He who has hope has everything.

Arab proverb

Lead-in

1. Answer the following questions.

• Is there anything more important than health?
• Does health depend on you?

· Keeping fit … Is it an important issue for people?

• What comes to your mind when you hear the expression “a healthy way of life” or “fitness”?

· Why is it necessary to go in for sports?

· What do you think of the role of sports and games in character training?

2. Give personal information.

• Do you care about your health?
• What is your attitude towards bad habits?
• How do you keep fit?
• Do you work out in a gym?Do you jog or run?
• What other exercise do you get? How often?
• Are you good at sports?
• What kind of sports do you go in for?
• When did you take up this sport?
• What does it give you?
• Do you take part in any sport competitions?
• Which do you prefer: to go in for sports or watch sport events on TV or at the stadium?
• What sports do you enjoy most?
• What sport would you like to play professionally?

Reading

3. A sound mind in a sound body. An ideal person according to the Greeks was a person who was strong both physically and mentally. They never admired a person who was just a good athlete, or just a good artist or a scientist, but was not fond of sports.

w What do you feel when you hear: ”A sound mind in a sound body”?

w Read through the following texts and make up your own project about what fitness is for you.

Text 1

Keeping fit

Physical fitness is a general state of good health, usually as a result of exercise and nutrition. Physical fitness can also be described as a condition that allows us to look, feel and do our best. Being fit helps us have more energy for work or studies throughout the day, and energy left over to enjoy our leisure time activities. It is also the ability to withstand stress and to carry on in circumstances where an unfit person could not continue.

Physical fitness involves the perform­ance of the heart and lungs, and the muscles of the body. And, since what we do with our bodies also affects what we can do with our minds, fitness influences to some degree qualities such as mental alertness and emo­tional stability.

Fitness is an individual quality that varies from person to person. It is influ­enced by age, sex, heredity, personal habits, exercise and eating practices. You can’t do anything about the first three factors. However, it is within your power to change and improve the others where needed.

Text 2

Ways to grow old and to stay young

· Exercise keeps you young.

• Eat for health.
• Limit alcoholic drinks.
• Smoking ages you prematurely.
• Catch illness early when it can be treated.
• Deal with stress.
• Think young and keep you mind active.

Vocabulary Practice

w Verbs play, go and do

Play is often used with sports that are team games, or where we play with another person.

Go is often used for things done outside, and which we can do alone, especially for enjoyment and not in order to compete against people. These sports often end in –ing.

4. Work in pairs. Complete these collocations lists with either do, go or play.

5. Express the following in one word.

1 to have an effect on

2 have as a part or result

3 condition of the body or the mind

4 the passing on of qualities from parent to child in the cells of the body

5 the action or state of being provided with food

6 unhealthy state of the body

7 capacity or power (to do something physical or mental)

8 before the right or usual time

9 fully awake and ready to act

6. Match the words and collocations of similar meaning.

7. Match the words to their opposites.

8. Match the words to make phrases.

9. Fill in the correct word from the list below. Some words may be used more than once.

1. A serious... has prevented him from working for a year.
2. She keeps... by jogging five miles every day.
3. The magazine contained several articles about natural beauty, healthy..., fitness and exercise.
4. I realized how... I was when I tried to run up the stairs.
5. Carrie likes to keep in good... and spends hours at the gym.

CONVERSATION

10. Act out the following dialogue.

Going to the gym

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

11. Read these comments and underline the benefits of exercise. Use words from the list and prepare your own short talk on the benefits of exercise, then write a paragraph. You can include your own ideas.

A“Exercising makes me feel happy and refreshed, as it frees me from tension and stress”.

B “Since I started going to the gym I’ve found that I am able to concentrate more easily. It has also improved my mental performance, and now I have fewer problems with my studies”.

C “I’ve become healthier since I joined the sports club and I’ve noticed that I hardly ever get ill anymore”.

D “I have started skiing every evening and now I feel full of energy all of the time”.

E “I find that walking is the best way to keep fit and healthy. It doesn’t tire me out, and it makes me feel alive and alert”.

SPEAKING PRACTICE

12. Think it over and answer the questions.

· Would you agree that people of the 21st century are be­coming “a legless generation”? People practically have stopped walking, going on foot, haven’t they? Nowadays people spend more time glued to the telly or sitting in cars behind steering wheels, don’t they?

• Would you call this way of living healthy?
• Can sport help to keep people fit?

· Do you go in for any kind of sport? Does it help you in any way?

GIVING OPINIONS

13. Discuss what one should or shouldn’t do if he wants to keep healthy and fit.

The following are some key words and expressions used in asking for and giving opinions.

14. Think over and expand on the following. Make sure you use the expressions you’ve learned in Lesson 5.

· Health of body and mind is a great blessing.

· When a man loses his health, then he first begins to take good care of it.

PROJECT WORK

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