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Ahead of the 52nd anniversary of the opening of the world’s first McDonald’s franchise (15th April 1955 in Illinois by Ray Kroc), the subject of this lesson is fast food.
Related Websites
Send your students to the following reference websites, or just take a look yourself.
Official website of the McDonald’s corporation http://www.mcdonalds.com/
But who invented the hamburger? This should leave you none the wiser. http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/burgers.html
These people are seriously unhappy with McDonald’s. http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/factsheet.html
A BBC Newsround forum from 2004 that asks ‘How much junk food is too much?’, with lots of responses from young teenagers http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/your_comments/newsid_3634000/3634794.stm
A short text on fish and chips from the British Seafish website http://www.seafish.org/plate/fishandchips.asp
The website of one of Britain ’s leading producers of mushy peas. Challenging linguistically, but contains some good photographs! http://www.mushypeas.co.uk/default.asp
The Chilli Source, a humorous British website in praise of kebabs
http://www.thechillisource.org/html/mainmenu.php
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