8. Work with your partner. Discuss healthy weight problems.

1. Do you think people worry too much about their weight?

2. Do men or women worry more about their weight?

3. What problems do overweight and underweight people have?

4. Do you worry about your weight?

5. Does your weight go up and down easily or is it usually stable?

6. How often do you weigh yourself?

7. What’s your ideal weight?

8. Have you ever tried to lose or gain weight?

9. What’s the best way to lose or put on weight?

10. Someone once said: “The best way to lose weight is to eat all you want of everything you don’t like.” Do you agree? Why?

9. An English proverb says: “Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.” What does this mean? Do you agree?

• Without a second thought make a list of 4 foodstuffs you like most.

• Now think a bit and say if the foodstuffs you’ve named are beneficial to your health.

• I n general, do you follow a healthy eating plan? Why?

• What unhealthy eating habits can you name?

What can they lead to?

10. Complete the text with the phrases in the box.

As a result • In other words • Secondly • To sum up • The first and most obvious reason • What is more • In fact

I don’t understand why so many people still go to fast food restaurants. We should do all we can to avoid them. (1) The first and most obvious reason for this is that the food they serve has very little nutritional value. (2) ___________________, in large quantities it is positively bad for us. We are encouraged to buy mega-size portions of greasy¹ fries and one-litre cups of sugary fizz.

(3) ___________________, every country in the industrialised world is suffering increased problems with obesity and heart disease. (4) ___________________, these so-called restaurants are selling this high-calorie, high-fat food to adolescents², who need a healthy diet.

(5) ___________________, this junk ‘food’ is sold in polluting containers that cannot be recycled when they are covered in ketchup. (6) _______________________, a regular diet of burgers and fries with cola, ketchup and ice cream destroys not only your health but also the planet. (7) ___________________, I think that fast food places should be closed down as an environmental health danger.

______________________

¹ greasy – жирный (содержащий много жира)

² adolescent – юноша или девушка 11–16 лет (иногда 14–20)

READING & LISTENING

11. A) Decide if the following statements about chocolate are true or false.

1. Chocolate is good for you.

2. White chocolate is not real chocolate.

3. Chocolate contains ‘happy chemicals’.

4. Dark chocolate is healthier than milk chocolate.

5. A piece of chocolate is a good treat for a dog.

6. Americans are the world’s biggest per capita chocolate consumers.

7. The average person will consume 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime.

8. A fifty gram bar of chocolate contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.

9. American and Russian space flights have always had several bars of chocolate on board.

10. In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous shower scene.

b) Listen and check your answers.

Audioscript

Number 1. A little chocolate each day is good for your health. Chocolate contains antioxidants which help to protect the body against cancer. It also contains several minerals and some protein. In fact, one bar of chocolate contains more protein than a banana, so this statement is true. Number 2. White chocolate doesn’t contain any cocoa, so this statement is true. Number 3. Chocolate contains chemicals that produce the same reaction in the body as falling in love, so this statement is true. Number 4. The healthy part of chocolate is the cocoa, and dark chocolate has at least 50-70% cocoa. on the other hand, a lot of commercial milk chocolate bars have hardly any cocoa in them at all, so this statement is true. Number 5. A little chocolate can make a dog sick. A lot of chocolate can kill it, so this statement is false. Number 6. Americans consume a lot of chocolate, but per capita, the Swiss consume more. The Swiss consume ten kilograms per person per year, so this statement is false. Number 7 is true. Number 8. Chocolate contains much less caffeine than coffee, so this statement is false. Number 9 is true. Number 10 is true. In fact, they used a lot of chocolate sauce because the scene took seven days to shoot.