CLIL: Healthy eating and arguments

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 9

Subject

Английский язык

Term

1

Lesson

№ 22

Learning objectives

• 9.4.9.1recognise inconsistencies in argument in extended texts on a range of general and curricular topics
• 9.5.5.1develop with support coherent arguments supported when necessary by examples and reasons for a range of written genres in familiar general and curricular topics

Sample questions

1. 1
   Text: "Everyone knows fast food is unhealthy, so nobody should ever eat it." What is the weakness of this argument?

   It compares two completely different foods It gives too many statistics about food It includes a long quotation from a doctor It uses "everyone knows" instead of real evidence
2. 2
   A writer says: "My friend ate junk food every day and stayed thin, so junk food is not fattening." What is the inconsistency?

   Junk food is mentioned twice in a row One example cannot prove a general rule The friend is not named in the text The text contains no numbers at all
3. 3
   Which sentence supports the claim "Breakfast helps students concentrate" with a reason?

   Breakfast gives the brain glucose, which it needs to focus Breakfast is the first meal of the day Many students come to school without breakfast My brother likes cereal with milk for breakfast