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 mothers
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
J unk 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
doesnt 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 oclock and
goes to the hairdresser every Friday.

Annie asked her grandmother what she wanted
to eat on her birthday Mary said, Id 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 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?


















Taken from New Headway beginner