Health and Fitness Vocabulary Exercise

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Exercise 1a: Vocabulary - Taking Exercise

Let's fill in the verbs in the correct places:

  1. keep fit (showing a person exercising)
  2. warm up (showing stretching exercise)
  3. do some stretching exercises
  4. lift weights (showing person with dumbbells)
  5. pull a muscle (showing injury position)
  6. injure a joint (knee/back)

A healthy lifestyle section:

  1. take a healthy diet
  2. lose weight/put on weight
  3. cut down on sugar/fat
  4. take vitamins
  5. give up smoking/junk food
  6. get a good night's sleep

Exercise 3: Listening Comprehension

The exercise shows two people (Katrina and Richard) and their reasons for taking regular exercise:

Options given:
1. to lose weight
2. to recover from heart attack
3. to manage a very stressful job
4. to feel great

To complete this exercise, you would need to listen to the audio recording to match each person with their reason for exercising.

Exercise 4: Your Life Discussion Questions

These are personal reflection questions about exercise and healthy lifestyle:

  1. Do you exercise? If so, what do you do? / how often? / why?
  2. How do you feel about exercise? (It's fun/boring...)
  3. What other things do you do to maintain a healthy lifestyle?

The exercise includes an interesting "English in the world" section about personal measurements in Britain and the USA:
- Height is measured in feet and inches (1 foot = 12 inches, 1 inch = 2.54 centimetres)
- Weight is measured in stones and pounds (1 stone = 14 pounds, 1 pound = 0.45 kilos)

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Future Tense Exercise

Let's solve each sentence by choosing between 'will' and 'be going to':

  1. In the future, people are going to live on the Moon.
    - This is a planned or predicted future event based on current evidence.

  2. Look at the sky. It is going to rain.
    - We can see evidence (dark clouds) that suggests rain is coming.

  3. A: I can't find my mobile.
    B: OK, I will help you look for it.
    - This is a spontaneous decision to help, made at the moment of speaking.

  4. A: Will you be home this weekend?
    B: Yes, we are going to paint the kitchen.
    - This is a planned future action that was decided before the moment of speaking.

  5. Ken's filling in a form. He is going to join the gym.
    - This shows a definite plan or intention.

  6. Most people in the future will live for 100 years.
    - This is a general prediction about the future without specific current evidence.

Rule Explanation:
- Use 'be going to' for:
* Planned future actions
* Predictions based on current evidence

  • Use 'will' for:
  • Spontaneous decisions
  • General predictions
  • Promises
  • Offers
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