SLOW FOODChapter 4, p33

What is fast food?

Give a definition:

Fast food is…

Write your definition:Group 1:

Group 2:

Group 3:

Group 4:

What is your favorite fast food?

How often do you eat it?

What is good about fast food?

What is bad about fast food?

What do you think the phrase

“slow food” means?

Read and run activity

Divide the class into two groups Hang 5 questions(about the passage)to a near wall outside of the class Half of the sts will be runners and they are going to run read the questions and tell them to their partners and partners finds answers to the questions and write them.

When runners finish the questions sts change roles and readers become runners.The first group finishing the questions win the game.

Scanning game with white boards

Italians know about good food. Therefore, most of them thinks fast food is a ________ idea. terrible

Many Italians didn’t want the McDonald’s in Italia, and one man Carlo Petrini started a group called________.

Slow Food

This group consider fast food a problem because it is not healthy food and it is ____________________. the same everywhere

Slow food members worry about a second problem, too: Some types of animals and plants are becoming very _____.rare

The third problem is this:

a) Big companies produce the fruit and vegetables.

b) The big companies use foods that can travel well.

c) Fruit and vegetables look good after a long trip.

Some types of animals are becoming very rare. An example is…

1.

2.

3.

4.

A kind of fava bean

Dates

The blue-egg chickens

The pirarucu

Foods in the U.S travel an average of _____ miles to reach the dinner table.

1,300

In the past, people got most of their food from _______ and ________ in their local area.farms factories

Slow food members say, “People should be buying more _______ food. It’s fresh, and it’s part of our culture.”

Local

Gary Nabhan decided to eat the food coming from his country, _______. Arizona

Nabhan ate a rattlesnake, too. In his book Coming Home to Eat, he says it tastes just like _______.chicken

Culture: the language, traditions, food, music and etc. of a nation.

(noun)

In Western culture, they celebrate Christmas.

Rush:to be in a hurry for

something, do something fast(verb)

Yesterday, I was late for work, so I rushed to work.

Terrible:very bad, awful

(adj)

I hate taking medicine. It is terrible.

Attack:to act against, especially in a

war or a fight

(verb)

As soon as Arda got in the team, Galatasaray attacked many times.

Enemy:the people against you, the

opposite

(verb)

They fight eachother. They are enemies now.

Join: to be a part of a group, to

attend

(verb)

I like biking, so I want to join a biking club.

Member:one of the people in a group

(verb)

Sheila is one of the members of the city rugby team.

Boring:not interesting, not fun

(adj)

What do you think is very boring in your life?

Variety:different kinds, many types

(Noun)

Variety of colors…

Danger:something with risk, not safe

(noun)

You should be very careful about the dangers at work.

Weigh:to find out how heavy you are

(verb)

How much do you weigh? Do you think you’re over-weighed?

Disappear:to be out of sight, you cannot

see

(verb)

The balloons disappeared from the page.

Local: from a specific part of a land

(adj)

There is a local post office on this street.

Produce: to make something new

(verb)

What kind of things does Microsoft produce?

Reach: to get to something, to arrive

(verb)

The firefighters are trying to reach the girl in fire!