ESL/EFL Level: Advanced (C1/C2)
Lesson Topics: nutrition, exercise, mental health
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 2 hours
Lesson Plan Download: health-wellness-lesson-advanced-042023.docx
Lesson Overview:
Lesson Topics: nutrition, exercise, mental health
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 2 hours
Lesson Plan Download: health-wellness-lesson-advanced-042023.docx
Lesson Overview:
- After warm-up questions, students read a passage that presents recent trends related to nutrition, exercise, and mental health.
- Post-reading activities include a read, recall, and retell activity, follow-up questions, and a pair-work activity in which students use vocabulary from the passage to ask each other questions.
- Next, students read health advice and try to identify false statements. This is followed by a role-play, an activity focused on reading nutrition labels, and a debate on three possible topics.
- Finally, the passage closes with a short presentation on living healthily, a vocabulary review activity using images, quotations, and a review of collocations.
- All lessons come with warm-up questions, vocabulary questions, and discussion questions.
ADVANCED (C1/C2) EFL Lesson Plan on Health & Wellness
Warm-up Questions
- What do you do to maintain a healthy lifestyle (if anything)?
- How did the pandemic affect your physical and mental health?
- The below passage lists recent trends in certain categories related to health and wellness. With your partners, try to predict some of the trends that the passage will cover related to the following:
- Nutrition:
- Exercise:
- Mental Health:
- Other:
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Possible answers to comprehension questions:
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- People are eating a plant-based diet, which avoids the emissions caused by cattle.
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- More schools and workplaces are providing resources for mental health.
- The pandemic has popularized telehealth and digital healthcare services.
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Vocabulary Answers: 1-f, 2-e, 3-f, 4-b, 5-d, 6-i, 7-a, 8-c, 9-h, 10-L, 11-j, 12-k
Real or Bogus Answers? False statements: #3, #4, and #6 (7-9 hours is recommended for adults)
Collocation Answers: 1-f, 2-b, 3-a, 4-g, 5-c, 6-h, 7-d, 8-e
Endnotes:
- [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221108082623.htm
- [2] https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/2023-nutrition-trends
- [3] https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/2023-nutrition-trends
- [4] https://moonshotpirates.com/blog/the-top-10-nutrition-trends-in-2023/
- [5] https://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2022-covid-19-pandemic-triggers-25-increase-in-prevalence-of-anxiety-and-depression-worldwide
- [6] https://www.verywellhealth.com/morning-sunlight-exposure-3973908
- [7] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-much-water-should-you-drink
- [8] False according to https://time.com/5342337/best-worst-cooking-oils-for-your-health/
- [9] False according to https://www.medexpress.com/about/newsroom/press-releases-media-coverage/medexpress-health-myths.html
- [10] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/9-reasons-why-the-right-amount-of-coffee-is-good-for-you#:~:text=Drinking%20one%20to%20two%20cups,enough%20blood%20to%20the%20body.
- [11] This is false according to this source: https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html. Adults should aim for 7 or more hours.
- [12] Data taken from https://www.nutritionix.com/