Flashcards and Photos :

Junk food icons (istockphoto.com)	Junk food (us.123rf.com)	A better diet (i85.photobucket.com)
Food and Drink - flashcards Food Set 1 - Snack/Junk Food : a hamburger - a hotdog - a donut/doughnut - a cookie - an ice cream [cone] - a candy [bar] - a lollipop - a candy - a cake - some pizza - some chocolate - some popcorn - some cake - some ice cream - some jelly - some cheese - some french fries - some potato crisps/chips (englishraven.com)	Junk food ads "Take a seat and watch the 200 junk food ads during Saturday morning cartoons - 8 of them every 10 minutes. On average, children will watch 40,000 TV ads per year. One fourth will sell candy, empty cereals, fast food, and soft drinks, all using creative and alluring cartoon icons to peddle empty nutrition." (oneworldnews.files.wordpress.com)	The Fast Food Capital of Texas (atascocitatexas.com)

Vocabulary :

• Junk food (Wikipedia)
  "is food that is unhealthy and/or has poor nutritional value, according to the Food Standards Agency (UK)."

• Junk food (merriam-webster.com)
  1 : food that is high in calories but low in nutritional content
  2 : something that is appealing or enjoyable but of little or no real value

Facts :

• Media giant Walt Disney to ban junk food ads - 6 June 2012
  "US media giant Walt Disney has said it will ban junk food ads on its TV, radio and online programmes."
  + "Michelle Obama said Disney was changing its business model to tackle obesity."
  + Viewpoint: Obesity and parenting
  (BBC)

• San Francisco to ban toys in unhealthy fast-food meals
  "San Francisco has passed a law barring fast-food restaurants from giving away toys with children's meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines."
  (BBC)

  
  "The law limits toys with meals containing more than
  600 calories or excessive fat, salt and sugar."

• Fast Food Fact Finder - interactive
  "Try our fun interactive tool to find out more about common fast food items - you may be surprised! You can also pick out a meal and see how the calories add up."
  (cvshealthresources.com)

  

   

• Leisure centre 'junk food' alert
  "Vending machines stocked with unhealthy snacks in leisure centres run the risk of fuelling childhood obesity, warn experts...
  Children's meals on offer at the 35 venues spot-checked were dominated by chips, nuggets, sausages and burgers...
  it should be made a requirement that vending machines in publicly owned facilities are stocked with healthier products...
  Confectionery, crisps and sugary fizzy drinks have been banned from all school vending machines in England since September 2007."
  (BBC)

  

   

• France, Land of Epicures, Gets Taste for McDonald’s - an article
  (nytimes.com)
  Article recommended by Renée Maufroid

• Junk food advert code launched
  "A global campaign aimed at reducing the marketing of unhealthy food to children has been launched."
  (BBC)

  

• Smart Food, Junk food : examples and reasons (Fact Monster)

• Junk food ads (telegraph.co.uk)
  "TV loophole lets children watch junk food ads."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• New Junk Food Advertising Ban Begins
  "Total ban on adverts for unhealthy food and drink products around TV programmes for under-16s has come into force...
  The new curbs affect commercials for food and drink products high in fat, salt and sugar."
  (news.sky.com/skynews)

  

• UK and US 'keenest on fast food'
  "The UK is the country most attached to fast food, closely followed by the United States, a survey has suggested."
  (BBC)

  

• Junk food banned in school meals (BBC)
  "School dinners in England will be free from chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks
  and "low-quality" meat from the autumn, the government has announced."

  
  
  
• The junk food smugglers (BBC)
  "The drive to promote healthy eating in schools is giving rise to an unexpected black market in junk food
  among children who are refusing to change their eating habits."

  

Listening :

• Do you eat junk food ? If so, what kind do you eat ? (elllo.org)
  + transcript
  

  

• Joe's Hamburger Restaurant (esl-lab.com)
  I. Pre-Listening Exercises
  II. Listening Exercises
  III. Post-Listening Exercises
  
  

Conversation questions :

• Conversation Questions on Junk Food (esldiscussions.com)

• Junk food - a discussion (teachit.co.uk)
  Register first.

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Are you a fast food junkie ? - interactive quiz (BBC)

  

• Food in the USA - What can you order in the following fast food restaurants ? (Ac. Caen)
  " Match the items on the right with the items on the left."
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Worksheet: Junk food to be banned in schools
  Reading comprehension
  (CBBC)

• Takeaway food (BBC)
  "For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer."
• UK spend too much on sweets (text with symbols) - (symbolworld)

• McDonald's pays for non vegetarian chips (text with symbols) - (symbolworld)

Lesson plans :

• You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!: A Lesson in Junk Food Advertising - UPDATED on 10/04/2013
  "To familiarize students with the marketing techniques used in television and magazine snack food ads."
  (mediasmarts.ca)
• KFC To Pay $8m In Poisoning Damages (28th April, 2012) - a lesson plan with audio
  "A court in Australia has ordered the fast-food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken to pay $8.3m in compensation to the family of a seven-year-old girl."
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
• 6,000-Calorie Burger Gives Man Heart Attack (16th February, 2012) - a lesson plan with audio
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• Junk food - UPDATED
  "Ce scénario propose une tâche finale de prise de parole en interaction sur un sujet motivant pour les élèves puisqu’il concerne la "malbouffe".
  Le niveau visé est le niveau B1."
  (Ac. Toulouse)

• McDonald's Pulls Out of Iceland - a lesson plan
  "McDonald’s restaurants in Iceland sold their last hamburgers on Saturday night as the fast food giant pulled out of the country.
  WARM-UPS : MCDONALD’S / CHAINS / BANNED / FAST FOOD / BURGER
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  
  
  

  McDonald's pulls out of Iceland
  "McDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise."
  (BBC)

  

• Fast Food that young people like eating (Isabel Perez)
  "We are going to write about typical fast food..."
  
  

• Food companies targeting kids online - a lesson plan (Breaking News English)
  - with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."

• JUNK FOOD - a lesson plan (Jean-Marc Gébelin - Académie de Grenoble)

  

Webquests :

• Eating in America: A Webquest (wagner-juergen.de)

INTERACTIVE games :

• Couch Potatoes
  "Watch the video and listen to Peter Carter, then play the game."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• McDonald's VIDEOGAME (mcvideogame.com)

  

• You make me sick - A great educational game from the BBC (avec son)
  
  

Games TO PRINT :

• Junk Food Word Search (planetozkids.com)

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille normale.)

	Childhood obesity - Cartoons (cagle.com)	A big week in sports (cagle.com)
Junk food (grinningplanet.com)	A DIET soda, too (cartoonstock.com)	Back to school (spectator.co.uk)
Junk food ads (teacherhumor.blogspot.com)	So much fat (cagle.slate.msn) (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)	First steps (cartoonstock.com)

Animations and Videos :

• See Videos (on kids and advertising)

• The Men Who Made Us Fat E01 P1 + Part 2 + Part 3
  "Episode 1 of 3 Duration: 1 hour -
  Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese.
  In the first of this three-part series, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionising our eating habits, to find out how decisions made in America 40 years ago influence the way we eat now..."
  (YouTube)

• Consequences
  "PCRM's provocative new fast-food commercial draws attention to the link between heart disease deaths and fast food. Studies show that people who consume fast food are at a higher risk for obesity, a factor contributing to heart disease. High-fat, high-sodium offerings at fast-food restaurants include products such as KFC's Double Down Combo Meal, which has 45 grams of fat and 2,120 milligrams of sodium, and McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meal, which has 61 grams of fat and 1,650 milligrams of sodium."
  (YouTube)

  

   

• Fast Food - Video Snapshot
  "Watch this video clip on the topic of cell phones and answer the questions based on what you hear."
  (esl-lab.com)

• Europe - USA : Differences

  Pulp Fiction - Royale with cheese : Vincent and Jules talk about Europe. (boreme.com)
  + Script (dailyscript.com)

  

• Doreen the Downer - an animation (Mark Fiore)
  
  

• Backwards Hamburger (You Tube)

  

• Food Most Fowl (graphicmotion.co.uk)
  "Take a tour of Professor F Rankfurter's lab of horror, where you will witness the hideous creation of a junk meal.
  Discover the depths of depravity to which he sinks and the sickening consequences of his greed  if your stomach can stand it!"
  + A Gap-fill exercise (Ac. Poitiers)

  

• Mr. Bean - The sandwich incident (You Tube)
  
  

• Know your Big Mac - a VIDEO - with interviews (CNN)

Cinema :

• Little Miss Sunshine - a scene in a fast food restaurant

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• Super Size Me with activities

Songs :

• The Fast Food Song by Fast Food Rockers :
  - The VIDEO (video.google.com) and the LYRICS (lyricsdownload.com)

  

• A Marshmallow World
  "It's a marshmallow world in the winter...
  It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts"
  (oldielyrics.com)
  Listen to it! (YouTube)

  

• Candyman - a song (niehs.nih.gov)
  "Who can take tomorrow,
  Dip it in a dream?
  Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
  The candyman? The Candyman can, the candyman can &"
  

• Candy Man - Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
  (You Tube)

  
  
  

• Pizza Pie - a song with the lyrics (sing365.com)

• Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffett (youtube.com)
  - with the LYRICS (sing365.com) - UPDATED