Discuss the following questions with your partner. Listen to the article once again and retell it

Listen to the article once again and retell it.

Listen to the article and check if your variants in 1 were right.

Match the following phrases from the article.

Match the following synonyms from the article.

Researchers say jogging alone is unhealthy

LISTENING

1. Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true or false.

a.	A new report says jogging could be bad for your health.	T / F
b.	Jogging with other people may be healthier than running alone.	T / F
c.	The brain cell growth of rats went down when they ran alone.	T / F
d.	A professor said social interaction while running is good for the brain.	T / F
e.	A research team studied groups of rats running on exercise wheels.	T / F
f.	Rats who ran with other rats doubled their brainpower.	T / F
g.	In a group setting, running stimulates brain growth.	T / F
h.	For rats, jogging is healthier than racing.	T / F

a.	suggests	observed
b.	believe	reduces
c.	raises	nine to five
d.	slows down	think
e.	influence	twice
f.	monitored	impact
g.	rodent	shows
h.	double	rat
i.	stimulates	increases
j.	rat race	triggers

a.	A new report suggests that jogging	of a group is healthier
b.	not as healthy	team
c.	jogging as part	influence on the brain
d.	running alone raises	two groups of rats
e.	have a negative	the new brain cell growth
f.	The researchers monitored	could be bad for your health
g.	part of a rodent jogging	than the rat race
h.	scientists did tests to measure	stress levels
i.	double the amount	as people believe
j.	running is healthier	of new brain cells

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

1. Did the headline make you want to listen to the article?
2. What do you think of jogging?
3. Is jogging popular in your country?
4. What are your experiences of jogging or running?
5. Do you think jogging can be bad for you?
6. Do you agree with the conclusion of the professor in the article?
7. Are you interested in reading articles about jogging?
8. Do you think you can link experiments where rats run on exercise wheels to real people jogging?
9. What do you think of rats and experiments on rats?
10. Do you think you are part of the rat race?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

1. What do you think about what you read?
2. What do you think the best form of exercise is?
3. Do you prefer to do things alone or with other people?
4. Are you a team member or a soloist?
5. Do you think science will benefit from the study mentioned in the article?
6. What kinds of things do you think increase your brain cells?
7. What questions would you like to ask the professor who conducted the research into jogging rodents?
8. What do you think her answers would be?
9. Did you like this discussion?

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