Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 2 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 2 minutes to read it.
Most people all over the world eat potatoes at least once a week. It is a very popular vegetable. It is also quite tasty and useful. The history of potatoes as a part of our diet is very long. The home of potatoes is South America. Local people dried them which helped them to store potatoes for some years. When white people came to America, they took potatoes back to their countries. They did it because they hoped it would help them to survive through a long journey by sea.
Farmers in Europe were against growing potatoes at first. Still, when rich people started to eat the vegetable, its popularity jumped up. People also noticed that it improved their health in many ways. Now people cook potatoes in all possible ways. You can buy potatoes in any shop or order them in any café.
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