SUPER SIZE ME - ACTIVITIES

DOCUMENTARY SUPER SIZE ME

Task 1

Read the text and fill in the gaps after watching the first five minutes of the documentary

1. America is the _________________ nation in the world.
2. More than _______ % of adults in the US are obese.
3. _______________________ is the fattest state in the US.
4. The two main causes for deaths in America are ___________ and ______________.
5. McDonald’s is spread over the world and feeds more than __________ million people worldwide a day.
6. McDonald’s accounts for _______ % of the fast food market in the US.
7. In the US you can find McDonald’s everywhere: ______________, ___________________, ______________________.

Task 2

In groups (4 students) discuss the following questions. Support your opinion and make notes.

1. Are  Spanish heavier than they used to be? Why or why not?
2. What influence does McDonald’s have in Spain? Is it very popular? Does it influence our diet?
3. In America some people are suing fast food restaurants. Where does personal responsibility start and corporate responsibility stop?
4. The title of the film is Super Size Me. What does it refer to?
5. What will the specific topic of the film be?

After a short while, when the teacher notices that the groups are done with their work, the students report and a lively discussion will likely evolve.

3) The teacher introduces the students with Task 3. They should be given a brief amount of time to read through the instructions and the task. Then the teacher shows the second section of the documentary (minutes 51 to 57).

Task 3

Watch minutes 51 to 57 of the documentary. Answer the questions. Use short answers only.

State School

1. What do American students eat in school?
________________________________________________________________________
2. Which food company caters most schools and prisons in the USA?
________________________________________________________________________
3. How is food prepared in schools?
________________________________________________________________________
4. Why don’t they prepare meals from scratch in schools?
________________________________________________________________________
5. How many meals a month are actually cooked at the school mentioned?
________________________________________________________________________

Task 4

In groups discuss the following questions. Support your opinion and make notes.

1. Discuss your eating habits. 
• How many times a day do you eat? 
• When do you eat? 
• What do you eat? 
• Who prepares your meals?
2. In your opinion, what is a healthy way of eating ? (consider the type of food, frequency of eating, time of eating, variety of food, etc.)
3. Are the eating habits of Slovenians changing? In what way?
4. Is fast food going to influence our eating habits the same way as it has many Americans?

Students report after discussing the questions in groups.

Post-listening Activities

At home students write responses to the following:

• How is the issue of providing food for high school students taken care of in your country? 
• In the next lesson, the students freely report on what they have written. 

KEY ANSWERS

Task 1

Key: 1) fattest, 2) 60, 3) Mississippi, 4) smoking, obesity, 5) 46, 6) 43, 7) Walmart outlets, airport, hospitals.

Students report their answers, the teacher writes on the board words that might present difficulties for the students. While the students report, the answers can be commented on.

Task 3

Key: 1) cookies, fries, ketchup 2) Sodexho, 3) it is reheated, 4) it is inconvenient, 5) 6 out of 36.

HUMAN TISSUES - HISTOLOGY

Have a look at this presentation to learn about the diversity of human tissues.

After that, click this link where you will find a complete description of the different tissues present in the human body.

TASKS

Using the provided information above to elaborate a chart classifying the different cell types.  Include the criteria employed to sort them out.

To revise the main topics, complete the tissue types worksheet.

BRAIN AND INTELLIGENCE

In this lesson we will study brain anatomy and funcion.

But first, we are going to watch a video funny video on how functional areas of the brain were discovered. The video is entitled The great brain debate

After this introduction we are ready to study brain anatomy.

You can do it yourself using the 3-D BRAIN ANATOMY TOOL,  reading the contents of the McGill online book or regarding this interactive activity of Bitesize from the BBC. The second resource it is interesting because you can find three levels of difficulty on the Nervous System.

Activities

• Complete the worksheet.
• Answer these online activities to remember the most important topics about the nervous system.
• Nervous System Matching
• There are really dificult questions in this quiz... only for advanced learners!!!

Multiple intelligences

The brain is the house of intelligence... During the first decades of past century, intelligence was used to be mesured using a IQ test. Nowadays, intelligence is considered a much more complex issue, especially since the develpment of the multiple intelligences hypothesis by Howard Gardner in 1983. If you have time, see how Dr. Gardner explain his own hypothesis in the TV show Redes. You can quantify your different intelligences having this test develped by researchers at Birmingham University.

An interesting approach in the intelligence field has been propossed by Dr. Adrian Owen. His resarch team is triying to measure intelligence using a online test created to discover your intelligence Strengths.

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

We are going to explore the function of the digestive system and the organs that participates in food digestion.

First, let's learn the role of components of the digestive system

Then, test what you learned


In this short video you will be able to see the digestive system from the inside...

Watch this animation to undertand the processes that takes place inside your body in order to transform food into nutrients.

More detailed information about digestion in those videos:

Part 1

Part 2

TASK

While reading this presentation you task will be to fill in your digestive system worksheet
Credits:
freddyhillman
Tes.co.uk

In order to revise the main concepts about digestion, click this link, watch the video and try to solve the "THINK" questions


INTERESTING QUESTIONS

HOW DOES YOUR BODY KNOW YOU ARE FULL?

HOW THE FOOD YOU EAT AFFECTS YOUR GUT?

Ebola virus disease

The Ebola virus has been frightening us since the last outbreak took place several months ago...

In order to know something more about Ebola virus disease we are going to use some different resources

A quick way to introduce yourself to the basic facts about  Ebola is by having a look at this BBC short video.

But, in my opinion, this video from TED-Ed summarizes pretty good the state of the art about the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

You can check  much have you learned by answering this quiz

If you have more time, it would be better if you watch the documentary

Ebola : Inside the Deadly Outbreak (Documentary 2014)

and answer this questionnaire to see if you got the main ideas about the disease. Then, you can check your answers.

The prevous information can be useful to understand the key factors in the epidemilogy of a disease outbreak.

Although it is taught to undertand for the non-native speaker, the following video also contains the main aspects about Ebola.

Anyway, if you have not understand anything so far, try to read the activity El virus del Ébola en 10 preguntas?

If you want to know even more explore this link

Blood typing

What is a blood type ?

You can also explore this topic watching this video

link: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-blood-types-matter-natalie-s-hodge 

How do you determine a patient's blood type?

How do you perform safe blood transfusions?

Most of the information about blood typing is summarized in this chart


Fill in this document to check your knowledge about blood typing

After reading all these information, you are ready to play the... 

BLOOD CROSSWORD

Let's revise blood related vocabulary using the following crossword