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5A HEALTH IS WEALTH

Reading

 Lead in

a Discuss the following questions with your partner.
Discuss the following questions with your friends. 1 What kind of precautions do you take to protect

1 How do you think health affects a person’s your health?

happiness? 2 What can be the meaning of the bold and
2 What are the best ways to keep fit and healthy at underlined phrase ‘learn the hard way’ in the
the same time? text?

Listening b Read the text below and try to guess the meanings
of the highlighted words and phrases.

a Choose the best option for each question.
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
YOUR BODY AND HEALTH?  Being healthy is not only about what you eat, but
what you do, as well. This is a thing I have learned the
1 Tubes in the body 3 The ---- provides the hard way. When I was at high school, I used to starve
that carry blood are body with protection myself to keep fit. I would drink a lot of herbal teas
called ----. against ilnesses.
a veins a immune system that I thought to be helpful to burn calories. However,
I didn’t know they were harming my body and its
b lungs b visual system functions. One day, I felt dizzy and I was hospitalised
c ankles c nervous system by my parents as I fainted. When I came round, I saw a
2 ---- is the length of 4 ---- is a kind of doctor standing by me; she was talking to my parents,
time that a person is treatment where the who were extremely worried.
likely to live. patient’s body is cut 
open by a doctor. When I pulled myself together, I was discharged
a The right to life a Artery from the hospital. Before leaving there, I was informed
b Life expectancy b Recovery that my doctor wanted to see me. I went to her office
c The prime of life and she told me it was very wrong of me to treat my
c Surgery
own body like that. She advised me to eat a healthy
b Listen to the audio and write its main idea in one and balanced diet providing all essential nutrients
or two sentences. Track 27 and to do regular, but not heavy exercise. That was
the turning point of my life and things would never be
the same again.
 That happened to me ten years ago and almost
for a decade, I have been living on a good diet. I have
c Write three discussion questions about the topic been paying special attention to what I eat and their
of the audio you have listened to.
dietary content. I take food and drinks that contain
1 low calories, but those with high nutritional value. I
2 know that going hungry for hours is really bad and it
3 doesn’t help you to have a slim body at all. By doing
so, you just make your body susceptible to diseases
d Work in groups. Discuss the questions with your because this leaves the body without essential
friends.
minerals and vitamins.

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