Make a move... walk, run, JUMP!!

 

Sedentarism is a big problem in our society, especially among our teenagers. So make a move... walk, run, JUMP!!

A listening exercise for you to do:  Exercise for the lazy (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

Some articles for you to read about the issue: 

• Why exercise alone won’t save us (The Guardian)

• Inactivity 'kills more than obesity' (BBC News)
  

• More than 80% of adolescents not active enough, warns WHO (The Guardian)
  

• Sitting too much is bad for your health, but offsetting the impact is easy, study shows (CNN)

 What does 'WHO' stand for? What's the Spanish for it? (Solutions at the bottom)

 

   

And here's my musical hint to make you move: Jump (For My Love) by The Pointer Sisters. Here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along!!

 

 

 

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Learn how to speak English naturally: How to express uncertainty "She isn't an actress, is she?"  (BBC Learning English)
  

• English in a Minute: How to use 'stick'  (BBC Learning English) 

• The English We Speak: A flying start  (BBC Learning English)

• News Review:  'Love hormone': new study  (BBC Learning English)

 

Vintage tennis: 

Mats Wilander vs John McEnroe SF Australian Open 1983 Part 1

 
 

Activities for my students:

• 1º ESO - According to what we have done in Exercise 9 on page 37, what can you say about what your parents think teenagers do?

Example: 

- My parents think teenagers often eat junk food.

YOUR POSSIBLE ANSWER:  No, because we hardly ever eat junk food.

 

And our students at school at work... 

Project on A Christmas Carol by Manuel Utrabo (4º ESO A)

 

 

 

 Solutions to the questions above: 'WHO' stands for 'World Health Organisation' and 'OMS' would be the Spanish equivalent.

Pau Gasol says Spanish teens are not fit enough

In this blog we have seen different problems

affecting teenagers, such as screen abuse, mobile phones, couch potatoes... All of them have something in common: PHYSICAL INACTIVITY, that is to say, A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE, whose main consequence is OBESITY and some other health problems such as insomnia, eyesight problems...

 

 

Pau Gasol stated this is a real problem recently. Here are some articles for you to read about the issue:

• Why Teens Are Getting Fatter (CBS News)

• Children & teenagers fatter than they have been in 40 years  (Daily Express)

• Ten times more children and adolescents obese than 40 years ago (CNN)

• When Being Overweight Is a Health Problem (for Teens) - KidsHealth

• U.S. Has Most Overweight Teens    (WebMD)

• 30 stone at 13: meet the obese teenagers going under the knife (The Guardian)

 

 

So what do we have to do?

• How Much Exercise Does Your Teen Really Need?  (verywellHealth)

• Young at heart: why children who exercise become healthier adults  (The Guardian)

• How physical exercise makes your brain work better (The Guardian)

 

News Review: Teenager blinded by chips and junk food diet (BBC Learning English)

Listening exercise for you to do: The Food of the Future (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Danny Kaye  in some films:

• Hans Christian Andersen 

• Thumbelina Scene  

• The King's New Clothes Scene   

• The Court Jester 1955 The Maladjusted Jester   

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It's time to go back to our beloved routines

It is time to go back to our beloved routines, but first we must think about changing certain bad habits to get better results and to have a better quality of life. One of these bad things to change is our sedentary lifestyle.

Here are some related articles for you to read about the issue:

• British children among the least active in the world, with exercise 'stripped out' of modern lives (The Daily Telegraph)

• Moving every half hour could help limit effects of sedentary lifestyle, says study (The Guardian)

• Yes, sitting too long can kill you, even if you exercise (CNN)

Here's a listening exercise to do: Beating a sedentary life (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)


Do you remember the way we called a person with a sedentary life? Here's a previous post you can have a look at and discover it:

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