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Soda

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Date: Nov 05 2019

Themes: Food, Health

Grammar: Simple Future Tense

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The sun is so hot. You’re more than thirsty. Pop! You open your can of cola from the vending machine. The carbonated drink tickles your nose with bubbles. You tip your head back, fill your mouth with sweet, cold cola, and burp. There’s nothing so refreshing on a hot summer day.

So what if soft drinks are just empty calories? So what if the flavor is artificial and the caffeine is going to keep you awake tonight? Sometimes cooling off is more important than worrying about all that stuff.

Read more to find out why Lily and Marni have to agree to disagree in this lesson about soda.

Dialog

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Marni

Lily

Marni: There are just no choices in this vending machine except for soda. I hate it!

Lily: But there are plenty of choices! There’s a cola, a diet cola, a lemon-lime kind of a thing. They’re all delicious. What’s wrong?

Marni: They all fall into the category of soft drinks. Soda, pop… whatever you want to call it, it’s all terrible!

Lily: But all of the bubbles and the caffeine! It’s delicious and refreshing and it makes you burp. It’s great! Come on.

Marni: All it is is artificial flavors. There’s no health benefit for it. It’s just empty calories. It’s just terrible for you!

Lily: I know it’s not exactly good for you. Actually, there are some sodas that are good for you.

Marni: Oh, come on. There are not any sodas that are good for you. You might find them refreshing. You may think that it’s fun to get all of those carbonated bubbles and burp and have a good time. But it’s terrible for you, OK? This is just garbage. We need water. We need juices.

Lily: I think we can just agree to disagree on this one. I will go over in the corner and burp quietly to myself.

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Discussion

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Marni is frustrated with her choices at the vending machine. It’s all soda, and she thinks soda is completely unhealthy. If it’s full of empty calories, Marni doesn’t want to drink it. She prefers water or juice over something artificial that’s full of caffeine.

Lily, on the other hand, is delighted by her choices. She loves how carbonated drinks make her burp, and she’s not worried about how soft drinks are made. She’s definitely into caffeine, too. Everything she could ever want in a drink is for sale in this vending machine.

What’s your opinion about soda? Is it OK to drink as much as you want?

Comments

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Momochanmi

United States

Of course soda is not good for you. However, as long as you can control the frequency to have them, I think it is okay to drink occasionally.

Yenho

United States

For me, I’m not a fan of drinking things contain caffeine especially is soda. They can help you feeling refresh now and then but they are a disaster if you use soft drinks constantly. They’re not only unhealthy but also a cause makes you gain weight and become addicted. I’d prefer to drink juice than empty calories. even if I’m very thirsty I will drink some water instead of beverages contain caffeine. So I do agree with Marni 100%

Yenho

United States

ola33

Japan

Once being on a hiking tour in Crimean peninsular and dying from thirst, we finally got on a bus, bought a carbonated drink there and that drink was the tastiest for me in the world. But the local man sitting opposite me started to scold me why I’m drinking that unhealthy product. He used very harsh epithets that would spoil anyone’s appetite, but not mine as I was so thirsty :) Anyway, I was glued to that can and was enjoying the drink. Let’s put it that way—I agreed to disagree, just to be left alone, enjoy my drink and kill my thirst and he was “preaching, preaching and preaching”. Man, how he hated me for just drinking a pop. Unbelievable!

Yusra04

Saudi Arabia

thankfuly I’m not into Soda :D

leilahavaneh

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

overdoing in everything is bad.like drinking pepsi or soda but not every day just sometimes at parties.

ahmedghieth9

Egypt

im go no diet , i cant stand soft drink , i love fresh juice

emazen78

Egypt

I used to drink soda everyday, but had to stop when I realized that my weight was getting about 115 kg, after quiting soda and adjusting my food my weight returned to be 85 kg. ;-)

Amido Hernan Rios

Colombia

yeah I like Coke very much.

princessanika

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I don’t care what’s the soda’s problem i love to drink it.

my mom says don’t drink, it’s too bad for u, u shouldn’t drink, but i say it’s ok mommy it’s never botter me at all. i never listen to her. i should drink soda with my lunch and dinner it’s not different be black or orange!