Healthy Habits

Do you exercise everyday?  Do you eat fruits and vegetables? Discuss your ideas with a partner.

After doing the activities in each of the following websites, prepare an oral presentation about your eating and exercise habits. In the speech you have to describe the things you eat and drink, the activities you do, if you think your are healthy or not and why. Your classmates will then vote to decide which is the most interesting/valuable presentation.

Activity 1

Visit the following website

https://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/kids-teens/kids-activities/healthy-kids-quiz.aspx

Take this quiz to see how healthy you are.

Activity 2

Search this website http://esol.britishcouncil.org/content/learners/uk-life/family-learning/healthy-eating

You will listen to a conversation between a mother and a school nurse.

First, click on Task 1 and play the image matching game.

Then, listen to the conversation and decide what is healthy and what is not in Task 2

After this, listen to the conversation again and match the beginning to the end of the given sentences in Task 3

Finally, listen to the conversation again and type the words you hear into the gaps in Task 4.

Activity 3

Access this website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/32009742

First, look at the picture and title. What is the text about?

Then, read the text quickly to see if you were right.

After this, read the questions in Task 1 and read the text again to find these information.

Task 1

1. What does Aidan eat?

2. Does Jacob do physical exercise?

3. Why is Saraf healthy?

4. What is Noelia’s favourite food?

5. Does Elsa eat out every day?

6. How often does Dina eat unhealthy food?

7. When is Mark unhealthy?

Activity 4

Browse this website http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/32009741

This is a video which shows the results of a survey on healthy habits among kids.

First, watch the video tick the words you hear.

deep-fried chips

sweets

oranges

sausages

chocolate

crispy burger

biscuits

ice cream

fish and chips

carrots

soda

fruit juice

water

Then, watch the video again and complete the survey results.

------------- don’t eat veg each day.

------------- eat unhealthy food more than three times a week.

------------- kids in the UK are overweight or obese.

-------------- made changes to diet.

Activity 5

Decide if you are healthy or not. Find 6 pictures about your food and exercise habits and design a slideshow using this website http://www.photosnack.com/photo-slideshow-maker-html/quick-upload?nl

Share the slideshow with your friends on the social network you use more frequently.

Now it’s time to see how well you’ve done

Assessment scale

1-2  need more practice

3 ok

4 quite well

5 very well

Choose a number from 1 to 5 and write it next to each of the following sentences. Then add up the total number and see how well you’ve done.

I can answer about my eating and exercise habits. ___

I can say what is healthy and what it isn’t. ___

I can read about different people’s eating and exercise habits. ___

I can write down information while I watch a video. ___

I can write about the things I eat and drink and the activities I do. ___

I can talk about my eating and exercise habits. ___

0-6 need more practice

6-18 ok

18-25 quite well

25-30 very well

Now that you know a lot about healthy habits you could write healthy messages on post-it notes and give them to your friends so their families can start developing healthy habits.

Picture in Introduction section taken from

How Healthy Are You? (n.d.). Retrieved June 20, 2017, from http://stephaniezahlmann.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/how-healthy-are-you.ht…

Picture in the Conclusion section taken from

Physical Activity Research Group at Central Queensland University. (n.d.). Join Today! Retrieved June 20, 2017, from http://tayloractive.org.au/eng/library/view/HealthyEating