Lunchbox differences

Lead in:

1. When you were a kid, what did you used to eat for lunch at school?

2. What the ideal school lunch?

3. Should school lunches be provided for free to kids? Why? Why not?

In 2012, Campbell Live conducted a simple experiment. Without any advance notice, they asked kids in 2 primary schools in different parts of Auckland to show them what they were having for lunch.

Watch this shocking report: 

True / false / doesn't say?

1. The news crew visited two Auckland schools.

2. The children are all well behaved.

3. All the kids at the first school had eaten breakfast.

4. The class in the South Auckland school didn't know the news crew was coming.

5. The news crew interview the principals of both schools.

6. The principal of the South Auckland school sympathises with parents who can't afford to provide their children with lunch.

7. The nutritionist is not too worried about the health impacts of the situation.

8. The reporter believes this problem will cause serious problems in the future.

9. The government will be providing free lunches soon.


Lunchbox differences

Questions

1. What does the presenter mean when he says: "the kind of 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff' stuff"?

A) the suicide rate

B) the consequences of not taking action to prevent a disaster

C) the dangerous way ambulances drive

D) Arriving late

2. What's the difference between a decile 1 and decile 10 school?

3. What adjectives are used to describe the lunches at Westmere primary school?

_________

_________

_________

_________

_________


4. What does the word "unsuspecting" mean?

A) to have prior knowledge of something

B) to have no prior knowledge of something

C) to have no suspicions

D) to not be suspected

5. Why do some chairs not have bags?

6. What does the expression "graphic illustration" mean?

A) A clear example

B) An impactful example

C) A memorable example

D) all of the above

7. Why does the principal believe most parents struggle to provide lunch for their kids?

A) They are lazy

B) They spend too much on petrol

C) They have too many expenses

D) The need to learn how to budget

Fill the gaps:

1. d_________ly un_____y lunches

2. In other _____, this is a problem New Zealand ignores at its _______

3. The don't get NCEA by ______

4, We can make such a big difference with such a small _______

5. If we ______ them, if we grow them, they'll be ________ citizens



Error spotting: only one out of three are grammatically correct.

A "The impact of poverty in our children" 

B "We've conducted very simple experiment" 

C "without any advance notice" 

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A "We asked all the kids put their lunch-boxes on their desks" 

B "To indicate with a tick that had eaten breakfast" 

C "None of the kids had any idea we were coming" 

--

A "...wouldn't be out of place in one the local cafes" 

B "When it comes lunch" 

C "All but two had a least one piece of fruit" 

--

A "If there isn't a bag, it's because the student doesn't have them" 

B "the class does provide one piece of fruit for all the students" 

C "Hunger is the biggest barriers to many of his student's education" 

--

A "It's tough to focus in anything" 

B "That does happen from time to time" 

C "It's not fault of those who suffering" 

Quizlet vocab quiz:

Collocations

There's also a Kahoots Quiz I made for this lesson: Right or Wrong?

Kahoots Quiz