Freshman English Reading A: Healthy eating・健全な食べ物

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at some pictures of dishes from different countries. 

Take a look at the picture above - a Korean meal. Are you hungry yet? 

Activity
Let's look at these next dishes - and decide which ones are the healthiest!    

1. 

How many kilocalories (kcals) do you think this plate of pasta has? 

2.

How many kcals do you think this plate of bratwurst (German sausages) has? 

3. 

How many kcals does this Thai chicken curry have? 

4. 

 

How about all this sushi? How many kcals do you think it has? 

Talk about these and make some guesses about their kilocalorie count. Then I'll tell you what the kcal counts are! Talk about them like this: 

例えば：

A: I think Thai chicken curry is healthy. 

B: Really? I think sushi is healthier (= more healthy). ☞ (I think sushi is healthier than Thai chicken curry.)

Try this talk with different kinds of foods! 

Here are the board notes for our class today (5/8):

See you next time!

Images: Top - by LWY at flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwy/2193418329/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3403056/"Pasta" (courtesy of savitkeawtavee)/"Sausages" (courtesy of savitkeawtavee)/"Thai Chicken Curry" (courtesy of John Kasawa)/"Mixed Sushi" (courtesy of rakratchada torsap)/Images #1-4 from FreeDigitalPhotos.net