Task 2. Your health

A Generation of Сouch Potatoes

Project work. Find a short newspaper article about heathy lifestyle and discuss it with your group mates.

Think, pair and share.

Go to Grammar Focus to revise the material about adverbs.

Grammar Spot

Tell the class what you do often/seldom/never/sometimes.

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Lead in

Ø Do you know what coach potato means?

Ø What types of behaviour could be described as lazy?

Task 1.Questionnaire: How active are you?
Interview each other in pairs and try to decide which has the most active lifestyle.

1) How often do you walk more than a kilometre?

• Every day
• Once a week
• Once or twice a month
• Very rarely
• Never!

2). When was the last time you took any form of physical exercise? (swimming, running, dancing)

• Yesterday
• Last week
• Last month
• A long time ago
• I can’t remember

3) Tick any of the following activities if you do them regularly:

• Cycling
• Watching TV
• Playing team games (football, rugby)
• Watching team games
• Playing computer games
• Surfing the net
• Walking in the countryside
• Listening to music in your room
• Playing outside/in the garden/in the street
• Going to a gym
• Texting your friends

Group/pair work

Can you calculate the number of hours you spend on the activities per day or per week? (e.g. I spend 2 hours a day cycling to school and one hour a day watching TV).

• Which of the activities in the questionnaire might be good for your heart?
• Which activities can be called sedentary?
• Give other examples of sedentary activities.

Reading

1. Read the text and answer the questions.

• How does your lifestyle compare to British teenagers?
• Are they more active than you?

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