Part 1: Reading comprehension

Day-Lewis: the language of food helps us all travel well

As part of the Life Well Travelled series, chef and food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis talks about her thrill at

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finding a common language ‘inside very different worlds’

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I managed to get to the age of 19 having only travelled abroad once, to Paris, to a friend of my parents’ for

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a couple of weeks, with a weekend in the country where I duly fell under the spell of the older son. He took

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son fell under the spell of the gawky, silent, teenage guest. I didn’t

no notice whatsoever, but the younger

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open my mouth. The words wouldn’t come out. Everyone spoke so fast, I barely understood a word (…).

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5 I seem to have been making up for this wholly un-cosmopolitan, unsophisticated start in life ever since and

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at some stage I lost the fear of arriving in an unknown city alone, with a film crew or with friends or

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family, even if I didn’t speak a word of the language.

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As a documentary maker, and later as a writer, I have been lucky enough to see many of the places I have

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travelled to all over the world while researching, interviewing, filming, taking notes about the place, the

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10 food and the country for work. This has engrained in me a love, a thrill, at stepping inside the very different

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worlds I have encountered neither quite as a tourist nor as a disinterested observer.

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If you have a deadline, you have to get to the heart of things quickly and you have to be open to searching

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out and finding things that you wouldn’t otherwise have the time or opportunity to find as a holiday maker.

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You don’t always know where to look, nor what you are looking for when you have so little time to

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15 experience, find the essence. Guidebooks offer background information but not the key to the doors of the

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inhabitants, their families, their ways of life.

I have found that the common language, in the absence of words, is always food. I have walked into

kitchens, cafes, restaurants, homes from Morocco to Mauritius, from Lombok, Bali and the Himalayas to

the homes of sherpas with whom I have trekked in Nepal to within two days of Everest Base Camp.