Food and Buying Food -Vocabulary

Dear students,

this is the Presentation on Food (Healty Food, Junk Fook, Buying Food, English Food and Food Idioms!) I presented today in class. Enjoy.

Cheers!
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Health // Alternative Medicine - listening

Dear students,
I suggest listening to this at home so that you get familiar with some vocabulary related to alternative medicine. "Breaking News in English" provides you with answers too.

In addition, you might like the following TED TALK about homeopathy and fraud. This talk is really thought-provoking and has had a great success on ther Internet.

Good luck!
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Listening and Speaking Activity: Lizzie Velasquez

Deceptive appearances: seeing looks in a new light

When Lizzie Velasquez was in high school, she found a video of herself on the internet: “The World’s Ugliest Woman,” the eight-second clip called her. It attracted thousands of comments - some of them suggesting she “do the world a favour” by killing herself. Instead, the now 25-year-old became a motivational speaker. Last year, she presented a TED talk about her experiences. Viewed by millions of people around the world, its core question was: what defines you? As a result of an extremely rare syndrome preventing her from gaining weight and building muscle, Lizzie’s appearance deviates significantly from the norm. After being ridiculed online, her public refusal to allow the way she looks to define her went viral. Today, she is a minor celebrity and the author of two books.
(Source: You can read the complete article here)

Watch Lizzie’s famous Ted Talk and answer the following questions:

1.      How would you describe Lizzie? Choose adjectives to describe her personality.

2.      Sum up Lizzie’s first day of school. How did she feel?

3.      In which ways was Lizzie bullied in school? What did she decide to do?

4.      Lizzie has a great sense of humour, can you remember any of the jokes she makes during her speech?

5.      Is Lizzie a successful woman nowadays?

6.      What’s her piece of advice?

Healthy Life Presentation

Dear students,
you can download the presentation on Healthy Lifestyle from here. There was a little problem with the computer last week, so it was kind of difficult to read the vocabulary on the screen. I hope you can reread the presentation now.
Best,
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Disease, lllness, Condition, Disorder...

If you feel curious and want to know how to use terms such as "disease", "illness", "condition" and "disorder", visit the following websites (providing you aren't a cyberchondriac!):

A text about the use of the words "disease, disorder and condition"

"Condition" and "disease"...

First Aid -Belén's lecture

Dear students,

as you know, we started a new unit today (Unit 2) and our lecturer, Belén, made a presentation about First Aid for you. This is part of one of the topics we will be studying this year: Health. Some of you were quite interested in such topic, so I think this is a good idea to upload the presentation for you:

JUST CLICK HERE AND DOWNLOAD BELÉN'S FIRST AID PRESENTATION