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B GOAL Talk about Healthy Habits
Listening
A Discuss the questions in pairs.
1. Is it important to eat healthy food?
2. What else can you do to stay healthy?
B 🎧17 Listen to three people talking about their healthy lifestyles. Write the letter (A-C) to match the speaker to the correct topic.
1. Exercise
2. Diet.
3. Healthy genes.
C 🎧17 Listen again and answer the questions in your notebook.
Speaker A:
1. What kind of exercise does Speaker A get?
2. Which family members does Speaker A mention?
Speaker B:
3. What kind of exercise does Speaker B get?
4. How often does Speaker B get sick?
Speaker C:
5. Why did Speaker C change her diet when she got older?
6. What do some people think about Speaker C's diet?
D MY WORLD Interview a partner. Then tell the class about your partner's lifestyle.
• What kind of exercise do you get? How often?
• What do you usually eat?
Working in a community garden can be a good form of exercise.
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PRONUNCIATION: Elision of /t/, /d/, and /r/ sounds
🎧18 Elision occurs when a sound disappears from a word. In the following examples, the /t/, /d/ or /r/ sound at the end of one word is deleted (or "swallowed") because the next word starts with the same sound.
Watching a sunset is more relaxing than watching TV.
My sister bought tomatoes for her diet yesterday.
I swim and do yoga to keep fit.
E 🎧19 Listen to the sentences. Notice how the sounds are linked. Listen again and repeat.
1. Do you consider running a healthy activity?
2. My brother kept talking about the importance of healthy habits.
3. Those children hate taking medicine.
4. This is the best tea for your stomach.
5. They avoid doing tiring physical exercises.
Communication
F What are the best kinds of food and exercise for a healthy lifestyle? In pairs, rate the foods from the least healthy to the healthiest. Add one idea of your own for each topic. Then do the same with the types of exercise. Compare your list with the list of another pair.
_______ bread _______ fruitmeat _______ vegetables _____ _________
_______ running _______ swimming _______ walking _______ yoga _______ _________
I feel good if I eat some meat or fish every day.
But is meat healthier than vegetables?
✔️GOAL CHECK
Talk about Healthy Habits
Discuss the questions in a small group. Use some of the ideas below and your own ideas.
1. Are the following healthy habits? Why (not)?
2. Which of the habits do you have?
3. Do people have a healthier life now than they did in the past? Why do you think so?
| having a balanced diet going to the doctors doing exercise every day chatting with friends and family staying up late listening to loud music eating spicy food eating fast food drinking a lot of coffee spending hours on the Internet |
In my opinion, eating spicy food is unhealthy because it's harmful to your stomach.
I think people had a healthier life in the past because they spent more time chatting with friends and family.
Personally, I think listening to loud music is an unhealthy habit because it can damage your ear.
