[Activities designed by M.José Jiménez and Mar Rosso]
To do all this activities you can use the wordreference.com or dictionary.cambridge.org DO NOT USE THE GOOGLE TRANSLATOR
- Match these flavours to the pictures:
- These words are related to illnesses and parts of the body. Look them up in a dictionary and write the translation:
Go to www.wordreference.com or dictionary.cambridge.org and look up these words:
WORD TRANSLATION
| 1. obesity | |
| 2. Type 2 diebetes | |
| 3. heartdisease | |
| 4. overweight | |
| 5. sick | |
| 6. Bloodstream | |
| 7. Brain | |
| 8.Pancreas | |
| 9. Liverdisease |
- Match these words to their definitions:
| WORDS | DEFINITIONS | number |
| 1. Increase | a. harm or injury | |
| 2. Decrease | b. reduce | |
| 3. Damage | c. has to work too much | |
| 4. Indulge | d. to make something become less | |
| 5. Overworked | e. to make something bigger in size or amount | |
| 6. Cut down | F. have something that you enjoy but that is bad for you |
NOW WATCH THE VIDEO
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Are the following statements true or false? Read the sentences first.
| T/F | |
| 1. Everybody likes sugar | |
| 2. USA children will die younger than their parents | |
| 3. Obesity is not a very big problem | |
| 4. Fructuose is a vitamine that is in sugar | |
| 5. Fructuose is not good for our body | |
| 6. The pancreas regulates your blood sugar | |
| 7. The liver produces insuline | |
| 8. Leptin tells the brain to stop eating | |
| 9. Heart diseases and liver diseases are sometimes caused by sugar | |
| 10. Not only sweets have sugar |
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Answer the following questions with your own words:
1.- What do some scientists say about sugar?
2.- Why are not children in USA expected to live longer than their parents?
3.- What is the newer and cheaper sugar?
4.- Can educated consumers change the way food is manufactured? How?
