Translation & Interpretation 2018

Lengua inglesa II
Obesity and fast food

I Listen and answer the questions in full sentences

1 What kind of recording is this? (Podcast is not accepted) (1 pt)

_______________It’s a lecture _____________________________________________________

2 What is the main idea of the recording? (2 pts)

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II Answer the questions in full sentences.

1 What does fast food equal to for other people? (1 pt)

________It equals American food ___________________

2 What do German and Chinese people eat? (1 pt)

_______All Germans eat sausages and all Chinese eat rice

3 What is the average for hamburger eating in America? What else do they eat?

______3 Hamburgers a week along with 4 orders of French fries

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4 What is the speaker’s son not average?

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________He 3 eat 3 hamburgers a day, if he could, and 4 orders of French fries by Wednesday.

5 What was the amount of food consumed in 1976?

________Americans ate 94 pounds of beef per person each year

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6 What is the amount of food these days?

_______Today they eat 68 pounds per

person._________________________________________________________________________

7 Do Americans eat less fast food? What does the speaker say regarding this?

_________No, actually they eat more fast food than ever.

8 Complete the chart below with information the speaker gives regarding Food for
Thought.

1970 2001
American spent 6 billions dollars a year on fast They spent 110 billion

food.

9 Why does the speaker mention a private Jet and Hawaii? (2 pts)

________Because he increase in money spent on fast food would allow him to be rich and buy his

own private yet to go to Hawaii___________

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10 What is the comparison made between American’s expenditure on fast food and
University fees, personal computers, and new cars? (2 pts)

______Americans spend more money annually on fast food than on University fees, personal

computers, and new cars

11 How does the speaker compare what the audience spend on fast food and the money
spent in a car? (2 pts)

____He ask the audience who has bought a car and who eats fast food on weekends. Then, he

explains that buying fast food in a year’s average is more expensive than buying a car, specially a

used one.

12 What do Americans spend more in? (0,5 pts.)

___________They spend more on food than on entertainment. But they also spend more on fast

food than on healthy food.

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13 What does the speaker say regarding Americans and obesity? (1 pt)

____Americans are getting obese. American has the largest percentage of obese people on all

developed nations.

14 Explain the metaphor of the river and the increase of obesity in America due to fast food
consuming (3 pts)

______The obesity crisis is happening slowly and no one is worries. The same happens when it

rains and the water in a river increases; at first no one notices it, but then the rivers overflows its

banks s and there is a crisis.

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16 Why is being obese a crisis? Mention 5 reasons (5 points)

A) For one thing, it’s ___Killing americans ______________________________________

B) Being too fat __increases stress in our bodies

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C) Our ___hearts and other organs have to work harder and they break down sooner

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D) Obesity is _____the number 2 cause of death in America today, right behind smoking

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E) Being too fast is __the second biggest killer

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17 A few years ago a man decided to eat at McDonalds for a month: breakfast, lunch, and
diner. Before he began doing this he was almost perfect health. What happened to him?
Mention three consequences (1 pt each)

A) He had _Heart problems and trouble breathing

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B) His __liver and kidneys were

weak_____________________________________________________________

C) His doctor said ___his liver was similar to an alcoholic’s

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18 What did he find out while he was doing this? (1 pt)

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_______He found out that about 20% of macdonasl customers really do eat there virually

everyday_________________________________________________________________________

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III Vocabulary. For each of the following words/definitions, provide a word FROM THE
RECORDING (1 pt each)

 Typical normal amount _______average ____________________________________

 Diminution, lowering ________reduction ____________________________________

 To spend a certain amount of money on something ______shell out

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 Fleshy or chubby ____plump ___________________________

 Exceeding the permitted extents or limits _____overflow??

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