Instruction Booklet

INSTRUCTION BOOKLET

HEATHLY EATING MAGAZINE HEALTHY EATING MAGAZINE

Your school is having a 'Healthy Eating' week. It is hoped that all events during the week will encourage the pupils in the school to eat healthily. You have being asked to produce a Healthy Eating Magazine. On the following pages you will find instructions on how to put together suitable articles, the magazine must be typed and should be colourful and eye catching to encourage people to read it.

Your magazine should have the following in it when it is complete.

1.Front Cover

2.Restaurant Report

3.Letters Page

4.Article on a chosen health related problem

5.An advert for a food or drink – Choose either a well know one or make your own up.

6.Quick & easy healthy recipe for children

7.Word search or crossword RESTAURANT REPORT

Some newspapers have a weekly article written by an undercover reporter. The reporter chooses a restaurant and goes there with a friend for a meal. They choose different foods. Later the reporter writes about the restaurant, the meal, the service and the cost. A part of the meal may be recommended if it was very good.

RESEARCH . Look through some newspapers to find an example of this e.g. Evening Times. Glasgow Herald. . Read the restaurant review and note how the reporter used certain words to describe food, how he/she mentioned any good and not so good points and how he/she introduced and concluded the article. . Make a list of words you may use to describe food and other ideas you have from reading different articles. . As a healthy eater make a list of things you would want to check out regarding a meal. . Choose a special name for yourself for when you write your own review article for the healthy eating magazine

Using the information from your research to write about a carry-out meal, or a meal in a cafe or a restaurant or from a mobile snack van. *PLEASE DO NOT OFFEND ANYONE*

Words that can be used in the report. DELICIOUS SOFT SOGGY ATTRACTIVE HOT COLD COLOURFUL MILD SPICY BLAND DULL CRISP CRUNCHY SWEET WATERY STRONG CREAMY THICK

2. Make a comment on the interior, menu, service, facilities, suitability for families and whether or not the restaurant is good value for money. LETTERS PAGE

Here are samples of some letters you may have received for the letter page of the magazine. Read each one and carefully choose two. Decide what the writer wants advice about. Use your knowledge about healthy eating to write a suitable reply. Your reply could include advice, a help address, a recipe, steps to take or whatever you think is more suitable.

Dear Healthy Harry, my mum Dear Healthy Harry, I keeps giving me tinned play tomato soup for my lunch. for the school football I love it but how can we make team. it more exciting? What is the best lunch for

Dear Healthy Harry, I think the school tuck shop is damaging our health. What should I do about it?

Hi Dear Sir, My dad looks after us. He is quite a Is breakfast really good cook but my little brother has a necessary? tantrum whenever fruit or vegetables are served. He is only three. It is driving my dad mad. How can we persuade my brother to eat fruit and veg.

Dear Harry, My mum has stopped my pocket money. She says I eat too much rubbish. Are two chocolate bars, three Packets ofHEALTH crisps andRELATED a doughnut PROBLEMS really too much for a growing boy? HEALTH RELATED PROBLEMS As you know diets, which contain too much sugar, fats, salt and little fibre can cause or have an effect on health problems.

Choose one of the following health problems to find out about.

OBESITY DIABETES

CORONARY HEART DISEASE

TOOTH HIGH BLOOD DECAY PRESSURE

Write an article to inform other about the health problem you have chosen. Make sure you include the following:

. What causes the health problem? . What can people do to help prevent the health problem? . What effect does diet have on the health problem? . Should certain foods be avoided? . What can people do if they already have the health problem? THE POWER OF ADVERTISING!

Select an advert promoting a food or drink product from a magazine or a newspaper. Carry out an analysis or s study of the content and style. Use the following pointers to help you.

What catches your eye first in the advert? Is there an illustration of the product? If so describe it. Does it appeal to any of your senses?

Is the advert presented in black in white or in colour? Why?

What theme is used to present the advert?

What consumer group is the advert directed towards?

What form of print is used? Is there a variety of sizes and a mixture of capital and lower case letter?

How are the words positioned on the page? Have any special punctuation marks been used?

Is the information being presented as one word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, or any other way? Why? How do the words sound together? Do they form a pattern?

What information is presented in and through the advert? Are any benefits from using the product highlighted? What references to good health are made?

Consider all your answers to the above questions and state if you would buy this product giving your reasons. PRODUCING AN ADVERT

Now make your own advert using all the information you have collected.

1.Identify a product you want to advertise.

2.Give it an appealing name.

3.Identify the consumer group to be targeted. (children, teenagers etc.)

4.Make it eye catching and colourful.

5.Any information should be short and snappy.

6.It must highlight the good points of the product.

7.It must promote a health benefit.

8.It must persuade the reader to buy it.

9.It must tell the truth. IDEAS FOR PUZZLES AND WORDSEARCHES

1.Design a 'Healthy Eating' word search. Make sure you begin with a suitable list of words.

2.Design a 'Healthy Eating' crossword. Begin with a list of words. Fit words together to form a crossword shape on the grid, shade in extra squares. Number words across and down and make up suitable clues.

3.Word puzzles – simple puzzles can be made by missing out letters from words, link this to a suitable clue.

4.Scrambled words – a quick puzzle can be made by jumbling the letters of 'healthy eating' words.

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE A SOLUTION FOR THE PUZZLES