Junk Food Текст и задания для самостоятельного чтения на тему Еда, продукты

1. Look at the picture. What do you see?
Read the first paragraph of the text. What do you think JUNK FOOD is? Is it something positive or negative?

JUNK FOOD.

Sweets, soft drink, crisps, french fries, ice cream, and hamburgers,
hot dogs and other kinds of take-away food are called junk food.

What's wrong with junk food?

Too much fat! Junk foods such as hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken and chips usually contain loads of bad fats. Too much fat in the diet will cause people to put on weight and get fat or obese. Being overweight is a risk to the health of the heart and can cause other diseases, even cancer.

Too much salt! Junk foods often have too much salt. There's a lot of salt already in foods such as bread, breakfast cereals and biscuits and cakes. So people get more salt than they need when they eat junk food. There aren’t any good things in too much salt for our health.

Too much sugar! Soft drinks, biscuits, cakes and sweets all have very much sugar. That's what makes them taste so good! But too much sugar makes people fat, spoils the teeth, is bad for the blood and may cause other diseases.

Should people eat junk food?

Junk food has some good things that the body needs for good health. And the body needs some salt, fat and sugar for energy to burn while we’re working and playing. However too much fat, sugar and salt is bad for our health and eating lots of junk food will overload your body with these things.

It is probably OK to eat junk food sometimes! But people should look for foods that are low in fats and salt and sugar. Choose grilled fish and chicken instead of fried, fish burgers instead of beef burgers, and vegetarian pizza or pizza with seafood instead of fatty meat type pizza.

2. Choose the right definition of the words:

1) Soft drink	a) very very fat
2) Crisps	b) make smth bad
3) Put on weight	c) sweet non-alcoholic carbonated water
4) Obese	d) very bad disease which is hard to cure
5) Cereals	e) salty little fried pieces of potatoes
6) Take-away food	f) get more kilos
7) Spoil	g) dish you can take with
8) Cancer	h) corn flakes

3. What are the positive things of junk food? What are the negatives?
What can too much salt cause? Sugar? Fat? Does your food contain much sugar, salt?

4. Too much sugar makes us really fat! Complete the columns with the meals given below. Add your own examples!

There is some sugar in:                                                      There isn’t any sugar

Fried eggs, cereals, soup, cheese-cake, salad, roast beef, biscuits, mashed potatoes, yoghurt, pie.

5. Communication.

Work in pairs, choose a healthy or unhealthy basket and describe it! Convince us it’s the best option to buy!

There is/are … in our basket.

I’m sure that it’s the best option because our food contains much/many … which is/are good for your health!

You can live better if you eat our food!

It gives you …

It makes you … (vital, energetic, etc.). Choose our food and you will live longer and happier!