Lunch
Brown Bag Lunches
Now, you have read about what characterises the American school culture. Besides riding the school bus, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and having your school books in a locker, the American school culture also includes eating lunch in the cafeteria. Here, students can buy different kinds of food or bring lunch from home in a lunch bag.
Below, you can see a timeline with lunches from the past 100 years.
Read and Understand
1. Work in groups of two.
2. Click on the timeline and find out what Americans have eaten for lunch during the past 100 years.
3. Write down the words you do not know in the table.
4. Find out what the words mean. Look them up or ask your teacher.
Talk About Brown Bag Lunches
5. Talk about:
- What does a brown bag lunch usually consist of?
- What are the main differences between the brown bag lunches shown on the timeline?
- Which brown bag lunch would you prefer?
6. Prepare a short presentation about the brown bag lunch (2 minutes).
- Choose three focus points.
- Write down keywords.
- Practise the presentation on each other.
- The future of the brown lunch bag.
- Sandwich fillings.
- Drinks: from milk to water.
- Differences and similarities in brown lunch bags during the past 100 years.
- Or something completely different.
7. Team up with another group.
8. Take turns presenting your brown bag lunch presentation.
9. Talk about the presentations:
- How were the presentations the same?
- How were the presentations different?
- Did you understand the presentations?
- Did you use new English words?
- What did you like about the presentations?
- Could you make the presentations better?
Danish Lunch
In Denmark you can also bring your own lunch. In some schools you can also buy lunch. Some people eat rye bread for lunch, others prefer a sandwich, a wrap or perhaps something else.
Talk About Danish and American Lunch
10. Work in pairs.
11. Spend 5–10 minutes talking about these questions in groups:
- What would a timeline with Danish lunches look like?
- How do you think the American and the Danish lunch are different?
- How do you think the American and the Danish lunch are the same?
- What is your favourite lunch?
12. Write down keywords.
13. Talk about the questions in class.