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**TAPE SCRIPT 11.3 PART 1** • Subtopic: The Common Habit of Chewing Gum Today in Worldly Wise, we discuss the world's most common habit: chewing gum. Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight? If your mother says not to chew it, do you swallow it in spite? Can you catch it on your tonsils? Can you heave it left and right? Yes, chewing gum! We chew 100,000 tonnes of it every year, but how many of us actually know what it's made of? Excuse me, I see you're chewing gum. [Student]: Have you got any idea what it's made of? No, I have no idea. I've never thought about it. [Student]: Do you have any idea what chewing gum is made of? No, not a clue. Rubber, maybe? [Student]: And do you have any idea who invented it? The Americans? [Student]: Yeah, sure. I reckon it was invented in America. Well, no, it wasn't the Americans who invented chewing gum. It was the Swedes! • Subtopic: The History of Chewing Gum The Swedes, I hear you say? But listen to Leanne Ward, a chewing gum expert. The history of chewing goes back thousands of years. In Sweden, in 1993, the skeleton of a teenager was found. He was 9 years old. It seems we have always chewed things ...