Super Size Me

Hey,

today we first began the class warming up with some pictures and the question was: "how appetizing is this...?". Here is what we wrote in our lesson copy books:

Positive:

It's quite tasty
Yummy
Delicious
Scrumptious

Negative:
Yucky
Disgusting
Awful

Exprimer les 5 sens:

It looks...
It tastes...
It smells...
It sounds...
It feels...


Then we continued the lesson with some audio extracts from the movie Super Size Me.  Here is what we said about the film and the rest of the lesson:

This document is the soundtrack of the movie Supersize Me. It deals with the junk food epidemic in the USA.

Since 1980, the number of people who are either obese or overweight has doubled. America has become the fattest nation in the world. There are twice as many children who are overweight and 3 times as many teenagers. In Mississippi, 1 in 4 people are obese. It is the fattest state.

Exprimer une quantité en pourcentage:
twice as many: deux fois plus
three times as many: trois fois plus
one in four: un sur quatre
fifteen percent of...: quinze pourcent de...

HW: Learn your lesson + highlight two lexical fields in your script (obesity/weight pb AND law).

You can watch the first part of the movie here:

More information about incredible food habits here.