What is the real cost of travel?

Everybody likes travelling. The excitement it brings about, the unforgettable moments of exploring the unexplored, a spellbinding sense of novelty. There are myriad of other nice expressions to describe how wonderful it is to travel ;) Yet, many of us tend to forget that the ideal tourist destinations we visit are home not only to other people, but also many unique animal and plant species. Probably you never ask yourself the question – what is the real cost of travel? Some people did, hence a short text under the very same title. Let’s help our students perceive travelling from a slightly different perspective, making them aware of the dangers to the environment our journeys may pose. 

 

Organic or non-organic food? Reading comprehension

Do you like eating? I think that everybody does:)

Our eating habits may differ and I don't mean only the fact that some of us are vegetarians or vegans but rather the products we choose. Some people try to buy mainly things that are grown in a country they live, the others prefer those with low prices but there are also people who would do completely the oppoosite - they choose very expensive, organic food because they hope that the more they pay, the better their meal is.

What kind of consumer are you?

Organic food is my choice for today's reading comprehension:)

The text for reading comprehension you can find here:

Organic food - text

An Olympic blog - reading

We all know that exercising is important but these days most of young people aren’t getting enough. An average young person spends as much as thirty hours a week in front of TV. Researchers at the University of Tennessee have recently found out that 'couch potatoes' burn fewer calories when they watch TV than when they’re asleep!

Our BuildUpYourEnglishSuperpower team strongly opposes laziness and encourages you to keep in shape. Perhaps, if such an average 'couch potato' watched some Olympics he’d be motivated to get up and do some sport :)

But for now, let’s read the blogger's memories of the 2012 London Olympics (see below).

After reading, do some exercises to check if you understand the text correctly. Good luck! :)

Is your lifestyle healthy?

For a few years now, it has been one of the most popular trends in Western societies.
It is something that the majority of people dream about, many of them work hard to achieve  but only some of them can be proud of .

What is it?? Yes, you've guessed!

It's a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.

Although I am not in favour of promoting fading trends that, eventually, will disappear, I strongly believe that a helathy lifestyle is a thing worth clinging on to for the whole life.

However, being surrounded by countless experts in the area of health and overwhelmed with the information from all sorts of media, it is sometimes difficult to judge what a healhy lifestyle really is.
Let's do it together!

This lesson is going to make students familiar with the subject of a healthy lifestyle and allow them to decide what a healthy lifestyle means to them.

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The lesson should be conducted after reading the text titled Turn off TV, Turn on a Healthier Lifestyle 

based on the website www.tvturnoff.org 

The original text has been changed to make it suitable for pre-intermediate students.

TEXT TURN OFF TV, TURN ON A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE

Below you will find pre-, while- and post-reading tasks specially designed on the basis of abovementioned text.