Pre-Reading Questions:
- Do you like to exercise?
- Do you think it’s important to move more?
Vocabulary:
- stay /stey/
- worse /wurs/
- health /helth/
- exercise /ek-ser-sahyz/
- change /cheynj/
[verb] to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group
My dog is staying under my bed.
[adjective] bad or ill in a greater or higher degree
Using cellphones for a long time is worse than reading books in a dim light.
[noun] the general condition of the body or mind
His grandfather’s health is getting better.
[noun] physical activity that you do to make your body strong and healthy
Exercise is one of the best ways to be healthy.
[verb] to make something different
We need to start changing our lifestyles if we want to be healthy.
We always think that staying still is better than pushing ourselves to move a lot. But we don’t know that we are only making it worse for our health. A new study showed that moving more and sitting less can make our lives longer. Researchers learned that if you will do light exercises for 30 minutes instead of sitting, it decreases the number of early deaths by 17%. Changing 30 minutes of sitting time to doing simple or strong exercises for 30 minutes puts down the number of early deaths by 35%.
True or False:
- Staying still is bad for our body.
- Moving more and sitting less can make our lives longer.
- Sitting in a long time is better than moving a lot.
- Doing light exercises for 30 minutes puts down the number of early deaths by 35%.
- Doing simple to strong exercises for 30 minutes puts down the number of early deaths by 35%.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| stay | worse | health | vexercise | change |
- ________ in a sitting position makes the bones weaker than moving a lot.
- Doing __________ everyday makes your body stronger.
- We need to take care of our _________ by exercising and eating healthy food.
- __________ your lifestyle to an active one is really hard but it is better for our lives.
- Doing nothing is ___________ than doing everything.