1. Do you ever use vending machines? If so, what do you buy from them? If not, why not?
2. What do you think are the benefits of selling food items from vending machines? What are the drawbacks?
3. What do you do when the product you want gets stuck? Do you have a technique? Choose from the following:
a) I tilt the machine forwards and backwards.
b) I bang on the window.
c) I try to rebuy the product.
d) I try to buy an item higher up, and hope that it will knock my item free.
e) I call the number on the machine.
f) I seek assistance nearby.
Read article here: Vending Machine Reading
4. If food-vending machines of the type mentioned in the article appeared in your neighbourhood, what items should they stock? Which locations would be most suitable/unsuitable?
5. Some schools in the UK are banning vending machines as they are seen as part of the obesity problem. What is the situation in schools in your country? Do school vending machines usually sell unhealthy snacks?
6. Have you come across people selling food in other innovative ways?
7. Have your food shopping habits changed in the last five or ten years? If so, how? Do you go shopping more or less frequently? Do you shop more online? Do you buy more or less local or organic produce?
8. Do you grow any of your own food? Would you like to?
9. Have there been shortages of any particular items?
10. Have any of these changes during the pandemic encouraged you to try new foods, combinations or recipes? If so, how did they work out?
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Situation
You want to persuade your boss (your teacher) to install one of these machines at your workplace. Approach him and explain the possible benefits of having one of them.
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Discuss quotes
"My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine."
- Caroline Rhea
"Anyone who says having a child is the best moment of their life has obviously never had two Kit-Kats fall out of a vending machine at once."
- Anon
"You don't truly know someone until you see how they react to their bag of chips getting stuck in a vending machine."
- Anon
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Growing your own food is like printing your own money!
- Urban Gardening Republic
Student Handout PDF: Vending Machine Outline
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