McDonald’s lawsuit

A. Pre-reading questions:

Before students look at the text they are going to read, the teacher writes 5 or 6 words from the text on the board
and asks the students to guess the topic. Students brainstorm ideas in pairs and teacher can write them on the
whiteboard for everyone to see.

1. lawsuit
2. defamation
3. startup
4. disputes

B. franchisee

While-reading task (Think-Pair-Share)

Students read the news article individually to confirm their guess and also try to infer the meaning of the
selected vocabulary from the text and then share with a group of 3-4 their answers to the following questions.

What kind of company is Kytch?

1. Why did Kytch sue McDonald’s?

2. What does the ‘food chain’ in paragraph 4 refer to?
3. What does ‘it’ in paragraph 7 refer to?
4. How did McDonald’s respond to the accusations made by Kytch?
5. What does ‘pursuit’ in paragraph 9 refer to?
6. What is the purpose of this news article?

C. Post-reading Task

1. Write a 50-word summary of the news article.

2. Fill in the graphic organizer.
3. Write a 200-word commentary on how this news article is connected to yourself , another text and to the
world.