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Vegetable orchestra plays classics on carrots and zucchini | REUTERS

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What kinds of vegetables do you think could be used to make music?
When you hear “vegetable orchestra,” what kind of music do you imagine they play?
Do you think instruments made from vegetables can sound like “classics”? Why or why not?

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1. What main similarity does the speaker mention between a tree and a carrot?

2. What instrument does the speaker say a carrot can make?

3. How long does the speaker say it takes to make the carrot instrument?

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1. What do we hear during this part of the video?

2. How many separate moments of music are shown in the transcript?

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1. What is the speaker’s main point about using a carrot to make an instrument?

Only expensive vegetables can make good instruments.
A carrot can work like wood because it has similar features for making a recorder.
Vegetables sound worse than wooden instruments in every way.
Making instruments should always take many days.

2. Why does the speaker compare the time needed to make a carrot recorder and a wooden recorder?

3. Based on the explanation, what is important for a recorder to work?

Discuss the ideas from this video

Vegetable orchestra plays classics on carrots and zucchini | REUTERS

Do you think instruments made from vegetables can be “better” than wooden ones? In what ways?
What problems do you think musicians might have when playing instruments made from vegetables?
If you could make an instrument from any fruit or vegetable, which would you choose and why?
Would you pay to see a vegetable orchestra perform classical music? Why or why not?