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Supersize
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Supersize
CONTENTS
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Audio script
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
Fast food and eating
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘Supersize’ and other compound words with ‘super’
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary, language and discussion
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Supersize
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Gavin Dudeney, an expert
on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the word ‘supersize’.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking, Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do
Vocabulary, Exercise 2
- without dictionaries at first.
Practise the pronunciation of the vocabulary, as they will hear it in the talk.
D
Students read
Listening: Section 1, Exercise 3
and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer questions ‘a’ and ‘b’.
Students listen again and do
Listening: Section 1, Exercise 4
.
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
.
Students read
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 5
and then listen to Section 2 of the talk.
They answer questions ‘a’ and ‘b’.
F
Students try to answer
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 6
. They listen again to Section 2 to
check/complete their answers.
G
If you wish to do some extra work with the class, hand out
Student Worksheet 3
.
For the vocabulary exercise, give the students copies of the audio script and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work focuses on other words made with the prefix ‘super’.
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Supersize
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Elsewhere in this series we looked at ‘downsizing’, and now it’s the turn of ‘supersizing’.
You may remember this term from the Morgan Spurlock film
Super Size Me
where the
director attempted to live for an entire month only on food available from McDonald’s.
And perhaps it’s no surprise that McDonald’s are credited for bringing this word into
existence.
The idea came from a man called David Wallerstein who had worked out that people who
are very hungry often feel guilty about buying two items of the same food, but can be
persuaded to buy one bigger portion. Wallerstein took the idea to McDonald’s in the mid-
nineties where customers suddenly found themselves being asked if they would like their
menu supersized.
Listening Section 2
Essentially this meant buying bigger burgers, bigger chips (or fries) and a bigger drink for
a little more money. And so people got more food, but their guilty feelings of greed were
kept at bay because – in their eyes – they were still only buying one burger, and one bag of
chips.
Supersizing spread to other areas not long after that, and enjoyed a brief period as a
positive term for something bigger and better. Cars were supersized, television shows with
feature-length episodes were supersized and supersizing was all the rage.
However, with increasing criticism of fast food and consumerism in general, supersizing
has fallen out of favour in recent years.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Supersize
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. entire
the whole of something e.g. the whole day
b. to be credited for something
people say that someone is responsible for something
c. to feel guilty
to feel bad about yourself because of your actions or
behaviour
d. to work something out
to discover something or to reach a good
understanding of a situation
e.
a portion
a single serving of food e.g. a portion of chips
f. greed
a strong desire to have more of something than you
need, particularly food
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
supersize
b.
ii. that someone buys larger servings of one food item e.g. 1 bigger beef burger?
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘the director attempted to live for an entire month only on food available from
McDonald’s.’
b.
True – ‘McDonald’s are credited for bringing this word into existence.’
c.
True – ‘David Wallerstein who had worked out that people who are very hungry often
feel guilty about buying two items of the same food, but can be persuaded to
buy one bigger portion.’
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