Burger Queen Worksheet
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PRE-READING - PRETEXT A. VOCABULARY REVIEW Match the words in the left with the correct meaning on the right. Select, which of these strategies did you use to infer your answers? a. Predict ion b. Skimmin g c. Scannin g 1 . Fresh food a . A person whose job is to cut, wash and shape hair 2 . hairdresse r b . All the people who were born at about the same time: 3 . Cheeseburg er c . To come out of your mother’s body at the beginning of your life 4 . born d . Which is not preserved by canning or dehydration or freezing or smoking 5 . Generation e . A hamburger with a slice of cheese on top of the meat. B. WARM UP QUESTIONS I. What kind of food do you prefer? II. What is your opinion about junk food? III. Is Junk food an unhealthy food? Why? IV. Skim the title and the subheading of the text. Tell the class what is the text about? READING - TEXT THE BURGER QUEEN She`s only 109 years old and she only eats Junk food. Yesterday was Mary Alston had a party with six generations of her family. Her daughter, Jenny Morgan, who is 85, said, “My mother loves chocolate and eats only popcorn, pizzas and burgers. She never eats fresh food. She says she doesn´t like it.” Mrs Alston lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was born on a farm in Pennsylvania, and worked as a teacher. In 1915 she married James Henry Alston. He died in 1983. Her granddaughter Annie, who is 65 said, “Grandma gets up every day at six o´clock and goes to the hairdresser every Friday.” Annie asked her grandmother what she wanted to eat on her birthday Mary said, I´d like a cheeseburger and fries.” A. MATCHING FOR COMPREHENSION Match the words in the left with the correct meaning on the right according to reading provided. 1 Mary Alston a Mary`s
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Transcript of Burger Queen Worksheet
PRE-READING - PRETEXT
A. VOCABULARY REVIEW
Match the words in the left with the correct meaning on the right. Select, which of these strategies did you use to infer your answers?
a. Prediction b. Skimming c. Scanning
1. Fresh food a. A person whose job is to cut, wash and shape hair
2. hairdresser b. All the people who were born at about the same time:
3. Cheeseburger c. To come out of your mother’s body at the beginning of your life
4. born d. Which is not preserved by canning or dehydration or freezing or smoking
5. Generation e. A hamburger with a slice of cheese on top of the meat.
B. WARM UP QUESTIONS
I. What kind of food do you prefer?II. What is your opinion about junk food?III. Is Junk food an unhealthy food? Why?IV. Skim the title and the subheading of the text.
Tell the class what is the text about?
READING - TEXT
THE BURGER QUEEN
She`s only 109 years old and she only eats Junk food.
Yesterday was Mary Alston had a party with six generations of her family. Her daughter, Jenny Morgan, who is 85, said, “My mother loves chocolate and eats only popcorn, pizzas and burgers. She never eats fresh food. She says she doesn´t like it.”
Mrs Alston lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was born on a farm in Pennsylvania, and worked as a teacher. In 1915 she married James Henry Alston. He died in 1983.
Her granddaughter Annie, who is 65 said, “Grandma gets up every day at six o´clock and goes to the hairdresser every Friday.”
Annie asked her grandmother what she wanted to eat on her birthday Mary said, I´d like a cheeseburger and fries.”
A. MATCHING FOR COMPREHENSIONMatch the words in the left with the correct meaning on the right according to reading provided.
1. Mary Alston a. Mary`s husband, died in 1.983.
2. Harrisburg b. Wanted to eat on her birthday.
3. Jenny Morgan c. Homeland of the burger queen.
4. James Henry Alston
d. Only eats junk food.
5. Cheeseburger and fries
e. “My mother loves chocolate and eats only popcorn, pizzas and burgers”
POST READING – POST TEXT
A. REFLECTION
I. Why is it important to protect our health providing to our body healthy food?
II. Why is it important to use reading strategies such as prediction, skimming and scanning and where did you use them?
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