FAST FOOD BABIES

Fast Food: The Fast Road to Bad Health ???

                      Obesity afflicting the youth...

                                                                 The frying process that makes these foods appeal to your taste buds .....

                fast food chains                    

          TRANS FAT                                             calory and sodium intake...

"Many believe that the obesity rate in America should not be blamed on fast food companies because eating fast food is a personal choice."

DISCUSSION:  Are we really free to choose what we eat???

FAST FOOD. Reading comprehension.   Just go for it!!















OR...

DOCUMENTARY. Watch it, learn and enjoy it.

Jean Michael Basquiat.

   Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the "Punk" scene in New York. In a few fast years, Basquiat became one of the most celebrated, and possibly most commercially exploited American "naif" painters. Basquiat's work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980s American Punk, or graffiti-based and counter-cultural practice could become a fully recognized, critically embraced and popularly celebrated artistic phenomenon, indeed not unlike the rise of American Hip Hop during the same era.


     Basquiat  brought together in his art different traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage, one deriving, in part, from his urban origins, and in another a more distant, African-Caribbean heritage.


     Basquiat's swift rise to fame and equally swift and tragic death by drug overdose personifies the overly commercial, international art scene of the mid 1980s, a cultural phenomenon that for many observers was symptomatic of the largely artificial bubble economy of the era.

HOW DOES BASQUIAT LOOK LIKE??

BASQUIAT'S ART is a combination of urban and ethnic art.    

WHY??? 

Jean Michel Basquiat's biography. 

RESOURCES TO PREPARE THE B1 TEST

  

READING

http://www.examenglish.com/B1/B1_reading.htm

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice

https://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/exercises-and-theory/reading-and-writing/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/









LISTENING

http://www.examenglish.com/B1/B1_listening.htm


https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/category/language-level/b1




SPEAKING

http://twominenglish.com/




GRAMMAR



http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_grammar.html


           Basic grammar resources.  A2

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos



VOCABULARY



http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/B1_vocabulary_topics.htm




WRITING


http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing-skills-practice

New York for tourists.

PRONUNCIATION

HUGE        VAULTED LINE          IDEAL            PEDESTRIAN            RAILWAY

         ELEVATOR          CABLE       MAIN ROADS        




What are the highlights of New York?


WILLIAMSBURGH.

 WILLIAMSBURGH. Follow me around.

HOW CAN PEOPLE AFFORD TO LIVE IN NEW YORK??

New York has one of the highest costs of living in the country and for many people life is a daily struggle. How can people afford to live in New York City?

 HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO RENT AN APPARTMENT IN NEW YORK?

HOW TO FIND A ROOMMATE

ROOMMATES. EXPECTATIONS VERSUS REALITY.

ABOUT HIPSTERS. 

The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of youth who reside primarily in gentrifying neighborhoods.^[1][2] It is broadly associated with indie and alternative music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, vintage and thrift store-bought clothing, generally progressive political views, organic and artisanal foods, alternative lifestyles and snobbery.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} The subculture typically consists of white millennials living in urban areas.^[9][10] It has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior".^[11]

^{Let's deal with the concepts........}

^{GENTRIFICATION              MAINSTREAM       SNOBBERY        MELTING POT}

              ^PROGRESSIVE   

              

 ^{GETTING DRESSED}

 

HIPSTER OR HASIDIC? 

FIND OUT ABOUT THE HASIDIC IN BROOKLYN.

When did they arrive in Brooklyn?  Where did they come from?

How do they live?

Find out more....