Thursday's Assignment
Besides diet, flossing, and annuals, what else is essential to a healthy lifestyle?
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| Does anyone else you know exercise so vigorously? What other great ideas on physical exercise can you find here? |
Here are your tasks:
- Reading: Find clues here as to what Her Majesty the Queen does for exercise. Discuss your answer with a partner.
- Vocabulary: Walking or Running as Exercise
- Learn 5 words or expressions for meaning and pronunciation.
- Make sentences with them, have a partner check your reading of those sentences.
- Record them on Audioboom.com, and check at least 5 other classmates' recordings.
- Role play: Childhood Fitness
- Practise aloud by yourself, and find 5 words that are most commonly mispronounced (e.g. "Ob City" or "opposite," instead of "obesity.")
- Practise with a partner, focusing on correct pronunciation of those 5 words.
- Record with your partner on Audioboom.com those 5 words, followed by the whole dialogue.
- Write a list of 10 Dos and Don'ts on exercise and fitness for your family. For example:
- Wear good tennis shoes to avoid getting blisters.
- Don't do high-impact workouts to avoid getting shin splints.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is often photographed still riding her horse.
I believe her exercising these days is limited to long walks with her dogs which is more than most people her age do.
Vocabulary:
psyched
He looks psyched.
blister
When you try new tennis shoes, you may get blisters.
From now on, I'm ready to work up a sweat.
Pick up the pace
If you want to increase your heart rate you should pick up the pace.
maintain a low-impact workout
It’s important that we start slowly and maintain a low-impact workout.
to stretch and to warm up
Before we start exercise, it’s a good idea to stretch and to warm up to avoid injuries
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