LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERSCALORIES ON MENUS
LinguaHouse
Jun. 7, 2022
Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Food and Drink; Health and Well-being; 18+ Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; Article Based
Publication date: 06/07/2022
This lesson focuses on the recent introduction of the requirement for certain businesses in the UK to put calorie information on their menus and the arguments for and against this. Exercises focus on listening and reading skills and vocabulary connected to food and health, and students will have the opportunity to discuss questions related to the topic (by Joe Wilson).
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Speaker 1: I don’t think the decision to publish calories on menus will make any difference to me. When I go for a meal, I’m thinking about what I want to eat, not about how many calories are in it or how fattening it is. If I’ve got an appetite for pizza, I’m going to have a pizza. I don’t care. I rarely eat out, so it’s not a problem for me. I already follow a low-carb diet most of the time and I really enjoy going for a run 3 or 4 times per week. I think the only time I’ve eaten out in the last six months was for my birthday when I went out with my friends for chicken wings and beer. Pretty sure I had too many calories that night! But if you exercise and watch what you eat most of the time, who cares?
Speaker 2: I think putting calories on menus will be quite helpful. I have a problem with my cholesterol levels and so I have to be very careful. Sometimes, there are a lot more calories in food than you think. For years, I used to get a coffee on the way to work and I’d have flavors in it and sometimes cream. I just thought it was a coffee and didn’t think about it, but it was around that time that I started having problems with my weight. I started to read the nutritional information on the labels when I was buying food and was shocked when I realized how many calories I was taking in. I was eating lots of those energy bars because I thought they were healthy, but I noticed that I wasn’t able to digest them very well and it often caused pains in my stomach. If you have the information, you can decide for yourself. You can never have too much information.
Speaker 3: I think it’s a terrible idea to put calorie information on menus. I have a younger sister and she and her friends all have very worrying attitudes towards food. They are always on different diets and checking their weight. I think it’s a problem as they make each other worry more as it becomes like a competition – who can lose the most weight. The things is, none of them are too big at all, but some of them are starting to look unhealthily thin. I tell them that what is important is to make sure you have lots of fiber in your diet: fruit, vegetables, some nuts and seeds. I don’t eat meat, but chicken and turkey aren’t too bad either as well as oily fish. If you do this, the food will always be filling, and you won’t be hungry. They are always talking about how hungry they are. It’s madness.
Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/calories-on-menus. Accessed on June 13, 2022. © 2008–2022 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.
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