What comes to your mind when you hear:

mcdonalds?
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1. How often do you eat McDonald’s?

2. What is your favorite McDonald’s food?
3. Why is McDonald’s so popular in so many
countries?
4. Is McDonald’s better than Burger King?
5. Do you think McDonald’s is expensive in Brazil?
6. How will McDonald’s be different 100 years in the
future?
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BREAKFAST KETCHUP ORDER

CHAIN KID’S MEAL RONALD
CHEESEBURGER MCDONALD STRAW
FAST FOOD MENU TO STAY
FRIES NAPKIN TRAY
True or false
1. They open the first restaurant in Chicago.
2. At first, the restaurant had three things in the menu.
3. Ray Kroc gave the brothers some money to open the other
restaurants.
4. The brothers became poor.
5. Mac and Dic didn’t want to sell the restaurants.
6. Ray Kroc buys the restaurants from McDonald’s brothers.
7. Ray became a rich man.
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There are many restaurants in the world but probably the

most famous is McDonald’s. McDonald’s has more than
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The story of McDonald’s began in 1940 when two

brothers, Richard and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, opened a
new restaurant called ‘McDonald’s Famous Barbeque’.
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It was a successful business but the brothers wanted to

sell more food and make more money, so in 1948 they
made some changes.

For example, they tried a new way to cook and serve food
faster – and McDonald’s became one of the first fast food
restaurants in the world.
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In addition, they made the menu more simple:

hamburgers, cheeseburgers, sodas, fries and milkshakes.
There were no longer any waitresses to serve food, so
customers ordered food by themselves at a counter.
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In 1954, a man called Ray Kroc joined the company and

later bought it for 2.7 million dollars. The company is now
worth many billions of dollars.

There is a McDonald’s museum that is located in San

Bernardino, California where the first McDonald’s was built.
It’s open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.