1. Do you choose carefully the food you eat?
2. Read the summary of the extract of the documentary «Supersize Me»:
A young man decided to find out why the Americans are the fattest nation in the world. He interviewed a large number of ordinary people and came to the conclusion that the problem is in fast food. So he made up his mind to take an experiment and to keep to a Mc Donald’s diet for a month.
3. Watch the fragment of the movie (first 27 minutes) and correct the mistakes in the summary.
4. Watch the extract again and give answers to the following questions:
- How many Americans are overweight?
- What are the man’s memories of his mother?
- What are the most frequent reasons for dying in the USA?
- What made the girls of the age 14 and 19 so famous?
- What is the number of Americans visiting fast food restaurants?
- What is the most popular fast food restaurant?
- What kind of food does the man’s girlfriend prefer?
- How often does an average American eat in a fast food restaurant?
- What are the rules the man decided to keep to?
- What’s John Banzhef’s point of view?
- What does David Satcher declare?
- What was the original size of the portion in McDonald’s?
- What is supersize?
5. What’s your attitude to the raised in the documentary problem? In pairs or groups discuss such issues as:
- Is fast food really so dangerous as it is shown?
- What prospects does fast food have in Russia?
- What will happen to a man in a month? (draw a picture of his)
