Unit 4 Health and Fitness

Unit 4: Health and Fitness

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Webex Online Lessons

Contact me

Use this link to connect at normal lesson times Monday and Wednesday at 5pm or 7pm https://eduxunta.webex.com/meet/helenaveryburr

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Flipgrid Speaking Homework

February Exams Info

Practice Exams, Dates, Times and Information

At the end of each class, go to Flipgrid to discuss a key question.

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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert SchweitzerGerman/French physician (1875-1965)

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Unit 4: Health and Fitness

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Our unit 4 corresponds with Unit 4 in the textbook. We will do some of the activities in the textbook, but there are many other resources we will use too.

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Homework

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How healthy are you?

What do you do that is good and bad for your health?

Are you healthier mentally or physically?

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To what extent do you think mental and physical health are interconnected?

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Rate your fitness on a scale of 1 to 10

How has your fitness level changed in the last year?

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Health Collocations

Health and Happiness

How healthy is your health vocabulary?

Read the article from page 37 of your textbook and take the quiz.

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Tolstoy

Schweitzer

Lao Tzu

Naomi Judd

In breakout rooms, discuss these quotes.What do they mean? Do you agree with these ideas? Why or Why not?

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5pm group

7pm group

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Match the verb and noun collocations

make a hug? give a hug?

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Sort by category

Linkers

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Health and Illness Quiz

Vocabulary

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Homework

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Listening: Smell training

There is a quiz on Moodle with exam style multiple choice questions for a listening task about COVID smell loss and a treatment option called "Smell Training".

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Reading: NOCEBO effect

We will read together an article about the placebo effect's lesser known cousin: the mysterious nocebo effect. The article focuses on STATINS.

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Speaking: health and fitness

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Homework

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What is this nurse thinking?

What qualities does a nurse need?Why are men a minority of nurses? Do you think more men will be nurses in the future? Do you think all nurses have a strong sense of vocation? Do you think it's more difficult for people to have a sense of vocation today than in the past?

reading

video

emotions

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Problem Solution Essay General Feedback

Why the framework is important... How the reader feels when an element is missing....

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Team DOCTOR chooses a number

They have a minute to name things in the category.

mistake? pause of 5 seconds? Team NURSE's turn to try and finish the minute.

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Visual Vocabulary Healthy Eating

Write questions to ask each other about your eating habits, using the vocabulary

Activate the new expressions with TO BE to talk about the future

Watch a bit of Super Size Me and then discuss the questions.

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Phrasal Verbs related to health

Robert must have picked something up over spring break. His lymph-nodes swelled up and it was clear he had come down with something serious.

• Read about some different patients.
• Discuss what the phrasal verbs mean.
• Try to diagnose their illnesses.
• Click the question mark to see my best guess at a diagnosis.

Sarah couldn't keep any solid food down and was throwing up all day and night. By morning, she'd managed to pull through and fight it off.

Kitty passed out cold after the race. She came round before the ambulance arrived, but they still had to patch her up a bit from the cuts and bruises when she fell.

When Lottie's ankle acts up, her coach has them bind it up for her so she can keep playing -- she's his star player.

Kahoot

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Map

We can mark the countries that you discuss when you start adding your Flipgrid videos comparing healthcare around the world.

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First Aid Kit

Crossword

Can you remember what is found in a First Aid Kit?Play the game and see.

Health and Illness vocabulary review with a crossword (or wordwall game)

After the video call, please work on these activities

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Healthcare System Flipgrid Presentation

Hospital Lyrics

Please make a short video explaining a little about the healthcare system in a country of your choice. Watch your classmates' videos and leave a comment (text or video).

listen to the Counting Crows and fill in the gaps

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Which vocabulary words and phrasal verbs can you remember from the last class?

are you ready for a little quiz?

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Speaking Exam Practice

Click here to read your mediation and production card for your monologue

Candidate A

Click here to read your mediation and production card for your monologue

Candidate B

Interaction 1

Interaction 2

Each task has a timer to help you pace yourself

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Childhood Obesity:The Size of the Problem

Solutions

brainstorm

Results

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The Size of the Problem

The Daily Mile

Jamie Oliver's School Meal Revolution

More on the Daily Mile

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Let's collaborate

go to the wiki on Moodle

The Wiki did not work

We used Google docs... I'm really proud of your collaborative work.

Plan B:Google doc

Homework

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Stress Flipgrid

What stresses you out? How do you calm down?

Vocabulary on Moodle

Choose B2, C1 or idioms to work on

Podcasts about Health

listen to one of these podcasts

Spotify playlist: Songs about doctors and medicine

enjoy these songs and listen for vocabulary we are studying.

TO BE future expressions in Unit 4 Grammar on Moodle

Grammar on Moodle

Linkers Quiz is homework for Feb 1

Explain the healthcare system in a country

choose a country and talk about its healthcare system for 2 minutes