Watch the video once and try to get the main idea. Then watch it at least two more times and try to answer the questions or complete the sentences below (you need one word in each gap). The answers are in "comments".
1. What has America become?
2. How many people in the USA are overweight or obese?
3. What’s the fattest state in America?
4. The man on the video remembers his mother...
5. Today American families ____________ _____________ all the time and they are paying for it, not only with their _____________ but also with their _____________.
6. _____________ is now second only to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America, with more than _____________ deaths per year associated with related illnesses.
7. In 2002 a few Americans decided to _____________ these companies, making them responsible for their obesity and health problems.
8. Each day _____________ in _____________ Americans visits a fast food restaurant, and it’s happening on a _____________ _____________.
9. McDonalds feeds more than _____________ million people worldwide every day. More than the entire population of _____________.
10. McDonalds are _____________, even in _____________.
11. Why did the lawyers for McDonalds call their suers ‘frivolous’?
12. The judges said that if lawyers could prove that eating McDonalds’ products for every meal every day is _____________ _____________, they may be able to state a claim.
13. What’s the man in the video going to do? Why?
1 comment:
1. The fattest nation in the world.
2. Nearly one hundred million / more than 60 % of all US adults.
3. Mississippi
4. ... was always in the kitchen cooking dinner and they rarely went out for a meal (only on special occasions).
5. eat out / wallets / waistlines
6. obesity / 400,000
7. sue
8. one/ four / global basis
9. 46 / Spain
10. everywhere / hospitals
11. Because they say that the dangers of this food are universally known and these kids can’t show that their problems were caused just by them.
12. unreasonably dangerous
13. He’s going to eat nothing but McDonalds’ for 30 days straight to see what happens/ to find out if fast food is really so bad.
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