ESL/EFL Level: Intermediate (B1/B2)
Lesson Topics: nutrition, exercise, mental health
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 2 hours
Lesson Plan Download: health-wellness-lesson-intermediate-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-intermediate-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 video 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.
INTERMEDIATE (B1/B2) EFL Lesson Plan on Health & Wellness
Warm-up Questions
- What do you do to stay healthy and fit?
- Did the Covid-19 pandemic change your physical and mental health?
- The reading passage below lists some trends in health and wellness. With your partners, try to guess some of the trends that the passage will discuss related to these topics:
- Food & Eating:
- Exercise:
- Mental Health:
- Other:
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Possible answers to comprehension questions:
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- An Eggo waffle or frozen pizza would be an example of processed foods.
- (The beef industry is responsible for a lot of Co2 emissions worldwide. Red meat also has some negative health effects. Also, there could be ethical issues related to animal cruelty.)
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- The Covid-19 pandemic required that people stay at home. This is one reason.
- The WHO found that the pandemic worsened the mental health of many people.
- The pandemic has popularized telehealth and digital healthcare services.
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Vocabulary Answers: 1-f, 2-i, 3-g, 4-g, 5-c, 6-k, 7-h, 8-a, 9-e, 10-j, 11-b
Real or Bogus Answers? False statements: #3, #4, and #6 (7-9 hours is recommended for adults)
Collocation Answers: 1-b, 2-e, 3-c, 4-a, 5-g, 6-h, 7-f, 8-d
Endnotes:
- [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221108082623.htm
- [2] https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/2023-nutrition-trends
- [3] https://moonshotpirates.com/blog/the-top-10-nutrition-trends-in-2023/
- [4] https://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2022-covid-19-pandemic-triggers-25-increase-in-prevalence-of-anxiety-and-depression-worldwide
- [5] https://www.verywellhealth.com/morning-sunlight-exposure-3973908
- [6] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-much-water-should-you-drink
- [7] False according to https://time.com/5342337/best-worst-cooking-oils-for-your-health/
- [8] False according to https://www.medexpress.com/about/newsroom/press-releases-media-coverage/medexpress-health-myths.html
- [9] 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.
- [10] 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.
- [11] Data taken from https://www.nutritionix.com/