Health and fitness. Vocabulary. drinking alcohol taking drugs smoking. DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH?

Health and fitness

Vocabulary

affect v – влиять biking – езда на велосипеде brain n – мозг cause v – вызывать, быть причиной compete v – соревноваться, конкурировать disease = illness n – болезнь dive v – нырять, прыгать вниз

scuba diving – плаванье с аквалангом sky diving – прыжки с парашютом drug n – лекарство, наркотик event n – спортивное соревнование fit a – здоровый, крепкий hold (held, held) v – проводить (соревнование и пр. ) health n – здоровье

jogging – бег трусцой keep fit – поддерживать хорошую форму habit n – привычка lead (led, led) v – вести rowing – гребля skin n – кожа stomach n – желудок

I. What should you do and what shouldn’t you do to keep fit and healthy?

a. often sleep 3-5 hours a night

b. sleep 10 hours every night

c. eat a balanced, healthy diet

d. eat between meals

e. always eat breakfast

f. smoke

g. often drink alcohol

h. play some sport

i. do morning exercises

II. Ask your groupmates about their health habits using the prompts above. Model: Do you often eat fast food?

III. Match the bad habits and the results, then make sentences:

Model: Smoking affects the people around you. It can also cause a cough and other, more serious diseases, for example …

drinking alcohol taking drugs smoking

affect(s) …	cause(s) …		make(s)…
the people around you your knowledge your social control	a cough a headache pneumonia cancer blood diseases	heart diseases brain diseases slow reactions loss of memory	your teeth yellow your skin unhealthy your hair smell your speech unclear your brain centers sleep

DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH?

IV. Helen, Bob and Kate are talking about their attitude towards health. Scan their stories. Who is worried about his/her health, who doesn’t care, and who takes a balanced approach?

V. Read again and answer the questions. Then make up a story about yourself.

1. Why does Helen look great? What reasons does she give for avoiding bad habits? What does she think about her future?

2. What does Bob look like? What bad health habits has he got? How does he justify himself? What is he afraid of?

3. Does Kate worry about being an odd-one-out in her friends’ company? How does she keep fit?

Helen

I am not planning to be a supermodel, but I think it is very important to be fit and healthy and look nice. Some firms don’t employ people who are overweight or who are smokers. I agree with that because smoking affects other people’s life, too. I pay a lot of attention to my health. I try to eat only low-fat food, more fruit and vegetables, which are rich in vitamins, and less sugar. I don’t smoke. I don’t want to have unhealthy skin and teeth. Besides, I have been doing aerobics for a year. I feel great. And all my friends think I look great.

Bob

I have no problems with my health though I am a smoker and a bit overweight. I like smoking. It helps me to relax. I have been smoking since I was 12. All my friends are smokers. I don’t want to be the odd-one-out. I know all the facts, but you only live once, don’t you? So why not enjoy yourself? As for dieting I think it is very dangerous. You are what you are. It is impossible to change. Besides, I like chocolate bars, ice cream and the like. Why should I give up such tasty things? Eat only cucumbers? Never! Of course I have some problems with my skin and hair, but I don’t want to change.

Kate

I think people should choose for themselves how much they will care about their health – it’s their own life, it’s their own bodies. I don’t pay much attention to my friends’ health habits. As for myself, I believe it is not very good to worry too much about your appearance, but it is good to think about your health. So I try to sleep seven or eight hours every night and have regular meals (I sometimes eat fast food, but not very often). I don’t have much time for sports, but if the distance is not too big, I prefer walking to taking a bus, and occasionally go to a swimming pool.

VI. Reading comprehension. Ordinary aspirin is considered to be one of the most popular all-purpose medicines. Read the text and choose the correct answers to the questions:

1. Aspirin is one of the safest and most effective drugs ever invented. Many people take aspirin when they have a headache. It is effective in relieving other pains, too. Aspirin, in short, is truly the 20th century wonder drug. But it is also the leading cause of poisoning among children. It has side effects that although relatively mild, are largely unrecognized among users.

2. Although aspirin was first sold by a German company in 1899, it has been around much longer than that. Hippocrates, in ancient Greece, understood the medical value of the leaves and tree bark which today are known to contain salicylates, the chemical in aspirin. During the 19th century, there was a lot of experimentation in Europe with this chemical and it led to the development of aspirin. By 1915, aspirin tablets were available in the United States.

3. A small quantity of aspirin can relieve minor pain. It also reduces fever by interfering with some of the body’s reactions. Basically, aspirin seems to slow down the formation of chemicals that cause pain and the complex chemical reactions that cause fever.

4. Aspirin is very irritating to the stomachs. There is a right way and a wrong way to take aspirin. The best way is to chew the tablets before swallowing them with water, but few people can stand the bitter taste. Some people suggest crushing the tablets in milk or orange juice and drinking that.

1. Why is aspirin called the 20th century wonder drug, according to paragraph 1?

A. Only aspirin can help when you have a headache.

B. Aspirin helps in many cases when you don’t feel well.

C. Aspirin can help to cure children of drug poisoning.

2. What does paragraph 2 say about the history of aspirin?

A. People didn’t know about the medical value of aspirin until the 19th century.

B. The medical qualities of the chemical in aspirin were known in ancient times.

C. Aspirin was first produced and used by famous Hippocrates.

3. How does aspirin work, according to paragraph 3?

A. It works against chemical processes that cause pain and fever.

B. It helps to drop the body’s temperature if taken in a small quantity.

C. It slows down all processes in a human body.

4. What is bad about aspirin, according to paragraph 4?

A. It is very hard and difficult to chew.

B. It must always be taken with milk.

C. It can harm your stomach.

VII. Are you interested in sports? Do you think you do enough physical exercise?

VIII. Match the sport star names to the sports:

boxing ice-hockey tennis football car race driving figure skating;

M. Ali M. Tyson M. Schumacher M. Jordan D. Beckham M. Safin M. Sharapova I. Rodnina V. Fetisov A. Arshavin.

IX. Complete the table with these sports:

snowboarding, aerobics, volleyball, fishing, golf, jogging, basketball, mountain biking, scuba diving, yoga, gymnastics, karate, boxing, athletics, diving, cycling, judo, rowing

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X. Read the following dialogue. What sports can they play or do at the camp?

J: Hi, Ben. You look happy.

B: I am. Jane, I’ve got some great news!

J: Really? What is it?

B: Well, you want to keep fit, right?

J: Yes, definitely!

B: There’s this great camp for all the family. We can all keep fit together.

J: That sounds good. Can you play tennis there?

B: No, I don’t think so. But you can do lots of other things. You can dance or ride a horse, for instance.

J: Oh, that’s wonderful! The kids love horses.

B: Yes, and I can play volleyball there, too.

J: Have they got a website?

B: Yes, I’ve got the address here.

J: Let’s get on the Internet and find out more.