1. Fast food eating habits.
Listen to four people talking about their fast food eating habits and answer these questions.
2. Fast food eating habits.
Listen and choose the correct answer.
Speaker 1: | 1. | He very rarely eats fast food. |
2. | Sandwiches and things with chicken. | |
3. | He doesn't eat fast food because he thinks it's bad for his health |
Speaker 2: | 1. | She eats fast food a lot. |
2. | Hamburgers, chips, pizzas, Chinese food and baked potatoes. | |
3. | She eats fast food because it's convenient, because it tastes good (she says it's highly-flavoured) and because she hates cooking. |
Speaker 3: | 1. | He eats fast food at least two or three times a week. |
2. | Pizzas and hamburgers. | |
3. | He eats fast food because he works long hours and doesn't want to cook when he gets home and because it's convenient when he's working. |
4. Connecting ideas, clarifying and adding details.
Choose the best option to complete what the speakers say. This exercise is in four parts. Scroll down to see the other parts.
Part 1
Now complete Part 2.
Part 2
Part 3. Now listen and read what speakers 3 says.
Speaker 3
Well, I eat quite a lot of fast food, probably more than is good for me. I know it's bad, but I work very long hours and commute one hour to and from work, so by the time I get home in the evening, maybe 11 o'clock, I'm just not in the mood for cooking, and it's so much easier just to phone for a pizza, and at work, too, if I'm working late, or even at lunchtime it's so much more convenient to phone up for food or whip downstairs and get a hamburger. So I eat fast food probably two or three times a week, even more.
Part 4. Now listen and read what speakers 4 says.
Speaker 4
Well, I don't really like fast food, and I don't like eating in places like McDonald's or other hamburger bars, but I've got two kids and usually we go shopping at the weekends and the kids love it of course, so I end up every weekend, I get dragged into McDonald's and end up eating a hamburger and chips, and it's probably more often than I'd want to, but as I say the kids love it, and if the kids are happy, I'm happy.