HEALTHY FOOD

OBJECTIVES:

To get more information about healthy and unhealthy food.

To develop listening, speaking and writing skills.

To promote intellectual curiosity.

Riddle

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What is greater than God?

What is more evil than devil?

Poor people have it.

Rich people need it.

If you eat it,

You will die

Warning up.

Name 4 elements:

Things to eat

Things to drink

Red fruits

Yellow fruits

vegetables

What food healthy and unhealthy?

Obesity- who is to blame?

In 2002 several obese teenagers in the USA sued McDonald's,

claiming that the company was responsible for making them

fat.' ……….. They claimed that the company had not warned them

about the health problems that can result from eating too much salty high-fat food

and drinking too many sugary drinks- diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

The mother of one of the children who at the age of 15 weighed more than 180

kilograms said in her statement – I always believed McDonalds was healthy for my

son.

McDonald‘s rejected claim that they were responsible for these teenagers health

problems………… The understanding of what hamburgers and French fries do has

been with us for a long. Long time he added. The judge agreed and dismissed the

case saying – it is not the place of the law to protect people against their own

excesses.

Match the sentence(a -e)with the gaps ( 1-2 ) in the text.

a 'People don't go to sleep thin and wake up obese said

McDonald's lawyer Brad Lerman.

b However the bill has not ended the argument about

responsibility.

c They argued that McDonald's deliberately misled them

Into thinking that their cheeseburgers and other products

were healthy and nutritious food.

d These new burgers were larger, and higher in fat, than the

standard burgers.

e Other similar lawsuit against fast food companies in the

USA have also failed.

Listen to three American teenagers talking about

diet and lifestyle. Answer the questions for each person.

1.How many hours of TV

does he/she

watch per day?

2 How many times a

week does he/she

do exercise?

3 Does he/she eat

healthily?

Listen again. Are the sentence true or false?

1 Tony likes watching films.

2 Tony walks, plays football and goes surfing.

3 Tony never eats junk food.

4 Karen doesn’t watch TV if there aren’t any good

programmes on she has to do a lot of homework.

5 The only exercise Karen does is a school.

6 Karen‘s mum heats up TV dinners for her.

7 Chris usually plays basketball at the weekend.

8 Chris‘s family sometimes have a takeaway meal in the

evening.

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.

Make a note of your partner's answers.

1 Do you ever eat junk food?What type? How often?

2 In your opinion, do you have a healthy diet?

3 How many hours a day do you spend watching

TV ?

4 How often do you exercise? What exercise do you

do?

5 What could you do to make your lifestyle healthier?

Describe the food in the photo. Which items contain a lot of:

1 fat?

2 sugar?

3 vitamins?

4 carbohydrate?5 protein?

6 salt?

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Hometask Describe your favourite healthy meal.