Pre-reading questions:
- Do you eat a lot when you are stressed? Please explain your answer.
- What do you do when you are happy?
Vocabulary:
- stress [STRES]
(noun) worry caused by a difficult situation
She is under a lot of stress right now. - hunger [HUHNG-ger]
(noun) feeling in the stomach of needing or lack of food
The girl ate the bread because of hunger. - weight gain [WEYT geyn]
(noun) an increase in body weight
Eating too much food causes weight gain. - effective [ih-FEK-tiv]
(adjective) producing positive results
The medicine he took is effective. - alive [uh-LAHYV]
(adjective) having life; not dead
He was lucky to be alive after the car crash.
Some people experience hunger and eat a lot when stressed. It is because eating makes people forget their problems. Eating a lot when stressed leads to weight gain. Eating healthy food or doing activities like walking or talking to someone is effective in solving the problem. It just proves that eating is just needed for a person to stay alive.
True or False:
- Eating a lot does not make some people forget their problems.
- Some people eat a lot when they are stressed.
- Eating a lot when stressed leads to weight gain.
- A person does not need to eat to stay alive.
- Eating healthy food does not lead to weight gain.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| weight gain | stress | effective | alive | hunger |
- The poor cat almost died of ________.
- I can’t sleep when I am _______.
- Is the insect ______ or dead?
- Eating unhealthy food causes ______
- She wants to find an _______ medicine for fever.