Young World 4, Unit 1: The Way We Live
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This unit covers: healthy eating, recipes, developing shopping lists, and what different families eat during a week. Here are some suggestions for native English speakers to read more about cooking and baking, both fiction and non-fiction. There are also books in Young World 1, Unit 3, and Open World 1, Unit 3 that are appropriate for this theme.
Eat This!, by Andrea Curtis
This book examines fast food marketing and tries to explain to the young consumer the different ways marketers use to get them to eat fast food, which can negatively affect their health. The author discusses what advertising is, the concept of product placing and various other marketing tools used to sell these products. The book provides some insights into the fast food industry and how a young
consumer can make better decisions with regards to fast food consumerism.
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Make it Messy, by Marcus Samuelsson
This is the Young Adult (YA) autobiography by famous chef Marcus Samuelsson who was trained in some of the finest kitchens in Europe. As a child in Ethiopia, his mother died and he was adopted by a loving family in Sweden who gave him a love for cooking. He wanted to become a soccer player but instead has become one of the “great chefs of the world”. (Lexile 1150L) what is this?