SUBMITTED BY: Andy Webster     EDITED BY: まだ

I'm Not Luvin' It

TOPIC: Fast Food     DATE ADDED: Dec 21, 2010    

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Materials Needed:

• ImNotLuvinIt worksheet

Detailed Explanation:

1. On page 1 of the worksheet, students work in groups to guess the answers to the questions. Award points to the most correct answers.
   2. On page 2 of the worksheet, they answer the questions individually.
2. Check the students answers and ask some of them to read out their answers to the class.

Teaching Suggestions:

• You will need to change the name and information on the worksheet to your own.

Comments:

• (Mar 7, 2011) Meatz said:
  I played this game today with the students. They thought is was wonderful. Probably because I stopped at McDonald's and picked up 40 Mega Macs and handed them out after the class was over, and told them about the benefits of an all meat diet. Next time we will take the class on a field trip to a local farm where we can hand slaughter a cow and drink the blood off it's warm carcass. I'm loving it!
• (Jan 18, 2011) Happy Meat Eater said: Pretty sure if you I gained about 6 pounds in Japan from white rice. I eat McDonalds sometimes and am fine. Don`t preach vegetarian beliefs to the students. :\
• (Jan 14, 2011) Veganz said: About this game ---> Da da da dum dummm...I'm not luvin it.
• (Jan 12, 2011) Where this lesson goes wrong said: I agree with "What`s the point". But I`ll try to be more specific and constructive.
  1. Propaganda, the most obvious flaw. "Give me your money.", "It`s a Mccrime.", "Junk food attack." etc. Then students are asked to answer questions and give reasons why they don`t like Mcdonalds (especially if the students like/admire the teacher). Writing against your opinion due to peer pressure creates cognitive dissonance if the student has different beliefs. This causes stress and is a well known form of brainwashing (e.g. NK encouraged POWs to spell check, then to write, propaganda during the Korean war).
  2. "It will make you fat!". This could upset overweight students, especially those who can`t help it. Even if we agree that being overweight is objectively bad, why point this out to students? I`m very short, and as an adult I would be upset if you told me that Mcdonalds is bad because it makes you short.
  3. No focus. There is no grammar point, and no attempt at teaching one. Is it: How many? Do you like? Favorite? Countries? Superlatives(better/worse)? Why? A lesson plan should start with a thing that needs to be taught, the theme is then built around this. With this lesson a theme has been chosen, then grammar has been used to fit the theme.
  4. The worksheet asks students 2 questions they have no chance of knowing (How many countries have Mcdonalds?" "How many Mcdonald`s in UK?"). A question you have no chance of knowing the answer to is not interesting. Worse, it seems designed to assert false intellectual dominance by making the student feel uninformed.
  This is like a pro-lifer saying "In how many countries is abortion legal?" or "How many abortions are performed every year in Australia?". Then lecturing you when you can`t answer. The questions make you feel like you don`t know what you`re talking about.
  
  I would like to go on, I have tested the Mcdonald`s "no mould" myth myself. But I`ll just say that this could be a reasonably good lesson if it allowed sceptical thinking and was used with older students.
• (Jan 11, 2011) What's the point? said: This doesn't teach any of the grammar points that the students are meant to be learning.
  And you're supposed to be teaching them English...not preaching your personal beliefs to them. So what's the point of using this vegetarian propaganda?
• (Jan 7, 2011) Wangstar said: Very witty game. At the end I like to throw a little disclaimer out there that I in fact don't like McD and disassociate myself from the fat slob stereotype of Westerners. They will think I'm cool like Japanese.