Questions:

• Which advert appeals to you most and why - least appeals and why?
• Who do we see in the advert for Australia Week, Come Co-operative Shopping and Save in 1969 and is there a reason for this?
• These adverts were from a ten year period from 1959-1969, what differences do you notice from the earliest two to the latest?
• Why was eating so much margarine seen as a good thing in the 1950s but not today?
• Why would you not be allowed to call this product butter today?

Activities:

Media Studies / Music: Strip away the soundtrack and create a new jingle and voice-over for a modern audience.

Media Studies / Music: Create your own soundtrack for the Margarine Cartoon - use objects found round the classroom to make sound effects.

Media Studies: Research the modern cost of the product from Come Co-operative Shopping, Australia Week and Save in 1969. Create a modern advert for them using Windows Moviemaker or iMovie - include a voice-over, you can even use a similar accent to the ones used in the adverts.

Geography / Health and Wellbeing: Research the origin of well known products and create a modern co-operative advert for a themed week of your own (e.g. French week, German week).

Social History / Health and Wellbeing:Watch the five adverts without knowing anything about them and put them in the order the time you think they were made.

Health and Wellbeing: Research how eating habits have changed.

Art and Design / Social History: Imagine you have travelled back in time - create a poster/advert to educate someone from the 1950s about healthy eating using knowledge we have nowadays.

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