Materials: Guidelines

Decide whether to pre-teach / elicit the vocabulary in the list or whether to ask students to use dictionaries. Then instruct students to complete the sentences with one of the phrases in each. A list of most likely answers follows but these are (a little) subject to opinion.

1. high blood pressure
2. eyesight
3. live longer
4. resistance to disease
5. healthy teeth
6. digestion
7. nervous and irritable
8. cancer

Next, get students to decide individually whether they think the various sentences are true and write "true" or "false" alongside them. Then when they have decided, divide the class into groups of four or five to compare their ideas and debate any which they don't agree about.

As a further activity to reinforce the vocabuary / sentence patterns from the 8 sentences, ask students to write a few sentences of their own about the health consequences of consuming any of the list at the bottom of the page. These sentences could be compared and discussed if time allows.

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