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Project 1 – Food for health

GETTING STARTEDguétin stárted

Faça no caderno as questões de resposta escrita.

1. Discuss the following questions about food and eating habits with a classmate.
   1. What is your favorite dish? How often do you eat it?
   2. Do you think your favorite dish is healthy or unhealthy? Justify your answer.
   3. In your opinion, what is the impact of eating healthy food on one’s quality of life?
   4. Some people believe that healthy food is a synonym for tasteless food. Do you agree with this? Why?
   5. Are you concerned about the quality of the food when choosing something to eat? Why?
   6. It is important to eat food with different colors in every meal. Why is that? How many different colors of food were there on your plate in your last meal?
   7. Are there any foods that you wouldn’t eat as a child, but you eat now? What about food you used to eat, but you don’t anymore?

2. Read these health guidelines and do the following.

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE/MAURITIUS INSTITUTE OF HEALTH/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. Dietary guidelines for the prevention of NCDs in Mauritius. Ministry of Health and Quality of Life/MIH/WHO, 2002. p. página6.

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1. What is the main purpose of this text?

2. Identify the tips that are suggested in the guidelines.
   1. Avoid junk food.
   2. Choose balanced meals.
   3. Add greasy food to your diet.
   4. Avoid eating too many sweets.
   5. Keep away from calcium-rich foods.

c. Why do you think teenagers need to eat the right kinds of food?

3. Read this infographic, created by the Health and Wellbeing Division of the Health Service Executive Department of Ireland, and discuss the questions with a classmate.

1. What is the purpose of this infographic?

2. Besides the food and nutrition information, what other two tips does the infographic provide?

3. Do you think these tips are helpful? Why?

d. What other media provides useful information about food and nutrition?

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4. Now read this article from an Indian website and answer the following questions.

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PARENTING NATION. Healthy eating for teenagers. Disponível em: https://oeds.link/yapIKl. Acesso em: 3 maio 2022.

1. Who is the target audience of this text? Justify your answer with a passage from the text.

2. What does the text mention about eating disorders? Justify your answer with a passage from the text and give your opinion about it.

c. According to the text, why is it important to establish healthy eating habits during adolescence?

5. After reading the texts, work with a classmate to create a healthy menu for a day. Follow these tips:
   • include at least breakfast, lunch and dinner;
   • make sure to include items from the different sections of the pyramid presented in question 3 and think about the right amounts considering your age group;
   • draw the following chart in your notebook and use it as reference.

PREPARING THE PROJECTpripérin dâ prôujéct

Faça no caderno as questões de resposta escrita.

1. You are going to write posts and comments for an online forum. Read and follow the instructions.

1. In this project, in groups, you and your classmates are going to debate, through posts and comments on an online forum, issues related to the following topics: healthy food choices, health food versusvérçus junk food, and food at school. You are going to need to use the school’s computer lab to search for websites and platforms that allow free-of-charge posts and comments. If this is not possible, put up a bulletin board, so that you can post about the topic and have everybody comment on it by writing their own thoughts, reading each other’s opinions and adding images, if necessary. To do a good job, you need careful planning. Discuss the following topics with your classmates and your teacher:
   1. where and how the class will work on the posts and comments;
   2. which group will post each topic on the online forum for the other groups to comment on it.

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b. After planning, copy the following chart in your notebook and complete it with the missing information.

3. Before starting the project, check the following tips:
   1. the information in the texts in Getting startedguétin stárted can be used to enrich your discussions;
   2. you can search the topic on reliable sources, such as university websites, governmental research institutions or encyclopedias;
   3. while reading the texts and researching the topic, you should take notes of the key ideas;
   4. you can present the results of your search to your group using notes, graphs, charts, etc.etcétera

HANDS ONhénds ón

Faça no caderno as questões de resposta escrita.

1. Answer the following questions with your classmates.
   1. In your opinion, what is a balanced diet? Describe it.
   2. Do you know what cholesterol is? Why is a high level of a type of cholesterol considered a bad thing?
   3. How healthy do you think a vegetarian diet is? In what ways do you think it can be good or bad?
   4. Do you, or anyone you know, suffer from food allergies? What are they? What problems do they cause?
   5. What is “junk food”? Why is it called “junk”?
   6. Is there a difference between junk food and fast food? If so, what is it?
   7. Do you, on a daily basis, follow a healthy diet? Why?

2. Plan your post.
   1. What do you know about the topic discussed?
   2. How will you defend your opinion?

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3. How will you organize the information?

d. Will you use non-verbal features, such as emojis and emoticons?

3. Think about the visual language and use your imagination to create an attractive post. Take a look at the following tips.
   1. search images related to the topic discussed;
   2. remember that the non-verbal language must be coherent with the verbal text in the post.

4. Write the online forum post.
   1. Write a draft. Consider organization and appropriate verbal language.
   2. Use letters in different font types, sizes and colors to highlight information.
   3. Use images, infographics, emoticons and emojis.
   4. Don’t forget that a well-written argument will help you defend your opinion.

Step back istép béqui

1. Review the draft. Check with your group if your online forum post has the following characteristics:
   • suitable, interesting title;
   • correct and relevant information;
   • images related to the theme;
   • carefully revised text.

2. Write the final version of the online forum post with your group and post it, so that your classmates and other people from the school can read and comment on it.

JOINING THE IDEASdjóinin aidías

Faça no caderno as questões de resposta escrita.

1. Write comments to engage in the debate. Post your opinion on the topic on the online forum.
   1. After writing the posts, a deadline shoud be set for the class to write comments – which are the answers to the posts – in order to feed the discussion.
   2. The comments can be checked by your classmates and your teacher, who can suggest improvements and/or new posts.
   3. Choose a student to be a moderator of the online forum alongside the teacher, so that the interaction can be effectively established in the discussions.
   4. Don’t forget that your arguments must be based on everything you read and know about the theme. If you don’t know how to comment on a topic, you can always do a little research.
   5. It is very important to be respectful to your classmates’ arguments and comments.