Use your notes and expressions from the exercise to talk about pros and cons about sunbathing, eating junk food, eating salads, smoking and dinking

Look at the box and say what is good and bad for your health. Give your reasons.

Keeping Fit

Give your response to the article.

Ponder on that EVEN HEROES FIND LIVING ALOFT TO BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH.

working too hard in an office, jogging, smoking, drinking too much alcohol, swimming, sunbathing, fruit, eating meat, living alone, keeping a pet, yoga, tea, salt, crisps, flying, running, sugar, coffee, stress, watching TV, vitamin pills, being vegetarian

2) Use the list of words to complete the vocabulary chart. You may add your own words:

well, healthy, looking good, keeping fit, ill, under the weather, out of sorts, lousy, heart attack,, bronchitis, asthma, flu, cold, cancer, virus, fever, temperature, vitamins, exercise, diet, fruit, vegetables, rash, relaxation, yoga, chocolate, sweets, fat, lack of exercise, alcohol, cigarettes, medicine, aspirin, fish, operation, ointment, chips, dairy products, sun, overweight, fizzy drinks, wholemeal bread, salt.

feeling good

feeling bad

things meant to be good for you

things meant to be bad for you

health problems

treatment

3) Look at the list below, then complete the table that follows with the advantages and disadvantages of doing the following:

relaxing, sunburn, sunstroke, risk of skin cancer, wrinkles, pleasant, cheap to buy, helps you keep slim, addictive, relieves stress, makes your breath smell, risk of cancer, offensive to others, dangerous to others, boring, get a suntan, tasty, light and fresh, hangover, fattening, easy to prepare

	advantages	disadvantages
sunbathing
eating junk food
eating salad
smoking
drinking alcohol

4) Read the two letters and answer the questions:

Which writer a) follows the doctor’s advice?

b) thinks the doctor could give better advice?

Dear doctor I read your newspaper column every week and frankly, I think you’ve got it wrong. It’s not being healthy that makes us happy, it’s the other way round. If someone is happy and enjoying themselves and taking pleasure out of life, then they are going to be healthy. Recent research shows that people who feel little or no guilt about their lifestyle have less heart trouble, go to the doctor less often, and get ill less often. In other words, it’s not so much what we do as how we feel about it. As a result, I think you should stop telling people what is bad for them, what they shouldn’t eat and where they’re going wrong with their lives. You should be encouraging people to feel good about themselves, be positive, worry less and do what they want. Andrew C, Newcastle.

Dear doctor I always find your column very interesting. Over the years you have given me very useful advice about how to live a healthy life. However, sometimes I wonder how many people follow your advice. There must be a lot of people who smoke and drink too much, who eat too much sugar and salt and fat, and who generally have a very unhealthy lifestyle. Surely the government can do something about these people. They are costing our health service huge amounts of money. If they looked after themselves properly, they wouldn’t need medical treatment so often. Angela M, Brighton

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