Project title : The Hamburger technique in writing opinion essays. Teacher: Zafi Mandali

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Project title The Hamburger
technique in writing opinion essays.Teacher
Zafi Mandali
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• Project topic
• Which is more important in a job?
• Money or personal satisfaction?
• Class B6 High School
• Number of students17
• Duration 3 weeks
• Age of students 14
• Years of learning English 6 years

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• Aims
• Writing opinion essays according to the
  Hamburger project outline.
• Students were given a photo of a hamburger
  and were asked to notice its
• ingredients.
• A hamburger is made up of
• the top bun
• the lettuce
• the tomato,
• the cheese
• the burger
• and the

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• Students were then asked to think of a paragraph
  of an opinion essay as a hamburger. The paragraph
  would need similar ingredients, or to be exact,
  parts.
• The paragraph would need
• The top bun, in other words, the topic sentence.
• The lettuce which would be the first point to
  support the topic sentence.
• The burger, a very strong point which would
  support the topic sentence and develop the topic
  further.
• The tomato would be the third point.
• The cheese would be the last point.
• The ideas would all be wrapped up with the
  bottom bun which would be the closing sentence of
  the paragraph.

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• Participating students
• Malliri Dimitra
• Apostolakis Stelios
• Mandilara Christiana
• Kondodiou Angeliki
• Manioti Irini
• Drakou Evita
• Stasis Aristotellis