Unit Beginnings Lesson Starting small Vocabulary

Unit 2. Beginnings
Lesson 5. Starting small
Vocabulary: irregular verbs; past time phrases
Grammar: Past Simple
Review: question words; subject questions


Reading and Grammar

1. 
   Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
   

1. 
   What fast food companies are there in your country? What do they sell?
   
2. 
   What are the good and bad things about fast food?
   
3. 
   Do you ever go to fast food restaurants? Which ones? What do you usually buy?
   

2. 
   a) Read the article about KFC and Harland Sanders. Tut these events in order.
   

1. 
   He travelled 250,000 miles a year.
   
2. 
   His father died 7
   
3. 
   He became the manager of a service station.
   
4. 
   He sold theKFCbusiness.
   
5. 
   He developed his secret chicken recipe.
   
6. 
   He learned to cook.
   

b) Read the article again. Then answer these questions.

1. 
   Why did Harland Sanders learn to cook when he was a child?
   
2. 
   How long did it take him to develop his secret chicken recipe?
   
3. 
   When did the first official KFC restaurant open?
   
4. 
   How old was Harland Sanders when he sold the company?
   
5. 
   What happened in 1980?
   
6. 
   Who bought KFCin 1986?
   

The man behind KFC
Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890, but his childhood wasn’t a happy one. His father died when he was only six so his mother needed to find a job. She went to work in a shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister. That was when he first learned to cook.
He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became a service station manager in Corbin, Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travelers who stooped at the service station, and soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to a 142-seat restaurant across the street whe^re he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years he developed the secret chicken recipe that made him famous.
In the early 1950s he closed the restaurant and decided to self his recipe to other businesses. The first official Kentucky Fried Chicken restau^rant didn't open until August 1952 - by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders sold the company for $2 million, but he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled 250,000 miles every year until he died in 1980, aged 90. Six years later PepsiCo bought KFC for $840 million.
There are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries and they sell 2.5 billion chicken dinners every year - and the recipe is still a secret!

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