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Work with a partner or group. Do the activities together about ice cream.

Part I Discuss some adjectives to describe ice cream and some things Americans love.
What are three adjectives
“Americans love ice cream.”
to describe ice cream?
Can you think of 3 other things
Ex. Amazing Americans love?

1 1

2 2

3 3

Part II Talk about the two topics below in detail with your partner.
1 2
Talk about one time you tasted Talk about some foods which are
something amazing. Describe it. popular from your home town / local
What was it? Where were you? area. Describe these foods in detail.

Part III Imagine you can choose one subject to study in a university class - it can be
anything you want. What 3 topics will be studied in this class?

Subject: Tell your partner or the class about this

subject in detail. Discuss what you know
Topics: about it and why you are interested in it.

Speak about one good memory from your

time in university or school. What was it?
Why was it a good memory?

Part IV Match the following vocabulary words with the images below.

a. milk b. cow c. farm d. scoop e. cone f. campus

1 2 3 4 5 6
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Discussion Questions
Ice Cream 101

What are your favorite kind of

desserts? Explain them in detail.

How often do you eat ice cream?

Is ice cream popular where you
are from?
Viewing Activity

Part II I Put the numbers from the box to the spaces below.
Part

125 250 25 24

1 Americans eat _________ quarts of ice cream every year.

2 In the USA, Ice cream has been a school subject for _________ years.
3 Dr. Bob Roberts has been teaching ice cream for _________ years.
4 At the university, there are _________ cows for milking on campus.

Part II Write a short answer according to the information in the video.

1 What is the job of Dr. Bob Roberts? Where
does he work?

2 Why do companies buy ice cream recipes

from this university?

3 What do Bob and his colleagues want to

do?

4 Where does ice cream poduction start?

5 Bob says something about “Dulce de

leche.” What is it?

PartPart
II III Post-viewing discussion. Discuss the topics below after watching the video.
1 2
What do you think students tell What are / were your most favor-
their friends about this ice cream ite school subjects. Why are / were
class? these subjects your favorite?
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Before watching: You will hear the following vocabulary words in the video. Match
the word on the left with it’s definition on the right.

n. ingredients a. the place ice cream is produced

n. opportunity b. unit of measurement for weight

n. campus c. front or top position

adj. amazing d. round waffle dish for ice cream

n. cone e. chance or possibility

n. forefront f. parts of a food recipe

n. quart g. really excellent or great

n. creamery h. area of university

After watching: How was the vocabulary word used in the video? Complete the
sentence using the words above from the video.

Americans love ice cream because it tastes (1) .

Americans eat 24 (2) of ice cream per year on average.

Penn State makes its own ice cream on the (3) . Ice
cream there is at the (4) of ice cream technology and
production.

Ice cream is not a natural food, you have to put many (5)
together to make ice cream.

They study ice cream from the beginning to the end - from the cow to the
(6) .

At Penn State, there is a farm with 250 cows which are located on the
university’s (7) .

Dr. Roberts said that he wouldn’t eat frozen yogurt if he had the
(8) to eat ice cream.
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Present Simple
Grammar Activity (I love / He loves...)

“Americans, we love ice cream.”

Grammar Rule:
* We use the present simple tense for actions which happen repeatedly, regularly, again and again,
or for information that is always true.

Ex. Each person eats about 24 quarts of ice cream per year.

* We also use present simple for facts and with state verbs. State verbs are verbs which express
our senses, state of being, wishes, emotions, opinions, and beliefs.

Ex. Americans, we love ice cream. love taste believe

I’m hungry. I want some ice cream! hate hear want
like understand see

* For present simple we use the base form of the verb in conjugations. The only exception is the
3rd person singular. (He / She / It).
* It’s important to remember that everyone,
I love everything, everywhere, etc. is 3rd person singular.
You love
He / She / It loves Everyone loves ice cream.

Exercise I Fill in the verbs from the box with the present simple.
spend love know happen taste

eat study teach work read

1 Americans, we love ice cream.

2 Each person about 24 quarts of it per year.
3 Ice cream amazing.
4 Dr. Bob Roberts ice cream courses at the university.
5 He as a teacher at Penn State University.
6 Ice Cream Professors scientific books about ice cream.
7 Bob and his colleagues a lot of time improving ice cream.
8 They ice cream from the cow to the cone.
9 It’s important what on the farm and with the milk.
10 The professor really a lot about ice cream.
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Instructions: Work with a partner or group. Do the activities below together.

Part I Imagine you are marketers for an ice cream company. Create 3 slogans for ice
cream. Use the present simple. See the examples below.

Example
“Ice cream is always a good idea.” “It’s never too cold for ice cream.”
Slogans:

1 “ ”

2 “ ”

3 “ ”

Part II Make a new course at a university. It can be anything. Think of some activities
students do during the course. Use the present simple. See the example below.

Course Topic: The History of Ice Cream and how it was invented.

Course Activities: Students take a class trip to a creamery and

learn how ice cream is made from start to finish.

Course Topic:

Course Activities:

Part III Imagine you are making a trivia game about ice cream. Make 3 interesting
questions for this trivia game.
* trivia question: a question about a fact which is interesting, but probably not so important.

*Give your questions to another group. If you have internet access, search Google to see if you can
find the answers to the trivia questions.
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Part I. Three adjectives to describe ice cream. Answers will vary. Possible answers:

amazing, tasty, cold, sweet, freezing, messy

What else do Americans love? Answers will vary. Possible answers:

Cars, Fast Food, Movies, Football, Baseball, Video games, Shopping, TV

Part II. Match the words to the images.

(1) c. farm (2) d. scoop (3) f. campus (4) a. milk (5) e. cone (6) b. cow

Part III. Fact / Fiction.

(1) Fact (2) Fiction (July) (3) Fact

Part IV. Answers will vary.

Viewing Activity
Part I. Number matching.
(1) 24 (2) 125 (3) 25 (4) 250

Part II. Short answer.

(1) He’s an ice cream professor at Penn State University.
(2) Because the Penn State creamery is at the forefront of ice cream technology.
(3) They want to make ice cream better.
(4) The cow to the cone.
(5) Bob’s favorite flavor. (a combination of caramel and sweet cream)

Vocabulary Activity
Part I. Match the vocabulary words with definition.
(1) f (2) e (3) h (4) g (5) d (6) c (7) b (8) a

Part II. Write the context of the vocabulary word from the video.

(1) amazing (5) ingredients

(2) quarts (6) cone
(3) creamery (7) campus
(4) forefront (8) opportunity

G
rammar Activity

Exercise I. Present simple.

(1) love (6) read

(2) eats (7) spend
(3) tastes (8) study
(4) teaches (9) happens
(5) works (10) knows