How healthy is your diet?

“Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them.”
 — Jamie Oliver

 

Watch the video as many times as you want and when you know what it is about, you are ready to
Follow the link to  the interactive transcript (so if you did not understand a part of the speech, you can choose the point from which you want to listen from).

Jamie Oliver is a British chef involved in the fight against obesity and for healthier diets. He is well-known in Britain and the States,but he is not so famous here in Spain, where the level of obesity is so high among children and young adults, above all.

Click here if you feel like to explore some more talks.

Obesity statistics: Can you find Spain?

How healthy ar you? follow the link and do the quiz, if you want to know.

And what will you get with a healthy diet? A healthier skin without pimples or ugly spots and a longer and happier life.

And another quote for you:
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
Adelle Davis

What is your favourite free time activity?

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Do you have a hobby or an after school activity? What do you usually do in your free time? Do you practise any sport?
tell me tomorrrow about that.

Pull them up

"Stop the Sag" billboard in Brooklyn (New York)

Sagging is the fashion trend for wearing pants, slacks, jeans, trousers in general,  below the waistline to expose one's underwear, it is practised by males.The origin of this word is uncertain some believe it has begun in prisons, but what seems to be certain is that it comes from America, where there is a huge controversy about this fashion.

it has been banned in some States because some people think that  sagging is an indecent fashion and they have started a campaign to "pull them up".

Barak Obama said that those laws were a waste of time, although he also said:

"Some people might not want to see your underwear. I’m one of them." (Barak Obama).

Listen to the Pull them up song:

And the lyrics:

you stand up straight, bet your pants fall.

Might as well walk around with your pants off.

Pull 'em up, pull 'em up, pull 'em up.

Be a real man. Stand up.

Is that your underwear, man? Pull your pants up.

 

And what is your opinion? You can express it voting in the poll on your right.

It's your choice

I have just seen this in the blog of the EOI (Coruña)  and I believe you will like it too. You can follow the link to explore that website to learn English and at the same time learn about the story of this video. I hope you enjoy.
Have a nice week-end.

Health Quiz

Do you know how to avoid getting the flu? Watch the SchoolTube video and tell me:
1. What's the most important thing you can do to avoid getting a cold?
2. How long should you wash your hands for?
And a bonus question: 3. Have you caught a cold or the flu lately?

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If you can't understand the message but want to, just click on the image above and you'll find a translator, but this is a very special one: you write a sentence in plain English and click on "transl8it", you'll see your sentence translated into sms language (it works from sms to plain English too).

Getting to know you

Let me learn about your your favourite free time activities, do you like riding your bike or prefer swimming? do you enjoy chess or simply hate staying in the whole afternoon?. Just think about the activities you like doing and the things you really hate. First watch the video:



And now listen to Richard (from elllo):
Click here to listen to Richard you can also read the transcript at the same time if you find it difficult, listen to it as many times as you need, and pay attention to the way to pronounce words.

TASK: write a dialogue with your partner about your hobbies and free time activities. You will perform it in the classroom.

And don't forget to have a look to this huge web with loads of listening activities:
English Listening Language Lab On line (elllo.org)

Good luck and see you in the classroom!