World Vegetarian Day

VEGETARIAN DAY EXTRA LESMATERIAAL

Opinion

Are you vegetarian?

No

arian is t e g e v a g n ‘Becom i d-stea k’ e s s i m g i b a My favourite food is steak and hamburgers. Don’t take that away from me!

And I really don’t like jam on my sandwiches. I prefer savoury things such as ham or curry. Or those little sausages with garlic and peppers … Yummy!

Billy

In meat there are lots of minerals and other healthy things. I don’t think it’s good for you if you only eat vegetables. I eat a bit of everything. A bit of chocolate and ice cream too!

Anna-Joy

Alexander

Have you seen the food in the school restaurant? I love veggies and fruit, but the stuff they’re giving us …

Brrr! The meat is the only edible thing. Well, the meat and the bread rolls.

Ye s

a ch ance’ ‘Give peas Are you nuts? Eating blood and muscles? Yucky! They even put animal bones in gummy bears! Why?

Lisa

Natalie

Mehmed

When I was eight my father, a doctor, showed me how they did laser surgery … on a chicken. I have been a vegetarian ever since.

And after reading the book ‘Eating animals’ by J.S. Foer, I turned vegan. That means I don’t eat anything that comes from animals, such as eggs. I don’t wear fur or leather either.

Well, most of the time I am a vegetarian. We eat so much meat it isn’t healthy anymore. Not for our bodies, and definitely not for the planet. This is my way of doing something for the environment.

Did you know?

• Vegans don’t eat or use anything from an animal.

• Vegetarians don’t ea t meat or fish.

• Pescetarians don’t eat meat, but do eat fish.

• Flexitarians try to ea t as little meat as poss ible.

• Most Eastern religion s encourage a vegeta ria n diet.

• There are 375,000,00 0 vegetarians worldw ide.

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Opinion

Ace out 2 p. 11

Are you vegetarian?

1

How many times a week do you eat meat? Report to the class.

2

Read the text.

What did you learn from the text that you did not already know?

3

Give the reasons for and against being vegetarian. arguments PRO

4

Share your opinion with the rest of the class.

I think it is okay to eat meat because ….

I am going to eat less/more meat because …

Forty

I don’t think it is okay to eat meat because ...

5

Read the text again. Match the lunch to the name.

6

You’re having breakfast with your vegan friend. Cross out the things he can’t eat.

omelettes ice cream bread with butter and jam a smoothie a fruit salad hot chocolate a cup of coffee

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arguments CON

Opinion

Ace out 2 p. 11

Are you vegetarian?

DE LEERLINGEN KUNNEN …

• de gedachtegang volgen van narratieve teksten.

• informatie selecteren uit narratieve teksten.

• een spontane mening geven. (met ondersteuning van sleutelwoorden)

3Ace 1 unit 6 and unit 9

Students can do these exercises as soon as they have finished unit 6. By then, they will be familiar with the functional language to express likes and dislikes.

When they have finished unit 9, they’ll also be familiar with the food vocabulary.

1

How many times a week do you eat meat? Report to the class.

2

Read the text.

What did you learn from the text that you did not already know?

3

Give the reasons for and against being vegetarian. arguments PRO

Meat is very yummy.

Meat is yucky.

Meat is healthy.

It is bad for animals.

The only food at school that is tasty is the meat.

4

I am going to eat less/more meat because …

Alexander

Forty

Mehmed

Natalie

You’re having breakfast with your vegan friend. Cross out the things he can’t eat.

omelettes ice cream bread with butter and jam a smoothie a fruit salad hot chocolate a cup of coffee

40

I don’t think it is okay to eat meat because ...

Read the text again. Match the lunch to the name.

Billy 6

It is bad for the climate.

Share your opinion with the rest of the class.

I think it is okay to eat meat because ….

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arguments CON

Differentiation

You can give an extra language task.

More confident students can write down their own report of an interview. Have them interview a number of people about their views on eating meat. Ask them to use the computer spell checker when writing down the answers.

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