(EP 31) Free food? What?!? This is “advanced listening” but don't worry! You don't need to understand everything to answer the easy questions below. 1) How often is this event? When? 2) What does it cost? 3) What four food items are mentioned? 4) How many pounds of food are there? 5) What percent of students have “food insecurity?” Answers will be on Instagram soon, just follow UnexpectedEnglish! Use the transcript below AFTER you answer the questions!  OK so here we are again at Mesa College and there's a special event going on, and I'm going to try and find out exactly what that is. Could you explain to us what's going on?  Yeah hi my name is Johanna  Aliman and I work with the Office of Equity and I’m the coordinator for The Stand here at Mesa College.. And so The Stand is for college students and it’s a free food pantry and professional clothing closet. Some of the additional programs we do is the event like you see here today it's the Farmer’s Market. we do it once a month, it's  typically the third Thursday of every month. OK, hold up now — the third Thursday of every month you have a farmers market; and what is that exactly?  OK, our Farmer’s Market is where we hand out free fresh produce and it costs nobody nothing (sic) —all they’ve got to do is sign in, and come and get as much as they can carry. So you're saying it's free food today.  It is free food today! And what what kind of food are we offering?  Today we are offering onions, carrots, corn and tomatoes. And about how much food do you think will move out of here today? Ah, just over 8000 to 9000 pounds.  That's a lot of food!  Yes, we do about 9 to 10,000 pounds a month of various produce.  And why is this kind of event necessary? So, recently the Hope Lab out of Temple University conducted its third, umm, research event that included our college district on food insecurity and homelessness among college students, and found that about 18.4% of our students are homeless and about 50% of our students have some level of food insecurity. And food insecurity means that they are not able to obtain regular, healthy meals in what we would see as a normal way.  OK well I think we've got it, we'll probably have to listen to it a few times to understand everything, but it's a lot of information, and good information, and thanks for your time!   You're welcome, and thanks for coming out seeing us today!