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Name: _________________________________ grade: ____________ Date: _________________

Food Fright
Doctors in Britain are worried because British teenagers eat lots of crisps, sweets and fat
food. Most teenagers don’t enough fruit or vegetables and more than one million British
school children are overweight,
Some teenagers say that they don’t have time to eat good foot, but kids who have a poor
diet often have health problems when they are older.
Americans have been familiar with fast food for a long time, it was born there. American
fast food is now a part of life far beyond the stores of United States. McDonald’s Pizza Hut,
Burger king have restaurants all over the world.
No one can deny that the idea of fast food at a fair price has its place around the word.
These establishments are popular not simple because they are fulfilling a need within a
particular country’s economy.
A steady diet of burgers, fries and soda may seen delectable, but it won’t nourish your
body with vitamins and minerals you need to stay healthy. Fast food lacks many important
nutrients.
Some parents are blaming the proliferation of fast food restaurants where people eat
high-calorie foods of low nutritional value.
Now doctors are giving young people books and games about a good diet. Having healthy,
well-balanced diet can help you feel better and live longer.

A. Say if these sentences are True or False. Always support your answer with a
sentence from the text.

a) British doctors don’t care about habits of young people. ____

b) A great percentage of British school children are fat. ______
c) Fast food restaurants were born in France. ____
d) Fast food restaurants are popular around the world. ____
e) To keep our body healthy we need a steady diet of burgers. _____
f) Doctors are trying to inform teenagers about a good diet. ______
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B. Match words taken from text with their synonym or explanation:

1. kids a) restaurants
2. shores b) necessity
3. deny c) children
4. fair d) reasonable
5. establishments e) say no
6. need f) coast

C. Answer the questions with complete answers:

1- Why are British doctors worried?

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2- Do young people normally eat vegetables and fruit?

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3- What kind of problems can a poor diet bring?
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4- Why do so many people go to fast food restaurants?
_________________________________________________________________________
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5- Are parents happy with the appearance of fast food restaurants? Why?
_________________________________________________________________________
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6- What should we do to have a longer and better life?

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Read the following text carefully:

Doctors may tell you that junk food is bad for your health but McDonald’s, Burger King
or Pizza Hut can prove that young people do not listen to that advice…

How did the hamburger become the most popular, most typical American food?

The hamburger has no connection with ham. It got its name from the German town of
Hamburg, which was famous for its ground steak. German immigrants to the United
States introduced the ‘hamburger steak’. Then, the introduction of the bun was an
important part of the answer. Another important part is McDonald’s, one of the world’s
most famous fast food restaurants.

You can find them in Japan, Germany, Panama, Guatemala, Australia, Portugal, Hong
Kong and even Moscow. In fact, there are 13,000 in 120 countries. There is even a
floating McDonald’s in St. Louis, Mississippi, and another in Alaska. The first
McDonald’s was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois, and is now a museum.

What makes American fast food so popular?

Lee Cho, a South Korean, says: “I often go to MacDonald’s. It’s clean, less expensive
than other restaurants and saves time.”

Natalia Petrovna, a girl from Moscow, says “I find the hamburgers very tasty and the
sundaes with caramel sauce are out of this world”

Karen Smith, from Frankfurt: “MacDonald’s is our favourite meeting point. We can sit
there and talk for hours in a friendly atmosphere. There are lots of young people
around. The food is cheap and the milkshakes…yum…”

Older people are very critical of this sort of food. Lots of young people in the USA are
overweight and parents blame these high-calorie foods that their children gobble up in
large quantities.
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A. Say if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). Correct the
false ones.

1. The hamburger is originally American. T F

_____________________________________________________

2. The hamburger got its name from the word “ham”.

______________________________________________________

3. The first McDonald’s opened in the American state of Florida.

______________________________________________________

4. People can eat hamburgers everywhere around the world.

______________________________________________________

5. Parents do not approve of fast food because their children do not like it.

_______________________________________________________

B. Find the opposites on the text:

1. good _________________________
2. cheap ________________________
3. unfriendly _____________________
4. old __________________________
C. Answer the following questions:

1. Who took the hamburger to The United States of America?

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

1.2. Why do people go to MacDonald’s?

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

2. What are the disadvantages of fast food mentioned in the text?

_____________________________________________________________
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Relate and Colour the next logos of company unhealthy food