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Listening
1.Watch this video and answer these questions. (Ss watch the trailer of
the film Supersize me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Lkyb6SU5U
What is it about?;
What did you see?
What did you understand?
2. Now you are going to watch the first minutes of the film. Answer these questions.
Supersize me (Spanish subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqO6wIyzwC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1U87Ub42J8 (English, no subtitles)
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What’s the percentage of overweight Americans?
Since 1980 the number of overweight Americans has …………………
The fattest State in America is ……………………….
West Virginia is currently the ………….fattest State
What did two obese adolescents do in 2002?
What is Morgan Spurlock’s aim?
In your opinion, what can be the consequences of such a diet? In pairs, make a list of
the effects the Mcdiet can cause him.
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3.Read the text below. What part of speech are the underlined words: noun, adjective,
adverb, verb, etc?
Laden…………….
Laced…………….
Bulging……………..
Avoid…………
purchased ………………..
………………………………………
The U.S. industrial food and farming system, dominated by fast food restaurants and
processed, chemical-laden food, has precipitated a public health crisis. Although nutritionists
recommend that consumers avoid eating unhealthy junk foods, every day 75 million Americans
"supersize" themselves and damage their health by eating at McDonald's or other fast food
restaurants. Forty percent of American meals are now purchased and consumed outside the
home, typically consisting of high-calorie, low-nutrition items such as soft drinks, French fries,
and low-grade meat, laced with fat, cheap sweeteners, pesticide residues, chemical additives,
and salt. We have become a Fast Food Nation of bulging waistlines and high blood pressure.
4.Can you match now the words to their meanings?
protruding……………..
keep away from……………
filled………………
sprinkled……………..
bought………………….
4. Can you invent a title for the text you have read?
5. Fill in this puzzle with the words from activity 1
ACROSS
1. To obtain in exchange of money
3. Containing an ingredient that enhances or
strengthens its flavour
4. Projecting outwards from an otherwise regular
line
DOWN
2. Try not to
3. Heavily loaded
GRAMMAR. For this part we will use the book English World 3, unit 8: Subject Questions and
object questions, and complete the corresponding activities.
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6. Ask your partner questions to fill in the text with the missing information
A)
Recent studies link pesticide residues and chemical additives like MSG(Monosodium
glutamate, a common food additive) in processed foods to hormone disruption and obesity.
No wonder (1)…… percent of Americans are either overweight or obese. One in every three
children born since the year 2000 will develop (2)…………………… in their lifetime. Obesity,
diabetes, and heart disease are now the nation's number one public health problem,
generating an estimated $150 billion in health care costs every year. Millions of youth and
adults have literally become addicted to the chemically enhanced junk food served in fast food
restaurants, school lunchrooms, and institutional cafeterias. In(3)………….., U.S. consumers
spent three billion dollars a year on fast food - today we spend more than $110 billion. The
junk food industry, now under attack by public health advocates and parents, finds itself in a
similar position to where the tobacco industry was in the 1990s. After decades of lies and
industry propaganda,(4) …………………………………… is finally coming out: junk food kills.
1………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Ask your partner questions to fill in the text with the missing information
B)
Recent studies link pesticide residues and chemical additives like MSG(Monosodium
glutamate, a common food additive) in processed foods to hormone disruption and obesity.
No wonder 60 %percent of Americans are either overweight or obese.
(1)…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. will develop diabetes in
their lifetime.(2) …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. are now
the nation's number one public health problem, generating an estimated $150 billion in health
care costs every year. Millions of youth and adults have literally become addicted to the
chemically enhanced junk food served in fast food restaurants, school lunchrooms, and
institutional cafeterias. In 1972, U.S. consumers spent (3)…………………………………………….. a year
on fast food - today we spend more than (4)…………………………………………………
The junk food industry, now under attack by public health advocates and parents, finds itself in
a similar position to where the tobacco industry was in the 1990s. After decades of lies and
industry propaganda, the truth is finally coming out: junk food kills.
1………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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(…)Despite individual efforts by some States to tax soda pop, require healthier school lunches,
or mandate calorie information in chain restaurants, obesity rates in the United States are
growing. It is time for the federal government to stop subsiding, with billions of dollars of
public tax money, the factory-farmed crops and animal products (corn, soybeans, cotton,
dairy, and meat) that create the artificially low prices that prop up the nation's junk food
industry.
We need to subsidize healthy organic food, not junk food, and promote sustainable food and
farming practices, instead of subsidizing factory farms and chemical-intensive farming and
food processing. We need to provide physical education, cooking, nutrition and gardening
classes in our schools, and ban or restrict the advertising of junk foods in the mass media. We
need to teach children and adults alike to eat less meat and fatty foods and instead to increase
their consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and home-cooked meals.
It is time to put a Surgeon General's warning on junk foods. It's time to come to grips with the
fact that we have allowed the junk food industry and the mass media to brainwash our youth
and turn them into fast food addicts.
Studies have shown that school organic gardens, salad bars, and healthy lunches improve the
health and academic performance of young people. Healthy eating habits and gardening skills
nurtured and developed at an early age most often have a lifetime impact.
So yes, let's slap a heavy tax on junk food served at fast food restaurants and in school
cafeterias. A 100% tax on junk food and beverages would help pay for the collateral damages
of this industry: the 150 billion dollars in diet-related disease and health care costs now
incurred by the public and taxpayers for obesity and diabetes.
But of course we shouldn't hold our breath for Washington's indentured politicians, who
receive millions of dollars in campaign donations from Big Food Inc., to take action. We're
going to have to organize at the grassroots and local level and fight for public health, every
step of the way, just like we've done with the tobacco industry.
Adapted from Ronnie Cummings “Junk Food Kills” Ronnie Cummins.
NaturalNews, March 07, 2012
a) Answer the following questions about the text:
1. What’s the truth that industry propaganda is trying to hide?
2.
What kind of food is suitable for American children and adults?
3.
What kind of food improved the health and the academic performance of young
people?
4. Which strong step could help to afford the high health care costs caused by
obesity and diabetes in national health care system?
5. What’s the main problem politicians have to face to take action?
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b) Tell if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). What part of the text helped you
decide?
1. Junk food provokes low costs for the national health care system. ___
2. The Junk food industry situation is similar to tobacco industry in the 1990s. ___
3. Federal government should subsidise healthy food and sustainable food and farming
practices. ___
4. Early healthy eating habits and gardening skills nurtured have a positive lifetime impact. ___
5. A heavy tax on junk food would not help to pay public health care costs. ___
C) Fill in this chart with the writer’s ideas to stop obesity.
Things the U.S should stop doing
Things the U.S should start doing
FINAL TASK
You are going to write 6 questions with their answers on a piece of paper. You
must ask one question about anything that you have learnt about nutrition in
each of the following subjects: P.E, maths, biology, chemistry, language or
English. Then, you will go into groups of 4 and together will produce a list of 24
questions which you will give your teacher.
In another session you and your group will compete against the other
teams in the NUTRITION QUIZ. Good luck and have fun!
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