Healthy / Unhealthy: Explanation

Healthy / Unhealthy

• Details

Name of Item	Is It Good For You?
Activity Type	Vocabulary / Discussion
Student Level	Intermediate - Upper Intermediate
Time Allowance	10 - 20 minutes
Preparation Required	preparing to explain unknown words
Other Items Needed	nothing special
Vocabulary	Digestion / Resistance to disease / High blood pressure / Healthy Teeth / Nervous / Irritable / Eyesight / Cancer / Live longer
Grammar	awareness of whether phrases are nouns / verbs adjectives and how they might fit into sentences

• Instructions

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.

high blood pressure
eyesight
live longer
resistance to disease
healthy teeth
digestion
nervous and irritable
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.