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Fast Food, OK ?Fast Food, OK ? Worksheet: ► Blank fill exercise:Complete this part of the dialogue from memory. When correcting this exercise, take care to allow any acceptable alternatives, not just the words that are in the original text. FREEWAY: People say that today's young people like nothing apart from "fast food"; do you think this is true? and what do you think of fast food? GORDON: I don't have ____________ against it, really! It's O.K! I mean, you hear people __________ it's all junk food, but most of the time it ___________ good. Though I wouldn't _______ to live off it all the time! DANNY: Yeah, if you mean hamburgers and ___________, there's nothing ________ with them. They're good food! They fill you ___; and that's what food's ___________ to do, isn't it? I mean there's meat, vegetables and bread and cheese; as far as I'm ___________, that's a ___________ balanced diet. GORDON: Yeah, hamburgers are all ________. I mean, my mum says it's all junk, but frankly I can't really see what makes it any different ______ the stuff she cooks. I mean bread's bread, ______'t it, and steak's steak, as far as I'm ___________ .
For teachers: When correcting the blank-fill exercise, take care to allow any acceptable alternatives, not just the words that are in the original text. More ideas: Pay attention to the characteristics of spoken English, including use of fillers, repetition, and tag questions. ►Expression: Have students learn part of this dialogue for homework. This will allow them to work on intonation and expression. ► Have students act out the dialogue in class, from memory. : Students will pay far more attention to phonetics and intonation when reciting a learned dialogue, than when reading a written text.
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