Passport to English: Health Reading Activity

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Activity Description

In this activity, students read a list of tips for losing weight, make sentences about what they should and should not do based on the advice, and write what they should and have to do to be healthy on the Passport to English blog.

Preparation

1. Review the activity and how the site works so you are comfortable with it in class.
2. Pre-teach any basic Internet navigation and keyboarding skills your students are not familiar with to be able to complete the activity.
3. Put the link to this activity on the desktop of each student computer or on your class Web page. (You have one don't you?)

How-To

1. Review the key words found in the reading as well as the following grammar: using "should/shouldn't" for advice and "have to" for expressing obligation.
2. Have students go to the Web site, read the tips for losing weight, and write sentences about what you should or should not do based on the advice.
3. Have students describe what they "should" and "have to" do to be healthy.

More Ways

See the links to other activities for this Lesson 12 - Health lesson including Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening, Dialog, Pronunciation, Dictation, and Game.

Use this site for lessons and exercises for Literacy, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced level students on 15 other topics including:

• Greetings
• School
• People
• Work
• Family
• House
• Food
• Clothes
• Sports/Hobbies
• Shopping
• Transportation
• The City
• Animals
• Weather
• The Future

Program Areas

• ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

• Beginning Low
• Beginning High

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