FAST FOOD IN THE STATES
Fast food is cheap, easy and quick. Fast food companies spend millions of dollars each year trying to make young people believe that fast food is cool. The average American eats three burgers and four orders of French fries a week. Is it surprising that 14% of American teenagers are obese?
A Read the following paragraphs.
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Schools hold special education days for the food companies when fast food managers talk to the students. In March 1998, it was “Coke in Education Day” at Greenbrier High School in Georgia and some Coca-cola managers visited the school. About a thousand students went to the school parking lot dressed in red and white to spell out the word COKE. The photographer was ready to take photos when Mike Cameron suddenly showed his T-shirt which said Pepsi. The school principal immediately suspended Mike from school.
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Now, America is starting to fight back against the fast food companies. The two biggest states in the US, California and Texas, might stop serving fast food and soda in school cafeterias. The American government may bring in special laws for preventing and treating obesity.
3.
It’s fine to eat fast food occasionally as part of a healthy diet. But fast food is high in fat and calories. So if your favourite meal is burger and fries, you could easily become obese. Obesity could lead to other diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.
4.
There’s no escape from fast food for American teens. Fast food companies give money to US schools to help them buy sports and computer equipment. In return, schools place advertisements for the fast food companies in their hallways and on the sides of their school buses. They also sell cheap fast food in school cafeterias and sponsor school books.
B. Match the paragraphs with their correct assertion, so that you get the text in the correct order
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1. Eating fast food is a way of getting obese.
2. Schools as a place for advertisement.
3. Fast food is taking control over schools.
4. The fight against fast food.
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C. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the wrong ones.
1. It is healthy to eat fast food every day.
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2. Fast food has a lot of calories.
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3. Obesity is not related to other diseases.
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4. There is no fast food in US schools cafeterias.
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D. Answer the following questions:
1. Why is it so easy to eat fast food?
2. Why do fast food companies give money to US schools?
3. What did Mike Cameron do?
E. Match the words in US English (1-6) with the right words in GB English (a-f):
1. order (of French fries)
2. French fries
3. soda
4. parking lot
5. (school) hallway
6. cafeteria
a. soft drink
b. (school) corridor
c. portion
d. chips
e. canteen
f. car park
F. Write the words below to their appropriate meaning:
in return
disease
cool
obese
to sponsor
advertisement
1. very attractive, fashionable, interesting etc in a way that people admire ____________
2. very fat in a way that is unhealthy _____________
3. a picture, set of words, or a short film, which is intended to persuade people to buy a product or use a service ______________
4. in exchange for ______________
5. an illness which affects a person, animal, or plant _______________
6. to pay for something in exchange for the right to advertise _______________
G. Match the opposites
1. cheap
2. easy
3. quick
4. big
5. healthy
6. high
a. slow
b. unhealthy
c. difficult
d. expensive
e. short
f. small
H. According to an article in the website EzineMark.com the top-ten unhealthiest fast food eaten during 2011 in the States were the ones that you can see in the following video. Click HERE and list them. Then add two types of fast food that you consider are very unhealthy and are normally eaten in our county
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